As I am sure many of you will have noticed there has been a significant reduction in the number of postings that I have done over recent months.

This has been due to a very heavy workload as a result of the continued expansion of the business.  

Also, I have been heavily involved with the development of some new products, the first of which will be released tomorrow, and which I will do a posting for.

I am very much aware of the importance of posting regular material and have been quite concerned personally that this has not being happening to the degree which it should be.

We have been working on a solution for this and you will shortly see the results of this work.  In brief, this is what is happening.

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For us here in New Zealand Christmas is tomorrow.  For our friends in the US and Europe they have to wait another day.

Many of our customers are in other parts of the world where they have their own special holidays.  Irrespective of where you are or what your beliefs we are all bound in time and that means the calendar year of 2009 is almost at an end.

I know that it has been a tough year for many, and we all have to experience those from time to time as part of our life experience.

I believe that 2010 will be a good year for Xtend-Life customers as we introduce some new innovations that will help keep you feeling and looking good.

All the best to everyone, whether they are a customer or only a reader of the blog...you are all important.

Warren

Question: from Leon

How many capsules of your Omega 3/DHA Fish Oil would be equivalent to the strength of 4 Lovaza capsules (prescribed dosage I am taking)?

Lovaza contains 465 mg of EPA and 375 mg of DHA per capsule, so 4 capsules should contain 1860 mg of EPA and 1500 mg of DHA. Your Omega 3/DHA Fish Oil gels each contain 120 mg of EPA and 280 mg of DHA.

So it appears that it would take 15.5 (1860/120) of your capsules to equal the daily dosage of Lovaza for EPA and almost 5.5 (1500/280) of your capsules to equal Lovaza's DHA daily dosage. Obviously, the two products contain different combinations of each ingredient, plus yours has some extra things thrown in.

So far, my medical insurance allows me to buy Lovaza by only paying a low co-payment, making it quite a deal. However, I may change to another insurance plan without such a co-payment available for Lovaza. If so, I may switch to your product if it is more cost effective for the same benefit.

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Last week we relocated our regional Asia offices in Bangkok, Thailand to some new premises in the M-Thai Tower building.  Although we have had offices in Bangkok for 5 years we had outgrown them so it was time to celebrate.

Our Thai operation is just administration and marketing.  We do not do any manufacturing in Thailand.   We produce everything at our facilities in New Zealand and export them to our offices there.

The person standing to my right is my son  Kane, and the person to my left is William Malek an ex professor of business strategy from Stanford and the author of a best selling Harvard book on business strategy.  He is taking a vital role in the development of our Thai operation.

Standing just in front of William in the long blue dress is Pearl who has been with us in Thailand for five years and without whom our Thai operation would not have become a reality.

The rest are our office staff and as you can see they are a fun lot of people which makes it a joy to be there.

We will be doing something similar soon to introduce our New Zealand staff.

At last...all the technical work has been completed and we were able to press the 'go live' button.

Hopefully you will find it easier to navigate than the previous versions.  We are now working on improving the loyalty club and some other enhancements.

Have a look at the new site by clicking here

Please feel free to share any comments.

To all those good folk who have posted questions and I have been a long time answering I do apologise.  Over the last couple of weeks I had to go to Mexico and then to Las Vegas for an industry conference.  I expected to have better internet connections but ran into computer problems.

I am trying to catch up and will do so over the next couple of days.  I have to fly out to Asia in the morning and then to India later it the week.

I have been training up some new staff to take some of the work load off me so I can be more regular with this blog.  We will also be starting a new Xtend-Life blog in addition to my own personal one.  More about this soon.

We will also be launching our new updated website later this week.  More soon.

Not only some medical journals which appear to be independent actually sponsored and controlled by pharmaceutical interests, so are many 'foundations', 'institutions' and 'medical councils'.

It is an interesting subject and when I get the time I will do a detailed article about this.

For the moment, I have reproduced an article from Pharma in Focus, an Australian publication.

More 'fake' medical journals     
Written by Pharma In Focus    
Sunday, 01 November 2009 08:34 

International science publishing giant, Elsevier, has admitted to putting out nine publications in Australia designed to give the appearance of "primary research" journals when they were no such thing . But the company says that in all cases - other than The Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine revealed in the Vioxx trial - there was legitimate disclosure of pharmaceutical company sponsorship because of the type of advertising the publications contained.

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Health Freedom New Zealand is an organization which helps ensure that the voice of New Zealanders are heard in matters of health freedom.

You will recollect that earlier I did a post about this incredibly biased program that was run on TV recently.

HFNZ have prepared and submitted a formal complaint to the Broadcasting Authority.  Some of you may find it interesting reading.  You can access the info by clicking here.

By the way...Professor Jackson on behalf of a pharmaceutical company is trying to push the benefits of the 'polypill' which contains statins and various other medications.  It will be a disaster if that ever becomes a reality.