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Daryl and 34 reasons to take probiotics

Posted by adianutrition on July 11, 2012

We are starting a new series of vidoes featuring a staff member who has lost 24 pounds with some help from the power of probiotics. That staff member is not me (yet). It’s Daryl, and we are so proud of him and the effort he has put forth to get in shape. It shows.

Here’s a link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VioXZlyzoj0

It’s terrific, check it out.

Also, we found a great article about the power of probiotics:

http://www.naturalnews.com/036419_probiotics_immunity_bacteria.html

10 reasons to take probiotics daily. So between the 24 pounds that Daryl has lost (so far) and the 10 reasons to take them daily, that gives you 34 reasons to get some good bacteria!!

 

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Hong Kong Markets

Posted by adianutrition on March 16, 2012

Tomorrow is another first for us. WEN is going to be handing out samples at Hong Kong Market in San Gabriel from 11am to 3pm. She’s going to be selling both the regular boxes and the variety packs. We are very curious about how the variety pack is going to sell.

Wen is going to be doing all the sampling in Chinese. So, if you’re in the area, make sure you’re with someone who speaks Mandarin.

I am still fighting this virus I picked up in Asia. I’ve been sleeping off hours, and I can’t seem to regulate my body temperature. I had lunch with Jay yesterday, and we watched a little basketball. When the game was over, I came back to the office, sat at my desk and fell immediately asleep for 45 minutes. It wasn’t like I was drowsy, it was like Wen hit me across the head with a bat. I was in the middle of typing a sentence, and I went face first into the keyboard.

I’m feeling a little better today, but I’m not out of the woods yet. I’ll get some rest this weekend between two football and four baseball games.

Here’s today’s news story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2114037/Could-bacteria-triggered-heart-attack-epidemic.html?ITO=socialnet-twitter-mailonline

This article is interesting, because it compares the fact that heart attack fatalities are down, even while the general population has become less healthy. So while there is less heart disease, there is more diabetes and obesity.

People assume heart attacks have been around forever, but they haven’t. They first popped up on the medical radar in the 1930s and kept rising until the 1960s when they started to decline.

The article reference two studies on this subject.

In the first, a study of 24,000 people in the Lancet concluded that persistent stress makes it 2.5 times more likely an individual will have a heart attack compared to someone who is not stressed. The degree of stress matters. It’s not having a bad day at the office, it’s war zones and places with major social breakdowns like Russia or Germany after the wall came down.

The second study was published just last month.  The American Heart Journal reported that Japanese scientists found periodontal bacteria in blood clots of people who had heart attacks, which is a closer link between gum disease and heart disease than we’ve seen before.

In conclusion, while the incidence of heart attacks are down, the stated reason seems to be something different than expected. It’s not just about diet, exercise and statins. There are key bacterial links as well.

One final comment. I took the Manuka honey yesterday to kill the Asian Virus.

Score: Asian Virus 1, Manuka Honey 0.

 

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First round of the NCAA tournament and Manuka Honey

Posted by adianutrition on March 15, 2012

We got the new variety pack boxes in this morning. They look AWESOME!! We’re going to start offering them this weekend at tastings around town. It’s a package of 8 sticks of powder (2 of each flavor) and it will allow people who want to try us the chance to try all four flavors without buying 4 different boxes.

We plan to retail it for $9.99. Now that we have these in, we can also move ahead and organize another set of sample days at another Sam’s Club, so we’ll start working on that today as well.

We’ve been working with the auditors to get the financials in shape so we can get off the pink sheets. We have our books in order now, and we think we can get our part of everything audited quickly, the challenge is the older stuff. I don’t have a timeline yet, the auditors are still researching the treatment of 5 five-year timeframe between the last audit and where we are now.

The website is still loading slowly. We’ve been in discussion with our hosting company, and it turns out the way our revised site was written has the entire site load at one time. We’ve purchased more bandwidth so it will load quickly. That’s a temporary solution while we finish the revised site.

So lots of great stuff happening around here. Tragically, for me, the company seems to get more done when I’m away. Which I’m fine with, because today is the first day of the NCAA tournament, and for the first time since I was in high school, I didn’t do a bracket. I just ran out of time. I think we might put brackets together for the firm for the last 16 teams, so everyone has a shot to have a couple of teams get into the final four.

