Raena Morgan: Hello, we’re visiting with Dr. Stuart Reeves. He is the Director of
Research and Development at Embria Health Sciences. Dr. Reeves, this
product—EpiCor that we’ve been talking about—how is the human
version different from the animal version?
Dr. Stuart Reeves: It’s extremely different. It’s based on the same yeast, saccharomyces,
that’s used in baking and brewing, but we had to modify it dramatically.
First of all, we were looking for something that had a much bigger effect
on the immune system than the animal product does. And secondly, we
were looking for a product that could be consumed on a regular basis in a
capsule or a tablet. So, we had to change all of the processing. This
ignores the need to make it food grade rather than feed grade; we had to
change the technology completely to produce a human product.
Raena Morgan: What exactly were you giving to the animals, was it a probiotic?
Dr. Stuart Reeves: It’s not a probiotic. A probiotic contains live organisms and these
organisms multiply in the gut and change the gut environment if you like.
Raena Morgan: Okay.
Dr. Stuart Reeves: A prebiotic, which is what EpiCor might be called, is something that is not
alive, and it exerts a direct effect on the human organism, or the animal
organism, not necessarily via changing the bacterial population.
Raena Morgan: Well, thank you Dr. Reeves, we’ll visit some more.
Dr. Stuart Reeves: Thank you.
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