Something Is Off, and You Can't Pin It Down
You're tired, but this kind of tiredness isn't fixed by more sleep. It's there when you wake up, follows you through the day, and gets worse when you're under pressure.
Maybe your mood swings for no obvious reason. Maybe you're foggy at 2 in the afternoon and wide awake at midnight. Maybe your digestion feels like it's on strike. Maybe your nerves are on edge. And perhaps you can’t focus for very long.
You think you eat reasonably well. You try to get enough rest. But something isn't clicking.
These symptoms often point back to the same place — something your body may be missing every single day and isn't getting enough of: B vitamins. It could even be that you are eating foods with B vitamins but your lifestyle and certain things you eat are depleting them faster than you can retain them.
B vitamins are water-soluble, which means they move easily through the bloodstream and into tissues where they are needed for energy production, nerve function, cellular metabolism, DNA synthesis, and countless enzymatic reactions. They can circulate rapidly and participate continuously in the body's biochemical processes.
You need a fresh supply daily. And the modern diet, even a decent one, often falls short.
Coffee depletes B vitamins. Stress burns through them and so do certain lifestyle habits. Processed food does not contain them.
A diet with ingredients that aren’t good for you depletes them as well. And the B vitamin pills lining the shelves of stores? They come with their own set of problems because they are laboratory-made.
When B Vitamins Run Low, the Effects Stack Up
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Energy and mood
- Tiredness that doesn't lift with rest alone
- Mood that shifts without a clear trigger
- Trouble concentrating or thinking clearly
- A flat, heavy feeling that lingers through the day
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Body
- An awareness of your own heartbeat at rest
- Occasional tingling in the hands or feet
- Skin that looks dull, or nails that break easily
- Hair that feels thinner or less resilient
- Legs that cramp at night
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Digestion and stress
- Sluggish digestion, especially after carbohydrate-heavy meals
- Low stomach acid (your body needs B vitamins to produce enzymes)
- Less resilience under everyday stress
- Restless, unsatisfying sleep
The longer these go unaddressed, the harder the rest of your body has to work to compensate. Over time, this creates its own cascade of problems.
Why Your Body Handles Food Vitamins Differently Than Lab Vitamins
Consider all the B vitamin pills at the drugstore and health food store. Look at the label. You'll see thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, cyanocobalamin, vitamin A palmitate, niacinamide. These are synthetic chemicals manufactured in a lab to mimic what B vitamins do in nature.
Your body can use isolated B vitamins, but not easily and not completely. Synthetic vitamins are missing the cofactors that are contained in food. Cofactors are helper nutrients in all of nature’s real foods that allow your body to absorb and metabolize vitamins and other vital nutrients properly.
Without cofactors, your body has to take important nutrients from your bloodstream or cells. At best, an isolated, synthetic vitamin gets used (partially), but at a cost. Other systems lose their helpers.
Over time, this can lead to new imbalances while appearing to fix the original one. Your body is already dealing with a burden and synthetic vitamins merely add to it.
When B vitamins are within actual food, the cofactors are already present, built into the complex the way they exist in a beet or in wheat germ. This is not true of synthetic, laboratory-made chemical vitamins because they lack all the cofactors.
With real, complete food your body does not have to draw on its own reserves to make it work. It recognizes the nutrients, processes them through normal digestive pathways, and distributes them where they're needed, at no cost to anything else.
This is the difference between a vitamin that is artificially created and a vitamin within a natural food that actually does what your body needs it to do.
Meet BFood: The Whole Food B Vitamin Complex
Real food, the full complex, and nothing synthetic.
BFood, from NutriPlex Formulas, delivers the complete B vitamin complex from real whole foods. Nothing in it is extracted, synthesized, isolated, or reassembled from chemicals.
Every tablet and every scoop of powder contains ten foods: wheat germ, organic beet, organic oat bran, grass-fed bovine liver, organic barley malt, fig, organic astragalus, organic sunflower seed, organic date, and vanilla bean extract. Each one carries B vitamins the way nature assembled them, along with the cofactors your body expects to find beside them.
Nature's nutrients are compatible with your body's biochemistry. Synthetic B vitamins are foreign substances.
Because the food’s nutrient complex arrives intact, your body does not have to draw on its own reserves to put it to work. The B vitamins are present in the amounts foods naturally contain, which is the same range your body has been handling at the dinner table all your life.
- Support steady, natural energy throughout the day
- Feed your nervous system the nutrients it needs to handle stress well
- Give your heart, digestion, and brain the B vitamin complex they depend on
- Help your cells develop according to the needs of your body
Why BFood Works When Other B Vitamins Haven't
Most B vitamin supplements fail for the same reason, and it has nothing to do with dosage or strength.
