The Prejudice of Doctors

I work with a natural wellness and anti-aging company called Orenda. The key word there is "wellness", but sometimes the more important aspect is "natural".

I've been visiting practitioners in their offices. I tend to focus on "natural" practitioners - chiropractors, acupuncturists, nutritional therapists, etc. But every once in a while I take a walk on the wild side and actually visit a "doctor's office" - a physician, or Medical Doctor.

I just hate giving up on a whole class of people, but sometimes I'm tempted.

Today, I asked the office manager if any of the doctors might be inclined toward alternative medicine, or nutritive therapy. I got this firm but eye-rolling "No," in response. She thought I was nuts!

I'm sure her view is supported by her doctors. And that's one reason why I don't trust "normal" doctors. How ridiculous! To even suggest that health relies upon a foundation of nutrition, or maintenance of proper vitamin and hormone levels. Alternative medicine! Pfft. Who needs it?!

Oh, sure, most doctors (at least, if asked) will tell you that it's important to have a balanced diet, or to "eat well" in order to be well.

But with most, doesn't it seem like an afterthought? "Take this drug, and this one, and this one... and call me in 2 weeks and we'll see how they're helping you." Three drugs, 6 pills a day... "Oh, and you should eat better." Oh?

That's the trap of symptom maintenance - "feel good" medicine to cover up the symptoms with drugs.

Ironically, I don't think most doctors even understand what "wellness" means! It's not merely "the absence of illness or disease (or symptoms)".

Wellness means being well - having your body operate the way it's supposed to. According to the way it was designed to work!

And that's why I, and my wife, who is an integrative nurse practitioner, tend toward so-called "alternative therapies" - therapies built around the concept of achieving your body's optimal nutrition level to support proper immune and hormone function (which tends to support everything else about your body).

Most doctors, and this office manager, look down on me because I'm involved with alternative or naturopathic medicine.

They're allopaths - drugs, drugs, drugs (and if that doesn't fix it, we must have missed a drug somewhere - or maybe we just need to do surgery!).

They're prejudiced against anyone who doesn't think that same way.

And I have to admit. I have a prejudice against them.

But at least I'm willing to give them a chance! I don't roll my eyes until they roll theirs.

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Become an Orenda Distributor! Let's Do the Math

Anyone who considers making money as a part-time, work-from-home distributor has to first satisfy themselves that the product is worth distributing. But I think once you look at the quality of products Orenda has to offer, that will be the easy part.

So let's do the math first, prove that this is a good business opportunity, then we'll circle back in another article to talk about quality of products.

First, let me say no one is forced to become a distributor. You can buy single products for your own use. You can buy a certain set of products. You could even "start small" and still become a distributor later. I'm just saying there is a financial opportunity here that goes beyond just improving your own health, and it makes sense to do this if you can, even if you're not really interested in turning it into a business. There's no pressure - just an array of choices.

The primary unit of sale Orenda uses is a 4-pack of products called the Ultimate Pack. It includes an HGH-stimulating amino acid spray (O-Tropin), an Immune Formula that detoxifies the body and stimulates the immune system, a high-quality digestive aid with probiotics and enzymes, and a multivitamin. It's designed to get your body working the way it's supposed to, so your body takes care of itself. It retails for $250, but almost anyone can get discounts to reduce the price. It's definitely worth the price to improve your health, even at retail.

But there's a special deal called the Manager Pack, which contains 9 of these Ultimate Packs. You can get it for $1400 through an existing distributor, which is a 38% markdown. This is the absolute best way to become a distributor, and I'm going to show you why.

So, if you can pull together $1400, you can buy a Manager Pack with 9 ultimate packs in it. That's a $600 savings off retail (30% off), plus they throw in an extra $250 pack for free. Therefore, it's really an $850 savings.

Plus, you've just locked in a 40% lifetime discount on any further purchases. Plus, Orenda offers a 90% money-back guarantee for a full year - I'll explain more later about how that means there's virtually no risk that you could lose money.

Each Ultimate Pack retails for $250, so that's $250 x 9 = $2250. So you could theoretically retail the whole pack and make an $850 profit. Or you could pass along a 20% discount to encourage your customers (they will also get a 20% discount on any further purchases they make), and you would still make $45 profit on each pack (you paid $155 each for 9, and you're selling at $200 instead of $250, so $45 profit for the distributor).

Even selling at discount, that's a $405 profit for you after you made back your investment of the $1400. That's nearly a 30% profit, and you'll be able to keep making profit as you go forward, month after month, because you'll always have that 40% discount on your purchases.

