Supplement Facts

Our health has never faced greater challenges by pollutants, stress, and disease-causing pathogens.  These challenges compromise both short term and long term well being.  The quest for optimal health has created a demand for strengthening formulas that face these everyday physiological challenges.  These formulas are known as Tonics.

Tonics

To be considered a tonic, a plant or Food must invigorate, restore and increase physiological tone and function.  Tonic formulas are an exceptional solution to our everyday physiological challenges.  Tonics strengthen the overall vitality of the physiology.  Tonics must also be used safely, long term, without side effects.

Mushrooms As A Tonic Solution

Civilizations the world over have relied on mushrooms as food and for their healing and rejuvenative powers.  The historical use of medicinal and tonic mushrooms dates back over 2,000 years.  The Traditional use of these mushroom treasures has never been more relevant than their application in today's environment.

The mushroom is nature's expert in adapting to stress and resisting a host of health challenges.  Scientific and ethnomedical research extols the protective, nutritive and healing properties of medicinal mushrooms.

One Mushroom Stands Alone

Maitake is the one mushroom that stands out as superior in its tonic, immune-strengthening, restorative and anti-aging properties.*  Maitake is renowned throughout Oriental history for its contribution as a superior tonic that enhances wellness, vitality, and innate strength.  Maitake is known for its ability to aid in the preservation of physiological well being.  The Japanese have long recognized Maitake as a superior tonic that balances physiological function and enhances wellness, vitality, strength and vigor.

Maitake meets and exceeds all the requirements to be considered a Superior Tonic.

Maitake is a valuable addition to every nutrition program.

MaitakeGold 404: Taking Maitake To The Next Level

MaitakeGold 404 was created and is endorsed by Dr. Hiroaki Nanba, the foremost maitake mushroom microbiologist.  His research led him to the discovery of an exceptional tonic and immuno-potentiating Patented Maitake Extract.

The Superior Ten

The 10 additional mushrooms in this formula are considered Superior Herbs in traditional Chinese medicine.  They are all recommended for long term tonic use.

• MaitakeGold 404 Protects cellular integrity with daily use.
• MaitakeGold 404 stimulates overall physical vitality.
• MaitakeGold 404 contains only the Patented Maitake Extract that was found by Dr. Nanba.
• Driven by Food Organic Mycelia Mushroom Blend guarantees the food delivery mechanism that drives Nutritional Therapeutix Formulas
• MaitakeGold 404 is Driven by Food and will provide a strengthening action or effect.

From Megafood’s inception in 1973 we have challenged conventional thinking. MegaFood’s knows that Food is the essential factor in nutrient delivery and utilization. We continue with the backing of the latest research to create formulas that convey the importance of food in nutrient delivery. MegaFood is Focused on Food.

Food’s Role in Nutrient Delivery

Attention to the detail of how nutrients are delivered and utilized has served MegaFood well. Recent Science, including a Nobel Prize, confirms no nutrient can be delivered without the helping hand of factors that exist in Food. MegaFood’s formulas focus on the nutritional and therapeutic benefits found in Food.

Specific Response Formulas

MegaFood continues their traditional Focused on Food with Scientific Response Formulas form Nutritional Therapeutix. Recent Science reveals, when looking for a Specific Physiological Response, Whole Food is necessary and has a powerful synergistic effect on results. Nutritional Therapeutix Specific Response Formulas deliver nutrient stimuli that provide explicit, measurable, intelligent physiological response.

Specific Response and Nutrient Intelligence

• Specific Response is an explicit physiological action
• Specific Response requires Intelligent Nutrients
• Intelligent Nutrients are created in Food
• Specific Response is always Driven by Food
• Nutritional Therapeutix is Driven by Food

Nutritional Therapeutix Strength Formulas

Nutritional Therapeutix Formulas are created to convey the definition of Strength: “The Capability of Generating an Action or Effect” Strength Formulas deliver a Specific Physiological Response. The Specific Response is a known. The Specific Response is based on traditional use and published scientific research.

Nutritional Therapeutix Product Development Criteria

The Health Food Business offers products to two groups of people. Those who use our products to prevent future health challenges. Those who are looking for solutions to existing physical problems. Both groups deserve the highest quality and most efficacious products available.

• Price as an Issue
  
  There are many high quality companies in the Health Food Business. Yet the overall tone of the business has changed.
  
  There was a time that you could rely on products to be the highest quality. There is a movement today toward lower price. For many companies, price has become the most important feature of their product offerings. This obsession with price has required many companies to lower the quality of their raw materials to compete. In MegaFood’s opinion this change in the quality of raw material has been detrimental to the efficacy of their products.
  
  
• Trust and The Health Food Business
  
  Trust is the most important asset of the Health Food Business. Changes in the business have lead to lesser quality products being sold to willing consumers. Consumers with a leap of faith, want to experience the benefits of natural products. Trusting consumers, in many cases, are not receiving the results they are promised.
  
  The media is continually attacking the Natural Products Industry for selling product that don’t work. They are presenting test results that show natural products don’t live up to their claims. Perhaps some manufactures deserve the criticism.
  
  
• Quality as an Issue
  
  When nutritional supplements are created with the highest quality materials they’ve been proven to work. We have recorded evidence that show large groups of people, worldwide, achieve exceptional results with nutritional supplements. Why would intelligent people use an herb, for a specific problem, for 5,000 years if they didn’t get results?
  
