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Beer and Wine
Scientists have known for some time that a number of fermented products contain good and healthful levels of antioxidants. Most of us are probably aware that red wine, and, to lesser extent, white wine, became rather famous in the 1990's because researchers discovered that they contained high levels of several classes of antioxidants, many of them polyphenols, all derived from the grapes used in making the wine, particularly the skins and seeds.  However, by the end of the 1990's, it was discovered that beer, even cheap mass-produced beer, was even higher in powerful antioxidants, sometmes called endogenous antoxidants (endogenous because they are and were found in the source material which the yeast ferment), due largely to the barley malt and barley malt extract used in beer-making - it turns out that barley malt is very high in certain extremely powerful antioxidants, and partially to some very powerful antioxidants fourn in hops (although most beers use only small amounts of hops, thus limiting this contribution.) In the cases of both red wine and beer, the primary antioxidants found were what are known as endogenous antioxidants which had already been present in the starting material used as food for the (wine-making or beer-making) yeasts used to produce alcohol.  However, researches have speculated that both wine and beer likely contain other natural antioxidants (we are not speaking here of antioxidant additives which some commercial brewers add to batches of beer or wine) which are produced by the yeast, and a few researchers using modern investigative techniques such as ORAC and FRAP antoixidant studies have found some evidence for this. For a related example, it is well known that many yeasts, including brewing yeasts, are able to produce beta-glucans, which are powerful antioxidants, and also apparently immune boosters as well, according to the scientific literature.  It has been speculated that these brewing yeasts may also make smaller amounts of other antioxidants as well. 

Sourdough Breads
Sourdough breads are made by fermenting flours with special cultures which contain one strain of lactic acid bacteria and one species of yeast, working synergistically (in fact, these comprise two of the three groups of organisms found in our starter culture) to digest the flour.  In the 1990's, researchers published reports showing that well-fermented sourdough dough showed good levels of certain antioxidants, and that the crusts of baked sourdough breads showed even higher levels of powerful antioxidants, apparently produced by the action of heat upon substances which had been produced by the lactic-acid bacteria and yeasts during sourdough fermentation.

Asian Soy Ferments Such as Tempeh, Miso and Natto
Research has shown that the lactic acid bacteria and yeasts as well as other microorganisms used in fermenting soy products into miso, natto, tempeh and other foodstuffs produce, among other things, antioxidants, as they ferment and digest the soy. 

Sudden Popularity of Soil Based Organisms (SBOs) as Probiotics 
Starting in the late 1970's and continuing well into the 80s and 90s, several Western researchers, working independently (e.g., Smith, Daubner, Bryce, et al) started looking beyond the conventional lactic acid bacteria commonly found in conventional probiotic nutritional supplements, and began examining the some of the soil-based, non-lactic acid bacterial organisms which our ancestors would have regularly consumed as part and parcel of eating a "natural diet", and thus would have regularly inoculated (or re-inoculated) their GI tracts with such organisms.  Several of these researchers achieved rather impressive successes in using these organisms with people with various disorders, and this work eventually led to the development and marketing of at least four different combinations of soil based organisms, or "SBOs", as they came to be called, as probiotics.  Indeed, one combination became so popular that the developer and manufacturer trademarked the name Homeostatic Soil Organisms, or HSOs, for this culture.  Well, the truth is that these researchers examined only a small percentage of commonly-occurring SBOs, and a number of other promising candidates were likely missed. 

Another Lesser-known Group of Soil Based Beneficial Organisms
One group of soil-based organisms (SBOs) which was not included in these first few "waves" of soil-based probiotic products was the phototrophic (photosynthetic) purple non-sulfur bacteria, also known as PNSB. These bacteria, consisting of  the Rhodobacter, Rhodospeudomonas and Rhodospirillum (some authors write Rhodospirillium) families, are a benign and incredibly ubiquitous group of bacteria, and are found almost everywhere:

• in soil, especially the soil near the roots of plants
• on the leaves of most land-based plants
• in pond and stream water
• in mud and sediment at the bottom of  ponds, streams 
• along ocean shores and in salt-water marshes
• on the skins of, and within the gut of, fish from ponds and streams
• in rainwater
• in naturally-occuring occurring snow, ice and icicles
• in aged (ripened) and fermented cheeses  (for one interesting, if brief, citation about this, see the article about microorganisms in cheeses authored by Miloslav Kaláb of the Department of  Food Engineering at Lund University in Sweden, at  http://distans.livstek.lth.se:2080/foodmi.htm )
• due to their ubiquity and toxin-removal abilities in ponds and other bodies of water, these organisms are often the primary species in commercially-available probiotic treatments for aquariums (fresh and salt-water), artificial ponds, Koi ponds, ornamental fish ponds, and commercial aquaculture (e.g., fish farming and shrimp farming)
• due to their ability to digest toxins and odors, these organisms are often the primary species in commercially-available treatments for barns, horse (equine) stalls, and even in odor-management air sprays for livestock barns. 

