Our bodies are extremely complex. You have to understand that your cells know how to create vibrant health as they undergo millions of biochemical processes every day. They are coded with inherent cellular intelligence capable of supporting the best version of you.

We bombard our bodies with toxins and seemingly unnecessary stresses that this natural process becomes inefficient. Your body relies on you just as much as you rely on your body. So then, why are you continuing to neglect your health?

Cellular communication is vital in the creation of vibrant health. You need a powerful signal to help cut through the noise and unlock your cells’ natural ability to unleash a more healthy, happier you.

You need USANA^® CellSentials^®.

A Giant Leap Forward CellSentials represents a dramatic leap forward in personalised nutrition. Unmatched expertise, diligent research, and bold innovation have come together to change cellular nutrition as we know it. That’s what happens when a great man — Dr. Myron Wentz — and a great company understand that the best actually can get better.

We added the Science of patent pending InCelligence to one of the world’s highest-rated nutritional supplements to create our CellSentials. It’s like nothing available today.

1. Core Minerals provides a powerful combination of bioavailable minerals for the maintenance of good health.
2. Vita-Antioxidant contains optimal amounts of essential vitamins and antioxidants along with the patent-pending InCelligence^® Complex which contains quercetin, hesperidin, rutin, Meriva®† bioavailable curcumin, alpha-lipoic acid, resveratrol, EGCG from green tea, and USANA’s patented Olivol olive fruit extract.

Together Core Minerals and Vita-Antioxidant form the advanced cellular nutrition system your body needs to unlock vibrant health. This powerful spectrum of nutrients supports antioxidant production inside your cells, unlocking protection more powerful than antioxidants taken in through your diet. The InCelligence Complex also communicates with your cells to enhance their natural renewal response, helping to support healthy cell function throughout the body.

Nourish, Protect, and Renew (Three-in-One) We’ve nourished cells around the world for more than two decades. It’s kind of our thing, and CellSentials still provides incredible nourishment for your cells. However, we’ve gone two steps further — using the Science of InCelligence to unlock your cells’ natural protective and renewal abilities.

Nourish, protect, and renew are the triple-action support your body needs. And they make CellSentials the most comprehensive, cell-empowering system available.

For more information about CellSentials please click here.

USANA HealthPak

Your life moves fast. You need nutrition that can keep up. HealthPak fits vibrant health into your hectic life. You get the triple-action support of USANA CellSentials and two powerful supplements exclusive to HealthPak — MagneCal and the CellSentials Booster — in convenient AM and PM packets. So your core supplements can go wherever your day takes you.

1. Core Minerals provides a strong premium blend of gentle, bioavailable minerals for the maintenance of good health.
2. Vita-Antioxidant contains optimal amounts of essential vitamins and antioxidants along with the patent-pending InCelligence Complex which contains quercetin, hesperidin, rutin, Meriva®† bioavailable curcumin, alpha-lipoic acid, resveratrol, EGCG from green tea, and USANA’s patented Olivol olive fruit extract.
3. MagneCal (only available in HealthPak) is a comprehensive bone-health formula with an optimised balance of magnesium and calcium.
4. CellSentials Booster (only available in HealthPak) is formulated with four powerful nutrients: alpha-lipoic acid, Olivol, quercetin, and Pterocarpus marsupium extract containing pterostilbene. This extra punch of protection utilises the powerful USANA InCelligence nutrient blend to help unlock your cells’ natural protective and renewal abilities, help preserve cellular efficiency for optimum cellular energy production, and help optimise the longevity of cellular function.

The InCelligence Effect

Together, these powerful nutrients communicate with cells, unlocking their natural protective and renewal processes. This ability to influence a broad network of physiological pathways can help build cellular resilience, empowering your body to meet your unique health needs.

For more information about HealthPak please click here

When and where do I get these products?

You don’t have to wait anymore to experience CellSentials and our HealthPak. Any product on your Auto Order in place before August 25, 2016 that contains Mega Antioxidant and MultiMineral will be automatically replaced with CellSentials’ Vita-Antioxidant and Core Minerals. The price will remain the same for two Auto Order cycles to give you and your customers a chance to experience the power of CellSentials. Both CellSentials and HealthPak deliver unique triple-action support to nourish your cells, help support natural antioxidant production for enhanced cellular protection, and help support your cells’ natural ability for renewal.