Here’s today’s news story:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2858761/posts

One of the big themes at the natural foods expo was Manuka Honey from New Zealand. I don’t know how credible ‘wakingtimes.com’ is, but the story is fascinating. I’ve been fighting some kind of virus since I got back, and I took some Manuka Honey samples this morning. I’ll let you know how I feel tomorrow.

Here’s the other press release:

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/health/2012/03/12/3382.html

Big business killing good bacteria. Sad.

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Adia’s new celebrity strategy

Posted by adianutrition on March 14, 2012

Here’s a picture of Phil Keoghan, the host of the Amazing Race, with a sample pack of Adia Probiotics. Instead of actually hiring a celebrity spokesman, we’ve decided to run up to celebrities, hand them our product and take pictures of them!!

For all you lawyers out there, that was a joke. Phil Keoghan is NOT our spokesman. He had a nice conversation with Wen and Laura at the Natural Foods Expo in Anaheim last week.

We didn’t have a booth there, but the expo was amazing. We saw a lot of probiotics there. Probiotics and Chia. Those seem to be the current trends in nutrition right now.

I’ve been pounding probiotics all morning, because I think I picked up a random Asian virus when I was over there, and I feel like there is a 3 foot diameter of infection around me. Everyone who passes through that radius is going to pick something up. Which may not be true, but that’s how it feels.

The website is still loading slowly. We’ve been working with the hosting company to figure it out, and we’re hopeful to have it resolved by the end of the day. We’re also incredibly busy getting the new site tested.

We get the variety pack boxes this afternoon, I’ll put some pictures up of them tomorrow.

Here’s the link to today’s news story:

http://m.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/hog-manure-foam/

Exploding pig farms.

Since 2009, six farms have blown up after methane trapped in a pit caught a spark. Pig farms produce significant waste. That waste then gathers beneath the barns, and the bacteria in the waste metabolizes the muck producing methane.

If there’s a spark, the methane explodes.

I hope no one smokes around our office, because after the week of food I’ve had in Asia, you may be reading about exploding probiotics employees.

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Lindsay Lohan and probiotics

Posted by adianutrition on March 1, 2012

I’m not allowed to blog about the food trucks anymore. Wen says that it’s the only thing I talk about on Wednesdays, and I need to find a new subject. But the food trucks are kind of a big deal, not just for me. Laura, for example. I’m not allowed to go into the specifics of this story, but it involves Laura, taking money from her kids, and the food trucks.

I’ve attached a mock-up of the layout for the variety pack. We signed off on it yesterday and should have it in stock next week. We’re going to be selling them at our next Sam’s Club event for $9.99, and we may include a coupon for a discount on online purchases.

We’re still fixing the website, it’s a little frustrating because we catch one typo, and in the process of correcting the one, the developer then creates another. It’s like the typo version of wac-a-mole. Laura and Wen spent several hours going through HTML code yesterday making changes, and the day ended with a typo on the amount of bacteria in the chews.

The good news is we are getting significantly more online orders, which is great. We’ve moved the hosting service back to where it was, so the site should now load faster. Now we’re going to start to fix the rest of it.

Today’s news is here:

http://scienceblog.com/52434/new-infant-formula-targets-gut-bacteria/

It’s a topic I’ve talked about for a few months, but have never put in the blog. Scientists at the University of Illinois have concluded that probiotics and prebiotics enhance immunity in infants who are fed formula.

Infants have a special need for probiotics because they’re born with sterile intestines.

That study extended to compare babies born naturally versus C-Section. Babies born naturally have a better immune system, because they’re exposed to the mother’s bacteria as they pass through the birth canal.

And as I sit here and type this, I can’t help think about watching my kids being born, and I have to stop writing about this and do something else because I NEVER need to see anything like that again.

Here’s an article on Glowing Plankton:

http://gizmodo.com/5888605/the-weird-glowing-bacteria-that-beg-to-be-eaten

The plankton glow because they want to be eaten so they can move in the ocean. Much better image.

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Lenny Kravitz and Probiotics

Posted by adianutrition on February 24, 2012

I got a call from Wen yesterday morning at 7am. She left a message, because I was in a meeting. It turns out that the plumbing exploded in the common wall next to her townhouse, and she had to wait for the plumber. She SAID she was going to be in by 9am.