Research on Products Fermented with EM Organisms
This section, due to it's growth, has been moved to the Technical Information page on this website, which you may find by clicking here.
 

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Sootheox and Quenchox Fermented Antioxidant Nutritional Supplement Brews
The Sootheox (aka Quenchox or Proreduct) products discussed on this site are rather similar to several other fermented antioxidant nutritional supplement products for humans currently on the market which have been cultured using the same microbial inoculant culture of Dr. Higa's Effective Microorganisms ^TM (aka EM1 or EM-1) as may be found in the original microbial starter culture for the Sootheox products mentioned on this site. 
As of August 13, 2003, the Sootheox (and Quenchox) products are no longer offered for sale, but this information is made available for educational purposes, as many folks have expressed interest in making such brews and elixirs on their own, and several existing vendors of nutritional products have expressed an interest in starting to brew and market their own line of such products. 

Reproduced below is a rather complete listing of these related products for humans, along with links for one or more websites containing more information about each of these products.  I have made no attempt to list those related products sold for use with animals, such as pets, livestock, horses, fish and shrimp farming, as they are too numerous and the market is ever-changing.  The list for human products follows:

EM-X ^TM (aka EMX ^TM) Antioxidant Nutritional Supplement
EM-X ^TM (aka EMX ^TM) is an antioxidant nutritional supplement liquid marketed worldwide by EMCO, a division of the EM organizations founded by Dr. Higa. These are the folks who developed the Effective Microorganisms (aka EM or EM1) fermentative culture. EM-X is a microfiltered, sterilized and processed bran-seaweed supplement liquid which retails for about $70 for a 16 ounce (one pint, or 1/2 liter) bottle in the USA, and there are claims that it has been fermented for as long as three months (which could yield even higher levels of antioxidants), whereas our Sootheox Golden Bran Kelp Brew has been fermented for 40 days or longer (average 62 days or more, often 90 days or more). 

The EMRO EM-X information web page reports that:

"The major antioxidants in EM-X are alpha-toco-pherol, flavonoid, gamma-oryzanol, ubiquinone, and lycopene. In addition to such antioxidants, EM-X contains different bio-active substances and minerals."


Dr. Higa and the EMRO folks have also stated that both EM cultures and EM-X contain inositol, ubiquinone (aka COQ10), quinones, saponins, low molecular-weight polysaccharides, polyphenol antioxidants and chelated minerals, including trace minerals. 

The recommended daily dosage for EM-X is apparently about 10 ml. (about one tablespoon [tbsp], or 1/3 ounce) per day to as many as 30 to 40 ml.(an ounce or more) per day, which means that a 16 ounce bottle of EM-X would last anywhere from as long as 48 days (almost two months) to as little as 20 days.  EM-X, according to their marketing material, has been highly micro-filtered to remove all microorganisms and to give the liquid a very polished and clear appearance.  The Sootheox (aka Proreduct) Dark Line brews are largely unfiltered, to provide as many nutrients as possible, along with a large amount of the beneficial fermentation microorganisms.  The pH of all Sotheox brews is rather acidic (this is very healthful), and we certify that the pH of each brew at time of bottling was at least a very healthful 3.7 or lower, to ensure that harmful organisms cannot grow in the liquid.  The pH of EM-X is reportedly quite a bit higher; it is apparently not an acidic product. For more information on EMX see the EMRO Japan information site's EM-X webpage at http://www.emro.co.jp/english/products/emx/aboutemx.html
For some information on what we know about how EM-X is made and what it's ingredients are, you may wish to se the relevant article(s) on EM-X at the EM Information website, at http://www.rawpaleodiet.org/em/, and then look in the Table of Contents for all sections which mention EM-X.

Based upon reports I have received and all that I have read, I recommend that you consider trying EM-X if you can handle the price.  It seems to be quite powerful and beneficial. While I personally would prefer a live unfiltered (or lightly-filtered only) version of EM-X if I were to try using it, I believe that EM-X is a very good product. 