You thought our Essential products were good? Wait till you try out USANA’s new products with CellSential science.

Vitamin supplements should not replace a balanced diet. Use only as directed. Always read the label. ^† Meriva is a trademark of Indena S.p.A.

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I have been a professional athlete for over 10 years now and, as you can imagine, the pregnancy has changed my life completely and turned it upside down. It is challenging but exciting and I am learning every day.

This month, I will talk about the nutritional side. I am 23 weeks pregnant now and my belly is definitely starting to poke out. When you are a Professional athlete, food is such an important part of your life. Your body is your capital and your motor, so you try to make sure that you are always getting all the right nutrients in, and getting enough calories. I have done so much research and I feel I like I have figured out what my body needs and what is best for it.

Whether you are pregnant or not, I believe you should always make sure that you get all the important nutrients in your daily food intake. I am a big believer in real food. This means I try to get most of my nutrition from fruits, veggies, meat, eggs, real food with no wrapping paper around it and no added preservatives.  Of course, when you have a busy lifestyle and you don’t always have the time and opportunity to cook your food or it needs to be quick, alternative snacks like the healthy Nutrimeal and snack bars from USANA are a great substitute.

I will write down a few of my favourite meals and what I believe is important in your daily intake.

As I said, I believe it is important for everyone, but it is even more important when you are pregnant, that you get all the right nutrients in. You don’t want your growing baby lacking anything.

I make sure that all my meals include carbohydrates, protein, vitamins and want to make sure to get enough of certain minerals, Iron, Iodine.

Breakfast:

Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day. Make sure, that you have a good breakfast and don’t skip it. Some people skip breakfast as a way to lose weight, but it will have exactly the opposite effect. A healthy breakfast is the perfect start to your day:

My favourite breakfast:

• Porridge made out of oats, buckwheat, amaranth and dried fruits. I cook it with water for about 5mins; add sunflower seeds, chia seeds, walnuts, a bit of coconut oil and a mashed ripe banana. You can add whatever you have got in your pantry or fridge. You can add a bit of honey, if you prefer it a bit sweeter. (chia seeds and nuts are a great protein source).

Favourite snacks for in-between:

Apples, Carrots, (since I am pregnant, I could eat carrots and apples all day, I seem to have a real craving for these), nuts or one of the great tasty USANA bars.

Favourite lunch or dinner recipes:

Whatever suits your lifestyle best, some people would rather have a bigger lunch or dinner. I normally have more time in the evenings to cook a proper meal, because that’s when my boyfriend and I have time to sit down and eat together.

I prefer really simple dinners. I don’t like to prepare and cook for a very long time. So my meals are easy and quick to prepare, but healthy and include all the important nutrients. I don’t add any fat sauces, because they just add unnecessary calories and preservatives and make you feel heavy.

My favourite choice:

Chicken breast cooked in a fry pan with ginger (good protein source).

In a separate pan or wok, I cut up all different vegetables of the season, like broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, mushrooms, spinach etc. I make sure I have got a lot of healthy green vegetables, but also have a great variety of vegetables. That way you make sure you cover all the vitamins and minerals.  I just cook it on low heat until it’s soft but don’t overcook it.

Separately, I cook rice or quinoa in a rice cooker, which is the easiest way. (carbohydrates)

I mix it all together; add good olive oil and herbs or spices. For me, this is the perfect healthy dinner, ready within 15 minutes.

As an alternative, I make fish or once in a while a piece of red meat for additional Iron.

To make sure I get enough of all the important vitamins, minerals, fish-oil, calcium, magnesium; I make sure I take my USANA supplements daily. Being pregnant, I feel like I have an even higher demand and want to make sure I am not lacking in anything.

I used to eat similar when I was training and competing full time, the only difference was the portions were usually a little larger and my carbohydrate intake was higher. At the moment, I still try to exercise every day, but not as many hours and the intensity is a lot lower. But that is exactly, what I will cover in next month’s blog – the change in my training and what kind of exercise I am still doing at the moment.

Until next month’s…

Britta

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There is unimaginable untapped potential inside every human being. We are all destined for greatness with boundless possibilities uniquely encoded into our DNA.

Every cell in our body is programmed to maintain vibrant health but the daily pressures and stresses of life hinder this natural phenomenon from effectively taking place. There is no doubt that the true secret to being the healthiest person you can possibly be is hidden deep within our microscopic cells.

