Transcript of a talk by Mitchell May describing the origins
of his original superfood formula and the birth of Synergy

Many people over the years have often asked me if I would tell them more about Pure Synergy’s® many special qualities, its unique history and background, and its life-enhancing properties. I have been deeply touched that so many of you have also asked me if I would share more about my own way of life and my personal experiences with healing, optimum health and well-being. I want to share with you that which I have personally experienced and discovered that can help us to live our life to its fullest potential. My goal will be to make available to you that which I have found has helped me and hundreds of others to increase their experience of vitality, life energy, and a personal sense of wholeness.

I would like to begin by sharing with you the story of how Pure Synergy came to be. It is a most unusual story and one that many people, including those in the medical community, have called miraculous. Some of you may already be familiar with my medically documented case of healing from various television documentaries, radio programs, books, or magazines. I will only be touching lightly now on that part of the story. For those of you who would like to hear a more in-depth version of this healing story, you can simply request a free copy of that recording with your next order of Pure Synergy.

For now, let me simply say that in 1972 I was involved in a near-fatal car accident, and the very best of traditional Western medicine could offer me no hope of ever walking on my own two legs again. The doctors insisted that I would have to have one of my legs amputated, that my immune system would be permanently and dangerously weakened and that my health and well-being would be severely limited for the rest of my life.

With my great need to heal myself, I began what has now become my ongoing, lifelong search for all the different ways of alternative healing that can help restore a person to wholeness. During this time back in 1972, I was hospitalized at UCLA Medical Center, and they had a very special research project going on in a department called parapsychology. This laboratory was headed by Dr. Thelma Moss, and parapsychology is the study of those latent yet natural abilities within all human beings that some would call extrasensory perception—such as telepathy, clairvoyance, lucid dreaming, perhaps seeing into the future, and many other far reaching capabilities, including the ability to heal and restore health when the medical model says it can’t be done.

I became deeply involved with this laboratory, and they were working with an extraordinary man named Jack Gray. Jack had shown himself under very strict scientific and research parameters to have an exceptional and authentic ability to help many other people to heal. I learned from Jack how to activate a natural and powerful healing force, a life force that is within all of us. With his guidance, I was able to regenerate my nerves, bones, muscle tissue, organs and nearly everything else that was not supposed to be able to be healed. Jack took me under his wing as his apprentice for seven full years until he passed away, teaching me the different ways and paths of healing. He kindled in me an intense interest in alternative healing, subtle energy and states of consciousness, as well as unusual natural substances, such as plants and botanicals, that have unique healing and nourishing properties.

This became the foundation for my intense research into and cultivation of what I call the power of life force. I experience this life force as what nourishes us, sustains us, heals us and gives us that spark of life. This life force power is within all of us. Many different cultures have their own special name for the life force. The Chinese call it chi. In India it is spoken of as prana. In Polynesian ancient culture, it was called mana. To others it is called the breath of life. There are many more names it is called by. However, the names are not what are so important here; what is vital is that we all have the opportunity to directly access this life force. To me it is this life force that we are all really searching for.

Once I learned how to tap into the life force that healed me and gave me so much, I wanted to find some very real and teachable ways that could help others to access and awaken this life force in their own life. During my intensive healing process with Jack, he taught me to directly experience this life force, or life energy. And I noticed in great detail that the life force has certain patterns and structures that seemed to express this energy and perhaps even define it. I also became aware that we are all swimming inside of an energy field, that we ourselves are an energy field, and that a significant part of any authentic healing path is to find different ways to activate and properly circulate this energy, which is our natural birthright.

This energy has the capacity to help us to heal and regenerate and to see life in a whole new dimension outside of our normal, everyday awareness. I became fascinated with these patterns of energy that can be perceived in all living things, and I wanted to know how this energy, these patterns and structures, could be enhanced. I saw that certain things help these patterns to take on a more harmonious expression. Some of these patterns had such an intricate beauty to them, and I became so curious about these energy patterns that I wondered what was the correlation was between these patterns of energy, this life force, and the levels of vitality, wholeness and happiness in different human beings.

As part of our research project at the parapsychology laboratory at UCLA, I began to do research into the nature of these different patterns using a process called Kirlian photography to help us to map out these energy fields and patterns. We then utilized other sensitive methods that gave us the ability to observe these various patterns of energy and their interactions, which seemed to us to be the real source of the life force and our ability to heal.