They fail because they are synthetic isolates. A lab-made version of B3 is not the same thing as B3 inside a food. The chemical name matches, but everything surrounding it is different.
One is a nutrient and the other is a copy of one. Scientists can approximate a nutrient, but they cannot make it, because the food nutrient is alive and the copy is not.
In nature, B vitamins never appear alone. They sit inside the food itself, surrounded by enzymes, proteins, minerals, other vitamins, and cofactors that your body uses as a team. Hand your body a solo chemical instead and it has to improvise, which it can sometimes manage and often cannot, at least not efficiently and not without consequences elsewhere.
This is why people take isolated B vitamin pills for months, see modest results or none at all, and conclude that supplements do not work for them. The format is wrong.
The pill is not natural, whatever the label says, and vitamins that do not work nutritionally are incomplete. Doctors have a phrase for the outcome: expensive urine.
NutriPlex Formulas takes a different approach across every whole food formula, because our philosophy determines what we make. Rather than synthesizing individual B vitamins and pressing them into a pill, we start with real foods that are naturally rich in the B vitamins and in what is commonly called the vitamin B complex. These foods are grown in nature and sourced from farmers around the world.
Each of these foods carries its B vitamins in complete, natural form with every cofactor intact. When you take BFood, you are not asking your body to work out what to do with a lab chemical. You are feeding it food.
Your body knows what to do with food. Human beings have been running on food nutrients for as long as our species has existed, and so has every animal in the wild.
Food nutrients move through the normal digestive pathways and reach the cells, tissues, organs, and systems that need them, and they are used efficiently because the full complex is there. The same cannot be said of an artificial, isolated vitamin pill.
How BFood Compares
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| Feature | BFood | Typical Synthetic B Complex | Store-Brand "Natural" B Complex |
|---|---|---|---|
| Made from whole foods | Yes | No | No |
| Contains natural cofactors | Yes | No | No |
| No synthetic vitamins | Yes | No | No |
| Includes enzymes | Yes | No | No |
| Organic ingredients | Yes | No | Some |
| No synthetic, irritating binders or fillers | Yes | No | Unlikely |
| Supports full B complex (not isolated singles) | Yes | Varies | Unlikely |
| Free-range, grass-fed, hormone and steroid-free liver | Yes | N/A | N/A |
| No stearates or stearic acid | Yes | No | No |
| Nutrients still contained within their original foods | Yes | No | No |
What separates BFood from other supplements is not the marketing. It is what the bottle actually contains, which is real, organically grown food.
What's Inside Every Tablet
BFood offers 10 whole foods selected for their natural B vitamin content and the cofactors contained in them. Here's what you're putting into your body, and why it matters.
Wheat Germ
Wheat germ is a concentrated source of B vitamins, especially B1, B3, B6, and folate. It also provides vitamin E, zinc, and essential fatty acids, and it has been valued for centuries as one of the most nutrient-dense parts of the wheat kernel.
Grass-fed Free-range Bovine Liver
Liver is one of the most nutrient-dense traditional foods there is, carrying folate, iron, copper, and vitamin A. Fifty years ago it was a common sight on dinner plates. The liver we offer comes from grass-fed, free-range cattle in Argentina, raised without hormones, drugs, or steroids, and it is lyophilized (freeze-dried) so the nutrients are preserved without heat damage.
Barley Malt
Barley malt is a traditional food used for centuries for the B vitamins it carries, which support digestion, steady energy, and the work of turning food into what the body can use.
Organic Astragalus
Astragalus is an herb long used to support immune function and to help the body hold up under stress. It works alongside the B vitamin complex to support overall resilience.
Organic Oat Bran
Oat bran is rich in B vitamins, especially B1, along with soluble fiber and minerals. It supports healthy digestion and helps maintain blood sugar levels already within the normal range.
Organic Beet
Beet contains folate (B9) along with smaller amounts of iron, betaine, and the deep red pigments that occur naturally in the vegetable. It has traditionally been used to support overall wellness, including cardiovascular and liver function.
Fig
Fig provides calcium, potassium, and magnesium, with smaller amounts of iron, and it supplies mineral cofactors that support the everyday work your cells do.
Organic Sunflower Seed
Sunflower seed is rich in B5 (pantothenic acid), B6, folate, and vitamin E, and it supports adrenal function and the body's response to everyday stress.
Organic Date
Dates are whole foods rich in potassium and magnesium, with smaller amounts of iron. They support energy production and supply minerals that work alongside B vitamins as your cells turn food into energy.
Vanilla Bean Extract
Vanilla bean provides trace minerals and plant antioxidants, and it is included for its nutritional contribution and its taste.
How to Take BFood
- Suggested use
- Take 6 tablets daily, or as directed by your healthcare professional. Some practitioners confidently advise even more for a short period of time.
