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We have been negligent on the blog for the last two weeks for a couple of reasons, all of which are good.

First, we’ve added some demo reps in San Diego and Los Angeles. We found three new energetic, fun, excited salespeople who have been storming the Southern California area and handing out samples of our products. April has done an incredible job getting back into these areas, and as we have seen in the past, when we go into a store and have a demo day, we generally sell everything on the shelves.

We’ve also hired a new web design firm, and they have kept us busy with specs, data and new ideas. They have made tremendous progress and we’re excited to see their work shortly. We don’t have a firm date on when they’ll be done, but we think this will be the best transition we had since Deborah fled the country back to Taiwan (that’s a joke). We had a web designed named Deborah who was amazing. She developed most of the great stuff on our site, but her family moved back to Taiwan in the middle of a redesign and she left.

Since then, we’ve had some interesting experiences with web designers. Some good, some….interesting. We’re excited to complete our new project with the new group.

In other news, the Patriots lost on Sunday. Jay has been hiding since then, we expect him to surface soon.

Have a great day everyone.

Happy New Year everyone! We are excited about the future of Adia Nutrition in 2013 and we are looking forward to some exciting progress.

It was great to see our government resolve the fiscal cliff on New Years Day. We would highly recommend that all of our elected representatives take some Adia Slim, because it’s obvious after listening to the debate, both sides are in dire need of some fiber. So for a limited time only, if you serve in the House of Representatives or in the Senate, or if you pay taxes, simply use the coupon code “Congress” and take $5.00 off your next purchase of Adia Slim. (Note: This offer is open to everyone).

Today’s article is about Panda blood. Here it is:

http://io9.com/5972363/panda-blood-could-hold-the-secret-to-the-next-generation-of-antibiotics

I love Panda. With black bean sauce.

Just kidding.

In other news, if you’re in Southern California, we are having a vicious flu season. If you are at risk for the flu, get a shot and make sure you wash your hands frequently.

Happy New Year everyone.

Today is Friday, December 28. It’s our last post of the year, and as you prepare for your big New Years Eve celebration and football extravaganza, remember that probiotics help with hangovers. Just take two before bedtime with some water, and you’ll wake up raring to go on January 1!

On behalf of our entire Adia team, we wish you a safe and prosperous 2013!!

I have a couple of closing side notes.

We here at Adia Nutrition are big fans of the Pacific 12 Conference. Our founders went to PAC 12 schools, and we support our local teams during bowl season.

I made a big effort to watch the Holiday Bowl last night. I got home and made dinner so everyone could eat before kick off. But we were having technical difficulties because my children broke our remote control. We have some kind of bizarre TV system that only works with one remote and the only way to change the channel from a Spanish talk show to ESPN was by having my wife stand on a glass coffee table with her arms raised, squeezing the remote in the middle and pointing it down towards the TV.

Which she did.

Then looked at me like I was insane for not thinking of that.

But from watching the first half, at which point I tried to turn the TV off, and couldn’t (my wife had to get back on the coffee table).  I think it was pretty clear who took probiotics last night and who didn’t (Hint: UCLA did not). I’m not sure what UCLA was on, but it wasn’t bacterial.

I expected more from them.

So in honor of my wife, here’s an article from the Pasadena Sun (also, greatest newspaper name EVER).

http://www.pasadenasun.com/news/tn-pas-1223-space-bacteria-touches-down,0,5443313.story

It’s a story about how kids from San Marino High, where my wife went to school, designed a test for bacteria in space, got it aboard the SPACE SHUTTLE and astronauts ran the experiment.

The results were inconclusive, as they reversed the something or other, because they loaded the tube in upside down.

Pretty amazing kids, except for the whole upside down thing. But that’s a mistake anyone could make.

These are high school kids sending a science experiment into space. That’s unbelievably cool. I think my high school science experiment was rolling a metal ball down a track and timing it for something.

Here’s the other article:

http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/credit-card-germs-1-of-10-of-cards-have.html

1 in 10 credit cards have fecal bacteria. Also, if you’re using an ATM this weekend, make sure you use your knuckles.

We are working on a new and exciting project at Adia and really excited to share it with you and hope that you will all be a part of it! We cannot tell you specifically what it is yet but we think you will enjoy it and it will help spread the word on Adia.
Today is officially the last day the Adia Office will be open until Christmas. We had our holiday get together on Wednesday and it was really a great time and always good to spend time with people you work with outside the office. In the spirit of Christmas I thought I would attach yet another article discussing the great benefits of probiotics and specifically the benefits of probiotics and digestive relief. Adia Nutrition’s probiotics has so many great benefits but one that we hear time and again from many of our customers is the digestive relief it provides them and how it keeps them “regular”.

I chose this specific article because it is titled “Digestive Relief and Santa Claus” and given that it is Christmas it was very fitting!  Just for the record – I have absolutely no idea what Santa Claus has to do with the article but my only guess is that it something to do with the Town of Santa Claus in Indiana but that is really not specified anywhere.  One thing I do know for sure is that Santa Claus is a big guy and eats a lot of food and digestive relief must be very important to him……so this year instead of carrots my kids are going to leave 12 sticks of the Orange Mango…..I think Mrs. Claus will appreciate it.