I corresponded for several years with various scientists, doctors, researchers and laboratories all around the world, tracking anywhere I could find research into the nature of life force and these mysterious energy patterns that have so much potential to help all humankind. We observed, tested and confirmed that through different ways of meditation, specific states of consciousness, breathing rhythms, trance states, certain healing modalities and other unique states of mind, one could actually awaken this life force in oneself and could help others to activate it in themselves as well.

As we dove ever deeper into this research project, we also began to see that certain very specific natural substances—certain plants, herbs, enzymes, algae, mushrooms and sprouts —had these very coherent and radiant harmonic patterns of life force energy in them. We saw that these plants were actually reservoirs and emitters of life force energy and that when one grew them properly, harvested them correctly, dried them in a specific manner, and then consumed them, they would transfer their life force energy and we would be greatly benefited by that. We found that they help bring the body into balance.

As you might imagine, we were excited with what we were discovering. And, at this point in our research, I enlisted the assistance of several of the finest specialists in the healing arts. We had herbalists, nutritionists, naturopaths, Chinese medicine doctors, Ayurvedic practitioners, Western medical doctors and many other gifted healers. I was looking for what we could all bring together, using everyone’s knowledge and training and the wisdom of hundreds and even thousands of years from these various traditions and paths of healing. I wanted to find from all these healing traditions what natural substances had the greatest potential to help a human being live at their fullest energy, including vitality, wholeness and maximum health and well-being.

It soon became apparent to all of us in our research project that as we worked with the many different herbs, mushrooms, algae, grasses and other natural foods, their unique healing and nourishing power was significantly enhanced when they were put together in certain combinations and specific proportions. Therefore, the second thrust of my research was to find that optimum balance, that synergy that would dramatically increase the power of all our special ingredients to enhance the life force and nourish the whole person.

This is the true beginning of how the Pure Synergy formula came to be. For me, a definition of synergy would be: it is a state of being where the whole becomes greater than the sum of the parts, because an optimum balance and harmony has been achieved in all of those parts together.

What I and all our co-researchers were discovering was that Pure Synergy was activating, gathering and setting free the life force that dwells within every human being. It seemed as if it were actually acting as a signal to nourish, support and awaken this latent power that dwells within all of us. I was very excited about this potential, so I set out to gather these life force–enhancing natural ingredients, searching worldwide to find them. All of these years of research and vision coalesced into the creation of Pure Synergy. It took about 15 years to perfect the right "synergy" that offered the body and mind the essential foundation for vibrant health. In addition, it was clear that it also supported our vital need for authentic energy, mental clarity and a very strong immune system.

During this same time period, I became aware that more than ever we needed to consume these very same special and natural foods because our air and water had become so polluted. I also realized that there is less and less fresh, healthy food in our daily diet, and a lot of the food that is available is grown using poison or is grown and handled in such a manner as to seriously deplete its ability to support our ongoing health and vitality. To preserve and enhance our health, we need to consume foods that offer the ability to cleanse our system, nourish the whole person and carry this life force in them.

In the process of formulating Pure Synergy, I tried nearly all of the commercially available formulas on the market, the different protein products, herbal combinations, superfoods, vitamins and minerals. I did not experience these formulas as bringing up my energy in a balanced manner or supporting it in an authentic way. I did experience certain products that stimulated me and made me feel as if I had energy, but these were often false energies, and unfortunately there are a lot of these types of products on the market today. These products are actually using up our life force rather than building it up, because they are stimulating your adrenal glands, and this is definitely inappropriate and may in fact be harmful.

What we all need today is an authentic formula, one that rebuilds our life force energy so that we can come into balance. Then, the body heals itself, and in this way the body becomes its own source of natural and balanced energy. When a formula can be taken every day because it is so precisely designed that it is really a food, the body recognizes it as such, and therefore it nourishes the whole body and helps the body to become whole, not by stimulating it, not by forcing it, but by actually feeding it the highest levels of nourishment and what I call life force energy. Because I had such a deep need to fully heal myself and regenerate my health, my vision and goal from the very beginning was to create the most healing, regenerative and life force–enhancing superfood possible.

Over the many years of my research, as I refined the Pure Synergy formula more and more, it became apparent that I was achieving the ultimate synergy that I was looking for. Pure Synergy was cleansing, detoxifying, purifying and rebuilding my entire system on a daily basis, and I was feeling so deeply nourished, replenished and tonified. Many people began to ask me if I would give them some of my Pure Synergy.

