Therefore, any zeolite products that were made before the technology existed to create CytoDetox® were either powdered zeolites or liquid suspensions of zeolites, and absorption was a concern.

CytoDetox contains water-soluble molecular clinoptilolite fragments, as well as some larger insoluble particles with cleaned cages. This is what differentiates it from other zeolite products. Simply, it was designed to support the whole body not just the gut.

In order to transform the zeolite structure or crystal into a water-soluble crystalline molecule, the zeolite structure needs to be broken down into the correct size and molecular weight.

During the process of creating the product, the challenge became breaking the crystal and creating molecular clinoptiloite fragments, while simultaneously making sure to preserve the cage-like structures necessary to maintain the ability to bind heavy metals and other toxins.

After thorough testing, the water soluble molecular clinoptilolite fragments found in solution are the correct size and molecular weight necessary to maintain cage like zeolite structure(s). The fingerprint of the molecular clinoptilolite fragments was confirmed by liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry (LC-MS) to range between 200 and 1000 daltons (more than 10 times the molecular weight that is able to cross a cells mitochondrial membrane).

Our purified CytoDetox® test results for heavy metals, and microorganisms surpass all specifications even at higher clinical concentrations.

Also noteworthy: clinoptilolite zeolite particles contain sodium aluminosilicate, which means their chemical makeup is aluminum, silica and oxygen. This may create the thought that ‘free aluminum’ could enter the body. However, the lab process and analytical analysis suggests that when they broke the crystals, there were no detectable levels of free aluminum in the finished product.

What about our zeolite cages that contain aluminum in the structure?

The soluble molecular clinoptilolite fragments and insoluble clinoptilolite particles are not ‘free aluminum’, rather, these are inert parts of the zeolite structure. This structure is very difficult to break, even in a laboratory setting with strong and caustic chemicals.

Clinoptilolite zeolite can also withstand extremely high temperatures (>1000 ℉), and is not dissolved or broken down by gastric or stomach acids. Therefore, the molecular clinoptilolite fragments and particles can pass through the body completely intact.

As the clinoptilolite zeolite particles and water soluble fragments move through the body, they can easily and safely support the body’s natural ability to detoxify, when they are activated and cleansed of their existing metals.

To support CytoDetox’s ability to cross cellular membranes, we must return to biology class, and review how a compound crosses cell membranes. Cell membranes are semi-permeable barriers and gatekeepers to the cell. This means that some molecules can diffuse across the lipid bilayer quickly, slowly, or not all all depending on several factors like charge and size.

Pharmaceutical companies developed the science of liposomes to help deliver drugs into the lymph, blood and targeted tissues through the cells lipid bilayer. We adopted this same science to create the first and only clinoptilolite zeolite liposomes.

Using CytoDetox’s® patent pending liposomal technology we can support the delivery of clinoptilolite molecules beyond cellular barriers.

When it comes to cellular membranes, studies show molecular weight, not the measured size is what matters to the cells. The molecular weight (measured in daltons), is what defines a molecules ability to cross into cells and cellular membranes.

LC-MS testing confirmed that the molecular weight of the water soluble clinoptilolite fragments present in CytoDetox are in the range (200 and 1000 daltons) necessary to cross cellular membranes.

Also, insoluble (not water soluble) clinoptilolite particles that are too large to enter cellular membranes, where also added to CytoDetox’s liposomal solution.

These larger clinoptilolite particles were added to further support the body’s natural ability to detoxify other body systems, such as the blood, lymph and gut.

Fulvates contain over 33 types of organic acids, amino acids and trace minerals all of which can be beneficial to our cells. Similar to clinoptilolite fragments, fulvates are fragments derived from humates. Fulvates have increased solubility and lower molecular weight while retaining phenolic carboxylic acid groups. Therefore, fulvic acids can bind metals through a true chelation process. Also, research indicates that fulvates are a natural redox molecule with antioxidant capacity and may neutralize harmful free radical toxins in the body [11].

The processes in which fulvates are believed to eliminate toxins is complex. The redox potential provides the capacity to carry an electron charge that counteracts the detrimental effects of charged free radicals, or directly as a chelator fulvates use the negatively charged oxygens to trap positively charged minerals like heavy metals.

In sum, fulvates can serve multiple roles within the human body systems to support cell detoxification and cell function. As an electron donor and acceptor, fulvates can provide redox potential-a life force energy. As complex organic molecules fulvates deliver microbiome nourishment, trace minerals and other nutrients to the body [12].