What is HEP
Unique chitosan
  HEP-40 is not like other chitosans.
   
  HEP-40 is unique. It is a low molecular weight chitosan with a size of 40,000 Daltons. The starting material is food grade chitosan, which is then cut down to a precise and homogeneous molecular weight of 40 kDa using a patented enzymatic hydrolysis process.
   
  HEP-40 is produced by Diversified Natural Products (DNP). The Company’s extensive pre-clinical testing has shown that chitosan with a molecular weight of 40kDa is significantly more effective in providing cholesterol support than uncut chitosan. This has been confirmed in subsequent clinical studies.*
   
  Diversified Natural Products has the only commercial scale hydrolysis process in the world for producing short chain chitosans of a uniform size. This unique know-how, combined with DNP’s patents, offer distributors the assurance that HEP-40 will not be commoditized.
   
* Results of a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study – Jaffer, Sampalis, Alternative Medicine Review, Sept. 2007. HEP-40 unpublished safety and efficacy data on file at Diversified Natural Products.
   
  THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS