Nancy Sue Ryan

The day that turns your life around.

I once heard the great Jim Rohn talk on this subject and one thing that I’ve come to realize is that you decide when that day happens. You see, you’re a part of a great company that sells a product called hope. Having been around this business since I was 7 years old, sitting at the top of the staircase in my pajamas watching my parents host an Amway meeting in the living room, I’ve seen firsthand person after person, family after family have their lives transformed because of network marketing. I’ve also asked why, in the same company can some become wildly success beyond a normal persons comprehension and some fail and quit? It’s something my mother instilled in me at a very early age…attitude is everything!

People get into Vemma with little cash in the game, next to no risk and, most of the time, an attitude that reflects just that. Here’s an exciting thought, how would you approach this business if you invested, after tax dollars, totals approaching $50K, $100K or even $250K? Would your attitude, work ethic, the time you allot be different than it is today? Would your follow up be better? Would your prospecting become more frequent? Would the amount of trainings, meetings, conference calls or 3 way calls increase dramatically? If you looked into your families eyes everyday you walked out that door and realized I’m ‘all in’ with this venture, because you have your life savings or maybe even borrowed money at stake, would your attitude be different than it is today?

You see, the dream of being in business for yourself, being your own boss and calling the shots is something that most people long for. Every day you see strip malls with these small or franchised business in them either struggle or go out of business. Every once in a while, you’ll see a new small business open up. It seems no matter how bad the economy is, you can’t crush this dream that so many people have. These are people that, for the most part, are going ‘all in’ on their dreams. And the surprising thing is with all this money, all this effort and all this risk, they’re buying into an opportunity that has a reach of about 3-5 miles around their store.

My question to you is, would you be further along in your Vemma business if you upgraded your attitude? Start today with the thought that you’ve got $50K or even $100K invested into this industry and you gotta make it work for the people counting on you. You’ve got an opportunity that is international in scope, not limited to a the few miles people would drive to visit a traditional business. My advice for you, after doing almost $1.5 billion in this industry and paying regular people that sometimes started with the humblest of dreams almost $700 million in bonuses over the last 15+ years, upgrade your follow up, upgrade your prospecting, upgrade your thirst for mastering the skills you need to become hugely successful in network marketing. This Vemma opportunity can change your life forever. I’m here to give you hope, hope that allows you to know that every skill you need to make more money than you’ve ever dreamed of in Vemma are skills that you can learn.

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Posted 1/13/2012 6:57:22 PM

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Do vitamins really kill you?

If you happened to watch the news, read a newspaper, or visit an online news service last night, you may have caught one or both of the stories about vitamins being bad for you.

Let me first start off this very important topic with one thought: Sickness is BIG business. The profits surrounding treating people’s sicknesses are astronomical compared to the wellness industry. As with any news organization, the more captivating the headline, the scarier it is and the more attention it receives. The headlines yesterday about multivitamins increasing mortality never mentioned many details and glaring flaws of the study, or that this study showed just a 2.4% increase. And in the vitamin E prostate cancer risk story, they neglect to mention a synthetic form of vitamin E was used. Now, some vitamins function identically in the body whether they’re natural or synthetic, but vitamin E is not one of them. Virtually every health professional knows this fact… yet it wasn’t discussed, just that vitamin E was bad. This point really hit home when my wife said after watching the news that I better take vitamin E out of the Vemma formula.

Naturally, since my entire family takes Vemma, I wanted Dr. Wang, our Chief Science Officer, to “peel back the onion” a bit on these two hot topics and give me a few details in language I can understand and pass on to you. Here are a few points of interest, along with an article that puts the multivitamin “observational study” into proper perspective (An observational study simply means the participants filled out a survey and self-reported their diet, lifestyle and supplement use, which leaves room for the possibility of reporting errors. This is not a clinical study like the Gold Standard we’ve performed on Vemma, which I’ll talk about more in a minute).

