Frequently Asked Questions
I have a tendency toward Candida and
yeast infections; can I still take Probiotic Nutrients™ or fermented foods?
There is a misunderstanding
about bacteria and Saccharomyces. The truth is
that positive bacteria and Saccharomyces compete
against pathogenic microbial overgrowth. Saccharomyces
and Lactobacillus
have evolved to produce natural anti-fungal and antibiotic
bacteriocins, which they secrete into their environment. Bacteriocins
and other anti-fungal ferment metabolites suppress pathogenic
micro-organisms, like Candida albicans and E.coli.
It would be highly beneficial for anyone concerned about fungal
overgrowth to include New Chapter’s Organic Probiotic
Nutrients™ in their daily regimen to optimize their
developed countries. It is abundant in dairy, beef, chicken liver and a
host of fortified foods. Scientific studies have indicated that long
term supplementation with vitamin A in its synthetic retinol form
contributes to birth defects, osteoporosis and subsequently bone
fractures. New Chapter’s Organic Probiotic Nutrients
contain mixed carotenoids, such as beta carotene and lycopene, from
food sources that are non-toxic and easily converted in the body to
vitamin A as needed. We believe this is a safer and more desirable way
to supplement the body's vitamin A requirements.
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Can I take New Chapter products if I
am also taking prescription medications?
New Chapter®
cannot provide information about combining prescription medicines with
herbal or nutritional supplements. We suggest you always advise your
prescribing physician or pharmacist about the use of dietary or herbal
supplements. Only he or she can determine the risk for herb-drug
interactions and supervise your response to the prescribed therapy.
You may also want to consider consulting with a qualified expert in
herbal and nutritional therapy on this matter. For a referral database
of licensed Naturopathic Physicians and Holistic Medical Doctors in
your area, please visit: www.naturopathic.org or www.holisticmedicine.org.
Herb-drug interactions have been identified with respect to
a handful of herbs and vitamins, however the vast majority of this
information remains unknown. While herbal medicine has experienced a
long history of safe use, this history has not included many of the
modern pharmaceutical medications that are frequently used today. By
making your health care provider aware of your supplement regimen,you are protecting yourself from any known potential interactions and allowing for any future information on this topic to come to light.
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Why do you recommend taking New Chapter’s
Supercritical Herbal Therapies in the middle of a meal?
These herbal extracts, formulated by Paul
Schulick, contain medicinal spices like those grown at our Costa Rican
certified organic farm. These healing herbs are extracted using a
dense, superfluid form of carbon dioxide and are concentrated up to 300
times. Although it is safe to take our Supercritical Extracts on an
empty stomach, we recommend taking them with meals, as they may create
a slightly warming feeling in the stomach for some individuals who are
not used to such concentrated healing spices. When taken with a meal,
that healing heat will work to activate phytonutrients in the herbs
while facilitating optimal digestion.
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Why have you removed Retinol, a form of vitamin A, from
your Organic Probiotic Nutrients?
While vitamin A plays an
important role in maintaining the health of skin, hair, and nails in addition to
preventing blindness and regulating immune function, actual vitamin A
deficiencies are extremely rare in the United States and other
developed countries. It is abundant in dairy, beef, chicken liver and a
host of fortified foods. Scientific studies have indicated that long
term supplementation with vitamin A in its synthetic retinol form
contributes to birth defects, osteoporosis and subsequently bone
fractures. New Chapter’s Organic Probiotic Nutrients
contain mixed carotenoids, such as beta carotene and lycopene, from
food sources that are non-toxic and easily converted in the body to
vitamin A as needed. We believe this is a safer and more desirable way
to supplement the body’s vitamin A requirements.defenses against these conditions.
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I don’t do well with soy foods. Since New
Chapter’s Probiotic Nutrients™ are cultured in a soy media,
will they agree with me?
Although true soy allergies are very rare, many
people have difficulty digesting unfermented soy. Whole, unprocessed
soy contains nutrient blocking factors, such as phytate, which
interfere with its potential benefits. Fermented soy, on the other
hand, agrees with almost everyone, even people with soy sensitivities.
Probiosis of soy also changes isoflavones from inert forms into their
activated aglycone genestein, dadzein, and glycitein forms.