Availability in USA
EM-X may be purchased in the USA from EMTrading, with contact information at http://www.emtrading.com or from the Health Store at Gabriel Cousen's Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center (a raw foods retreat center), with contact information at http://www.treeoflife.nu

EM Microbial Inoculant Culture and the "Activated" Version
The EM microbial inoculant culture is marketed by numerous vendors in most countries around the world, and it is marketed primarily for agricultural use (soil treatment, composting, and as an animal feed supplement), aquaculture (fish and shrimp farming), waste treatment, odor control and septic waste treatment. However, although EM culture is usually not marketed specifically for human use, my research has uncovered the fact that many people in many countries regularly drink EM or the fermented "extension" liquid made from it, which is called "Activated EM" or "EM Extended".  Indeed, these products, both of which have powerful antioxidant properties and also contain the live organisms which made the culture famous, are likely by far the most common form in which most folks around the world consume such fermented products. It is inexpensive and rather readily available, and some very knowledgeable folks estimate that about 95% of all people who use EM for uses such as agriculture, aquaculture, waste or odor management somehow end up, one way or another, drinking the stuff regularly themselves.  From what I have been able to learn, most such users consume the culture in the form of  "Activated EM" or "EM Extended", as mentioned above, whcih they can brew inexpensively from the starter culture at their home or workplace.

Fervita ^TM  Fermented Antioxidant Supplement
Preface
As you may know, my Sootheox fermented antioxidant supplements had been, at least mid-2003, one of the only live-culture fermented antioxidant supplements in this class to be marketed in the Western world, and the only one produced and marketed (however low-key!) in the USA.  Well, it looks like that is about to change, and I am very happy.... and I would love to see more small antioxidant fermentation breweries enter this field, and have more vendors offering this stuff publicly, with a greater variety of brews, prices and methods (the art.) Read on for some more details....

As some of you may already know, even when I marketed my brews on a limited basis, I steadfastly refused to advertise or push my brews, and insisted that any and all sales be direct sales, directly from me; indeed, many folks contacted me and told me accusingly that the Antioxbrew website wa an "anti-sales" or "anti-marketing" website, and askd me if  I was crazy.... well, that was that is exactly how I wanted it.... And, as some of you know, I had been approached in the early days by at least four companies (two already selling alternative health products to a wide market; one already selling funky nutritional supplements; one woman wanted to sell the stuff via TV infomercials and direct mail campaigns (aargh!)....) who wanted to "mass market" my brews to various alternative health and New Age markets and in effect, act as my distributor or re-seller, and in each case, my intuition and heart guided me to instantly refuse such offers.  However, in late May 2003, I was finally approached with an offer I could not refuse, and which was truly win-win for everyone....I was asked to assist (in minor ways, at least) an already-established company, which already markets a few nutritional supplements, to create their own line of fermented antioxidant liquid nutritional supplements so that they could bring them to market, and their intentions were to market their Fervita fermented antioxidant supplement products far more openly than I had been marketing mine.

Announcement
As of mid-July 2003, the folks who produce Fervita EM nutritional antioxidant supplement have just notified me that their website is now officially "on the air", and they are offering their Fervita Wild Blueberries fermented supplement in a pre-launch offer which will last until early August; any products ordered in the pre-launch period (before about August 12) will not be shipped until sometime during the second week in August.  The Fervita Wild Blueberry brew will be their first product offering, and it will be followed within months by a few other fermented antioxidant products as well. To see the website for Fervita fermented antioxidant nutritional supplement beverage, please go to:
http://www.fervita.com

A Few Notes About the Product(s)
I notice that the Fervita folks have managed, for their first offering, to keep the product cost below $1.00 per ounce, including the price of the 16 ounce amber plastic PET bottle. That is impressive...!

Frankly speaking, I notice that the shipping and handling (S/H) charges currently cited by these folks on their ordering page are RIDICULOUSLY INEXPENSIVE (and very much below their actual costs, according to my rough calculations) and so that alone may be a good reason to order a bottle or two.... In fact, their S/H charge is quite a bit less than I usually pay to have a small used paperback book shipped to me via some moderately slow US Postal Service package option by a vendor halfway across the country, and face it, a 16 ounce bottle of brew weighs far more than a small paperback, and also needs to be packaged far more carefully... so, you may want to at least check out their website, at http://www.fervita.com!
 

Lanox ^TM Antioxidant Liquid Supplements 
And then there is a Korean line of fermented antioxidant products made with EM organisms.... Lanox ^TMAntioxidant Liquid supplements are produced in Korea by Lanox-Korea / M21Environmental Technology, aka Fermented Antioxidants Research.  The information provided by Lanox Korea on their website certifies that their Lanox Antioxidant Liquid ^TM and Lanox-450 ^TM Antioxidant Concentrate Liquid antioxidant supplements are alive, and loaded with the beneficial fermentation organisms from the Effective Microorganisms culture, much like our Sootheox (or Proreduct) Dark Line brews (which are alive, with the beneficial fermentation microorganisms intact.)  Lanox-Korea also offers two products which are apparently filtered and sterilized: a powder concentrate (which, their website says, is "... for the old man") and a sterile antioxidant liquid for the prepared food industry.  Their site tends to stress the presence of antioxidants such as Vitamin C, beta-glucans, and also octacosanol in their products.  The minimum daily dosage they seem to recommend for their Lanox Antioxidant Liquid supplement is at least 30 ml. (about one ounce) per day, and less for their concentrate (e.g., Lanox-450). 
For more information on Lanox, see the off-site Lanox-Korea English-language webpage at http://www.lanoxkorea.com/eng/le_lanox.htm.
There is also a page (bearing a name only in Korean!) on their English-language website containing more information on the nutrients found in their product, along with some very amusing testimonials and case histories of improvements and benefits claimed, at http://www.lanoxkorea.com/eng/le_gaibal.htm

