About Us
This is the page where we get to give you a glimpse into our hearts and intents. In the rest of this site, we rarely mention anything spiritual. However, this is “About Us” so I’ll tell you how we came about.
After searching through many religions for some years in college, I became a Christian in my early twenty’s. One day, I started to get a cold (which I did consistently 4-5 times a year). I asked another Christian to pray for me – and he refused! When I asked him why, he asked me if I thought God would heal someone of a hangover? I said probably not because he shouldn’t have gotten drunk anyway. Then he said that if I abused my body by not giving it what it needs to be healthy, why should I expect God to heal me of sickness?
I was pretty surprised but he began to teach me about nutrition and nutrients. A couple years later it occurred to me that I hadn’t had a cold during that time. Now, 30 years later, my wife and I know much more about nutrition. Getting common illnesses can still happen but they are few and far between – and they don’t last long!
For thirty years we have been enjoying separating out truth from ficiton in nutrition. We have a fundamental confidence that our bodies will perform wonderfully for us if we recognize two fundamental pillars of physical health:
Two Pillars of Physical Health
1. We need to put into our body what it needs to do its job.
2. We need to remove the toxins that shouldn’t be there.
In real life a healthy "balanced" diet is pretty hard to come by - and still live a reasonable life in our modern world. In addition, we are exposed to several hundred times the heavy metals and pesticides than people centuries ago. This requires some attention in you want to live a healthy life.
You will also notice on this site that we do not spend much time on the “Food Pyramid” or the nutrient content of foods. It is not that we are not interested in those things; it is just that they are pretty well covered in many other places. Our focus is on how supplements can add to the diet we eat.
Accuracy and Quality
We have been amazed at how many “wife’s tales” and marketing deceptions exist in the realm of supplements! Finding accurate sources of information is very important before making decisions about them.
We prefer double-blind studies much more than “a friend of my cousin” told me…and so on. There is also a tremendous amount of research coming out of Europe – especially in Germany. Because of their socialized health system, the governments actually have a motivation to look at natural prevention of diseases!
We also have a lot of respect for sites like Consumer Lab. They are a “Consumer Reports” of the nutritional world, taking no advertising money in doing their nutritional analysis. We also look at several aspects of supplements for quality supplements.
Nutritional products need to have:
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Meaningful amounts of each ingredient! Many formulas have ridiculously low amounts of some ingredients just so they can have a long ingredient list.
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Nutrients that interact with each other in a complex. For example, it is important to take the whole vitamin C and E complexes to receive the full benefits they offer.
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What nutrients can be taken safely in higher amounts than traditional allocations. If so, is there value in doing so? There have been many scientific studies in recent years supporting the value of much higher amounts of some supplements. In many cases, the body will simply eliminate any surplus. If so, we prefer to supply the body with extra amounts and let it decide how much it wants to keep.
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How common is the nutrient found in a normal diet? Some nutrients need more supplementation than others.
5. The absorption and use of different forms of a supplement by the body varies. If so, we prefer
to use the forms the body can better absorb and use.
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We recommend and use the best laboratories who have NSF, cGMP, ISO 9001 and ISO 17025 certifications. This insures a high-quality product!
Creative Innovation of Our Ultimate Products:
Innovation 1 – Explanations of amounts used:
There are some nutrients in which the amounts we include vary from the usual nutritional products. However, we give a brief summary of each nutrient used in our formulas. If anything varies from the "standard", we explain why so you are not left wondering.
Innovation 2 - Suggested Usuage as per WEIGHT.
It is amazing how many nutritional supplements (as well as some pharmaceutical drugs) do not account for weight in their recommended daily servings. After all, does the body of a 250-pound person need the same amount of nutrition as a 100-pound person? Of course not! We account for this in our suggested usage.
Innovation 3 - Suggested Usage as per DIET.
There are times you have the opportunity to be able to eat much better, balanced meals. There are other times you know your schedule, travel or activity is limiting the good foods you are able to eat. With products like our "Ultimate Foundation", we emphasized that these are supplements, not prescriptions! You can adjust how much you take for how well you have been eating. With each capsule, you get a portion of every nutrient in every capsule! You don’t have to remember to pop open several other bottles to get your basic needs.
Resources and Products:
We will be recommending books, products and resources that we feel are high quality. Many recommendations we do not receive anything back. They are simply what we believe to be the best sources. In some other cases, they give us a little back that helps to support the site. In those cases, you will always be getting the same price as going direct to them. In many cases, we have been able arrange a discount for you. If you do choose to get something through us, we thank you in advance.2
Most of all, we wish you the best of health and life!
Terry and Kathy Roshau