- When to take it
- Six tablets in the morning or when most needed; or three tablets in the morning and three in the afternoon. B vitamins support energy production, so taking them earlier in the day may work best for some people.
- What to expect
- Whole food supplements work differently than synthetics. Instead of a sudden spike, you're feeding your body real nutrients that build up over weeks and months. Most people notice improvements in energy, mood, and stress tolerance gradually; others feel a difference in hours. See how your body feels. Nature takes its course.
- Can you take more?
- Some people benefit from higher amounts when they are especially low on energy, stressed out, or over-emotional. Talk to your healthcare provider about what's right for you.
- Also available in powder form
- 1 teaspoon daily. Mix into water, juice, or a smoothie.
What Our Customers Say
“When I first began taking BFood personally I noticed a tremendous difference in my energy levels. I seemed to be dragging, especially in the afternoon, but when I take BFood regularly this doesn't happen. Now I use it as part of my professional Nutrition practice as well.”
— Brion Wollam, DC “I've taken all kinds of supplements with absolutely no change in the way I felt. I was about to give up hope when a friend of mine recommended me to a doctor who sells BFood Complex. He said it was made all of food so is better than vitamin pills. Because this was a friend I decided to believe him and I bought a bottle of BFood. That was six years ago and that was the end of feeling bad for me. I take it every morning with my orange juice.”
— Ed P., Springfield, IL “My doctor was of little help because when I told him I was always tired; he recommended drugs. I don't like drugs unless in an emergency, so that was no answer. Then I found BFood on the internet with the help of my son. It has made all the difference in the world in the way I feel. I highly recommend it.”
— Sheila K., Boston “I'm not the kind of person who believes in magic bullets or miracle cures, but this BFood makes the most sense of any product I have ever taken. It is actually made of food and you can't get more natural than that. It's not a vitamin because the vitamins are in the foods and it really works. I don't like being tired and now I have lots of energy.”
— Naomi W., Miami
Real, Whole Food Is What the Body Is Meant to Consume
We formulated BFood from real, whole foods because that is what your body recognizes. The B vitamins are there, the cofactors are there, and the foods themselves are there. It is food in tablet form.
If for any reason you are not satisfied after taking BFood, we refuse to keep even a penny of your money.*
Kindly contact us within 90 days of your first order and let us know. We will refund 100% of what you paid, and you do not need to return the bottle.
See how your body feels. Give it what it needs, and nature takes its course.
*Applies to first order only.
Wishing you the best of health,
Vic Shayne
Formulator, Whole Food Formulas
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is BFood different from other B vitamin supplements?
Most B vitamin supplements use synthetic chemicals to mimic individual B vitamins. BFood contains actual whole foods that naturally provide the B vitamin complex along with all the cofactors your body needs to absorb and use them. This isn't a marketing claim. Look at our ingredients: wheat germ, organic beet, grass-fed liver, organic oat bran, fig, organic astragalus. You won't find thiamine mononitrate, vitamin A palmitate, cyanocobalamin, niacinamide, or any other isolated, synthetic vitamin on our label, because these are lab chemicals. BFood is food in a tablet or powder form.
Are there any interactions with medications?
B vitamins from food are generally well-tolerated, but we always recommend talking to your healthcare provider before starting any new supplement, especially if you're taking prescription medications, are pregnant, or are nursing. We recommend sharing information about whole food nutrition with your healthcare provider. Many doctors are increasingly open to whole food approaches, and an informed conversation can help you make the best decisions for your health.
How long does it take to notice a difference?
Whole food supplements work with your body's natural pace. Most people notice improvements in energy and mood within hours up to a few weeks of consistent daily use, depending on their level of deficiency. Real, natural support is a process that builds over weeks and months. See how your body feels and give it time to respond.
Can I take BFood with other Whole Food Formulas products?
Yes. BFood pairs well with all other products in our line. Many practitioners recommend combining BFood with Flavo-C and Adrenal Support. Your healthcare provider can help you find the right combination for your needs.
Is BFood safe for people with dietary restrictions?
BFood contains wheat germ and is not gluten-free. It also contains bovine liver, so it's not for vegetarians. It does not contain soy, dairy, corn, or artificial ingredients. If you have specific dietary concerns or allergies, always check the full ingredient list on the Supplement Facts panel or contact us directly.
Why don't you list milligrams on the label?
This is because our B vitamins exist within whole foods, not isolated chemicals. You can't list exact milligrams of a nutrient when it's still inside its natural food complex, because every batch of food is slightly different, the same way two carrots in your grocery bag contain different amounts of vitamin A. What you get instead is the complete nutrient complex with all its cofactors, the way nature delivers it. And it is this complex that is most important as far as your body is concerned.