After decades of grueling research USANA has finally found the key to unlocking your potential and unleashing the promise of optimal health inherent in you.

Without further ado we would like to introduce to you USANA’s Science of InCelligence.

A New Era in Nutritional Science

Our breakthrough, patent-pending InCelligence is the next leap in personalised nutrition, pushing the frontiers of cellular nutrition and expanding the horizons of personalised health.

InCelligence combines our vast knowledge of cells with the most innovative research in molecular biology and genetics. It utilises a natural process called cell signaling, whereby cells signal or communicate with external molecules and each other, tapping into your innate cellular intelligence. This has been made possible by USANA scientists successfully formulating a powerful blend of nutrients that can communicate with your cells.

Cells are extremely intelligent. Our bodies at any one time have billions upon billions of reactions occurring per second. These reactions as well as the processes resulting from these reactions are all made possible through cell signaling.

Proactively supporting these processes with InCelligence helps build cellular resilience and can encourage the longevity of cellular function, empowering your body to meet your unique health needs. That’s how InCelligence unlocks your body’s unparalleled ability to personalise optimal health from within, helping to support your cells’ natural protective and renewal abilities.

No company today comes close to our patent-pending InCelligence science. InCelligence taps into the cellular communication network of your cells, to help create the most effective, holistic approach to your health.

InCelligence in Your Life

Be confident in the fact that USANA is using the latest scientific knowledge to formulate a variety of cell-empowering products. And this enhanced range of products will be made available to our market over the next year. However due to this being such a huge leap forward for nutritional science, USANA, and — most importantly — your health, we wanted to give you a preview of what’s coming.

 Let’s start with your foundation for good health — the USANA^® CellSentials. We combined USANA’s patent-pending InCelligence with one of the world’s highest-rated nutritional supplements to create CellSentials. It’s like nothing on the market today. The powerful combination of Core Minerals and Vita-Antioxidant forms the advanced cellular nutrition system your body needs to unlock optimal health.

CellSentials represents a dramatic step forward in personalised nutrition. For more than two decades, USANA has nourished cells around the world. It’s kind of our thing, and CellSentials still provides incredible nourishment for your cells. But we’ve gone two steps further — using InCelligence to unlock your cells’ natural protective and renewal abilities.

Nourish, protect, and renew are the triple-action support your body needs. They make CellSentials the most comprehensive, cell-empowering system available.

And that’s just the beginning. This InCelligence is bigger than any single product. The potential of InCelligence is boundless — just like you. It allows us to develop future products to target different health-optimising processes and help unlock more of the incredible possibilities coded into your cells.

We’ll continue releasing more products formulated with InCelligence, but here are the products that currently employ the concept of InCelligence:

• USANA® CellSentials: Core Minerals and Vita-Antioxidant help deliver unique triple-action support to nourish, protect, and renew your cells to unlock vibrant health.
• HealthPak®:  HealthPak has the triple-action support of CellSentials, a comprehensive bone-health formula with an optimised balance of magnesium and calcium called MagneCal, and helps deliver an extra punch of protection and renewal from the exclusive CellSentials Booster.
• Proglucamune®: Zinc and the InCelligence Beta-Glucan Complex help support healthy immunity.
• Procosamine®: Groundbreaking joint-health formula with the InCelligence Joint-Support Complex that helps maintain healthy cartilage.
• HepaPlus®: Formulated with the InCelligence Detox-Support Complex that helps to support healthy and efficient liver function and help balance natural detoxification processes.

Stay tuned for more information about USANA InCelligence and when CellSentials and other products will be released in our market.

For more information about USANA’s CellSentials click here, please log in to enjoy the Preferred Price.

Vitamin supplements should not replace a balanced diet. Use only as directed. Always read the label.

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We cannot doubt the power these small microscopic orbs of life hold. There is no doubt that the complexity of the body is mind boggling. All our larger bodily processes are all supported by many smaller more complex processes happening at the cellular level.  So many reactions are taking place at any onetime that if we were to list them all it would literally take years. When trying to understand the process of healthy cellular function we have to first delve into the essential components of the cell which make it all possible. Hopefully you were paying attention in your high school science class, but if not, prepare yourself for a crash course in cellular energy production.