• The study featured a majority of white, post-menopausal females living in rural areas, which doesn't necessarily translate into a typical urban lifestyle or diet.
• Many of these ladies increased their usage of supplements over the course of the study, and researchers cannot exclude the possibility that this increase may have been in response to health challenges that could have contributed to an overall risk of mortality. (Keep in mind that this study only showed a difference of increasing mortality of 2.4%, which many experts believe to be not clinically significant).
• Many of the self-reported supplement users were also on hormone-replacement therapy, which itself has an increased association with mortality.
• In the prostate study, ONLY the group supplementing with 400 IU’s (international units) of synthetic vitamin E saw the increase. For some reason, the group that combined both synthetic vitamin E and the mineral selenium saw no change. (FYI: Vemma contains 60 IU’s of natural vitamin E combined with selenium.)

Vemma is a multi-dimensional wellness and clinically studied formula. Our two Gold Standard, 60-person, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical studies rely on blood draws and thorough analysis of the data of not only the Vemma formula group, but also a placebo (fake) formula group. The double-blind part means the participants didn’t know what version they were taking, which is one reason why results from a clinical study far outweigh the surveys filled out in an observational study. Our two studies showed the Vemma formula significantly boosted immune function, significantly decreased CRP (inflammation) and increased antioxidant levels by 18% within two hours, and kept them saturated for 6 hours (blood draws were done at 0, 2, 4 and 6 hour marks). It’s upsetting to me that the press made no mention of the difference in studies leading people to believe the final results would have comparable merit.

Although our belief and support of vitamin supplementation based on the sound science available has not wavered, Vemma shouldn't be classified solely as a multivitamin. Phytonutrients and glyconutrients, those plant-based compounds from the superfruit mangosteen, green tea and aloe vera, dominate the contents of this formula as well as our 65+ plant-based minerals. The copper and iron minerals used in the mortality study were elemental … a huge difference to plant-based minerals! Our full-spectrum vitamin blend makes up only a small part of a sound overall wellness strategy, and numerous positive studies have confirmed beneficial properties of vitamins. In my mind, one or two studies with very questionable protocols won't get me to stop giving my family Vemma. I've heard too many great stories, and I have seen too many tremendous results.

It’s interesting that one of the study's authors advises that vitamins "be used with a strong medically based cause;" in other words, when you get sick, you should take them. To me, that’s like closing the barn door after the horse has gotten out! Here's what I know: Your body needs minerals. Ninety-five percent of your body's daily functions are mineral-dependent. Your body can't make minerals; your body also needs antioxidants, phytonutrients and glyconutrients. It needs way more vitamin D3 than you can get drinking milk. So that leaves you two options: Eat foods that you know are rich in the 65+ minerals every day, along with foods rich in vitamins and phytonutrients. And while you're at it, get your kids to eat those foods every day, and somehow track it so you make sure you're all getting enough every day...or take a shot of Vemma.

The lack of details provided in the media regarding these extremely important topics frankly amazes me! People trust news sources, and for them to be blindly led astray like this is shocking. Most people will never be exposed to the truth behind these details, and will live their life and make their families’ health decisions based on these headlines and 3-minute news stories. It would appear that these studies were done to serve the interests of other industries … but I'm concerned about your families' interests! I'm going to do my best and use every influential contact I have to make sure light is shed on this critical issue and help the public learn the real facts about supplementation.

So here's what I need your help to do: Please help me get the word out. To start with, please share this information, post and tweet my blog to people you care about. I can’t hope to make a dent without the help of people that care.

The bottom line to all this is that I hope people have realized that they don't always eat right, and the nutritional content of fruits and vegetables has dropped considerably over just the last 20 to 25 years. Hopefully, some observational study won't convince them otherwise. We know processed foods, fast foods and the average person’s diet in general leaves nutritional gaps only supplementing can fill. If I were making a decision for my family, I'd never let them take a vitamin pill … but I sure would give them Vemma everyday! In today's environment, you can't afford to get sick, and supplementation is the best wellness insurance I can think of.

Stay healthy, stay strong!

BK

PS. Wait till you read this from http://www.anh-usa.org/shame-on-ama-archives-of-internal-medicine

Shame on AMA’s Archives of Internal Medicine!

October 11, 2011

Did you hear the breaking news last night—that multivitamins may shorten your life? Here’s how junk science from the AMA set off the media frenzy.

Bloomberg phrased it this way: “Multivitamins and some dietary supplements, used regularly by an estimated 234 million US adults, may do more harm than good, according to a study that tied their use to higher death rates among older women.” The study’s authors outrageously concluded, “We see little justification for the general and widespread use of dietary supplements.”