One of the claims which the Lanox folks to make on the latter page is that their product makes it very difficult to get drunk on alcohol, and that it prevents damage to the body from heavy drinking. However, the wording of their English-language site is rather quaint and funny, likely due to the hazards of translation.  Here, reproduced below, is a small and humorous, but  illustrative, quote from the latter Lanox webpage cited above -- please note that I do not make any of these claims for my products, and I have no idea if these claims are true for Lanox products, and I have seen no documented scientific evidence that the claims are true:
 

4. How to drink and the reaction?
The amount to drink for a day is about 30 ml. If drinks everyday, can make the preventive medicine, prevents all diseases, and carries on more healthy life. (As takes with a Chinese medicine, a Western medicine, vitamin and so on, you can get the more effects)
•    Anti-aging (the skin knit, the white hair change into the black)
•    Recovering a function of the brain (an improvement and preventing of imbecility)
•    The physical strength of patient becomes more faster and faster.
•    Improvement of an autonomic nerve imbalance.
•    Preventing effects of various geriatric disease.
•    As it improves all diseases, it leads the human to healthy life (immunity, self-recovering)
•    It makes an energy and a vigor.
•    It makes a man drink more alcohol.
•    Preventing to catch a cold.
•    The constipation disappears.
•    You can have a good sleep.


From what I can piece together from descriptions of their product on the Lanox website, it sounds like Lanox-Korea has incorporated some Chinese herbs into some of their fermented products, along with more basic nutrients. Based upon personal reports which I have received from folks who have tried Lanox and all that I have read (admittedly only their website), I recommend that you consider trying Lanox if you ever have a chance to purchase a bottle or two of it. It seems like it is likely quite effective. 

Availability in the USA
As of mid-2003, Lanox has a US distributor, located in Flushing, NY.  When I called him (phone number is 718-565-8277), he told me that he had been distributing Lanox for only two months, and that Lanox is currently carried in the US for retail sale only by a large Korean store in Flushing (Queens) NY (they also have a smaller affiliate Korean store in Palisades Park, NJ, but that store does not stock Lanox.).  He told me that the only Lanox product distributed in the USA is their main product, called Lanox Antioxidant Liquid ^TM,  and, in response to my questions, advised me that he could not sell to me directly, but that I would have to purchase it from the store. The Korean grocery store in Flushing has an unpronouncable and undecipherable name, but the store does have staff who speak farily good English, and the store is located at 138-14 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354; their phone number is 718-762-3300.  Henry, the distributor, advised me that he knew that this store had in stock several hundred cases of the product, and thus was sure they had ample stock.  He was able to give me pricing information in late June (2003): a single 550 ml. bottle costs $55.00, and a box of six bottles costs in the range of $250 to $295.  He also advised me that Lanox has recently switched to a 3-bottle box, with a slightly different label, and that the newer version, while priced the same as the older version, has a much sweeter taste; Lanox apparently decided to switch to a sweeter-tasting beverage to attract a larger customer base.  As of July 2003, I am in the process of trying to phone order one bottle of Lanox Antioxidant Liquid ^TM from the NY store to test it and try it.  However, I must admit that I am somewhat daunted by the high price.... this is pretty much the same price range as that of EM-X.

Incidentally, some printed literature which Henry has provided to me does indeed assert that Lanox Antioxidant Liquid ^TM   is a live-culture product, containing the live EM organisms.  By the way, Henry has advised me that the Korean parent company ships literally hundreds of thousands of cases of the primary (original) Lanox product regularly to China and other parts of Southeast Asia, where it is a very big item in the health food marketplace.
 

Vita Biosa from Denmark (Europe)
There is at least one more well-known, EM-based, live-culture, nutritional supplement on the market for humans and animals; this one is from Denmark and has been available for at least several years in Europe.  The product is quite well-known in Denmark, and consists of sugars and a number of beneficial herbs fermented by EM organisms, in a raw live-culture form; the human version is called Vita Biosa or, sometimes, VitaBiosa. There is also an animal version called Animal Biosa, which may be missing many of the herbs, and also versions for lawn and garden or household utility use, with names such as Terra Biosa, etc.  If you do a web search for the term Vita Biosa on Google, you will find quite a few websites mentioning the product, but most in non-English languages.