Every cell has an organelle, or microscopic organ, called the Mitochondria. This organelle is located in the cytoplasm or outer fluid of the cell and its main function is energy production. It converts glucose (sugar) into ATP (Adenosine triphosphate), which is used by the cell as energy that becomes fuel for cellular processes.

At the same time, another process called Mitophagy is taking place. Mitophagy is a natural renewal process in which our cells break down and recycle damaged mitochondria to maintain a healthy cellular environment.

Dr. John Cuomo, USANA’s executive director of product development and technologies, explains this crucial process.

“Mitochondria get damaged as they work producing energy,” he says. “To produce energy, you need to burn fuel and in that process you create free radicals that are damaging to your cells. Mitophagy is a natural process in which our cells recycle this damaged mitochondria to support good health.”

When mitochondria are young, they are real go-getters (aren’t we all?). But when they get older, their function becomes impaired — eventually damaged to the point that the mitochondria are making more free radicals than energy, translating into more and more oxidative stress.

Knowing that we want to limit oxidative stress to maintain good health, you can see the value in nutritionally supporting the natural renewal process that occurs in our mitochondria.

The speed at which our cells naturally regenerate mitochondria is normally controlled by nutrient availability. When nutrients are present in high quantities, the cell doesn’t need to be as efficient. It has plenty of fuel to burn. But when nutrients are scarce, efficient energy production becomes much more important. Our bodies normally trigger the “mitochondria renewal” process in times of low energy — such as when we’re running low on food.

“But if I’m not mistaken,” John says, “most of us don’t live in states where we’re running out of food. As a matter of fact, most of us get too much food on a regular basis.”

For that reason, our cells are naturally recycling mitochondria much less efficiently. We need to find other ways to trigger the mitochondrial recycling process even when we have plenty of energy.

“And we think we’ve found that secret,” John says.

USANA scientists are focusing on leveraging the body’s natural intelligence to create optimal health. Are you ready for a new era in nutritional science? Be a part of it on Aug. 25 at the 2016 USANA International Convention!

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Free radicals have an undisputed reputation for destroying things. They didn’t choose that path, it chose them. To understand what free radicals are you have to first understand the structure of a cell. And then grasp the idea that cells are made up of many different types of molecules. Each tiny molecule has electrons on the outside and those electrons crave balance. Now in rare cases some chemical reactions give rise to an odd unpaired electron or free radical. This lonely electron naturally seeks balance and attacks the nearest molecule it can find, causing a negative cascading effect. Can you see how this could pose a significant problem?

Back to antioxidants. What antioxidants do is they fight against oxidative stress and the formation of these unruly free radicals, thus helping you maintain cellular health. This whole defensive process never stops and is constantly occurring within our bodies.

Our bodies source two types of antioxidants for protection, dietary antioxidants and endogenous antioxidants. But what is the difference you ask? Dietary or exogenous antioxidants come from your external environment, while more powerful endogenous antioxidants are produced inside your body.

Dr. Mark Brown, USANA’s Executive Director of laboratory research, has spent years developing products and helping others better understand the roles antioxidants play in our health.

In the video below, Mark provides a succinct overview of antioxidants and why he believes certain targeted antioxidants that react with molecules inside your body to provide cellular protection are superior to “blanket protection” you might get from external sources.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlfOlCcfb6s

“We’re trying to stimulate the production of molecules within your own cells,” Mark says. “That’s the endogenous protection we’re looking for.”

This more natural approach to antioxidant defense is an example of what USANA strives to achieve throughout all its products. Taking large quantities of exogenous antioxidants is not a good idea, so a smarter more healthy solution is required. Remember, everything in moderation!

“One of the best antioxidant molecules that comes to mind is BHT. BHT is a preservative that’s used in food a lot. A lot of people understand that consuming a lot of BHT is not good for you. But if what we really wanted to do was give you the maximum antioxidant protection, we would give you spoonfuls of BHT. I don’t think anybody thinks that’s a good idea so what we look at are botanical antioxidants.”

Ingesting certain botanical antioxidants helps allow your body to process and create antioxidants itself, rather than receive antioxidants and then apply them to free radicals. This ensures optimal cellular protection and makes sure your body is actively undertaking its natural processes to its fullest capacity. – USANA scientists are focusing on leveraging the body’s natural intelligence to create optimal health. Sounds good, right? That’s only the beginning. The rest will be revealed on August 25 when USANA unlocks a new era of nutritional science at the 2016 International Convention.