People always wanted to know how my energy and my health seemed to always stay so consistent. I have been very blessed that way—and I knew that my taking Pure Synergy on a daily basis had a lot to do with my overall well-being. Certainly, I had and I have to this day many other daily practices as well as a lifestyle that supports my sense of health and well-being. In the course of my own healing, my mentor Jack taught me a lot of things about how to keep my energy very clear and consistent. At the core of my health and well-being, it is very clear to me that Pure Synergy plays a significant foundational role. As long as one’s daily nutritional foundation is really solid, one has a much better opportunity for getting healthy and staying healthy.

When I made the decision, at the request of many people, to make Pure Synergy available, I took this to be a very deep commitment and I realized that it wasn’t enough just to have certain ingredients combined in a formula. If the ingredients are not the highest quality possible, if they have been grown or processed in a way that might have diminished their healing or nutritional properties, if the life in them is not itself nourished properly, or if the life force is processed out of them, then the final product is of very little value. We at The Synergy Company have painstakingly come up with so many special ways to keep the life force in each and every one of our ingredients.

I seek the highest possible quality in every aspect of their production and treatment, and I participate with every element and aspect that goes into Pure Synergy—from the planting, to the gathering and harvesting, to the testing, production and bottling at our certified organic facility, to all of our everyday activities at The Synergy Company. I am most fortunate that I have a special friendship with our growers, and I visit them on a regular basis. Together, we have created unique ways of growing and preparing all of our ingredients so that all of the energy patterns can stay intact.

There are only very specific ways that you can keep that potency, vitality and purity in a natural product. After 15 years of primary research, we spent an additional two and a half years studying and developing methods of ensuring that complete freshness is maintained in Pure Synergy's ingredients, from the time the seeds are planted and harvested until the day the ingredients are sealed in the bottle.

We have implemented a whole new set of procedures in the natural foods industry to make this work in a way that naturally preserves the life force energy. As I think you can see, I very carefully choose every component in Pure Synergy to make sure that it’s absolutely energetically matched to help bring about both a balance in the system as well as a particular type of harmony so that you can experience this well-being in your own life.

As I’m sure most of you have experienced, taking Pure Synergy on a daily basis is designed to bring about a very subtle, yet substantial energy to your daily life—one that helps increase your vitality, strengthen your resistance to disease, restore all of your normal and natural functions of your body, and sharpen your mind. As we all know, as never before in human history, we need to fortify our natural defenses against environmental toxins such as pesticides, chemicals and other sources of pollution, as well as against the stress of today’s life.

There has never been so great a need for us to build up this internal strength. To me one of the most important things we can do is to build up our internal life force energy, and this we do through our various lifestyle changes, daily practices to get in touch with the Great Mystery of life, breathing and certain energy exercises, as well as through supplements like Pure Synergy and others. I would now like to talk briefly and generally about some of the elements that go into every bottle of Pure Synergy.

One of the things that is so unique about Pure Synergy is that it really is a combination of ancient traditions that have a long history of natural healing, as well as the most modern research, including the state-of-the-art research into the energy patterns. This combination is the reason why each and every ingredient is included in Pure Synergy. I want to give you a bit of an overview of how the 60-plus ingredients have been chosen.

Number one, they all have an energy pattern that, when observed, shows an abundance of what I called earlier this reservoir of life force. To get a clearer idea on what I really mean by these patterns of energy, take a close look at the logo on one of our bottles of Pure Synergy. That beautiful pattern of energy is precisely what I have been talking about. It is a picture of the molecular energy of a particular species of algae.

When you consume Pure Synergy, you are actually taking that energy pattern into your body and mind! And your cells are given important nutritional and healing information by these essential energy patterns. Each of our carefully researched and chosen ingredients has a very special energy pattern like this.

The second criterion in choosing each one of our ingredients is its established record of safety, of being consumed by people for hundreds, even thousands, of years. They also have a history of being revered and trusted as healing agents, whether in Chinese medicine, Native American healing, Western herbal traditions, Ayurveda traditions and even macrobiotics and raw foods diets—all the different traditions come together in Pure Synergy. We wanted to bring the best of everything into a completely balanced formula.

Along with this important history of usage, we also did a major literature search to find out what there was in the various medical journals and in modern research into the naturally occurring phytonutrients that have the ability to restore people to health.

