Isogest™ Containing Digestive Enzymes
Only Kirkman Enzymes contain Isogest™, which represents a significant breakthrough in enzyme technology by providing enzyme activity previously missing in all other enzyme products.

The importance of this missing enzyme fraction was confirmed in January 2004 by R. Kushak, Ph. D. and T. Buie, MD of Massachusetts General Children’s Hospital in an intestinal biopsy study involving 100 special needs children. The study showed that 60% of these patients had weak lactase activity and 25-45% had weak isomaltase/palatinase activity, which evidenced their special dietary need for an enzyme providing isomaltase/palatinase activity. This missing isomaltase activity is provided by Isogest™.

Kirkman’s two Isogest™ containing enzyme products have been clinically evaluated by parents and physicians with astounding results. See our website article for a summary of these results.

Enzyme Complete/DPPIV II is a complete digestive enzyme product which helps digest all food groups. The inclusion of Isogest™ makes it the truly complete digestive aid supplement, and unequalled by any other enzyme product available.

Carb Digest™ with Isogest is Kirkman’s complete disaccharidase enzyme for complete carbohydrate digestion. It is based on the studies of R. Kushak, Ph. D. and T. Buie, MD of Massachusetts General Hospital which has shown varying degrees of weak disaccharidase enzyme activity in special needs children. If you have trouble digesting carbohydrates including sugars, starches and potatoes, Carb Digest™ will help.

Isogest™ is the missing link to comprehensive enzyme products.

BioCore Lipo™
Many individuals have digestive problems associated with the consumption of fat. Excessive intake of fat can contribute to systemic problems and can cause a variety of gastrointestinal problems including heartburn. Our lifestyles often include “fast food” or “prepared food” diets which are extremely high in fat content.

BioCore Lipo™ is a combination of lipases optimized to breakdown dietary fats. The lipases in BioCore LIPO™ are especially resistant to stomach acid and are stable at wide pH ranges ensuring their activity in both the stomach and the small intestine. For some individuals, fat digestion may be their only enzyme requirement making the purchase of multi enzyme formulas to get lipase activity difficult to justify from a cost standpoint. BioCore LIPO™ is the solution.

BioCore LIPO™ also is very effective in helping breakdown oil soluble nutrients for proper absorption. These nutrients include fish oils, flax oils, omega 3 and 6 fatty acids, vitamins A, D, E, K, and CoEnzyme Q-10.

Super Pro Bio 75B
An Ultra Strength Eight Strain Probiotic

Super Pro Bio 75B is Kirkman’s new ultra strength intensive care probiotic formulation containing eight strains of probiotic organisms which colonize and adhere to the gastrointestinal tract helping support intestinal health, good intestinal flora and immune response. This formulation contains in excess of 75 billion organisms making it one of the most potent probiotic formulations available for the increasing number of physicians who are trying intensive probiotic products to aid in gastrointestinal support.

Super Pro Bio 75B is the professional strength version of Pro-Bio Gold®. For those individuals needing intense gastrointestinal support, this product fills the need. When colonization and adherence have not been successful with lower strength products, give Super Pro Bio 75B a try.

Pro Bio Chewables
Kirkman is pleased to announce the formulation of a chewable wafer version of our most popular probiotic, Pro-Bio Gold. This product is pleasant tasting with the same six certified strains of organisms as present in our signature Pro-Bio Gold formulation.

Normally, chewable probiotic formulations are weak, low dosage products due to the fragility of the organisms, but Kirkman has developed an optimal formulation which is produced under special cold, dehumidified conditions, so that the product maintains full potency when compressed into a wafer.

Gastro Support Hypoallergenic Capsules
A healthy gastrointestinal tract can often become compromised as a result of a variety of internal or external causative factors. There are a number of ingredients which can support good health of the gastrointestinal tract. Kirkman has formulated such a product which contains the following ingredients in combination:

This special formulation of proven ingredients can help aid in the good health of the gastrointestinal tract.

Kirkman's Immuno-Aid
Kirkman’s Immuno-Aid is an immune enhancing product which helps support the body’s immune system by providing ingredients which have been known to clinically support and stimulate immune response. The winter season and heavy exposure periods make individuals especially vulnerable if their immune system is compromised.

Immuno-Aid helps promote antibody function, T cell development, macrophage production and stimulates natural killer cell function. It also is antagonistic to heavy metals.

Companion products which may work synergistically with Immuno-Aid in supporting the immune system are Garlic products and Kirkman’s Colostrum Gold. Those three products together make for a complete supporting regimen to the immune system.

TheraResponse Hypoallergenic Capsules
Physicians and clinicians are finding that there is a significant sub group of patients that do not respond to high B-6/Magnesium supplements such as Super Nu-Thera or who repond negatively to the high concentrations. These individuals are usually nutritionally compromised, however, and need a comprehensive vitamin and mineral supplement to ensure good health through proper nutrition. Using the findings and the responses of the physicians and clinicians, Kirkman has formulated this extremely comprehensive vitamin and mineral product using all of the latest findings presented at recent conferences. This formulation contains folinic acid, methyl vitamin B-12, trace minerals including selenium, chromium and molybdenum, iodine, vitamin A as acetate and beta carotene, buffered vitamin C, and the mineral factor lithium, a well known nutrient in pharmaceutical circles.

Slo-Release Melatonin Tablets
Many individuals obtain good results using melatonin as a sleep aid but report that the sleep does not last through the night. The child or adult using the product often wakes up after 4-5 hours of sleep and then is unable to return to restful sleep.

Kirkman has addressed this issue with the formulation of a Slo-Release Melatonin Tablet which dissolves slower than normal tablets thereby releasing the melatonin over a period of about 2-4 hours (depending on a person’s metabolism). This slower release of the melatonin keeps it in the bloodstream longer thus extending the sleep pattern by an additional 2-4 hours. A more lengthy sleep should occur or if a person does wake up, it should be easier to return to sleep.

These tablets must be swallowed whole. They may not be crushed or dissolved in liquids.

Inositol Pure Soluble Powder
Pure Inositol is also known as myoinositol or unphosphorylated inositol. Inside cells, myoinositol can be phosphorylated to make phosphatidylinositol. This phosphorylated form can act as a messenger inside the cell. While inositol has been used as an ingredient in multivitamin formulations for decades, its internal cell activities are still being researched. Some physicians are trying it to support aggressive type behaviors.

When our body tissues are finished with inositol, some of it is changed into glucuronate. Glucuronate is one of the body's principal detoxifiers. Many foreign chemicals and some cellular waste substances are combined with glucuronate. This makes them more water soluble and more easily excreted. So, inositol does double duty in our bodies. First, it helps cells respond to external conditions; later, it supports detoxification of our tissues.

Advanced Mineral Support
Mineral Supplementation is critical in those individuals who do not get recommended daily values of these necessary nutrients from their diet. Kirkman currently offers Multi-Mineral Complex Pro-Support Hypoallergenic capsules for mineral replacement. A number of physicians Kirkman works with are now requesting a higher potency mineral formulation utilizing mineral salts with superior absorption and forms which are gentle on the digestive tract. Kirkman has responded with Advanced Mineral Support. The calcium source is bis-glycinate, a superior form of calcium in absorption characteristics. The iron source is also bis-glycinate, a very well tolerated form of iron in the stomach. All of the important trace minerals have also been incorporated into this formula. A small amount of vitamin D has been added to enhance the absorption of certain minerals

A special thanks to Dr. Bryan Jepson of Salt Lake City and Dr. Phillip DeMio in Seven Hills, Ohio for contributing ideas on this formulation.