That's a business! That's a second income stream! That can be the answer for a lot of your financial problems.

Plus, you can get your own monthly supply of Orenda for $150, and you'll start looking and feeling healthier than most of your friends. Any friends who start buying from you will soon start getting healthier. Plus, if they're interested, they have the same opportunity to start a second income stream as you had.

Can you see how Orenda quickly becomes a way for you to help yourself and a lot of other people, both physically and financially?

Many people, though, are skeptical. They doubt themselves. They doubt their ability to "market" a product. Maybe you're in this category.

Here's where there's virtually no risk.

You pay $1400 for 9 packs. For 12 months, you can always return the full set of unopened packs for $1260 back (90% refund on unopened product for 1 year after purchase). So you'll lose only $140 even if you're a complete and utter failure (which you won't be).

But if you sold just one pack at full retail, that's $250, and you could still return the remainder for $1120, for a total of $1370, so you would lose only $30. Sell two, and you've made an $80 profit!

Even if, to encourage people along, you sold the packs for $200 instead of $250, you could sell 2 packs for $400 total, and could still return the 7 unsold packs for $980... Meaning you lose only $20. Sell just three, and you've made a $40 profit from selling just 1/3 of the pack. You could bail out if you realy wanted to, or you could keep going and keep making profit, because it's just a matter of reaching the right people over time.

Sell just 5 packs at $200 for a total of $1000, return the other 4 at $140 each for a total of $560, and you've made a $160 profit over your initial investment. That's not bad money for just talking to your friends and coworkers. You just offer them something that might help them, without any pressure, and if they're not interested, just move on to the next person. If you keep at it, you WILL make a profit, whether you "have the skills" or not!

Compare that small risk against your potential profit, and it really only makes sense to take a small chance on the $1400 manager pack if you have the money, or could find it.

If you've come to this blog through a Google search, or by invitation of Ed Hanks, please do me the courtesy of signing up through my sales website at www.edhanks.com. You can watch product videos there, to see more about the company and this unique natural health program.

Actually, please contact me by e-mail first, at hanksedwin@yahoo.com - that way I can talk through any issues, explain why Orenda is the best set of natural health products out there, and can make sure you get signed up correctly and make the choices that make the most sense for your health and financial situation. If you have medical concerns, my wife is an integrative nurse practitioner, and we can talk through those issues with her.

If you have been invited to view this blog by another distributor, other than Ed Hanks, then please do them the courtesy of using their personalized sales website, which I'm sure they provided to you. Otherwise, the right people don't get credit for the work they've done, and that's what this business is built upon - the personal efforts of part-time distributors who cared enough about you to tell you about Orenda. This is a partnership. We will help each other through everything so you can be successful.

Thanks for taking the time to consider this opportunity! If you're willing to make just a small leap, let us take you by the hand and guide you through it. The potential is there to turn your life around, in more ways than just your personal health!

Coping With Stress, The Health Killer

Alot of women can benefit from these tips, but they're especially key for men.

Men deal with stress in one of two ways. Either they have a physical outlet – some sort of physical activity, like exercise, sports, etc.

Or they have an eating outlet. Instead of exercising, they eat, or they drink, which of course compounds the problem of not exercising.

This is called emotional eating. Earlier in our 30-day challenge, Camden produced a video where she described this as using food as a way to deal with feelings, as opposed to a way to deal with hunger.

Stress is a Health Killer

Stress ruins our body's natural rhythms and processes. Stress causes us to eat or drink things that are bad for us, which causes weight gain. Your own reactions to stress can provoke interpersonal stress. Sugar and stress both deplete B vitamins and imbalance your blood sugar. The more imbalanced blood sugar is, the more chaotic your mood.

Stress also raises our cortisol and adrenaline to unnaturally high levels, which often results in weight gain.

Cortisol is an emergency boost, for when you're in danger. It's not normal, and it’s not really healthy... unless of course you are in danger.

If your cortisol level stays high all day, or all week, because of stress, you're overusing your body's emergency functions. Your adrenaline glands are always working. Eventually you’ll run these systems down. Some people actually burn their system out – they have no cortisol, and they can't get out of bed.

The effects of all this stress and high cortisol don't stop with higher blood pressure. They include negative impacts to our ability to think, and to our soft and hard tissues. It can spark metabolic syndrome, which can lead to diabetes. Everything our body does to keep itself healthy and working properly gets slowed down or sidetracked by these high cortisol levels.