At 10am, I called her, and the plumber still wasn’t there. Then I called her at noon to see if I could pick up some lunch for and the plumber had just shown up. Finally, at 8am today, she rolled in.

With this pink phone attached to her iPhone. Which is not the first time I’ve seen that particular attachment. It’s from Lenny Kravitz. Here’s a picture:

So there you have it. Wen thinks she’s Lenny Kravitz.

We have a big weekend coming up. Julie is at Whole Foods in Torrance on Saturday. Gillian (new part timer – who is awesome) is at Huntington Beach and April is in San Diego on Sunday for the first Adia Tasting Day in San Diego County.

We are really excited about the day in San Diego, and we hope to meet the two finalists for the job next week.

I mentioned my issues up at ski camp, and how I solved them with Lemon Lime probiotics. I’ve discovered that if I can’t solve a digestive issue with 30 billion probiotics, then it’s probably not able to be solved without medical care. That solution worked too well, possibly.

Here’s the link to today’s story:

http://news.discovery.com/tech/flesh-eating-bacteria-makes-super-molecular-glue-120223.html

The headline summarizes the story. Flesh eating bacteria makes super glue. I’m not sure where you go with that, but it’s interesting.

Have a great weekend everyone!

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Day 3

Posted by adianutrition on February 10, 2012

We changed things up a bit for the second day at Sam’s Club. We were near the electronics section the first day. The second day, they moved us closer to the supplements section.

We also changed our approach quite a bit. Instead of asking people if they would like to sample the greatest tasting probiotic drink in history, we started asking people to simply try a refreshing drink. If they tried it, and liked it, then we would have a conversation.

The crowd at Sam’s Club in Fullerton is different than the crowd at Whole Foods in Tustin. The Whole Food’s crowd tends to already know something about probiotics so our sales pitch is why we’re better, cheaper, tastier and a smarter choice.

We’re spending more time educating consumers on basic probiotic facts at Sams, which is great. It’s just a longer sales cycle.

I have discovered that I don’t need a ton of time to give someone a basic outline of probiotics. I’m not talking about an analysis of bacterial strains, I’m just talking the high level overview. If I can get someone’s attention for 5 minutes, and have that discussion, two things happen:

1. He or she will go to our website, and
2. He or she will come back to me in a month, and tell me how he has never before noticed probiotics, but now that he’s educated, he’s seeing ads for them all over the place.

Then I usually get a sample order. And once someone orders our products, they usually keep ordering it.

These are the type of discussions we’re having now. We’re educating people on the product. Once people learn, they always come back to us.

I was very satisfied with day 2. It was meaningfully better than day 1, and it gives me great anticipation going into day 3. Keep your fingers crossed.

Here’s today’s article:

http://gizmodo.com/5882580/bacteria-killing-plasma-torches-could-make-raw-food-safer-without-cooking-it

It’s about Bacteria-Killing Plasma Torches. Look at the picture! It’s Blue! It’s a plasma torch that kills bacteria.

I MUST HAVE ONE!!

I didn’t even read the article. But I love Star Wars. I wonder if they can make me a plasma torch light saber?

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Sams Club minus 1. And more Tom Brady

Posted by adianutrition on February 7, 2012

This is a picture of our setup in the Tustin Whole Foods. Jenny was there during lunch, and Julie was at Whole Foods in Long Beach. Both of them had awesome days.

I googled Tom Brady and Probiotics. The first three results were our blog, and we got the highest amount of traffic ever on the blog yesterday. So I think we need to make Tom Brady a ‘thing’, and get some of that Brady magic. Our stock is at 5 cents. Maybe we already have it.

Just to be VERY CLEAR about this. We have NO AFFILIATION with Tom Brady. I doubt he uses our probiotics. Eli Manning does (note: that was a joke). Our probiotics had nothing to do with the outcome of the game. Except in my house, where I had some Adia, then watched the game in glowing good health. I picked the Pats to win, and somehow cursed them.

Jay called me last night, and told me he’s giving up sports. He’s a grown man, and he can’t figure out why he’s so disappointed his team lost. I’m not sure why he’s telling me that. I’m from Chicago. I feel that every year.