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Why are New Chapter’s potencies
lower than conventional pharmaceutical supplements?
Short answer: they are not. We reject the theory
that supplementation must be taken in huge doses of inert or bi-phasic
isolated vitamins. It is a common misunderstanding that milligrams
measure potency. They do not! Milligrams measure only weight and do not
reflect cellular activity. New Chapter’s Organic
Probiotic Nutrients™
deliver biotransformed vitamins and minerals in their finest cultured
form, much in the same way as miso, kefir, tempeh, and yogurt. Research
consistently demonstrates that New Chapter’s Organic
Probiotic Nutrients are more active than conventional
isolated or synthetic vitamins.
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Vitamins upset my stomach; will I have this difficulty
with New Chapter’s vitamins and minerals?
New Chapter’s
Probiotic Nutrients
are food. Better yet, they are pre-digested, organic cultured food. So
when you take New Chapter vitamins your stomach is NOT empty: it has
inside it a good friend – cultured organic food – waiting
to be comfortably digested. New Chapter’s Organic
Probiotic Nutrients
are also rich in ferment metabolites, bacteriocins and plant enzymes,
and they are thus soothing to the entire gastrointestinal tract and
promote digestion, detoxification and elimination.
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My doctor and nutritionist have suggested that I
supplement 1000 mg of calcium. My New Chapter EveryWoman®
II and Cal Mag Bone Health™
supplements provide a combined total of 150 mg. Should I be concerned
about the 850 mg difference?
We reject the idea that more
is better,
especially in the case of calcium where it has been shown that the more
calcium (both from supplements and from dairy) people consume, the more
susceptible they may be to bone fractures, kidney stones and calcium
deposits in the blood vessels. Like all vitamins and minerals, calcium
is best obtained in biologically reasonable amounts from food sources. New
Chapter's
dual-stage culturing process converts inorganic calcium salts found in
most conventional supplements into a glycoprotein food complex. So
while it may look like you are getting less of this essential mineral,
you are actually getting a biologically reasonable amount of this
important mineral in its ideal supplement form. In addition, our
Probiotic Cal Mag also provides bone-strengthening minerals and herbs
— a perfect combination to promote normal bone functioning.
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Why do you recommend taking New Chapter’s
Supercritical Herbal Therapies in the middle of a meal?
These herbal extracts, formulated by Paul
Schulick, contain medicinal spices like those grown at our Costa Rican
certified organic farm. These healing herbs are extracted using a
dense, superfluid form of carbon dioxide and are concentrated up to 300
times. Although it is safe to take our Supercritical Extracts on an
empty stomach, we recommend taking them with meals, as they may create
a slightly warming feeling in the stomach for some individuals who are
not used to such concentrated healing spices. When taken with a meal,
that healing heat will work to activate phytonutrients in the herbs
while facilitating optimal digestion.
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Why have you removed Retinol, a form of vitamin A, from
your Organic Probiotic Nutrients?
While vitamin A plays an important role in
maintaining the health of skin, hair, and nails in addition to
preventing blindness and regulating immune function, actual vitamin A
deficiencies are extremely rare in the United States and otherdeveloped countries. It is abundant in dairy, beef, chicken liver and a
host of fortified foods. Scientific studies have indicated that long
term supplementation with vitamin A in its synthetic retinol form
contributes to birth defects, osteoporosis and subsequently bone
fractures. New Chapter's Organic Probiotic Nutrients
contain mixed carotenoids, such as beta carotene and lycopene, from
food sources that are non-toxic and easily converted in the body to
vitamin A as needed. We believe this is a safer and more desirable way
to supplement the body's vitamin A requirements.
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Can I take New Chapter products if I
am also taking prescription medications?
New Chapter®
cannot provide information about combining prescription medicines with
herbal or nutritional supplements. We suggest you always advise your
prescribing physician or pharmacist about the use of dietary or herbal
supplements. Only he or she can determine the risk for herb-drug
interactions and supervise your response to the prescribed therapy*.
You may also want to consider consulting with a qualified expert in
herbal and nutritional therapy on this matter. For a referral database
of licensed Naturopathic Physicians and Holistic Medical Doctors in
your area, please visit: www.naturopathic.org or www.holisticmedicine.org.