The product, at least the human Vita Biosa version, seems to be sold in 1 liter amber plastic bottles, and seems to sell in health food stores in Denmark for the equivalent of about $40 US dollars and in the rest of Europe for about the same price or a slightly higher price. I am told by folks who drink EM brews in Europe and Denmark that Vita Biosa is available on a number of health food stores in Denmark, and a smaller number across Europe, but that the product is poorly known and not-well publicized in Europe.

USA Availability
Apparently Vita Biosa is imported into the USA only by Bernard Jensen International in California, although they seem to have dropped much of their mention of the product from their website pages over the past 5 months. However, they still list 1 liter bottles of Vita Biosa on their Special Offers page, at http://www.bernardjensen.org/category.html?UCIDs=1062732
and the actual product description page may be found at:
http://www.bernardjensen.org/item.jhtml?UCIDs=1060446%7C1062732&PRID=1348432
They appear to sell Vita Biosa for about $40 per liter, plus S/H charges.

Much as noted above, if you do a web search on Google for sites on Vita Biosa (including VitaBiosa) in only the English language, you will find only about 20 pages or fewer. However, if you broaden your search to include pages in European languages as well, and to include the animal form as well, the page total is well over 1,000 pages, making it an even better-known EM-brewed human nutritional supplement product than EM-X or Lanox. 

The web material for Vita Biosa to be found on the European sites makes quite clear that it is a live-culture product which has been made with EM, and a number of their sites offer some interesting testimonials from users about near-miraculous healings from using Vita Biosa, etc. A number of the European sites also make sextensive mention of the "probiotic" benefits of the culture, along wiht the powerful antioxidant properties of the brews and of the organissm once they hit the gut. However, the marketing material offered by Bernard Jensen International is much more low-key and extremely low-profile and conservative, and does not seem to mention the live-culture nature of the product at all; it simply attributes the antioxidant power of the product to the many herbs contained therein.
 

Hakko Ukon and Related Fermented Turmeric Products (avail. mostly in Japan)
Hakko Ukon Fermented Turmeric
At least two forms of fermented turmeric are marketed in Japan by Hakko-Ukon Co., Ltd. One is called “Hakko Ukon Cha ^TM”, (please note that the name of the distributor is sometimes spelled "Hakkou" in English) which is a fermented turmeric tea, and offered in supermarkets, and another form is called “Hakko Pocket Ukon Kun ^TM” (meaning "turmeric in a packet"), which consists of granulated dried fermented turmeric in a sealed plastic "tube" or stick, with three tubes per cardboard packet.  Older copy on their vendor sites list the packets as 1.5 g. in size, but the ones I have seen in mid-2003 have 2 grams per tube or stick. Of the 2 grams, 1.6 grams are fermented turmeric, and there are 0.39 grams of milk sugar and 0.01 grams of cornstarch per tube (aka stick.) The packet labeling and flyers and poster ads proclaim in Japanese:

For those who drink
For those who smoke
Help for their health

Hakko Pocket Ukon Kun
Stick Type Granules


I am told that this product is apparently sold primarily at train station kiosks in Japan order to reach the salaryman masses.  There is also apparently a pelleted version available as well of the dried granulated Ukon Kun products, and there is reportedly also a packaged bath additive version as well.

However, as you may have noticed from the ad copy shown above, much of the marketing thrust in Japan for these fermented turmeric products seems to be not just for the powerful antioxidant properties, but specifically for the purported ability to prevent drunkenness and hangover from alcohol ingestion, and to prevent ill effects from smoking cigarettes. You can get some further sense of the marketing thrust for these products at the following page on their website, at:
http://www.hakko-ukon.com/pages/book/engbookflame2.htm
One excerpt from their webpage reads:

"Fermented turmeric is popular among the urban working people today as “a mighty remedy to hangovers” and as a food that “lets you drink more and stay healthy.” This is because these two effects are the easiest to experience among the many effects of fermented turmeric, I suppose."


As noted above, they apparently market their product in Japan in both tea form as well as a packets containing three 2 gram tubes (aka sticks) containing dried granules of fermented turmeric.  Although they do not explicitly disclose it in their articles, on their websites, or on their package, there is some evidence that they may be using the EM1 organisms to ferment the turmeric.  Aside from the mention of lactic acid bacteria on the website and the company's location in the Ryukus area of Okinawa (where EM originated and where much EM research in Japan continues to this day), the doctor in charge of the study reported on the site works at the same university (Ryukus) in Ryuku, Okinawa, as does Dr. Higa. A further piece of evidence is their claim that their method of fermentation increases the antioxidant properties of turmeric; a keynote of anaerobic fermentation by EM organisms is the production of copious amounts of antioxidant compounds during fermentation.  Lastly, I note that their Hakko Pocket Ukon Kun tastes almost identical to the EM-fermented turmeric which I make in my laboratory; both show marked attentuation of the harsh and sharp turmeric taste. 
The company seems to have a Japanese patent for their method of turmeric fermentation and the claimed anti-alcohol properties thereof in the works, via an application apparently dated 1998.  Here is a citation which I found in the Patents page of the curcuminoid.com website at http://www.curcuminoids.com/patents.htm :

"Japanese Patent:  JP10295324A   11/10/1998 
Fermented turmeric and production of  fermented turmeric, drink of food containing turmeric."

