DYNAMITE^® PRODUCTS ARE SUPERIOR

The increasingly obvious need for supplementation has led to a real flood of nutritional additives on the marketplace. Dynamite products have some distinct advantages over most of the competition. We use chelated minerals in our formulations for maximum digestibility and usability, with a minimum of side effects. Most consumers (and perhaps even most supplement manufacturers) are under the impression that a mineral is a mineral, and that one form is as good as another. Authorities have finally recognized that without optimum mineral nutrition, dietary protein, fats, vitamins and carbohydrates cannot be utilized by the body. In spite of this, the majority of supplement manufacturers still utilize inorganic mineral salts in their formulas. Unfortunately, most minerals in their natural or salt state cannot be absorbed. The movement of minerals across the intestinal mucosa requires chelation (pron. key-lay'-shun) with carrier proteins. Minerals exert most or all of their biological effects while in the chelated state. Chelation means to firmly bind a metal ion with an organic molecule (ligand) to form a ring structure. The resulting ring structure protects the mineral from entering into unwanted chemical reactions.

THE FORMATION OF A TRUE CHELATE

The role of Dynamite® Specialty Products researchers has been to develop natural chelated minerals which are biologically available through chemically suspending an essential mineral between two or more amino acids. (Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins). This is an important point to note: there are many companies on the market that claim to use chelated minerals, but often they have used chemical agents such as EDTA, or starch, to chelate their products. Only minerals chelated to hydrolyzed protein are truly efficiently absorbed by the body, and even then there are other complex factors that enter into consideration:

• the minerals must be held by just the right degree of tightness in the bond;
• one of the bonds between the metal (mineral) and the ligand must be ionic and the other must be covalent;
• and the molecular weight must be below 1500 in order to penetrate the body cell membranes as an intact chelate.
• A chelate with a larger molecular weight must be broken down first, thus defeating the purpose of chelation. All of this is rather complex, but serves to show us why Dynamite® products achieve such dramatic and visible results. The minerals are very easily absorbed with a minimum of effort on the part of the body or plant tissue. They are in the form that nature intended for us to have in our food.

BALANCED FORMULA

Every element in nutrition is synergistic; this means that all the elements are interrelated, and so must be supplied in the correct balance with each other. It can actually be harmful to use or feed a supplement that is out of balance. At best, the ingredients will be inefficiently used, and at worst a major deficiency or imbalance could be created. As a balance is crucial and can be easily upset, you should caution your customers to not use or feed another supplement along with Dynamite® products unless it has been determined to be necessary for therapeutic reasons. Many people are of the opinion that "more is better", but this is not usually the case.