What is Yeast?
Yeasts are microscopic fungi – single-cell organisms which are generally about 5-10 microns in size. Abundant throughout nature, yeasts can be found on grains; grain by-product; and even in our soil, water and air. Most species of yeast have been proven very beneficial to people, while only a few imperfect yeasts are known to be unhealthy.
Vastly different from other yeasts, the yeast in EpiCor® does not consist solely of yeast cells or yeast biomass. Instead it is a yeast-fermented product designed to provide fermentation metabolites often called "nutrilites." To create these nutrilites, a culture media is inoculated with live yeast cells, allowed to ferment under a specific set of conditions and then dried. The end product contains both the residual live yeast cells used in the fermentation, as well as the metabolites or metabolic by-products of the yeast produced.
This proprietary fermentation and drying process produces a biologically complex product. It contains both the "intracellular" yeast cell nutrients and the "extra cellular" metabolites of fermentation. The extraordinary compound that results from natural yeast fermentation is easily paired with other natural ingredients to provide unparalleled bioavailability.