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Knitting and crocheting
Get out the wool and knitting needles! The repetitive nature of this activity with your hands sends signals to your body which immediately relax you and make you feel grounded. It is the same as with any other repetitive activity with your hands or body, such as colouring.

Going outdoors
Feeling stressed? Clear your mind with a stroll outside. Research indicates that Vitamin D from sunlight elevates your levels of serotonin, which makes you feel good. In addition to this, taking in your surroundings takes your focus away from your worries. Research has also shown that spending time in nature has been associated with decreased levels of mental illness such as depression and anxiety, increasing concentration and even faster healing. So go outside and spend some time in nature!

Playing with pets
Yes, that’s right. Your furry friend is keeping you healthier. Caring for a pet has been shown to decrease blood pressure and cholesterol levels, reduce feelings of loneliness and more! So go and spend some time with your little fur ball, and if you don’t have one, make friends with the cute cat down your street.

Meditation
Anyone can do it! You don’t have to dedicate your life to being a yogi. You can simply put aside a few minute of your day to close your eyes, relax and focus on breathing. Meditation has been linked with numerous health benefits such as improved digestion, reducing stress, and even reducing physical pain.

Dancing
Whether you’re going to a party or you’re at home blasting music, singing terribly and getting your boogie on, hitting the dance floor is a great way to improve your health. Studies have shown that it can help you lose weight, reduce stress, increase memory, improve heart health and more!  Who knew!

So when you go home from work tonight, will you be getting out the knitting needles, adventuring outdoors, hanging out with your furry friend, meditating or getting your boogie on?

References:

http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20765943,00.html#best-get-out-of-your-head-0

http://news.health.com/2016/03/22/8-activities-with-serious-health-perks-that-arent-exercise/?xid=socialflow_facebook_health

http://source.southuniversity.edu/spending-time-in-nature-for-your-health-how-outdoor-activities-improve-wellbeing-102984.aspx

http://www.everydayhealth.com/fitness-pictures/health-benefits-of-dance.aspx#06

Written by Monique Sparks

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Nutritional Science up till now has only touched the surface in terms of the effects of food on the complex functioning of our bodies. They say you are what you eat but maybe this common phrase might actually be right after all. There is a growing amount of scientific evidence suggesting that there is no doubt that food has a significant influence on our health. The true question is how much influence does food really have?

Take a moment to digest this: You’ll eat between 60 tonnes and 100 tonnes of food in your lifetime. And every bite you consume is feeding your cells information — or misinformation. Unhealthy food and environmental toxins are all delivering our cells nonsensical information that confuses our body. In other words, that tasty fast-food hamburger is actually giving our cells potentially damaging misinformation.

“If you think about the breakdown of food and all those molecules inside that food, some of those molecules are literally messengers,” says Dr. Kevin Spelman, USANA’s executive vice president of research and development. “They transfer and carry information. They will trigger events in our physiology that are healthful, provided that the food we eat is nutritious.”

You could think of food as information. Information for our bodies, information for our cells, and information for our molecular pathways inside our body. So we want to make sure we’re feeding our body the right information. But let’s be honest: in today’s society, for most of us, that’s easier said than done. We’re regularly eating unhealthily and on top of that we’re frequently exposing our bodies to damaging environmental toxins.

When it comes to truly enjoying your food, don’t base your experience solely on the short-lived taste of your chosen food, but delve into the much more fulfilling long-term and internal satisfaction from knowing you’ve made the best choice for your health. Because without a fully functioning body, it doesn’t matter how much yummy food you eat, you will never reach a true state of happiness. People take their bodies for granted; only to have it all catch up with them later in life. Life is already too short as it is, why make it any shorter?

The scientists at USANA Health Sciences are convinced that it’s never too late to change your nutritional path. If you have some spare time, make it a priority to watch Dr. Kevin Spelman’s video which explains how food can influence our health. Our cells are a lot smarter than we think they are and have been specially constructed in a way to adapt to changing environmental conditions. It is explained that locked within our own cells are tools to keep us healthy. Like keys in locks, cells are sending signals to activate various physiological responses.

“The good news is that USANA has researched the cellular signaling process based on the latest scientific evidence, and we really understand how that process works,” he says. “We’ve figured out how to tap into the way cells communicate with each other.”

The secret to good health lies in being able to promote the healthy functioning of our cells and giving them the fuel necessary to fight the constant bombardment of stresses and toxins in our lives.

