Why doesn't Total Balance need to be taken with a meal?

Question: from Barbara

I hope you don't mind if I ask you a question which has been puzzling me for a while.
 
Total Balance is a very complex supplement with many different ingredients which, if taken separately, would be recommended by other suppliers to be taken at different times of the day (e.g.  before meals, with meals, or between meals).  How can they all be taken at the same time (as in Total Balance) and still have the desired effect?

Answer: from Warren

The reason why many supplements have to be worked around a meal is because they are released in the stomach and depending on the ingredients they may need to be mixed with food to avoid stomach irritation.  But, in the case of Total Balance there are no ingredients released in the stomach.  Instead they are protected from the stomach acid by the enteric coating which enables them to be released in the upper intestine which is where they need to get in order to pass through the intestinal walls into the blood stream.

As a result there is no need to combine the tablets with food as there is no stomach irritation.  It works because the upper intestine is slightly alkaline and whereas the enteric coating stays intact with acid it comes apart when it is in an alkaline solution.  The molecular size of the coating when it comes of the tablet is quite large and will not pass through the intestinal membrane and passes through the digestive system and out of the body in the same way as when you swallow something indigestible.

Using this technology we can ensure that many ingredients that would otherwise be irrevocably damaged by stomach acid, such as SAMe, Resvertrol and all the enzymes will actually make it to the upper intestine which is what they must do in order to be transferred into the blood stream. Even ingredients that may not be damaged by stomach acid still need the assistance of various enzymes in Total Balance to help break down their molecular size so they can pass through the intestinal walls into the blood stream.