Why I Prefer Nutrition From MLM Companies Over The Pharmacies

For a start, let's watch this funny video from USANA -- "A car with all the features, at a quarter of a price". *sigh* :)

Okay, why would I prefer nutrition from MLM companies over the ones that we can find on the pharmacy's shelves?

Well, it's not like the products that's being sold in the pharmacies are lack of quality. They do have products that have good quality as well. I too went to pharmacies to buy Panadol, Listerine and several other health care products. We still need the presence of pharmacies to give service to the people, in which area many MLM companies are lack of. The fact is, they are still needed to provide a positive competition in health care and wellness industry.

But when it comes to nutritional supplements, I'd be much more cautious. I would always prefer to purchase it from an MLM company than a pharmacy. The reason is, unlike Panadol, I would take the nutritional supplements 3 intakes a day, on the daily basis, for the rest of my life! I would not risk taking the advice merely from the pharmacists to decide what I am about to feed into my body. Most of the time, I don't know the level of their knowledge in nutritional supplements -- so I just don't feel safe & quite skeptical.

For me, in order to take a reliable nutritional supplements, what I'd need is two simple requirements:

1. Recommendations from credible parties, such as a doctor's advice, AND
   
2. The real story or experience of many many human that have already taken that nutritional supplements.

But how about the technical information about the products itself? I do care about that too, but not too big into its details which could results myself becoming my own doctor. I'd say, let the doctor does his job.

To demonstrate how I use the two requirements above to select ESSENTIALS™ as my daily nutritional supplements, let me share my USANA's experience.

Recommendation From Credible Parties

This is one of USANA's greatest strength -- support from many medical professionals. This is an area that I wouldn't have to worry about. It's because USANA's ESSENTIALS™ is highly recommended by Dr Ray Strand [1] and Dr Christine Wood [2].

Dr Ray Strand is a medical doctor who has focused his practice on nutritional medicine. He has also written several books about health such as Living By Design, Preventing Diabetes, Death by Prescription, Healthy for Life, and What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You.

Dr Christine Wood, on the other hand, is a practicing pediatrician who focuses on healthy nutrition for children and the environmental and nutritional impact on health and disease. In the same line with Dr Ray Strand, Dr Christine Wood has also written several books on nutritional medication such as How to Get Kids to Eat Great & Love It!, Challenges to Children's Health, ADHD: Environmental Factors & Nutrition and Marketing Health To Families.

You see not many pharmacy-based nutritional supplements out there that would have this kind of strong recommendation from doctors who have been devoting their medical career into nutritional treatment. For me, these recommendations are good enough to qualify my first requirement.

Real Experience From Many Many People

This type of information is much much easier to access from the MLM based nutritional products than the pharmacy based nutritional products.

When I said real experience from real people, what I mean is I literally see these people swallowed the ESSENTIALS™. They really eat it. Every month, when they depleted they ESSENTIALS™ supply, they will get new ones and start consuming again and again and again.

I am not talking about people who have try it once, then said, "hey it's really good, you know.." I am talking about people who have continuously taking USANA's ESSENTIALS™.

And then I asked them about USANA's ESSENTIALS™. One person said, "I don't feel tired anymore after taking ESSENTIALS™". Another one said, "I don't know how to say it, but I just feel so much better". Then the next one said, "I used to have flu and fever so frequently, now after taking ESSENTIALS™, I'm healthy, always". And it even go to a point where ESSENTIALS™ has helped them, their families and their friends to recover from health problems. The only person who mentioned ESSENTIALS™ is bad for me, is a person who happened to sell a competitor product. And worst yet, she never took ESSENTIALS™.

At this point, if I've guessed it correctly, some of you might argue that those people are saying ESSENTIALS™ is good because they have already joined USANA and are actually promoting the ESSENTIALS™ to generate profit from their MLM business.

I would disagree with that point.

The reason is, if you take a health product which turns out to be harmful to your body, would you continue taking it, then promoting it to your friends, and families and the rest of the people for the sake of money?

I know I won't.

But pharmacy's nutritional supplement is much cheaper than the MLM's one!

Yes, I agree with you on that point -- no doubt about that. But, would you compromise your health for cheaper nutritional supplements?

You see, I would buy cheap shoes. I would buy cheap watch. I would buy cheap television. I would buy cheap DVDs. But I will never compromise my health against CHEAP nutritional supplements which have a lot of unknown factors!

Now pricing is really not a question when it comes to buying nutritional supplements. Let me give you a scenario to prove my point. Here's the scenario:

For a moment, let's just assume that MLM never existed in this world, that we only have pharmacies. Now you surveyed several pharmacies and came out with a long list of nutritional supplements, sorted from the cheapest one to the most expensive. Given that you don't have doctor's recommendation on each of the nutritional supplements and that you don't have people's experience over each of the nutritional products, which one would you pick? The cheapest one?

References:
[1] Dr. Ray D. Strand, Specialist in Nutritional Medicine: "Ray D. Strand, M. D. is a graduate of the University of Colorado Medical School in 1971. He finished his postgraduate education at Mercy Hospital in San Diego, California.

He has been in private family practice for over 30 years and over the past 7 years has focused his practice on nutritional medicine. He is quickly becoming one of the leading authorities in nutritional medicine in the world. He has lectured on nutritional medicine across the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and England."

[2] Kids Eat Great - Picky Eater - Nutrition for Kids - Childhood Obesity - Meet Dr. Wood: "Christine (Ito) Wood, M.D., C.L.E. is a practicing pediatrician and certified lactation educator with interests in healthy nutrition for children and the environmental and nutritional impact on health and disease. She is a compelling voice on the subject of children's nutritional and environmental issues."