Cellular communication is a complex network of processes within the body. As multi-cellular organisms the communication between cells, the building blocks of our tissues and organs, is critical to the overall survival of our body as a whole. Enhancing this essential process can have a positive cascading effect throughout the whole body and as a result makes us healthier.

USANA prides itself on its advanced cutting edge research and through focusing on optimizing the body’s natural intelligence we believe we have found the key to the next level of cellular support. What we’ve discovered will unlock a new era in nutritional science. And that era will begin on August 25 at the 2016 USANA International Convention. Will you be a part of it?

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It started in 1992 with the USANA^® Essentials—antioxidants in optimal doses—and continues to Olivol^® and self-preserving skin care and Nutritional Hybrid Technology and the True Health Assessment and USANA MySmartFoods. And we’re missing almost as many as we listed.

Who are the people behind USANA’s expertise:

Kevin Spelman

The PhD that follows Kevin Spelman’s name already says a lot. Those three letters represent a rarified level of knowledge. But painting a full picture of the expertise of USANA’s executive vice president of research and development requires much more.

Kevin Spelman, PhD, post-doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Marie Curie fellow in the European Union, former advisor to the White House Commission of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, publisher of 27 scientific papers, and 30-year veteran of the natural-products industry.

We sat down with Dr. Spelman to find out more about him, the amazing team of scientists at USANA, and what innovation means to him.

When did you know you wanted to be a scientist?

Early on, as a young child. I can’t give you an age. I was always interested in the way things worked. I was especially interested in biology, the wonderment of life. This sometimes got me in trouble with my parents. I once built an ant farm in the bathtub when I was quite young.

What was it about biology that sparked some inspiration for you?

Life is juicy. For me, chemistry was fascinating, but too dry. Biology gave chemistry meaning to me. I’m just fascinated by life, whether it’s social structures, the xenohormetic physiological cues from our surrounding environment, the molecular pathways of our bodies’ web of life, or the network nature of ecology. I’m fascinated by all of it, particularly on a molecular level. I tend to think on a molecular level, as well as from the 30,000-foot view.

Why did you want to focus on nutrition?

My own health, actually. I was frequently ill as a child. In my early 20s, I started really getting interested in what type of foods I was eating and the impact it was having on me. It made a huge difference in my health and made me understand that there was much more to health than what our medical community knew.

You have so much amazing experience. What made you choose USANA?

Honestly, Dr. Wentz. Seeing that USANA really is based in science—and everybody says that—but USANA really came from a scientist’s conception of wanting to improve human health. After hearing Dr. Wentz’ story, he won me over.

What do you think sets USANA apart scientifically?

The quality of our R&D team. We have some very thoughtful and critically thinking scientists in the R&D department that really want the very best for every product that goes out. I’ve been in natural products for 30 years. It is unfortunate that R&D teams are more than occasionally an illusory part of supplement companies. Our R&D team is real, hardcore, and well-funded. We spend a lot of resources getting everything just right. The fact that we have pharmaceutical-grade GMPs was another thing that won me over. I thought to myself, “USANA is really serious about their quality control.” Our QC is just spot-on in terms of pharmaceutical GMPs. I think those are the things that really set us apart.

Why is it so important to ground our products in scientific research and not just chase trends?

We’re not a member of the molecule of the month club. We want something real. We want something that’s going to last. We want something that’s really going to improve people’s health over long-term use. Trends often don’t do that.

Rachel A. Brewer, PhD, senior scientist specializing in microbiome research

How did you start to add to the R&D team?

We started with a preexisting base of excellent scientists, so that was an important piece. Then we hunted for the brightest minds we could find. Since we already had a good foundation with some highly experienced and intelligent scientists, and then we added a microbiome expert to our R&D team, we have generated an extraordinary and exciting innovative potential.

What does Dr. Wentz’ vision mean to you?

It means that he’s really got his heart and his mind in the right place. He was innovative early on, in a way that nobody else was, and he took a chance, a risk, and it turned out to be the right thing to do. I think that’s one of the things I keep having to remind myself and the team is that we have to push our comfort level. Innovation is stepping into the unknown. We are not interested in “me too” products.

Why is innovation so important to you and to USANA?