After completing a web search on the benefits of turmeric and fermented turmeric, we decided in March 2003 to add a fermented turmeric elixir to our line of Sootheox elixirs and brews.  The first batches were available for distribution in April 2003. 

Incidentally, Hakko Ukon and their competitors also market a similar line of nutritional supplement products aimed for the pet market.

Availability in the USA
The tea form only of the Hakko (aka Hakkou) Japanese product line mentioned above, known as Hakkou Ukon Cha Fermented Turmeric Tea, seems to be available via online ordering vis Shisa.com for customers in the USA, Japan, Taiwan and Korea only,  in boxes of 60 x 2 gram bags, for about $30.00 (shipping and handling charges to the USA are about $16.00) via the online Asian market named Shisa.com.  Their product information and ordering page for this product may be found at:
http://www.shisa.com/shou_body2_0.php?tori_proid_h=96

Another Venue in the USA? 
According to a July 2002 article in a Japanese magazine called The Journal entitled Paradise Unrealized, some of the Okinawa-based fermented turmeric nutritional products (listed above and in the sub-section immediately below) are starting to be test-marketed in the USA, primarily in Asian markets. I have not yet seen them in local Asian markets on the East Coast of the USA..

Other EM-Fermented Nutritional Supplement Products Available in Japan
Folks who live in Japan, and especially in Okinawa, report to me that there are several lesser-known brands of fermented turmeric products other than the Hakko Ukon line available in Japan, and these appear to be sold mostly in the two Costco stores already in that area of Japan, as well as int the local EM retail stores, and advertised in any of several small Japanese-language  magazines devoted to EM use or EM for nutritional use. I am told that all of these products are rather expensive. Some also appear in lines targed for use with pets. 

Likewise, there appear to be several not-well-kown boutique EM-fermented specialty nutrititional supplement products such as EM-fermented royal jelly drinks and EM-fermented ginger and ginseng drinks marketed in Japan in some specialty stores, some EM retail stores and advertised in Japanase-language EM magazines, but I am told tha tthe prices for most of these products seem to be prohibitively expensive.

EM Rejuvenating Salt
EMCO markets worldwide an EM-fermented sea salt product, for use in preparing food and cooking, called EM Rejuvenating Salt, and which is claimed to impart health benefits well beyond that of ordinary sea salt. Further information on EM Rejuvenating Salt may be found at the EMTrading website, at http://www.emtrading.com/store/emsalt047.html
 

Other Vendors of Similar Products: Cottage-Industry Brewers in USA, Korea and Japan
Via direct contact and experience, and via word of mouth, I have learned that there are several small, cottage-industry type operations (likely similar to my effort in early 2003) in the USA, Japan (esp. Okinawa and especially in the Ryukus region of Okinawa) and Korea (usually operated entirely by one or two individuals) which brew small lots of brews and elixirs similar to those offered for research purposes on this site (and likely similar to the Lanox fermented antioxidant products mentioned above as well), and which market them via direct-marketing, and in some cases in Japan and Korea, offer them via some selected local (small) shops as well; a few wer already mentioned in a sub-section above titled Other EM-Fermented Nutritional Supplement Products Available in Japan.

None of the aforesaid small-scale brewers in the USA wish to become widely known, and thus to date none have any web presence, nor to they desire public attention or publicity. As you can guess, they do not wish me to disclose any further information about their whereabouts or wares; each appears to have a small cadre of customers via word-of-mouth, and that is all they desire. As for the small-scale brewers of such antioxidant fermented products in Japan and Korea which have been reported to me, I have reported here literally all that I know; I know of no names or other contact information. 
 

EM-based Products For External or Non-Ingestion Human Use
There are several EM-based products on the market for non-ingestion purposes by humans, such dental or cosmetic use. Information on a few of them follows:

Denteme Compete50 ^TM Dental Products
Denteme Compete50 ^TM -- The beneficial microbial organisms found in Effective Microorganisms may also be found in the USA in a line of dental care products called Denteme Compete50.  At this time, the Denteme Compete50 product line consists of a probiotic mouthwash and a probiotic tooth-brushing powder, each of which is claimed, according to the website, to contain live probiotic organisms derived from EM.. 

