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Perhaps the request I hear most often is for a healthy source of energy and a natural means to combat fatigue, which is likely why CoQ10 is our most popular product. Accordingly, there is no other product that could possibly be more important and more appropriate as my Anniversary Today's Special than Coenzyme Q10 and this year is truly the best ever. When I introduced CoQ10 originally in America almost 25 years ago, it became an instant favorite and it has remained consistently our most popular product ever since then. And amazingly enough, after 25 years, today’s CoQ10 formula represents my highest potency ever at HSN and also by far the best value in more than 25 years. I originally introduced CoQ10 at HSN more than a decade ago and, it’s hard to believe but the price of 30 mg was higher back then than 150 mg costs today! Each year I have endeavored to increase the potency while preserving and, if possible, even improving the value. Most importantly, unlike other companies, I have never changed the quality of my CoQ10 and I have never used anything but the world's finest and most natural CoQ10. So while other companies have been willing to compromise quality with synthetic CoQ10 and then with CoQ10 from other lower quality sources and countries, I have always remained loyal to the world's finest CoQ10, which is the world's only CoQ10 made right here in the USA. In fact, the value presented here today is only a result of the support of Kaneka, the maker of the world's finest and most reliably tested CoQ10. So while most companies today have abandoned the world's finest CoQ10 for cheaper CoQ10, I have steadfastly refused to compromise quality. For over a decade you have watched our unique Today's Special CoQ10 offering go gradually from 30 mg to 60 mg to 100 mg and eventually today to 150 mg. Best of all, you have only seen cost reductions and we have also introduced the additional benefits of our exclusive protected TruQ10 beadlets making this without question a one-of-a-kind CoQ10 formula. Plus, each capsule also provides the full complement of B-Complex vitamins, including the equivalent of a separate Vitamin B12 formula in each capsule. Of course, we exclusively use our special Vitamin B12 that is protected from damage in the GI tract. That damage is what prevents all ordinary Vitamin B12 from delivering any benefits. The B12 and B-complex are an essential component of this formula, since even the finest CoQ10, delivering the most exceptional benefits for energy production, requires the presence of all essential components of energy production. Additionally, each capsule provides 250 mg of our non-acidic Vitamin C, making each capsule the equivalent of a mini-multivitamin. It is hard to believe that a 360 capsule bottle of the Today's Special provides more CoQ10 benefits than more than 2,000 capsules of the original 30 mg formula and at an even lower price per capsule than when it was introduced both 25 years ago and on TV at HSN more than a decade ago. The incredible benefits of CoQ10 are firmly established by the science, but I am also very proud of the fact that I introduced CoQ10 as an ingredient long before anyone else and I introduced it simply based upon the abundant science, before it became fashionable. Moreover, we have only offered the highest quality CoQ10 without compromise for more than a quarter century and we have only continued to improve its value. If there is only one investment you make in your good health and your ability to produce energy, then there is none better than this Today's Special.
Cholesterol Lowering (Statin) Drugs and Osteoporosis (Bisphosphonate) Drugs. As a special note, if you have health issues relating to your liver or engage in certain activities that affect your liver (consistent consumption of alcohol or medications), then these are things that can obviously also affect your body's ability to produce CoQ10, since your body's "factory" for CoQ10 is the liver. Also, if you are taking medications such as cholesterol lowering Statin drugs or bone-building drugs to support the skeleton due to osteoporosis or osteopenia called Bisphosphonates, then these drugs directly affect your body's ability to produce CoQ10 and you should have a serious discussion with your doctor about your need for a CoQ10 supplement.
