Virun is a biotech company that specializes in using foods and beverages as drug delivery systems. Find out everything you need to know about Virun today in our review.
What Is Virun?
Virun, found online at Virun.com, is a biotechnology company whose “aim is to deliver safe and effective solutions to improve life”, explains the official website.
Some of the key goals of the company include creating safe and effective drug delivery and food/beverage technologies that meet the following requirements:
- Water soluble
- Clear
- Shelf stable
- Stealth delivery
In other words, Virun wants to make it easy for you to access medication. It may look like you’re drinking a clear plastic bottle of water, but Virun’s technology ensures your medicine is getting where it needs to go.
Virun first made headlines when it created a delivery system called MAPD (Mucosa Adhesive Penetrating Drugs) back in 2003, which allowed the delivery of drugs through pathways in the mucosa without toxic recipients that may lead to side effects. That delivery system achieved a 61% greater bioavailability than intravenous injections.
Virun is based in Pomona, California. The company was founded in 2003.
Virun Products
Virun is best-known for five products and delivery systems, including OmegaH20, AstaxH20, CoenzymeClear, Esolv, and DP Technology.
OmegaH20
OmegaH20 is a lineup of room-temperature shelf-stable high load EPA DHA smoothies, clear EPA DHA functional waters, and high load DHA vegetarian powders. The product is targeted towards the US functional drinks market, which has been rapidly growing in recent years.
OmegaH20 is a delivery system that uses over 40 patents and patents-pending technology that encapsulate Omega-3 DHA or EPA &DHA in a water soluble liquid or powder form.
Some of the key advantages of Omegah20 is that it’s shelf-stable and free of fish flavor in foods, beverages, or supplements. That’s one of the major downsides of taking conventional fish oil supplements, and Virun claims to have solved it with their OmegaH20 products.
The smoothies deliver 1500mg of EPA and DHA in each 15mL serving, which is comparable to strong fish oil drugs on the market today.
AtaxH20
AstaxH20 is a water-soluble, stable form of astaxanthin, a trendy antioxidant that is prized for its health benefits. The antioxidant has proven to be beneficial for reducing the risk of cardiovascular, immune, inflammatory, and neurodegenerative diseases.
As Virun explains on their official website, “It’s red, it’s clear, it’s stable”. The red powder can be added to any food, beverage, or liquid supplement to deliver a high dose of astaxanthin. The powder is available in doses of 30mg per gram or 60mg per gram.
CoenzymeClear
CoQ10 is one of the trendiest ingredients in the beauty industry. Today, you can find it a wide variety of beauty products and even nutritional supplements. CoQ10 is one of those molecules that has powerful effects throughout the body. As the Virun website explains, “CoQ10 functions in every cell of the body to synthesize energy”.
You can add Virun’s CoenzymeClear to your functional beverages, in which case it delivers 100mg of CoQ10 per gram. You can also “stack” CoQ10 with PQQ to create the Esolv PQQwater 100 Powder.
Esolv
Esolv is a clean label liquid, free-flowing emulsifier derived from natural vitamin E. the product is intended for use in beverages. You can purchase it in the form of a powder, or as a free water soluble concentrate. The free water soluble concentrate is mixed with omega EPA DHA, CoQ10, and other members of the Virun product lineup.
DP Technology
Virun’s DP Technology is a patented transferrin bound agent (aka a peptide or protein or compound) encapsulated into a liposome. That liposome delivery system has become increasingly popular in the supplement community for its ability to increase oral bioavailability.
Other benefit of the DP Technology include cell targeting and overall pk through natural cell mediated endocytosis and natural lactoferrin.
What does all of this mean in layman’s terms? It means you can bind drugs that have poor bioavailability with DP Technology to enhance their bioavailability. Drugs that would not normally be very effective when taken orally will become more effective when paired with DP Technology.
Contact Virun
Virun is based in Pomona, California at the following address:
2160 S. Reservoir Street
Pomona, CA 91766
You can contact the company by phone at 909-839-0629 or by email at [email protected].
To learn more about Virun and their lineup of food and beverage-based drug delivery systems, visit Virun.com today.
