One of the downsides of the conventional vitamins you take in capsules is that they are naturally degraded. And not only during transport in the body, but immediately after you buy them.
In fact, the path from production to consumption is quite long. The active ingredients are subject to natural degradation most often caused by oxygen, light or temperature.
In the case of liposomal vitamins, this is prevented by a lipid layer that encapsulates the nutrients and protects them from degradation.
The protective layer ensures that the vitamin passes through the digestive system without being damaged by various juices and acids. The undamaged liposome is then transported to the cells that need it most.
Vitamins and minerals encapsulated in liposomes can be absorbed by the body very easily. The absorption of such ingredients increases to more than 90%.
In contrast, no more than 20% of conventional vitamins can be absorbed. For some minerals it is only 3 to 5 %.
When it comes to absorption, we should also point out that common supplements enter the liver, where they are metabolized, and only then enter the bloodstream.
However, liposomal vitamins and minerals are absorbed via the lymphatic system, where they pass directly into the bloodstream through the thoracic lymphatic duct.
The active molecules are transported directly into the cellular processes, where they are needed in large quantities.
Bioavailability - the extent to which the body can use nutrients at the cellular level - is much higher for liposomal vitamins, namely 8 to 50 times higher than that of conventional vitamins and other conventional supplements (depending on the type), which are sold as tablets and capsules.
Thanks to their miniature nano size, liposomal vitamins reach every cell in the body. They even penetrate the blood-brain barrier that protects the brain.
The role of the barrier is to isolate nervous system tissue from the underlying blood flow that supplies the entire body.
It protects it against bacteria and toxins, but also makes it more difficult for common drugs, vitamins and minerals to enter the brain.
However, liposomally modified products can also penetrate the brain effectively because they are extremely small. And the smaller the liposome, the more stable it is, which means that it can better penetrate all tissues.
Let’s suppose you want to supplement your body with an important vitamin, in which case we recommend you their liposomal form.
Using cutting-edge technology, we can encapsulate vitamins and minerals in miniature lipid nanoparticles, i.e. the liposomes made of lecithin, which are a source of phospholipids.
Lecithin is natural for the body because cell membranes are also made up of the same phospholipid building blocks.
When the liposome passes intact through the digestive system and enter the bloodstream, this compatibility allows it to naturally fuse with the cells.
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This provides an alternative to intravenous application of vitamins and minerals, which can also deliver intact micronutrient molecules directly into the bloodstream.
And that's not all. While conventional supplements are absorbed through the small intestine and then enter the liver, where they are metabolized and then distributed into the bloodstream, liposomal vitamins and minerals are absorbed through the lymphatic system.
From there, they enter directly into the bloodstream via the thoracic lymphatic duct.
In addition, liposomes help transport active molecules directly into cellular processes, where they are available in large quantities.
Liposomal vitamins have an exceptionally high absorption rate. Compared to conventional vitamins, which have a maximum of 20 % usability, liposomal vitamins have an absorption and subsequent usability of up to 95 %.
Think of a liposome as a spherical cavity (vesicle) that can carry water-based active ingredients.
The basic material of liposomes are phospholipid molecules, which consist of a hydrophilic (water-bearing) head and a hydrophobic (water-repelling) end.
These lipid molecules naturally have two layers, with the heads facing outwards and the tails facing inwards.
And it is the central cavity that can carry vital nutrients (minerals, vitamins, trace elements, antioxidants and much more).
Simple liposomes with one hydrophilic core are called unilamellar. However, there are also multilamellar liposomes; think of these as an onion, i. e. there is another cavity in each nucleus, and inside it another one etc.
The individual vesicles are separated from each other by layers of water, with the nutrient contained only in the nucleus.
The advantage of this type of structure is that it provides even more protection for the nutrient, unlike the conventional unilamellar liposome. In practice, this means that the active ingredient reaches every cell that needs it without being damaged in the digestive system.
We also work with multilamellar liposomes at Vesantech because the technology we use can encapsulate the nutrient in two to four protective layers.
But let's go back to how liposomes are formed. It’s not only in labs.
Indeed, liposomes have proven to be great distributors of active ingredients that are expected to support targeted treatments for many serious diseases in the future. This is thanks to the transfer of nutrients in the highest concentration directly into the cells.
But liposomes also occur naturally in the body, for example in breast milk or colostrum, where absorption is a key issue.
