Entries in My Diary (14)
Use it and you won't lose it...
Yesterday was a national holiday in New Zealand. I’m on D’Urville Island at the moment which is a fairly large island (about 45 kilometers long) at the top of the South Island of New Zealand.
It is a rugged island with steep bush clad hills. I’m staying at a place called D’Urville Island Wilderness Lodge. It is the only one on the island and can only be reached by boat. It is just a small place and is usually visited by hunters and fishermen. I’m interested in spearfishing.
Skin Care Products almost done!!!
After more than 18 months we are now in the final stages of completing our new skin care range. We have finally sourced and received all the raw ingredients which have come mainly from Europe. Our new equipment is installed and we are ready to manufacture the initial limited production run later next week.
By the middle of February we expect to have completed the filling of the tubes and later in the month we will be able to release the product to our customers.
We are really excited about this because after many months of testing and ‘tweaking’ we have a range of exceptional products. They have some new unique ingredients which really do work. We have been able to access these and make them available now, even though it will take another year or more for these ingredients to find their way into some of the top international brands.
A Good Start to 2008?
For most of us the festive season is now behind us and we are at the start of a New Year. I would hope that it will be an enjoyable one and full of interesting experiences for you.
Most importantly I hope that it will be a year in which you either enhance your current health or, if you have an illness that you can recover from it and regain vibrant health which is rightfully yours.
With regard to good health let me share something with you. On New Years day I was driving back to Bangkok from the South West region of Thailand known as Phang nga Province which borders the Andaman Sea. Further up the coast just before a village called Ranong there is a road which crosses from the west coast of Thailand to the east coast.
Another year almost gone...
Here in New Zealand it is Christmas Eve...
Over the next few days, most of the Western World will be celebrating the Christmas holidays which means different things to different people. For me, the most important part of this time of year is time spent with the family. It is also a time to reflect on just how temporary things really are as older members of the family pass on and new ones come into the world. As we get older we better appreciate the value of time and living in the present moment whilst doing our best to enrich the lives of all we come in contact with or influence in some way.
It is so easy in modern times to get caught up in materialism and lose sight of the most important values of life, which are inner peace and good health.
In 2008 try to focus on enjoying the present whilst planning for the future.
A Meeting with Prof. Dr. A Munem
My friend and Chief Researcher, formulator for Xtend-Life, Prof. Dr. A Munem Daoud is certainly a remarkable man. However, my meetings with him can be quite frustrating because he has so much to share and I can only absorb and act on so much. My last full day with him was last Thursday where we discussed some new enhancements we are working on.
It would be great to have a ‘magic wand’ which I could wave and ‘presto’ we have a new product which will achieve this or that objective. I would love to develop all the formulas which Munem conceives but that would be impractical to attempt. He loves working on solutions for health problem by developing special formulas. The more complex and difficult the problem, the better!
Remote, Wild and Beautiful...
I am sometimes asked by customers and readers who are thinking of a holiday in New Zealand to give them a bit of local info. This diary entry is dedicated to you folks and in particular those of you who like remote, wild and natural places.
A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate to join Ruth and Lance Dalley on their 65’ motorsailer ‘Breaksea Girl’ in one of the most remote and pristine areas of New Zealand. Doubtful Sound in Fiordland National Park.
This is on the Southwestern corner of the South Island of New Zealand. There are no hotels or civilization of any sort in this area and it is still wild country.
Good news for your Heart and Circulation
This week we released our new generation Cardio-Klenz! Although the first generation has been giving excellent results we felt that we could add some additional features which would give our customer’s hearts and circulation system a real boost.
We started working on this new generation about 8 months ago. What prompted the development of this new generation quicker than normal was that we see so many people forced to take expensive CoQ10 supplements because their physicians insist (often wrongly) that they take a statin drug.
As you probably know it is critical that you take a CoQ10 supplement if you are on a statin drug. This is because the mechanism that a statin drug uses to prevent your liver from manufacturing cholesterol also prevents the production of CoQ10. Without an adequate supply of CoQ10 you will actually increase your risk of a heart event even though your cholesterol may be lowered.
Mid Afternoon Energy...
I am sure that many readers of this blog, like me, work long hours…14 plus per day, and weekends as well.
I had hoped that I would have been able to back off a bit by now…and, I still aim to do so by early next year when some of our development work eases back a bit and the demand for my input lessens. I want to have more time for studying what ‘makes us tick’ and be able to pass on what I learn.
99% of the time I have plenty of energy and have no problem with sustaining this work load. However, I confess that I have the odd day that around mid afternoon I feel a bit weary for an hour or two, and then the energy returns automatically. I am sure that this is a pretty common complaint which is why many people turn to their mid-afternoon cup of coffee, or energy drink.
Air Pollution and Health...
As most of you know I spend quite a lot of time at our Asian office in Bangkok, Thailand where I am at the moment. You may also recollect that apart from the general chaos of Bangkok the thing that I most dislike about Bangkok is the air pollution.
Thailand is a wonderful country with lovely people but they seem to accept the high air pollution in some areas with minimal fuss.
Anyway, when I am in Thailand I usually try to get out of Bangkok for a weekend to find some peace and quiet and clean air to breathe. It also gives me a chance to catch up on some of my reading.
Well, this weekend just gone I flew to Chang Mai, hired a car and drove 3 ½ hours to a little town called Pai in Mae Hong Son Province close to Burma and Laos. It used to be part of the ‘Golden Triangle’ for drug smuggling. This has been pretty well stamped out in that region now.
The plus for this region is that it is a lot cooler than Bangkok (around 7 degrees C at this time of the year) and it has CLEAN air and little traffic. Whilst there I spent some time on learning more about asthma and general respiratory diseases which is so prevalent in Bangkok and becoming more so in all large cities.
Over the years we have had feedback from many people who have said that their asthma has been greatly relieved by out Total Balance. I have mentioned it to Prof. Dr. Munem who was not surprised and said that this is what he would expect anyway. I never got round to questioning him in detail as to why this was the case.
But, last weekend I thought that I would do a bit more research because I have always been intrigued why I have never been affected by the bad air given the amount of time I spend in Bangkok, and further why our staff in Bangkok who used to be susceptible to respiratory issues seem to be no longer affected.
I found a simple explanation to this question in a book by a well known physician and it makes interesting reading, particularly if you have a respiratory problem of some sort.
I will put the relevant information together into a brief article later this week for you to review.
I also thought that maybe you might like to see a photo of the ‘Pai’ river, so I have posted one above.
'Sicko' the movie by Mike Moore...
The other night I watched ‘Sicko’ the latest documentary by Michael Moore. As expected it was well researched and did not do the pharmaceutical or health insurance industries any favors.
It of course focused on the negative aspects of those two industries as you would expect. No doubt there are some positive stories out there in favor of the health insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies, but I would imagine that they are pretty ‘thin on the ground’.