There is a great deal of research going on today into these phytonutrients, which are the compounds naturally occurring in certain plants and which, when eaten by human beings, can act therapeutically or as an illness preventative agent. Researchers have found tremendous power in these naturally occurring phytonutrients, which Pure Synergy contains in abundance; they are a major component of the formula. In choosing our ingredients, I also wanted to make sure that everything in Pure Synergy was purely natural and that there were no chemicals used—no synthetic carriers, no sweeteners, no fillers, no taste enhancers.

Because Pure Synergy is a food, it is fully recognized by the body and is 100% bioavailable. In creating it, my idea was to bring together the many different and beneficial elements from nature. For us to sustain this high level of quality in our ingredients that we gather from all around the world, they all have to be processed in a very specific manner. Each batch goes through at least 600 tests to make sure that all of our ingredients meet our exacting standards for purity and potency.

In today’s world, I know I would not want to take any products that were not proven to be 100% tested for any possible sources of contamination and harmful bacteria. After testing everything, we bottle Pure Synergy in glass to make sure that all of the elements in there are naturally preserved, and we vacuum-seal the bottle to keep the product fresh.

For us at The Synergy Company, using glass is important for two reasons: one, we are avid recyclers, and two, when something comes in glass, oxygen cannot go through it—therefore, it will not decompose. If you put something into any kind of plastic bottle, oxygen can penetrate it, and a lot of the important elements, like beta-carotene, enzymes, certain vitamins and amino acids, and other vital life force constituents, will begin to degrade.

Pure Synergy comes bottled to you literally as fresh as it is the day that we make it for you. We go through all these special steps to make sure that Pure Synergy retains its life-giving qualities, and there are hundreds of other processes that we go through to ensure that Pure Synergy has everything it possibly can offer for anyone who wants to consume it. This is our way of life here at The Synergy Company. This is what we do.

In closing, I’d like to let everyone know that one of the most special things for us here at The Synergy Company has to do with you, our customers, and what we call the Synergy family. Because of you, this whole project has taken on the life that it has, and it continues to grow as more people all around the world are benefiting from Pure Synergy.

One of our convictions here at The Synergy Company is that the value should go into the ingredients and into the bottle—this is why we do not sell Pure Synergy through multi-level marketing or in regular retail channels, because that inevitably results in higher markups. You can be assured that we will always do our utmost to make sure that Pure Synergy stays just as its name says—pure—and that we will not compromise the quality of Pure Synergy.

Pure Synergy is of my way of giving back to others what was so generously given to me. I was so fortunate to regain my health through the help of many different people, and that is what part of Pure Synergy is about for me, to keep passing along the possibility of health and well-being to other people. We are really trying to do business in a new way. We are always experimenting and exploring as we go.

My commitment to you is that I will ever be improving Pure Synergy. Whenever I find a way that we can harvest better or grow better, that technique will be used. Or if I can get more research on a new ingredient, if it’s appropriate and there is enough solid research behind it, you can count on it, that it will be included in Pure Synergy. So if you find little changes sometimes in the taste or the color, that is because we’re just refining and perfecting Pure Synergy even more. That’s just what I love to do; I enjoy getting into the laboratory and working with it in that way.

One question that I am often asked by many people is if it is OK to take Pure Synergy more than once a day. By all means it is OK. Some people like to take two tablespoons daily, one in the morning, one in the afternoon. Often when I have a heavy work load or haven’t had a chance to sleep much, I will take it twice a day.

Many people who are having a health challenge tell us they take it two, three or even four times a day. And many top athletes also take it several times a day. For lots of people, the recommended one heaping tablespoon a day is the perfect amount. Please feel free to find the daily amount that seems to work best for you.

I also feel that it is important to let you know that Pure Synergy is not a medicine, and it is not to be taken in that way. Although many people tell us that it has helped them with all sorts of health problems, it should not be considered as a magic cure or anything like that. Pure Synergy is simply the most life-enhancing, deep-level nourishment available, and when we nourish our body and mind in this manner, we have the best chance to stay well or to get well. I hope the information I share with you will be of benefit to you. For that is my real goal—to find different ways to support you to live your life to its fullest potential.

Mitchell May personally narrates the story of Pure Synergy’s origins and the health enhancing principles of Energetic Nutrition. 30 minutes. Click Here.