Natural GNLD Neolife Tre-en-en - 120 Capsules

Cell membranes need lipids and sterols to stay healthy. Unfortunately, grain processing strips lipids, sterols and other vital nutrients from the foods that make up our dietary staples. Tre-en-en® Grain Concentrates help assure good nutrition at the cellular level by providing a unique and exclusive blend of whole-food extracts from wheat germ, rice bran and soya beans. Developed and introduced by NeoLife in 1958, Tre-en-en® was the world’s first phytonutrient supplement. It provides phyto-LIPIDS essential to optimal health and cellular function, including omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids and phyto-STEROLS, including beta-sitosterol, gamma-oryzanol, stigmasterol and campesterol, plus octacosanol.

Why Grain Concentrates?

As grain processing strips away nutrient-dense and nutrient-diverse outer layers, the foods that make up our dietary staples (i.e. white flour, white rice) often lack meaningful amounts of nutrients important for cell function - namely, lipids and sterols. 

Soya beans, wheat and rice provide key lipids and sterols that are important for cellular health

Tre-en-en® supplies what food processing strips from dietary staples

To increase their shelf life, grains are subjected to about two dozen processes before they are transformed into dietary staples, such as white flour and white rice. Processing removes the nutritious outer layers of the grain. These layers contain the majority of grain’s vitamins and minerals, as well as “good fats” called lipids and sterols. Other foods, notably soya beans, provide healthful lipids and sterols as well. 

In the 1950s, a series of studies conducted at a Southern California hospital indicated that people suffering from chronic fatigue could benefit dramatically from a mixture of plant extracts providing broad-spectrum lipids and sterols. Now, over six decades later, that mixture - NeoLife’s Tre-en-en® - is still helping people worldwide. It forms the base into which vitamins and related food factors, minerals, enzymes and protein have been added to create NeoLife’s multifactor food supplement, Formula IV. 

The world’s first phytonutrient supplement, Tre-en-en® provides plant lipids and sterols which food processing has stripped from the staple foods that form the foundation of our daily diets. Named from the Greek “3-in-1”, Tre-en-en® is a unique combination of concentrated extracts from whole wheat berry, rice bran and soya beans. More than just wheat germ or soya oil, it contains everything naturally available from the lipid portion of the plants.

Consequences of the imbalance of “good” and “bad” fats in the modern diet

With consumer preferences shifting to low-fat and fat-free foods, people are eating less fat than in recent years, although the fat content of the Western diet is still far from the 30% recommended by health experts. While reducing the fat content of the diet has many positive health consequences, it means that people are reducing the total lipids and sterols they are taking in from all sources, not just “bad” fats such as saturated fats. 

Whole-food lipids and sterols from wheat, rice and soya will be especially important for the growing group of people who use fat substitutes to reduce the fat content of their diets. The decrease in total fat consumption is only part of the reason the modern diet features an imbalance of “good” and “bad” fats. The other part of the story is that the foods that make up the human diet have changed dramatically in the last 50 years. As artificial fats have increasingly displaced natural fats in the foods we eat, the lipid and sterol profile of the diet has changed. While our hunter/gatherer ancestors consumed a diversity of natural fats, mostly from locally gleaned plants, this diversity decreased when people became successful at growing agricultural crops which could be sold at the local farmers’ market. This eroding nutrient diversity was compounded by a decrease in nutrient density when people discovered that grains could be stored