Herb-drug interactions have been identified with respect to
a handful of herbs and vitamins, however the vast majority of this
information remains unknown. While herbal medicine has experienced a
long history of safe use, this history has not included many of the
modern pharmaceutical medications that are frequently used today. By
making your health care provider aware of your supplement regimen, you
are protecting yourself from any known potential interactions and
allowing for any future information on this topic to come to light.
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Is there a way to get relief from hormonal imbalances
without
taking HRT (hormone replacement therapy) or phytoestrogen supplements?
Estrotone®
supports both pre- and post-menopausal hormone imbalances. Estrotone
contains full spectrum, whole-herb extracts of schizandra, ginger,
black cohosh, chastetree and rosemary. The phytonutrients in these
herbs safely promote hormone balance, inactivate free radicals
associated with aging, and modulate 5-lipoxygenase, thereby promoting
normal bone growth and breast health. Supercritically extracted Evening
Primrose oil, providing a rich source of the Omega 6 fatty acid GLA, is
also added to Estrotone to support
hormonal health.
If you are seeking to support hormone balance in the body,
your doctor might also want to consider suggesting New
Chapter’s Organic Every Woman® II
for a balanced broad spectrum multi-vitamin supplement and Broccolive®
Plus to support the liver’s role in maintaining hormone
balance.
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Can I take New Chapter products if I
am pregnant or nursing?
Perfect Prenatal™, Ginger Honey Tonic
and All-Flora® are
the only products New Chapter
recommends specifically to support a healthy pregnancy. Although many
herbs and nourishing whole foods have long been used to promote health
and comfort during pregnancy, the majority have simply not been
thoroughly evaluated in clinical studies for safety during this
cherished phase in a woman’s life. Therefore, we suggest that pregnant
or nursing women use any of our other products only under the direction
of their health care provider or qualified expert in herbal and
nutritional medicine.
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Do I need to refrigerate New Chapter’s
products containing live probiotics: Perfect Prenatal™,
Berry Green™, Probiotics with a Purpose™, All-Flora®
and Smooth Food 2™?
No, New Chapter’s
“live active cultureâ€‌ probiotics are designed to be
shelf-stable in their growth medium and deliver the labeled potency of
probiotic species for the life of the product. Given that the viability
of probiotics is most influenced by light and moisture, for best
results you may wish to store opened products in the refrigerator or
another dark, dry place.
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Are New Chapter’s products vegan?
All of the following New
Chapter products are considered vegan: all of the MycoMedicinals®,
and Daily Ginger®, Baikal
Skullcap, Broccolive®
Plus, Berry Green™, Supercritical Diet & Energy™,
Green & White Tea, Aloe Vera 200™, All-Flora®,
Chlorella Regularis, Immortal Mushrooms™,
Rhodiolaforce 100 & 300™, Holy Basil, Smooth Food 2™,
CoffeeBerry™, Anti-Aging Formula, and Sensitive Colon Support.
New Chapter's Probiotic Nutrients™
Made with Organic Ingredients do not meet strict vegan standards. The Lactobacilli
acidophilus
culture used in the second stage of our unique food culturing process
is originally grown in its favorite environment, milk. However, the
organisms are separated from the dairy growth medium prior to their
addition to the Probiotic Nutrients culturing medium. Additionally, the
vitamin D* utilized for culturing with organic whole food ingredients
in our vitamin D-containing products is derived from wool wax
* The following Probiotic Nutrient formulas contain vitamin D:
Every Man®, Every Man®
II, Every Man®’s One Daily, Every Woman®,
Every Woman® II, Every Woman®’s
One Daily, Every Woman®’s Inner Beauty, Only
One™, Perfect Prenatal™, and Tiny Tabs
Multi™.
Please note: With the exception of SC Diet and Energy which is
delivered as a vegetarian tablet, and Oreganoforce™ which
is encapsulated in fish gelatin, New Chapter's Supercritical Therapy®
products are encapsulated in bovine gelatin.
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Are New Chapter's products
gluten-free?
Probiotic Nutrients™,
Supercritical Therapies™,
MycoMedicinals®
, Probiotics with a Purpose™
and Specialty Formulas do not contain
ingredients considered by the Celiac Sprue Association to pose harm to
individuals with gluten intolerance. Berry Green™
and Perfect Prenatal™
both contain oats, a food that may or may not elicit an immune response
in individuals with gluten intolerance.
