Our Mission
At drbcares LLC, we are committed to providing high-quality supplements made from whole foods, not isolates. Our mission is to offer products that are made as nature intended them to be. We prioritize the use of natural ingredients to create our supplements, ensuring that our customers receive the best of what nature has to offer.
About NutriPlex
We formulate and offer whole food nutrition supplements, and clinical information, to natural healthcare practitioners.
We are the only company that produces a truly 100% whole food product clinical line, free of isolates.
We only use the “whole” food, which means we don’t infuse our products with isolated, laboratory-made vitamins, minerals, amino acids, flavonoids, carotenoids, flavonoids, etc. We use the whole vegetable, herb and glandular, and that’s all.
Many “whole food,” “food-based” and “plant-based” supplement manufacturers claim their ingredients come from whole food, but they are misleading because they infuse their foods with a mixture of isolated “nutrients” that have a tremendous impact on your patients’ well-being.
Nutrients no longer contained in their original source are lacking their co-factors (helper nutrients) needed for a complete nutritive effect. Many companies also add laboratory-made chemicals or alter their foods to force absorption.
It is just not possible to artificially recreate the complexity and effectiveness already within nature’s biochemical synergy.
We choose nature over pharmacology.
Our Processing
Protecting Biochemical Integrity
BINDERS
In order to create a tablet, ingredients other than “active” ones need to be used. Active ingredients in NutriPlex Formulas’ products include only whole foods and herbs.
We do not use isolated, chemical vitamins, minerals, amino acids or proteins. Inactive ingredients, also known as “excipients,” are used for several purposes – as flow agents, so raw ingredients can flow into a tableting press, preservatives, flavorings, emulsifiers and so forth. Supplements commonly contain questionable materials as inactive agents. We DO NOT use any of these.
A common flow agent is magnesium stearate (or stearic acid). You will find this in most supplements, but we won’t use it because stearates act as transfats in our bodies.
We also won’t use ascorbic acid or other preservatives. Some companies will tell you ascorbic acid is the same as vitamin C, but we understand that since it is not a food, it is not really natural.
The only inactive ingredients we use are cellulose and silica. Cellulose is a plant fiber, and silica is a fine mineral that keeps our active ingredients from clumping.
DISSOLUTION
Digestion is the key to any substance your patients consume.
NutriPlex’s products break down at various rates, depending on the particular formula. Still, the longest product to dissolve is CalMag Balance, which takes only ten minutes after swallowing. Most of our formulas take between five and seven minutes.
We periodically test this dissolution rate at the completion of production, using an acid of the same pH as stomach acid. We must remember, however, that the body’s enzymes are crucial to the digestion of food particles. Fats are broken down by lipase, carbohydrates by amylase, and protein by protease, for example.
Because digestion is so critical in the role of nutrition, natural health practitioners traditionally work on digestion as the first course of patient treatment. An optimal functioning digestive system optimizes the beneficial effects of whole food nutrients.
GLANDULARS
In some of NutriPlex’s products, we utilize glandular ingredients. Because of the low quality and standards of USDA animal products, we procure our glandular ingredients from organic, sustainable and/or drug- and chemical-free bovine sources. Other supplement companies use porcine (pig) and ovine (sheep) glandulars in their products. This is a practice we are outspokenly against. Porcine organs are repeatedly shown to be unreliable regarding quality and cleanliness.
One of the most disturbing facets about glandulars – sources that we refuse to use in our products, which include USDA beef and porcine – is that they come from animals that have been injected with antibiotics, steroids and other hormones that have been proven to have a negative health effect on the consumer. Our glandulars come from New Zealand, drug free sources from animals fed on chemical-(pesticide and fertilizer) free feed, free range on farms.
NutriPlex’s supplements incorporate whole glandulars that are not processed in any way other than to remove the water content. Other supplement companies have been known to use isolates, concentrates, PMGs and other altered materials. The value we’ve discovered in whole glandulars include a host of important nutrients that benefit a wide array of tissues that require unadulterated proteins and amino acids.
Our Manufacturing
We do not irradiate, sterilize or use high heat or chemical extraction. And we do not use stearates in tableting because these act as trans fats in the cells.
Since we provide nutrient-dense foods, we do not want to harm the natural nutrients by processing them in such a way that thwarts our goals of producing whole food products rich in active & live nutrients.
Ours is a GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) and organic certified laboratory with certifications by NSF, NPA, and QAI. This exceeds what is necessary and what nearly all other supplement manufacturers do!
Our whole food supplements are manufactured in one of the most sophisticated scientific laboratories. We perform more than 15 different types of scientific tests on each product run, including dissolution studies (how long tablets break down in digestion), microbial testing, USDA multiple inspection and many more.
“The way we approach health care and the creation of our products is beyond unique. Being the biggest and flashiest isn’t our motivation – but being the BEST is.”
— Janice Shayne CEO, founder of NutriPlex