Have a healthy day! Andrew
Ultimate Women's Wellness Today's Special. Ultimate Women’s Wellness is the perfect Today's Special to kick off my Anniversary, since it has always been one of your all time favorites and it has not been a Today’s Special for several years. It is also, therefore, not surprising that it has been the most requested and missed Today's Special over the past few years. I took this special Anniversary Event as an opportunity to add several important new ingredients to Women's Wellness, while, of course, being sure to keep all the key active ingredients at precisely the same levels everyone has grown to love. In fact, the new Women's Wellness formula has so many special additions that these new components will have earned it a new name...Ultimate Women's Wellness. In the future, Ultimate Women’s Wellness will come with a slightly higher price than original Women’s Wellness, but not today, since the price today will be the best ever. Also, the Women's Wellness you have always loved will continue to be available and the only thing you have to look forward to in the future is the ability to choose between two amazing formulas to support hormonal balance and women's wellness. So what did I add to Women's Wellness to make it Ultimate Women's Wellness? Well, first of all, rest assured that the levels of isoflavones for hormone balance remain at exactly the same levels and balance designed to emulate those present in the healthy Asian diet. We will never change those since they have so effectively relieved the hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, perimenopause and PMS for so many tens of thousands of women for more than a decade. Also, we retained the same levels of Green Tea, EGCG and Cranberry. The levels of Lutein and Lycopene have remained the same, but we added 250 mcgs of very costly Zeaxanthin, which is already well known for its remarkable benefits to eye health (protecting the macula, retina and lens). Like Lutein and Lycopene, Zeaxanthin is also a protective antioxidant concentrated in delicate reproductive and breast tissue. We also improved the content and standardization of the Sulforaphane present, which is the most important and protective antioxidant from Broccoli. Speaking of cruciferous vegetables such as Broccoli, we have also added Indole-3-Carbinol to Ultimate Women's Wellness, which is an ingredient also present in high concentrations in another cruciferous vegetable – Cauliflower. Indole-3-Carbinol is a very expensive and hard-to-find ingredient that possesses very potent antioxidant benefits and, most importantly, very unique properties that contribute to its influence on healthy estrogen balance and metabolism, particularly in breast tissue. We have also added a full high-potency complement of all the B-Complex vitamins, since it has been shown that they are particularly important to women experiencing the symptoms associated with Menopause, Perimenopause and PMS. It has been shown to be beneficial that women going through such stages of life supplement the levels of B-vitamins present in their daily multivitamin and Ultimate Women's Wellness now does so. I have increased the levels of Vitamin D3 in Ultimate Women's Wellness from 50 IU to 400 IU, which is in keeping with my recommendation that ideal intakes of Vitamin D3 should be between 2,000 and 4,000 IU daily or even higher if a women is overweight, getting older, not often in the sun or the test that a doctor should regularly perform indicates the need for higher levels. You will also notice that with the large size Ultimate Women's Wellness you also get a large bottle of a brand new product. The name of this product could have gone in two different directions, but given the excitement about Vitamin D these days, I gave Vitamin D the top billing. The product is called Vitamin D3-1000 with Calcium Intensive Care, but it could have just as easily been called Calcium Intensive Care with Vitamin D3-1000. I suspect the name speaks for itself. It is the ideal product to add to any multivitamin and it not only delivers super-soluble-absorbable Calcium, but also 1000 IU of the Vitamin D3 necessary to enjoy Calcium's benefits. Arguably, Calcium and Vitamin D3 are the two most basic and important nutrients that any woman requires. All this is delivered without stomach upset in small, soft, easy-to–swallow capsules. Our Today’s Special allows you to get 300 capsules of this brand new product with 400 capsules of Ultimate Women's Wellness at no extra charge and at an amazing savings and with flex-pay and absolutely no shipping and handling at all. Enjoy! Digest Assure Today's Special. We all must eat to survive and for many of us, food is one of our greatest pleasures. Sadly, most of us find that as we get older, digestion or better said, indigestion, becomes one of life's greatest displeasures. Digest Assure is designed to change all that. There is not much I can say about this product that is not communicated much better by the dozens upon dozens of testimonials and product reviews it has received. It is an incredibly straightforward natural product that delivers the enzymes we need to digest the food we consume, but which we struggle to digest as we get older or contend with stress, etc. Digest Assure simply provides the digestive enzymes we struggle to provide as we get older or