Dr. Günter Blobel's Research

We have converted world-class research into products to boost your health

History

Schaeffer Nutraceuticals’ health-boosting Viproactive® products are based on more than 20 years of protein signaling research that led to Professor Günter Blobel winning a Nobel Prize.

The German-born American citizen discovered that newly formed protein molecules have internal signals that guide them to the exact cells — and the exact locations within the cells — where they are needed to help with metabolism. This finding was a cell-biology milestone because there are thousands of types of cells, each containing different components. Dr. Blobel’s work showed how proteins find their way through the maze to the precise locations where they can help cells create energy.

The professor began this research in the early 1970s. Over the next two decades he learned more and more about the molecular mechanisms underlying the process. By the time he earned his Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1999, he had created a detailed picture of the phenomenon. One of his key findings was that all proteins are continuously being transported through membranes — or walls — that both separate a cell from its surroundings and separate the inner parts of a cell, the organelles.

At that point, Blobel realized that what he was seeing was universal across all forms of life — that proteins in yeast, plants and animals all behave the same way. For his pioneering research, Dr. Blobel received a Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1999.

Schaeffer Nutraceuticals uses the concepts underlying the research to deliver vitamins, minerals and other substances to the exact cell locations where they need to be metabolized. The result is Viproactive® users obtaining faster and more efficient use of the nutrients for maximum energy and better health.

The Patented Manufacturing Process

We are the only ones using a protein carrier to get nutrients to the cells’ energy centers

Often scientists who discover important concepts about the way that living things work are satisfied with their basic research. That is, they are content not to take it to the next level — using it to help others.

At this point it’s up to other scientists to bridge the gap between basic research and the applied research that goes into creating beneficial products or services.

A German researcher, Dr. Harald Guse, recognized the potential benefit to mankind of Dr. Gunter Blobel’s Nobel Prize-winning discoveries on how proteins get to the right locations in cells to create energy.

He used the concepts underlying Dr. Blobel’s work to create a patented technology for delivering vitamins and minerals to cells quicker and more efficiently. He obtained the original patent in 2008.  

Impressed with the technology’s potential to help people lead healthier and more productive lives, Schaeffer Nutraceuticals acquired the patent in 2016. It became the basis for Vitaprotein, the main ingredient in the Viproactive® line of diet supplements that the company produces.

Schaeffer Nutraceuticals

We started our diet-supplements company to make lives better and healthier

Schaeffer Nutraceuticals is a German company that uses Nobel Prize-winning biotechnology research to produce diet supplements that tower above the rest — our Viproactive® brand of products. 

Our operation is based on the work of remarkable scientists. Dr. Günter Blobel, a German-born American, won a Nobel Prize in Physiology for discovering that newly formed protein molecules have internal signals that direct them to the exact cell locations in the body where they are needed to create energy. Dr. Harald Guse of Germany borrowed from Dr. Blobel’s research to patent a technology that uses protein molecules to deliver nutrients to those locations. And Dr. Marek Naruszewicz, a renowned cardiovascular expert at the Medical University of Warsaw, has provided our scientists with invaluable research and development insight.

We acquired Dr. Guse’s patent in 2016 so we could produce food supplements that could be delivered to cells in a targeted and highly efficient way. Our Viproactive® diet supplement line grew out of our refinement of the technology.

Schaeffer Nutraceuticals’ goal is simple — to enhance our customers’ diets so they achieve the best energy levels, health, well-being and productivity possible. That requires premier ingredients, a state-of-the-art production approach — plus world-class research and development.

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