Availability in the USA
For more information on probiotic Denteme Compete50 products, or to purchase them, please see their website at http://www.denteme.com

EM Soap 
EM Soap is produced in Japan by the EM organization and distributed worldwide by EMCO.  You may see a listing of this product on the EMTrading website, at http://www.emtrading.com/store/emsoap051_052.html

Blooming Lotus EM Soap
The line Blooming Lotus EM Soaps is produced in the USA, and these EM soaps are considerably cheaper than the Japanese EM soap mentioned above. There seem to currently be two soaps in this line, and the line of soaps may be found at the EMTrading website, at http://www.emtrading.com/store/emsoap051_052.html

EM Ceramic Shapes and EM-X Ceramic Shapes
EMCO distributes a number of different EM ceramic products for human use. Most are ceramic shapes which are claimed to incorporate either EM technology or EM-X technology, and many are marketed for use in treating drinking water or bath water prior to use. To learn more about these products, including ceramic ringstones for treating beverages, or a larger ceramic ringstone for treatng bathwater, go to EMTrading website page at http://www.emtrading.com/store/ceramics.html

Proherb EM Cream
The ad copy on the EMTrading website states in part "Proherb EM Cream is a fragrance free, multipurpose face and body cream made with natural herbal ingredients". To learn more about the Proherb EM Cream or to see the other Proherb products, go to the EMTrading website, at http://www.emtrading.com/store/proherb.html

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No claims are made for ability of this product to prevent, heal or treat any disease state.

All information is presented for informational and educational purposes only.  Label, flyer and website information have not been reviewed nor approved by the FDA.

No claims are made for ability of this product to prevent, heal or treat any disease state.
 

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As of August 13, 2003, the Sootheox (and Quenchox) products are no longer offered for sale, but this information is made available for educational purposes, as many folks have expressed interest in making such brews and elixirs on their own.

Sootheox (aka Proreduct and Quenchox) Brews contain no significant amounts of alcohol, but do contain healthful lactic acid and are naturally acidic.  pH for all versions of Sootheox (also Proreduct and Quenchox) Brews and Elixirs, at time of bottling, was 3.7 or below and will remain at that healthful acidic level for many years. ORP at time of bottling was below +145 at the low pH, yielding an rH (reducing power) in the range of 17.6 to 7.6 or even better (the lower the rH, the stronger the reducing power.)

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I make no secret of the fact that I offer this website much as I once offered my Sootheox brews -- only as a service. Therefore, two points of concern to me which I wish to share with you:

• I am not trying to convince you that these products are a magic bullet, or that you should try them.  Please be advised that when I marketed my Sootheox brews, I refused many attempted orders from would-be customers because I did not feel that they understood enough about such products.  Because of similar concerns, I offered the products via direct sale only; I did not sell the products via stores, online vendors, distributors, re-sellers, or affiliates
• If, after your own diligent research and checking with your intuition and wisdom, you should decide that you wish to try such an antioxidant fermented product, you have a number of options to explore. Here are the ones of which I am aware:

1) You may  wish to order a 32 ounce bottle of the EM microbial inoculant culture from an EM vendor organization (do NOT tell them that you plan to ingest it; they frown on that for company policy compliance reasons) for about $18 plus $10 S/H charges, and simply drink a bit of that daily instead. It does not have some of the minerals, trace minerals and other plant-and-fruit based substances found in my Amber Molasses Mineral Brew, nor is it as "thick" or "rich", but it is quite effective and quite tasty, and will give you at least a sense of what these products are. I personally continue to drink this stuff myself all the time, taking a small sip almost every time I pass my one-gallon dispenser box of EM. 

2)  You may wish to try one or more of the similar products listed on this page (above) in the section entitled Are There Any Similar or Related Products for Humans on the Market?

3)  If, after experimenting with the products listed in the two items above, you decide that you like the effects of ingesting EM, then you may decide to brew your own fermented antioxidant beverages via instructions which I provide in any of several sections (check out the sections on Human Uses, on Antioxidants in EM, and on Making Activated EM) on my extensive off-site educational website called the EM Information website. While I do not disclose on those pages the exact recipes for any of my own specialized brews, I do provide several recipes for good, solid tasty fermented EM antioxidant brews, including one quite similar to my rich and dense Golden Bran Kelp Brew. Brewing such fermented beverages is really not much harder than making other fermented products at home, such as kefir, yogurt, sauerkraut, wine or beer.

Websites and Web Pages

EM Information Website at http://www.eminfo.info
The EM Information Website is a comprehensive website devoted to bringing to the web timely, useful and accurate information about EM and the varied used for them in agriculture and many other fields, including the realms of fermented antioxidant nutritional supplements for human and animal health.