The study, published in the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) Archives of Internal Medicine,assessed the use of vitamin and mineral supplements in nearly 39,000 women whose average age was 62. The researchers asked the women to fill out three surveys, the first in 1986, the second in 1997, and the last in 2004, reporting what supplements they took and what foods they ate, and answering a few questions about their health.

That’s right, all the data was self-reported by the study subjects only three times over the course of the 19-year-long study. To say the data is “unreliable” would be a generous description. This kind of “data” has no place in a valid scientific study.

Then the researchers looked at how many of the women had died by 2008. They reported that the number of deaths were somewhat higher for women who took copper, a little bit lower for women who took calcium, but about average for most of the women.

In the study, all of the relative risks were so low as to be statistically insignificant, and none was backed up by any medical investigation or biological plausibility study. No analysis was done on what combinations of vitamins and minerals were actually consumed, and no analysis of the cause of death was done beyond grouping for “cancer,” “cardiovascular disease,” or “other”—there was certainly no causative analysis done. The interactions of potential compounding risk factors is always tremendously complex—and was ignored in this so-called study.

“Multivitamin” can mean many different things, and of course changed tremendously over the 19 years during which this “study” was conducted. Were they high quality? Were the ingredients synthetic or natural? How much of each nutrient was taken? Were they really taken at all? How good is anyone’s memory in describing what took place over many years? One would assume that that the women’s diets fluctuated greatly over the same period; when self-reporting only three times in 19 years, there is a great deal of information one would naturally leave out even if some of it was accurate. No analysis was done of the effect of supplements on the women’s overall health, nor of their effect on women of other ages.

In short, this study is less than useless: it is dangerous, because it is being used by the media and the mainstream medical establishment to blacken the eye of nutritional supplements using poor data, bad analysis, and specious conclusions—otherwise known as junk science.

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Posted 10/12/2011 6:38:56 PM

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Building the YOU Brand

Having entered the networking industry at the tender age of 7 when my parents joined Amway, I’ve learn over the years that your biggest asset, the one thing that will determine your success or failure… is you. For some, that is exciting news, for others the thought of ‘oh crap’ just entered their head. You see, nothing will reflect better how you’re perceived, how you’ve treated people, how well you get along with people and how well you are liked than network marketing. It’s really remarkable. I’ve seen time and time again people join and have tremendous, explosive success and others fail miserably and the real head scratcher is that it was the same company. Same products, same compensation, same everything. The difference lies in you.

If you agree, or even somewhat agree, now is the time to take action at creating or recreating your YOU brand. It’s not about reading another blog or book, or even subscribing to Success magazine, although those things can only help. It’s about beginning the process of what comes into someone’s mind when they hear your name when you’re not around. Does your ‘brand name’ bring thoughts of ‘what a great person’, ‘that’s someone I’d take advice from’, ‘they have things so together’, or is it just the opposite?

Elevating your brand is a process and this can’t be developed overnight, but it’s critical to you and your families’ long term success. It’s a process that begins with you making the decision to elevate your game in every area. I’m talking how you deal with your co-workers, family (especially your kids), your friends and the people you meet. What kind of posts and photos are you leaving on your social media accounts? The things you say, more importantly, how you say them. How you respond to what’s said to you. Your reaction to problems and challenges. How you treat people especially those that can’t benefit you. Do you pride yourself in providing value to the people you encounter, to the posts you make and the blogs you write? These are all things that begin to define you and your brand.

One thing you’ll learn is this truly is a small world and when people begin to notice the difference, they’ll comment. Those comments begin to create the momentum that begins the change in your brand. Like raindrops that become a stream that turns into a river, you need to understand that it’s a process, it may take a year or two to really define or reinvent your brand. Remember this, one bad reaction to a person or challenge can unwind 6 to 12 months of solid brand building. I know that’s a scary thought, but you have to always focus on the bigger picture no matter what gets thrown at you. I once heard ‘there are brands you know like GE and there are brands you love, like Apple’ My wish for you is that begin the process to become the Apple in every area of your life.

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Posted 8/29/2011 11:32:13 AM

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