We can't always avoid stress, which means we can't always avoid cortisol/adrenaline spikes. But it's important to be able to relax again afterward – to come to a place of normalcy and let our levels go back to neutral.

Today's lifestyles – or our workplaces – often don't allow that. And, frankly, it's killing us slowly as a society.

Coping With Stress: Lifestyle & Mindstyle

Lifestyle and mindstyle changes are important.

This could be as dramatic as changing jobs, which may or may not be realistic for you. Sometimes it's a matter of changing jobs or ruining your health. But most people don’t have to go this far.

They say awareness is the first step to overcoming a problem. I actually have a "reset" button, and sometimes – not always – I'm self-aware enough that I can tell myself to "calm down and stop letting this get to me." I can talk myself off the ledge. Many guys can do this. Most women think we're just making it up. You have to have the right nature to do it – angry people can't, and that's a whole other lifestyle change that needs to be made.

Organization can be helpful. Organize your time better. Perhaps organize your workspace.

For me, sometimes I need to get away. Maybe that's a trip, even just a day trip on the spur of the moment. But more often, it's just changing my environment. Going to the library. Going for a walk. Going to a restaurant.

Be willing to delegate – don't allow control impulses to make you overwhelmed. Also, don't kneel to the control impulses of others – if someone else's demands threaten to overwhelm, it may be mutually beneficial if you put up warning signs. Otherwise you may be burned out and not useful later on.

Intentionally do things to slow down your pace. Sit down for dinner, or to read a book, or watch a movie. Separate yourself in your mind from your problems, if only for an hour or 30 minutes. Don't take your work home with you – enjoy your days off. Don't skip lunch breaks.

Unplug from the things that cause you stress. My job allows me to work from home sometimes, and I find it takes me away from several distractions. People don't stop by my desk, they can't call me. I can choose when to check e-mails, and it allows me to focus and get things done.

Set patterns for yourself. Set spiritual disciplines – hand your troubles over.

I've never been an exercise guy. But those guys who deal with stress through exercise aren't wrong. Going to the gym for 30 minutes is great. A 30 minute walk is good too. There are many types of yoga, some of which are real workouts, others stretch your muscles in ways that have health benefits.

Whatever works best for you.

Healthy Lifestyle

Improving your body and health – healthy diets, healthy exercise, healthy programs – aids in dealing with stress.

B Vitamins – several varieties – are helpful. B12, B6 and B3 all help with mood, B5 helps with adrenal function.

Vitamins C and E help fight stress by combating "free radicals" which are caused by stress and also by a lot of the foods stressed out people gravitate to.

It's important to note that these vitamins should be taken in balance, not as individuals. A good Multivitamin is the easy way.

As for me, I was a hard case. I kept trying to cope with the stress by eating and drinking things that were unhealthy. I’d try to get my diet under control, because I knew it was killing me, but even after several days of success a stressful day would hit and I'd go right back to gallons of Mountain Dew.

My pattern didn't quit until I started on the Orenda Health Program, which took away all my cravings and made it easy for me to deal with stress without food, and without Mountain Dew.

Ironically, out of all these recommendations, Orenda was the one choice that made the most dramatic difference.

Male Pattern Blindness

Men tend to either always think of themselves, or never think of themselves.

Those who always think of themselves often spend a lot of time in the gym so they always look great.

But for those who put job and responsibility to others ahead of everything else, they will often allow their idea of taking care of work and taking care of family to merge into one.  Their job becomes their life.

Ironically, this causes them to ignore both, their family and their own health.

You’ve heard of Male Pattern Baldness?  Let’s call this “Male Pattern Blindness.”   I admit to some of both of those patterns myself.

You have to realize, if you don’t pay attention to family, you may lose them.  Even if you still have your job, what's the use?

Likewise, if you don’t pay attention to your health, someday you might be unable to work to take care of your family, which was your primary motivation for overwork in the first place.

The conclusion must be that you have to pay attention to all 3, and find balance between them.

There was a time when my wife couldn’t work very much, for health reasons.  I worked 2 jobs – practically 80 hours a week – to pay the bills.

I ended up ignoring both family and health because there just wasn’t time.  I was too tired for anything else once work was done.

Later, as my wife’s health improved, we still had bills, and my wife still couldn’t work as much as she used to.

But when I offered to keep working so she wouldn’t have to, she told me absolutely not!

She wanted to see me, and she didn’t want me to ignore my health through overwork and stress.

She’s a nurse practitioner, so she knows what she’s talking about. She’s also a loving wife. 

She made me see my blindness through her eyes.  I thank her for that insight.