As we celebrate the 85th anniversary of Standard Process, we also celebrate the 119th birthday of Standard Process founder, Dr. Royal Lee.
Royal Lee was born
April 7, 1895, the fourth of five children raised by his parents, Daniel and
Esther Lee, on a farm near Dodgeville, Wisconsin.
After serving the
Army he went to work for Western Electric analyzing various pieces of
electrical equipment, including a dental drill motor. His interest in creating better dental
equipment led to his enrollment in Marquette University’s School of Dentistry
in 1920.
He created a
motor/governor combination he called the Lee Electrodent Unit. His invention was a success and he began
taking custom orders for motors and governors.
At the time of his graduation from Dental school in 1924, he had already
become an established businessman.
His education in
dentistry ultimately led to an interest in nutrition. While researching his senior thesis, he
realized that a number of teeth-related issues were linked to nutritional deficiencies. Upon graduation Dr. Lee sought to identify
foods high in desired vitamins and minerals and thought deeply about how to retain
these vital factors found in foods in order to use them to provide support for those
with nutritional deficiencies.
In 1929 Dr. Lee
developed an effective method for producing a food based product containing
vitamins B and C. After testing the
products’ effectiveness on him, a person who had long been susceptible to
seasonal challenges, and his mother, who needed to support her heart health,
Dr. Lee saw desirable results. He named
the product Catalyn because the vitamin, mineral and enzyme complexes found
within the product worked as organic catalysts.
Dr. Lee began to
develop more supplements in line with his philosophy that “the best sources of vitamins and minerals are found in whole foods.” His whole food philosophy eventually
established an enterprise of three different supplement companies: Vitamin Product
Company, Therapeutic Foods Company and Standard Process Laboratories. The three
companies merged into the one that is known today as Standard Process Inc.
Dr. Lee passed away
in November 1967 at age 72 but his philosophy of helping people live healthier
lives through whole food supplementation is carried on by Charles Dubois.
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