The Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association and Transfer Point Beta Glucan.

The Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association is a leading peer-reviewed journal on nutraceuticals and nutrition.

JANA is published quartley. It is considered by many health care professionals the bible of identifying safe and effective dietary supplements for their practice and/or personal use.

JANA contains original research articles not found anywhere else, comprehensive review articles, timely editorials, opinion articles, book reviews and interviews with leaders in the fields of nutraceuticals, MD's, researchers and others that are involved in the clinical use of nutraceuticals.

Nutraceuticals come in many forms. They can be a fortified food or on the other end of the spectrum they can be a dietary supplement. They are biologically active substances in the body. They are not considered vitamins, minerals or herbs.

Nutraceuticals are extracted from a natural living thing, such as a plant or animal, and can complement vitamins, minerals and herbs to optimize our body's performance by providing a physiological benefit or protection against health challenges.

In January 2007 the Journal of Nutrition published a study on the Phagocytosing effects of various immune system support products titled “An Evaluation of the Immunological Activities of Commercially Available B1,3-Glucans.”

Phagocytosis[1] is the engulfing and ingestion of bacteria or other foreign body invaders by phagocytes. Phagocytes are the white blood cells of the immune system who's primary responsibility is to destroy diseased cells or invaders in our body.

Phagocytosis is a primary response of the innate immune system of the body. Without proper and effective Phagocytosis we would succumb to disease and/or infection.

Many products that claim to support proper immune system function do not even provide proof of their actual claim. Others use a single test result to make the claim, usually the rate of increase of Natural Killer Cells, which is a single component of the immune system. This theory is flawed because it is only looking at one response characteristic. The immune system is a complex system comprising of many components.

A proper test to establish effective immune support would be to compare more then one component for immune system response. This is the test that was performed at the University of Louisville and a wide variety of immune system support products.