  One reason we are not receiving the promised results is, in many cases, the raw materials are being chosen to provide a low price, not great results.
  

Nutritional Therapeutix : DRIVEN BY FOOD

Nutritional Therapeutix is concerned with maximizing the body’s physiological Specific Response to nutritive material. The overwhelming knowledge that Food is the ultimate healer led to an examination of currently available products. There’s a void in regard to Food’s essential role in Specific Response. This is the reason for MegaFood’s entry into Therapeutic Formulas. Nutritional Therapeutix Formulas set a new standard for cellular delivery of therapeutic nutrients based on Food. Nutritional Therapeutix Maximizes Specific Response.

Nutritional Therapeutix : QUALITY

MegaFood continues our tradition of using only the Highest Quality Ingredients. MegaFood’s only consideration in formulating is that consumers receive the best results. You make the decision whether Nutritional Therapuetix products satisfy your physiological needs, based on results. All Nutritional Therapeutix formulas are Unconditionally Guaranteed. If you are not satisfied for any reason, return the formula for a full refund.

Nutritional Therapeutix: The COMMITMENT

Nutritional Therapeutix Goal is to provide a reliable, positive, therapeutic physiological response.

• Nutritional Therapeutix Mission is to find the finest raw materials
• Nutritional Therapeutix uses the most reliable Nutrient Delivery System: Food
• Nutritional Therapeutix Formulas are Driven By Food
• Nutritional Therapeutix Formulas are soundly based in Science and Tradition.
• Nutritional Therapeutix Formulas use Quality and Efficacy as the sole motivating factor in creating our formulas.

Ethical Harvest: MEGAFOOD’S RAW MATERIAL POLICY

Categories of Therapeutic Material - Creating the most profound therapeutic response can be challenging. There are many categories of raw materials that can be used in supplements to create therapeutic response:

• Whole Food
  
  The first and foremost choice for Nutritional Therapeutix will always be Food. Food has been proven through historical use and recent science to be our most important source of nutrient support.
• Regular Vitamins
  
  Regular Vitamins isolated fractions, are another form of therapeutic material. Fractionalized vitamins have a viable function when they are supported by the right foods. Nutritional Therapeutix will use regular vitamins when they are supported by Food Factors necessary for Maximum Specific Response.
• Animal Products
  
  The use of animal tissue and by-products from meat, such as Glucosamine Sulfate and Calcium Hydroxyapatite from cows. Collagen from chickens and Gelatin capsules from animal hooves has become very popular. MegaFood will not use materials that cause the destruction or unethical treatment of animals.
• Ethical Harvest
  
  To MegaFood, Ethical Harvest material is renewable, from a sustainable source and ethically harvested. These materials whether plant or animal in origin, are considered gifts to humans. These gifts must be protected from harm at all costs. MegaFood is concerned about the unethical harvest of plants. Unethical harvesting is endangering certain species. There is also unethical harvesting of animal products. The mistreatment of plants or animals should not be tolerated by humans. MegaFood will not use materials that are unethically harvested.
• Ethical Harvest From Unharmed Animals
  
  While creating Nutritional Therapeutix Specific Response Formulas we looked at all available raw materials. That search led to materials that cannot be considered vegetarian. We examined the proven scientific and traditional benefits of some of these raw materials and felt it was important to have the option to include them in our formulas. Some Nutritional Therapeutix formulas may contain ethically harvested, sustainably sourced raw materials. These materials are gathered from unharmed, ethically treated live animals.
• New Zealand Velvet
  New Zealand pioneered sustainable and humane farming practices for harvesting Velvet. Overpopulation was a liability to the Red Deer. Ethical harvesting of Velvet turned the Red Deer population into a valued and protected asset.
• The New Zealand Harvesting Code
  
  The New Zealand Harvesting Code was developed by the Animal Welfare Advisory Board in conjunction with animal welfare organizations. This group included specially trained veterinarians and animal behavior specialists.
• Natural Harvest
  
  In natural circumstances deer antlers are cast off at the end of the winter and regrow during the following year. This cycle repeats itself annually. Antler harvesting takes place while the antlers are in a cartilaginous state, before they harden into bone. The remainder of the natural cycle takes place without interference.
• Like Harvesting Wool
  
  This process can be likened to the sheering of sheep’s wool. It causes no harm or discomfort to the deer. It allows them to live the protected life of a valued species rather than that of a hunted pest. MegaFood is grateful for the offering of such a valuable therapeutic material from New Zealand Red Deer and is happy to play a role in the protection of this majestic breed.
• Respect For Life-Plant and Animal
  
  MegaFood maintains an unshakable commitment to the use of only Ethically Harvested materials in the entire range of products. MegaFood has concluded that Velvet is a renewable, sustainable resource that is humanely harvested and causes no harm to the deer. The protection of the environment and all living things will always come first in our raw material decisions.
• Our Promise
  
  MegaFood will use no raw material that is created through the destruction or unethical treatment of any animal. Ethically harvested materials, from live animals that have proven superior therapeutic benefit will be considered for Nutritional Therapeutix Formulas
• MegaFood’s Vegetarian Products
  
  MegaFood’s policy has been to use vegetarian raw materials. We assure our customers that we will continue that policy. MegaFood’s DailyFoods, Maximum Food Formulas and Essentials products remain 100% vegetarian.