Simple.

They work.

There are few feelings more terrible than seeing a loved one in pain and being helpless to intervene. It was 1993, and my partner at the time, Alison - a professionally trained massage therapist, long-distance swimmer and captain of her own trimaran -seemed in prime health. Then, inexplicably, at first once, then twice a week her neck would go out of alignment. In extreme pain, unable to hoist sail or conduct a massage, she would seek instant relief from a chiropractor. Only to have her neck “go out” again.

I was having my own problems. A year before I had returned from the Gulf War sick in body and soul after serving on a three-man environmental emergency response team. Almost daily ventures into minefields and the oil-fired hell of Kuwait had sickened us from constant stress, toxic exposure to “sweet crude” raining from a perpetual “oilcast”, and the soul-sickening desolation of a ruined landscape surrounding the wreckage-strewn massacre known locally as the “Highway To Hell”.

I had staggered home to a tiny Gulf Island off Canada's west coast severely ill. One year later, I still could not find energy to undertake most tasks. I was constantly sick. I seemed to attract every transient bug with a debilitating ferocity that lingered for months - until the next germ took over. Nothing seemed to help.

So it was with mild interest that I looked down from the loft at the brightly-banded carton Alison was waving excitedly, while shouting something that sounded like “Hosanna”.

“USANA,” she corrected me. “Is Greek, meaning 'true health'.

“Vitamins?” I was incredulous.

“Not just any vitamins,” she insisted. “These are pure vitamins perfectly matched in precise quantities and ratios with their micro-mineral activators.”

“Not like the drugstore.”

“You can't buy these in any drugstore,” Alison confirmed. “These high-quality supplements were formulated by Dr. Myron Wentz. He's one of the most widely recognized microbiologists in the world. After he decided to switch from disease diagnostics for cancer and heart disease to preventing them through complete cellular nutrition, he was able to fund his research from the Epstein-Barr virus test kit he'd developed.”

“Do you mean mono?”

“Mononucleosis, yes. He invented the test for it.”

In that case, I told her, I'd already used one of his products. Because I had been stricken by “mono” in my last abortive year of university. “So what's so special about his vitamins?”

Alison must have been paying close attention during the USANA meeting she'd just attended. She came right back: “As you know, most cells die within weeks or months and are replaced by new ones. And each time this happens, there's an opportunity for viruses or genetic errors to intrude. But through a series of laboratory experiments, Dr. Wentz developed a specific formulation of vitamins and minerals that provided cells with such complete nutrition, the original culture was still alive after 20 years!”

That got my attention.

“After he made these pharmaceutical-grade supplements available to his family and relatives, a business friend prevailed on him to make his discovery available to the world. And with Usana products he has - along with a unique, binary business model that allows distributors to earn a commission on their sales - and pay for their own vitamins.”

How cool is that? her excitement seemed to convey.

Despite Dr. Wentz's impressive credentials, I was sure she had fallen for a silly solution. “What does this have to do with your neck going out of alignment?” I still wanted to know.

Unfazed by my skepticism, Alison commenced taking the USANA “Essentials” with every meal, as recommended by Dr. Myron Wentz. Watching closely, there seemed to be no change in her at all. But two weeks later, I realized that she had not seen the chiropractor in a week. Three weeks later - no chiropractor. I was beginning to understand how proper cellular nutrition is the basis of all good health.

Four weeks later, her neck was still fine.

“Hey, I want some of that!”

Within two weeks starting on USANA, I could feel my own energy returning. At the same time, a wonderful book called Eating Alive came into my hands. In it, Dr. John Matsen described how digestion rules our health. And how improper “food combining” - eating protein with starches, for example - immobilizes our digestive process by simultaneously activating opposing digestive enzymes. Then, just when our guts are in an uproar, indulging in acidic ”fun foods” like sweets, caffeine and alcohol turbo-charges gangster-like fungi that daily rob our energy - until most of us have long forgotten what normal health is.

After being diagnosed by Dr. Matsen in his North Vancouver clinic, I commenced a 12-week regime of strict food-group segregation. I lost weight. And my digestion “reset” back to normal functioning.

The third and final step of my cure was instinctive. One typically rainy afternoon on the “wet coast”, I informed Alison, “The only way to completely beat the bugs I've got is to burn them out of my system.”

And so we went to Thailand. Several weeks on the beach at Ko-Pipi and neighboring islands did the trick. Thanks to USANA, Dr. Matsen's book, and Thailand's tropical sun, I returned home feeling reinvigorated for the first time in more than a year.

Now 16 years later, I am still taking USANA every day. I simply will not do without it. Because I have seen, again and again, people in even more desperate health straits return to normal functioning lives after taking Usana products.

During this time, as an alternative health columnist, author of Alt. Health, and professional journalist dedicated to providing solutions for the many “ailments” I report, I have cited an overwhelming preponderance of clinical studies in calling vitamins: “The Number One health breakthrough of the 20th century.”

Am I “believer” in USANA?

Heck no.

I know USANA works better than any other supplement I've tried. And I've taken some of the most highly touted alternatives just to cross-check and confirm that Dr. Wentz's award-winning supplements are still by far the best available.

Note: Federal laws mandate that I ascribe voluminous documented cases of people like myself, whose health, energy and sleep have dramatically improved while taking natural USANA supplements to “coincidence”. So it's up to you to decide if you or your loved ones might benefit from such healthy “coincidences” in your own lives.

Thank you for your time and attention,
William Thomas

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