experience stress. Every time we walk into a supermarket or pharmacy and see the enormous aisle committed to products for indigestion, we get a sense of how much we all struggle with our digestion as we get older. As I said, the testimonials speak for themselves and the great news is that I have made this formula even better by simply managing to get more of the same key ingredients into each capsule. In short, the product simply delivers more of the same digestive power in each capsule as it did previously. In other words, if you took two capsules before, now you might be able to take just one or by taking the same number of capsules you will notice even better results. Best of all, today, it is available at its lowest price ever by far and if you also are interested in Night Time or Ultimate Women's Wellness, there are bundles that allow you to save even more. Night Time Today's Special. Sleep is another thing we must do to survive. Without adequate sleep, it is hard to be happy and to manage to have a positive attitude or optimum energy – let alone any energy at all. Unfortunately, like digestive challenges, it seems that as we get older, something that we once took for granted and that used to be so easy, becomes so difficult. And the more we try to fix it or we focus on it, the harder it becomes to experience a great night's sleep. Night Time is another very straightforward product where its testimonials and product reviews speak for itself. Best of all, I just improved Night Time based upon the famous old saying, "if it’s not broke, don't fix it." In other words, like Digest Assure, we retained the same exact ingredients that have made it one of our all-time favorite reorder products. The only changes made were to simply include more of the exact same relaxing ingredients you want into each capsule (approximately 50% more), thus making the product a better value. Plus, even at this higher potency – at the Today’s Special price, it is the least expensive it has ever been…by far. Night Time deals with one of the greatest challenges we all face and does so naturally and without risk of hangover, side effect or any other issue. Of course, it is also not habit forming. Night Time is a product with more than a decade of positive experience by thousands who happily rely on its natural benefits and today to celebrate our HSN Anniversary the values either on its own or with either Digest Assure or Ultimate Women's Wellness or both are unsurpassed.
I believe there has been some discussion about the recent Healthy Hair, Skin and Nails Today’s Special being not as good a value as in years past. First of all, I want to assure you that it was the best value ever offered…by far. Frankly, I am not sure if I will always be able to continue to improve the Today’s Special savings year after year after year, but I will always try and at worst, I will always offer exceptional savings with every single Today’s Special. In this case, the value was indeed better than ever…much better. The cost of production of last week’s Healthy Hair, Skin and Nails Today’s Special far exceeds that of any prior year as I will elaborate below. Of course, even at its HSN price, Healthy Hair, Skin and Nails is an incredible value, since today’s formula is far more potent and far less expensive than it was a decade ago and to this day, there is still nowhere else you can find all these costly ingredients at such a great price with equivalent purity, potency and activity…along with its guaranteed benefits.
This year’s Today’s Special of our Healthy Hair, Skin and Nails contained an additional 250 mgs of our very costly Pomegranate 40:40 Extract. Last year’s Today’s Special (2008) contained an additional 20 mgs of Resveratrol and 40 mgs of EGCG. This year’s largest size Today’s Special was 600 capsules while last years was 700 capsules. This year’s largest size cost $89.90 while last year’s was $10 more at $99.90. A reduction from 700 capsules to 600 capsules is a 14% reduction and the price went down 10%, so we are talking about an effective price increase of just 4% and that 4% difference delivers an enormous increase in ingredients. This year’s contained 250 mgs of Pomegranate 40:40 versus 20 mgs of Resveratrol and 40 mgs of EGCG last year. In short, this year you received more than twelve times as much Pomegranate Extract as there was Resveratrol or six times as much Pomegranate Extract as there was EGCG. Not surprisingly, 250 mgs of Pomegranate Extract costs many times more than 20 mgs of Resveratrol and 40 mgs of EGCG combined. By the way, I reduced the largest size from 700 to 600 capsules to comply with many requests after the 2008 Today’s Special because I was told that 700 capsules was too large, lasted too long and it would be preferable to have a better value on a smaller size that would run out closer to the next Healthy Hair, Skin and Nails Today’s Special the following year. So, I reduced it from 700 to 600 capsules and I added a full 250 mgs of our most popular new ingredient (Pomegranate) because one of its many benefits is skin protection. I am sorry I could not add some of the ancillary ingredients from Pomegranate to this Today’s Special, such as the Bioflavonoids and Quercetin, but there was only enough room in the capsule for its key ingredient – Pomegranate 40:40 Extract…but at its full separate potency.