Here is the article

http://www.vitaminanddietarysupplements.com/digestive_relief/en-us/georgia/toombs_county/santa_claus

We heard back from our friend in India. He flew through Dubai, and it took 16 hours to fly there, then he had a layover followed by a 2.5 hour flight to Mumbai and a 3 hour drive to Pune.

Which is bad enough, but now he has to turn around and come home and somehow get settled enough for Christmas. Good luck. When I get back from Asia, I always go to work the next day and fall asleep at my desk. Then Wen yells at me and the adrenalin keeps me going for the rest of the day. So maybe I’ll have Wen go yell at our friend.

He says he’s been taking five Adia per day. Two in the morning, one at lunch and two at night. So far his stomach has been at 85% to 90%. If you’ve been to India, 85% is 600%. When I went for the first time, before Adia, after three days, I had moved all my bedding to the bathroom, camped out and stared wistfully at the long row of empty rolls of toilet paper. 

He also sent some great pictures. I can’t wait until he gets back to hear more about this.

Here’s today’s article:

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2012/12/18/when-you-swallow-a-grenade/

It’s from National Geographic and it’s amazing.

In 1941, a 43 year old policeman named Albert Alexander was pruning his roses when a thorn scratched the side of his mouth. Harmless skin bacteria slipped into his body and spread to his face and lungs over the course of several weeks. Eventually he was admitted to a hospital treated with sulfa drugs, which failed and doctors had to cut out one of eyes (THEY CUT OUT AN EYE).

In February, he was injected with the experimental drug penicillin which had been discovered 13 years earlier but discarded it because there didn’t seem to be any way to turn it into an effective drug.

They injected the policeman with the mold, and his fever broke and his face cleared up (but he was still short an eye). It could have saved his life, but no one knew how to make the stuff, and the doctor could only make a small amount at a time. To stretch the supply, the doctors would collect Alexander’s urine, extract any unused penicillin and reinject it back into his body. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough and he died a month later.

The doctor kept making it, and saved the life of a 15 year old boy, and within 3 years Pfizer was making penicillin on an industrial scale.

The rest of the article is a fascinating study of how scientists have extracted DNA from the bateria living inside us, and how they are experimenting with additional drugs that target infection more precisely than antibiotics. It’s fascinating, and well worth a read.

One of the things I’ve always enjoyed about Adia is the wide variety of experience and viewpoints of the people who work here. In many ways, our staff is a the perfect reflection of our customer base. Our customers include everyone from young lawyers climbing the partnership ladder to grandmothers who have retired to the tennis club. We interact with people from all walks of life who are interested in nutrition and health.

A great example of this was the last election. By my count, our office was evenly divided between the two candidates. We had a number of terrific discussions about the candidate’s strengths and weaknesses. But none of those discussions were angry, and none of them left any lasting bitterness once the election was over. I know the people here who disagreed with me wanted the same things I want, they simply believed their candidate would do a better job leading the country. Different roads to the same goal, but a discussion couched in mutual respect.

But underlying all of it, both in our relationships with each other, and our relationships to the outside world, is the core value of our families. We have all missed work to take care of sick children, or pick them up from school if they’re not well or attend a special performance or sporting event. I think those experiences are shared across countries and time, it’s not limited to 21st century America. We started Adia specifically so we could focus on our children’s health. The Adia Foundation is set up to provide clean water for children. I know how every single person here feels about children, because we talk about our kids every day. A discussion that happens in every office building, every day around the world.

Which is what made Friday feel so much worse to me. I’ll admit that I accomplished very little work in the afternoon, I couldn’t stop watching the news. I have three young children, and the thought of someone, anyone, hurting them was too much to take.

I don’t know understand how anyone could hurt a child, but I know it’s unspeakably evil.

I didn’t let the kids out of my sight very much this weekend, and it was only with great reluctance I dropped them off at school today. I read a lot of the articles over the weekend about gun control, mental illness, sickness, etc. And those are discussions that are worth having at some point, but not now.

Right now, there are families who are crushed in Connecticut. And our hearts are broken for them. This event matters to us.

When I first started taking Probiotics I couldnt believe all the great benefits that were attached to them. The more research I did the more obsessed with them I became. What is great about our probiotic is that not only does it have all the benefits of traditional probiotics that come in a pill or dairy drink but it has a long shelf life and most importantly it tastes great! It is well known that we are a big hit with moms and families! This is the reason why not only me but all of my children and nieces and nephews love Adia – we are a huge hit with Moms because they can finally give their kids something healthy and not have to force it on them! My 3 year old probably says 5 times a day……”I want Adia”

Just yesterday we found a tag on the shelf at Mothers Market! “Moms Best Seller” There it is in black and white and labeled by Mothers Market. I don’t know how they get their data or who does their research but this is great advertising for us and just another reason why we love Mothers Market!

The article I am sending you today has to do again with all the great benefits of probiotics but as the father of 3 small kids this has got to be the biggest benefit of them all. There is an interesting study in this article. It says “A 2007 study published in Pediatrics found that after 28 days, breastfed babies whose mothers consumed a daily dose of probiotics cried 194 minutes less than the test group that didn’t.” WOW! We have shown you other research that discussed Mothers on probiotics during pregnancy reduced allergies in babies and now this……reduce crying! April and I recall a lot of sleepless nights that looking back on it I wish we had Adia.

Surprising Benefits of Probiotics