We’re getting ready for the big day at Sam’s Club in Fullerton. We kick off tomorrow morning at the open, and we’ll be there the entire day. Jenny and April are splitting the day, and we’ll have some trainees from the group we’re doing this with.

I’m really excited about these next 5 days. We’ve been totally crushed getting ready for it, and I think we’re ready.

Today is also my daughter’s birthday. She wants parties all week, so tonight, we’re having the family over, we’re going to have dinner, then Jenny and I are heading over to Fullerton to set everything up.

I’m a little nervous. We’ve done really well every time we’ve set up a sample booth, so I’m not concerned about our product. Our product is excellent. I’m just nervous. Wish us luck, and if you’re a member of Sam’s Club, come on out.

Today’s article comes from Science Daily. Here’s the link:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120122102915.htm

There’s a school of thought that links inflammation with illness, and seeks to reduce inflammation to extend life. To that end, scientists in Japan discovered a probiotic that extended life in mice.

The specific bacteria, referred to as LKM512 has been shown to reduce inflammatory markers in elderly humans. This was the first time this specific bacteria was tested with lifespan, and it showed promising results both in extending lifespan with better health and hair.

LKM512 also prevented some age related changes in the intestines.

It’s an interesting study, and I imagine scientists here will look at it. I’m curious to hear more.

 

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adia laguna

Posted by adianutrition on January 31, 2012

adia laguna

WordPress has a slightly new interface, and I accidentally published the blog without typing it. Sorry.

I’m on my way to the east coast this afternoon. Hopefully we’ll have a guest blogger tomorrow. Most likely, it will be Jay, because Wen refuses to do it. She’ll stand around in humiliating poses with bacteria on her head, but she won’t pound out three hundred words at a keyboard.

April was down at Whole Foods in Laguna yesterday, and she had a pretty good afternoon there. It was a little slow, but picked up around lunchtime. She sent over a picture of our products on their shelves.

We’ll be heading to San Diego later this week to work on getting that area opened up as well. It’s pretty exciting to move to the next county, and as we prepare to do it, we’re working through ways of getting our product down there, how to stage it, how to deliver it, etc. All very interesting, and all new.

Which is why I’m calling Carl from the airport. So I can pick his brain. I’ll let you know what he says.

Today’s article comes from theincidentaleconomist. The link is here:

http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/hand-sanitizers-as-agent-orange/

It’s an analysis of hand sanitizer. Hand sanitizer basically kills everything on your hands, which is good if you’re wrist deep in salmonella. But bad if you’re elbow deep in probiotics.

There are good bacteria on your hands. It may be better to clean your hands with soap and water or handiwipes.

Here’s the second article:

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/01/30/new.probiotic.bacteria.shows.promise.use.shellfish.aquaculture

For those of you concerned about probiotics and shellfish, you’ve come to the right place.

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The Shareholder Dilemma

Posted by adianutrition on January 27, 2012

Whole Foods is doing a regional vendor profile for a regional vendor event they’re having this weekend in Tustin. I think we’re going to use this picture as our picture of the founders. Except it doesn’t include Wen, who runs everything.

Yesterday, we got a call from a shareholder in Toronto, Canada. We love talking to shareholders, and we try to do it as much as possible. But we have a dilemma with it.

This shareholder was very supportive, and asked to buy some product.

My initial comment was, “If he is a shareholder, send him some product for free!”

We want our shareholders to try our probiotics because we think it will help them, and they will become ambassadors for our business. Partners, not shareholders.

Wen, who is in charge, said, “If he’s a shareholder, charge him double. He should want to pay MORE so we make more money, thereby making his investment worth MORE”

See the dilemma.

We ended up giving him the special friends price, but that’s our dilemma. We want our shareholders to love our product, but Wen won’t let us give it away. Also, to be fair to the shareholder, he demanded to pay for it.

We need more shareholders like that!

Today is my son’s 9th birthday. We told him the story of his birth last night, and it’s always fun to walk with him down memory lane. I am crazy about my kids. Absolutely crazy, and I love being with them. In honor of his birthday, here’s today’s article:

http://newhope360.com/blog/babies-benefit-bacteria-exposure

It’s kind of gross. It’s about how babies are exposed to natural bacteria when they’re born naturally as opposed to a C-Section.

I watched all three of my kids being born. I hate even thinking about this. Anyway, have a great weekend!!

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