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Is New Chapter certified by a third-party?
New Chapter is currently under limited
certification by International Certification Services (ICS), a
third-party certifying body. Our organic operations in Costa Rica are
certified by Eco-Logica. New chapter and it’s co-processors are
certified to the standards of the USDA’a National Organic Program
(NOP), as well as, in certain instances, the International Federation
of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM) and the European Organic
Standard (EEC 2092/91). As the GMP’s (Good Manufacturing
Practices) are not final for the Dietary Supplement Industry, we are
holding on third party Certification for GMP compliance. We are
currently operating under the FDA's guidelines as mandated in 21
CFR for the food industry Parts 100 – 169. The FDA audited New
Chapter in 2003.
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How does New Chapter ensure the quality, purity and
potency of their products?
New Chapter’s Quality Assurance, Quality
Control and Regulatory Compliance team have over 47 years combined
experience divided equally between New Chapter and related industry
experience. From Paul Schulick, New Chapter’s founder, down
through the organization, all New Chapter Associates share in our
commitment to quality.
New Chapter requires that all lots of raw materials used for
themanufacture of our products are tested for potency markers, heavy metal
contamination and/or microbiological content. Our co-processors forward
this information on a Certificate of Analysis for our approval prior to
use or shipping. We randomly verify information contained on C of
A’s through third-party laboratory analysis.
New Chapter does finished product testing on weights, potency,
marker assays, micro and heavy metals. We also do expiration date
testing on a random basis for the duration of declared shelf life: 18
months to 3 years.
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What is the difference between Supercritical
Holy Basil™ and Holy
Basil Vcaps?
New Chapter offers two holy basil products.
Both provide the healing benefits of this traditional Ayurvedic herb,
but because different methods of herbal extraction are utilized in the
processing of the herb, each provides slightly different ratios of the
plant’s active constituents. Our original Holy Basil
product is extracted using water and alcohol and delivered in a veggie
capsule, making it suitable for vegetarians. It is Potency
Assured™ for ursolic acid, one the plant’s key
constituents. Supercritical Holy Basil
offers the advantage of supercritical extraction, a process that is especially
good at extracting the oily plant constituents (concentrating them 50
times), which are often difficult to extract using conventional methods
or without resorting to the use of chemical solvents. We combine the
supercritical extract with a water and alcohol extract to provide the
most complete representation of all the plant compounds present in the
whole herb. Supercritical Holy Basil is
Potency Assured™ for ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, rosmarinic acid,
eugenol and caryophyllenes. It is delivered in a gelcap.
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What is the difference between St. John’s SC27™
and Serofin™?
St. John’s Wort
is widely recognized for its ability to safely and naturally support
positive emotional health. St.John’s SC27,
New Chapter’s
original St John’s Wort formula, contains a supercritical extract
of the herb, and is Potency Assured™ for hyperforins, a
fat-soluble constituent considered to be central to the herb’s
positive effect on emotional health. Cutting-edge research has revealed
that multiple classes of both fat-soluble and water-soluble
phytonutrients, including hyperforins and hypericins, are independently
capable of producing beneficial effects, but all of the phytonutrients
working in synergy will produce optimum benefit. Following this
discovery, New Chapter formulated Serofin,
a St.John’s Wort product containing both the supercritical extract
found in SC27 and separate hydroethanolic extract of the herb Potency
Assured™ for the water-soluble constituent hypericin. While most
people consider Serofin to be a superior
formulation providing the broadest-spectrum of active constituents, we
continue to offer St. John’s SC27 for
thousands of individuals who have used this product with great success
to safely promote balanced brain chemistry.
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Should I be concerned about products
containing maltodextrin if I have a food allergy or sensitivity to corn?
Generally, corn allergies or
sensitivities are a response to the protein portion of the grain, and
since maltodextrin is derived from corn starch, it rarely creates
immune responses in individuals sensitive to corn protein. However,
trace amounts of the protein may be present and we recommend that
individuals speak with their health care practitioners about their
personal experience with products containing maltodextrin to determine
if they are appropriate.
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