D-Chiro-Inositol

The word "inositol" refers to a family of closely related substances and often refers to the most common available form, myo-inositol.

D-chiro-inositol is a very special member of that family. The body needs DCI when responding to sugar disposal. When we eat the body decides whether to burn sugar for energy or to store it as fat for later. DCI is considered an important secondary messenger and a "sensitizer" to help with this process. DCI is difficult to get from diet, therefore, the human body has to make DCI.

Some people's bodies are not efficient at making DCI.

Men, women and children use DCI. Many Health Practitioners recommend it for a variety of reasons.

Inositol functions as a secondary messenger for serotonin and dopamine, neurotransmitters that send signals back and forth between the brain and other systems in the body. Low levels of inositol may disrupt this signaling.

Some cutting-edge physicians are excited about the research that points to DCI as important in initiating and promoting autophagy, which is a cellular housekeeping process.

Many studies and trial results about D-chiro-inositol (DCI) have been published and searchable on reputable resources like NCBI and PubMed®.

The good news is that D-chiro-inositol is an extremely stable substance and is not affected by the extremes of temperature - hot or cold. Its efficacy is unchanged - very similar to table salt not losing taste if left out in the heat.

Because DCI is so rare in nature, it cannot be easily extracted from plants. Myo inositol is easier (cheaper) to extract. Our DCI is made by extracting pinitol (another form of inositol) from carob, then converting the pinitol to DCI.

This is a difficult process that only a few laboratories in the world perform. Corporate companies abandoned DCI when they realized that the cost of mass production, along with the marketing needed to educate the public, would put each bottle over one hundred dollars.

We spend almost nothing on advertising and keep our overhead low so we can make DCI available at 600mg. We truly believe in the positive impact DCI has had on people’s lives.

Yes, D-chiro-inositol (DCI) is a safe and healthy human metabolite. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) defines D-chiro-inositol as a nutritional supplement because it is a natural human metabolite and it is taken orally.

Like all human metabolites, vitamins and minerals included, D-chiro-inositol (DCI) is completely safe and often beneficial when taken in appropriate amounts. DCI is abundant in only a few foods, such as buckwheat ferrinetta, thus making it difficult to get substantial D-chiro-inositol from our diets.

D-chiro-inositol (DCI) is not FDA approved because DCI is an all-natural nutritional supplement. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves drugs as treatments for certain diseases; however, the FDA does not approve nutritional supplements in the same way.

Instead, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) defines whether or not a product is a nutritional supplement.

The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) states there can be no limits set on the consumption of nutritional supplements. As a result of this legislation, the FDA does not require preapproval prior to the sale of nutritional supplements such as vitamins, minerals, and human metabolites such as D-chiro-inositol.

Our recommendation—again, based on major clinical trials—is to take one 600 mg capsule for every 130 pounds of body weight.

That is, if you weigh less than 130 pounds, take one capsule per day; if you weigh over 130 pounds, take take two capsules per day.

It is important to take Chiral Balance DCI on a regular schedule. If you forget, take the missed capsules as soon as possible and resume your regular schedule the next day.

Try to take your DCI before you eat so it's in your bloodstream to handle the insulin spike from food.

Yes. The capsule is made of hypromellose, a vegetable material.

There are few foods that contain significant amounts of DCI. This is why your body must make it from myo-inositol.

The foods with the highest content of DCI are buck wheat, soy-lecithin, carob and lentils. Following those are oranges (more concentrated in the skin and pulp and less in the juice), peanuts and beef liver. Finally with a lower content we find buckwheat farinetta and oats.

The amount of these foods you would have to eat to get a therapeutic effect is near impossible on an “average” diet.