I think because our Associates see that we are leading the way in nutritional science and they expect that. And the only way we’re going to continue to lead the way is to be innovative and to step into uncharted territory. It is my goal that USANA continues to disrupt the natural products industry by putting out novel products based on cutting-edge research in the nutritional sciences. We have everything in place to be 15 strides ahead of our competition.

Continuing the Legacy

It’s time to lengthen that timeline, because we aren’t done innovating.

We really just can’t help ourselves. Right now, in a building on the west side of Salt Lake City, another major evolution is in the works. And it’s a big one.

Do we know what it is? Sure we do. Have we been sworn to secrecy about it? You could say that. But we can tell you when it will be unveiled: August 25, 2016, at the USANA International Convention. See you there!

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Take a walk through the halls of USANA’s office in Salt Lake City, and you’ll see plenty of people in lab coats. Listen carefully and you’ll hear a strange language filled with mysterious words and phrases like mitophagy, glutathione reductase, oxidative phosphorylation, and nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor. Look around at some of the walls on the third floor. You’ll only see posters of scientific studies for decoration.

The coats aren’t a fashion statement. The scientific language isn’t a secret code. And the posters weren’t hung to create a particular feng shui. It’s just who USANA is, and we’re proud of it.

We Heart Science

We’ve been nerdy since ’92—way before it was cool. We can’t help it, and we don’t hide it. In fact, we embrace the scientific culture coded into our DNA. Science is literally in our name—USANA Health Sciences.

You’d expect nothing less from a company founded by a world-renowned microbiologist, Dr. Myron Wentz.

Why do we do what we do?

You aren’t born with the passion and vision required to alter the world. At 17, Dr. Wentz lost his father to heart disease. He was the first of many family members taken too soon by degenerative disease.

It was then Dr. Wentz decided to look for solutions in his other love—science, and developed his vision and dream of a world free from pain and suffering.

Dr. Wentz’ dreams of a world free from disease and believes the USANA family will be the healthiest family on earth.

“Share my vision. Love life and live it to its fullest in happiness and health.”

Our Scientific Method

Scientific innovation is work and time, trial and error, and an adherence to a standard set of steps—the hypothesizing and testing found in the scientific method.

We start in the pages of scientific literature, reading the current research. Kevin Spelman, PhD, USANA’s executive vice president of research and development, says our scientists also look at what innovative practitioners are doing, too.

After investigating the findings, a hypothesis is developed. That’s a familiar step. But the next step isn’t something you learned in middle-school science class.

“When we have that hypothesis, we’ll all put ourselves in a room and have a spirited debate on whether the model is accurate,” Spelman says.

From there, our scientists start to support the hypothesis or not. This could lead to a pilot study and further investigations by one of our research partners. The result of the testing either proves or disproves the hypothesis, and those results help shape our conclusions, which then develop the products you trust every day.

A Glimpse of the Future

Science is maybe the closest thing we have to real magic. Instead of pulling rabbits out of hats, scientists search the unknown, working to pull knowledge from nothingness. Our scientists continue to search the uncharted frontiers of nutritional science, discovering the next groundbreaking innovation that will brighten the future.

We are leaders in nutritional science. We are the healthiest family on earth. Science is a part of who we are. One of the most revolutionary changes are happening in our company! We can’t wait to share it with you at the 2016 USANA International Convention! See you there!

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Dr. Myron Wentz. Synonymous with scientific brilliance and the kind of disruptive innovation that accelerates the sluggish pace of science—and changes the lives of millions in the process.

Dr Wentz’ Vision

You aren’t born with the passion and vision required to alter the world. If only it were that simple. The creation of monumental change comes at monumental cost, too often paid in the currency of personal tragedy.

At 17, Dr. Wentz lost his father to heart disease. He was the first of many family members taken too soon by degenerative disease. These traumatic events forced a talented young musician named Myron Wentz to look for solutions in his other love—science.

Over the course of his life, these losses galvanised into a purpose-driven vision to improve the health of people all over the world, to save them from living too short and dying too long.

And that vision has made possible the long list of innovations and accomplishments listed next to Dr. Wentz’ name: internationally recognized microbiologist, pioneer in the development of human cell culture technology, developer of the first commercially available diagnostic test for the Epstein-Barr virus, and winner of the Albert Einstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Life Sciences.

If you want to be the first to know about the biggest innovative changes happening in USANA, register for the 2016 International Convention today! We’re excited about what the future holds and can’t wait to share it with you.

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