EM-health group at Yahoo Groups
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EM-health/
This discussion group is devoted to the use of Effective Microorganisms (EM or EM-1) in human and animal health, and related topics such as their use in agriculture to produce food of higher quality, sometimes known as "beyond-organic" or "uber-organic".  There are already a number of EM fermented antioxidant nutritional supplements on the market, with more being developed every day.  We welcome beginners, "consumer users" and also serious researchers. This list is moderated by Vinny Pinto, a researcher in fields of EM1 and nutritional antioxidants, and a peak health consultant/coach. Vinny is a scientist and health researcher who has devoted over 1,000 hours to research on EM and it's uses in health and healing, who has developed several human EM-fermented antioxidant nutritional supplements, and who networks with EM researchers around the world.  Vinny also serves as a consultant for several nutritional supplement vendors who are bringing EM-fermented products to the marketplace.
How this group got started:  I have been a researcher in the EM world since late last year, and I have received feedback from a number of folks in the EM world that, while there are already three excellent e-mail list groups devoted to EM and varied uses (agricultural, industrial, waste management [EM-Ag] and white-gold/ormus [EM-ormus]), there is no one list group devoted primarily to EM and its usage in human and animal health, which is a rapidly developing and evolving field.  While the live-foods list does have a number of members and posts devoted to health uses for EM, it still remains primarily a list group devoted to raw or partly-raw diets which include animal foods (aka Paleolithic or cavemen diets).  Hence, a number of folks have asked me over the past few months if there is, or could be, a list group devoted primarily to EM and health uses.  Therefore, I finally decided in August 2003 to start such a group at Yahoo Groups. 

EM-Farm-Ind group on Yahoo Groups
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EM-Farm-Ind/
Devoted to any and all uses of EM in agriculture, composting, waste and odor management, and industry.

EM-ormus group on Yahoo Groups
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EM-ormus/
A very specialized group devoted primarily to the apparent ability of EM organisms to convert elements and trace minerals in various substances (such as clays and rock dust) to a special form called the Ormus or monatomic form (aka m-state, super high spin, deformed nuclei, or manna elements), as discussed in a section above. 
I strongly suggest that you DO NOT join this group unless you know what this is all about, and sincerely want to learn more; this is a very specialized group.

Live-food group at Yahoo Groups
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/live-food/
This is a list group devoted solely to folks who eat largely raw diets which include raw animal foods (often called RVAF diets or Raw Palelithic Diets) and to fine-tuning and optimizing such diets. A number of members of the list group, including this author, have been experimenting with consuming EM and various EM products for health benefits. Thus, there are some posts regarding EM and it's uses in human nutrition. This group, like the above-mentioned group, is quite specialized; it is strongly recommended that you DO NOT join this group unless you know what this is all about, and sincerely want to learn more .   The list owner of  the Live-food list is the author of this curent page and website.

"EM•1®", "EMRO USA Effective Microorganisms™", "ProEM-1®" and the logo(s) or symbol(s) appearing immediately below are trademarked names and symbols belonging to EMRO USA. 

EM-1® may be a trademarked name belonging to EM Research Organization Japan (EMRO Japan).

EM-X® may be a trademarked name belonging to EM Research Organization Japan (EMRO Japan) or Tropical Plant Research Institute (TPRI) in Okinawa.

"Biosa™", "Vita Biosa™", "Terra Biosa™", "Pet Biosa™" and the logo(s) or symbol(s) appearing immediately below are trademarked names and symbols belonging to Biosa Denmark.

"Fervita™" and the logo(s) or symbol(s) appearing immediately below are trademarked names and symbols belonging to Fervita™ Systems.

"Beneficial Microbes (BM)™" and "BM Ecology™" and any logo(s) or symbol(s) appearing below may be trademarked names belonging to Crown Biotech and Crown Organics in Australia.

"BM-Technology", "BIOAAB", "BIOPRIDE", "BIOVET", "BIOCONTROL" and any  logo(s) or symbol(s) appearing immediately below may be trademarked names and symbols belonging to Nature Farming Research & Development Foundation in Pakistan.

"Lanox™" and any  logo(s) or symbol(s) appearing immediately below are trademarked names and symbols belonging to Lanox-Korea and M21 Environmental Technology Inc., aka Fermented Antioxidants Research.

"Complex Fermented Microorganisms™", "Stuff for Food Dregs", "Time•X™", " Time-X™" and any  logo(s) or symbol(s) appearing immediately below are trademarked names and symbols belonging to Senong Co., Ltd.

Vinny Pinto
Frederick, Maryland (no, this is NOT a complete mailing address!)
phone 301-694-1249

e-mail: vinny@mindspring.com

website: http://www.antioxbrew.com
 

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