Summarizing, this year’s formula was more costly to produce than any prior Healthy Hair, Skin and Nails Today’s Special and when we reduced the number of capsules by 14% in the largest size, we also reduced the price by 10% and we then added 12 or 6 times more Pomegranate than either Resveratrol or EGCG. By the way, 2007’s Today’s Special was also a 600 capsule largest size and it contained 100 mgs EGCG versus this year’s 250 mgs of much more costly Pomegranate 40:40 Extract. It was priced at $99.90 or $10 more than this year’s for the same number of capsules. If we go back to 2006, it contained 20 mgs of CoQ10, which is less than one-twelfth the quantity we delivered of Pomegranate this year and it also cost $10 more back in 2006. Clearly, this year’s largest size was the best value ever, but the next to largest size was also its best ever value. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, the next to largest size was 300 capsules and cost $59.90. This year it was 400 capsules, but at only $10 more. In other words, we added 100 capsules (33% more) for only $10 (16%) more. Another best value ever! In all respects, this July’s Today’s Special was a much better value than in any prior year and I am sorry if I did not adequately communicate that fact on-air. I will try to be more clear with future Today’s Specials and of course, I always appreciate your input and feedback, since it allows me to clarify any issues such as this.
Thanks and best of health. Andrew
Frankly, I am astounded that someone would actually consider my political views, which are so mainstream anyhow, as being relevant to the decision to buy my vitamins. How can my political beliefs be even the slightest bit relevant? Anyhow, it is not as if my beliefs are extreme, but it seems there are some folks who love our constitutional rights only when those who exercise them look like us, think like us, act like us, talk like us, worship like us and believe like us. I am sorry, but that was not what our Founding Fathers had in mind and the strength and beauty of our great country is the freedom that permits our incredible diversity of thought, opinion, belief, etc.
Anyhow, not that my political views are relevant, but just to clear the air; I had been a life-long Republican, until I had the “pleasure” of meeting our former President George W. Bush at a Republican fundraiser. Thereafter, I felt that the Republican Party had become too “political” and it no longer had the best interests of this great country at heart and I chose to change my party affiliation. It was a difficult decision, but I love my country more than any party affiliation and anyhow, I have always voted for candidates and their positions and never just for parties. In any event, it was as a direct result of the policies of our then President Bush that I chose to change my party affiliation and I became an Independent. In short, I am neither Republican nor Democrat, but I find my positions in both or either camp depending on the issue and the candidate.
As far as my support of Senator Harry Reid, I have known Senator Reid for more than a decade and he was instrumental in facilitating the support of my large solar energy project in Nevada when Republicans would not listen and our former president thought it was “interesting, but not practical.” Interestingly enough, when I met Harry Reid I was a Republican and we still became friends nonetheless. Recently, I was glad to provide him some support in his reelection efforts, since he was one of the few who supported my efforts to install solar power, which was not an easy process. He was one of the only individuals who felt my decision to rely on solar energy was “visionary” and not just “eccentric” or “interesting.” He agreed with me that we must end our dependence on foreign oil from countries who hate us and he wholeheartedly supported my decision to install our first solar panels and eventually our enormous solar array. He received some support from me in his campaign, since without him, the solar panels we all think are so wonderful might not have come to pass. For once, I think that constitutes some admirable work by a politician.
In the end, my political positions are what I would call fiscally conservative, but more moderate on the rights of individuals, since government is at its best when it does not invade the private, personal world of our families and when it just leaves us alone to build businesses, create jobs, raise our families and happily and peacefully pursue our lives. I hope this will be the last time my political views are relevant to the decision to buy my vitamins. Interestingly enough, if we look at this from the other perspective, I would never think to deprive someone of my products because they did not agree with me on some political topic. I think that you would agree that no matter what someone’s personal beliefs might be, they should have the right to buy the best vitamins in the world. By the way, imagine if the only medical specialist who could save your life refused to treat you because of your political views…or even better, would you refuse to be treated and have your life saved because of their political views? Just food for thought.
Thanks for listening and we should all give thanks that we live in this great land that allows us so many wonderful freedoms.
Best of health.
Andrew
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