Beta Glucan 500mg is our newest encapsulated product, and contains nothing but the finest and purest beta 1,3 D-glucan available on the US market today.As those who've followed us from our earliest days will know, we are very cautious about lintroducing new products. Scientists isolate and classify literally hundreds of naturally-occuring compounds each year, a number of which quickly become hyped in the natural health industry as the next great hope in fighting some disease or another (or every disease known to Man, in some instances). Every once in a while though, a compound stands the test of time and graduates successfully from those initial scientific observations to become a valid member of the therapeutic arsenal for the non-toxic support of wellness or treatment of human disease. .Beta 1,3 D-glucan - a refined extract of saccharomyces cerevisiae (commonly known as Baker's yeast) is just such a compound. WHAT ARE 'BETA-GLUCANS'? Beta glucans are polyglucose complexes which can be isolated and purified from many species of plants including, but not limited to, cereal grains such as barley and oats, from yeasts, mushrooms and from other fungi.Comprising glucose molecules arranged in a backbone formation, with 'kinks' or bonding sites at specific 'links' in this chain, (determining their 1,3; 1,4 or 1,6 configuration/classification) beta glucans in general, and beta 1,3 D-glucan in particular has been creating wide-spread interest among phytochemical research scientists and knowledgeable health professionals ever since a crude immune-activating compound was first isolated from a yeast cell-wall and named 'Zymosan' by Dr. Louis Pillemer and his colleagues in the 1940s. The active component of Zymosan was not identified until the 1960s, however, when Dr. Nicholas DiLuzio of Tulane University began experimenting with beta 1,3 D-glucan; one of the components he found within the original crude protein, lipid and polysachharide compound.The key reason that beta 1,3 D-
