History
Bioharmony - A Rich History, A Bright Future
With experience in healthcare since 1991, Bioharmony provides a modern framework for a range of unique products rooted in traditional wisdom and modern scientific research.
Twelve years ago, Maria Ascencao and a team of Natural Health Practitioners, understood the need for building a bridge between modern allopathic medicine and complementary medicine. Their joint vision for integrative medicine led them to create the BIOHARMONY range of herbal and nutritional supplements.
All Bioharmony products are manufactured in fully pharmaceutical laboratory licensed facilities registered with the Medicines Control Council of South Africa. Our manufacturing partners are staffed by highly qualified pharmaceutical technical teams who guarantee the quality and efficacy of each formulation and product.
People
Patrick Holford 
Bioharmony has a long-term association with one of the world's leading nutritionists Patrick Holford who has produced a unique and superior range of supplements – The Patrick Holford Range.This range comprises formulations based on Patrick's research at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition aimed at ensuring Optimum Daily Allowances. In addition, Bioharmony presents Patrick at annual seminars and workshops in South Africa. He also undertakes research for Bioharmony and writes regular articles for us.
Patrick Holford BSc, Dip ION, FBant is a leading light in new approaches to health and nutrition. He is widely regarded as South Africa’s best-selling author and a leading spokesman on nutrition, food, and health issues. Patrick started his academic career in the field of psychology. While completing his bachelor degree in Experimental Psychology at the University of York he researched the role of nutrition in mental health and illness and later tested the effects of improved nutrition on children's IQ - an experiment that was the subject of Horizon documentary and published in the Lancet in 1988.
In 1984 Patrick founded the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION), a charitable and independent educational trust for the furtherance of education and research in nutrition, now the largest training school in the UK offering a degree-accredited training in nutritional therapy and widely respected as a leading edge organisation by professionals and media alike. Patrick was awarded an honorary Diploma from ION and is also an Honorary Fellow of BANT. (The British Association of Nutritional Therapists). In 2003 he founded the Brain Bio Centre at ION, a treatment centre pioneering the optimum nutrition approach for mental health.
Patrick is frequently involved in British government campaigns and debates and has been invited to the House of Commons, House of Lords and the Food Standards Agency as an expert in optimum nutrition. In October 2004 he authored Britain's largest ever health and diet survey (ONUK) comparing the health and diet of 37,000 people.
His knowledge, personality and enthusiasm, together with his strong scientific approach helps him to stimulate lively debates, simplifying complex issues and helping viewers to expand their understanding of health issues.
Patrick lectures and conducts workshops throughout the world on a wide range of topics, to the public and health professionals and the medical profession.
Bioharmony & Noah
Bioharmony is aligned with Noah because of our compassion for children in general and child orphans in particular. Noah (Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity) was conceptualised at the end of 2000 in response to the realisation that South Africa will face an ‘epidemic of orphans’ following the AIDS pandemic in the country. Its role is to ‘franchise’ a community based model of orphan care which aims to help the children orphaned by Aids to grow up into emotionally and psychologically stable adults capable of forming lasting relationships and of being good parents to their own children and good citizens of South Africa.
The overall goal therefore is to support communities to sustainably improve the quality of life of orphans and vulnerable children and their families. Bioharmony is proud to be associated with helping improve the lives of these children and these communities.