Re: Nutriveda and Multi-level Marketing

July 22, 2010

Hello!

I just want to say that I read your post and honestly, I think that if I

were you, I'd have to try NV (we just started). I am always very hesitant to

put my children on anything that isn't marketed for children, but I have

had to learn (through using the Nordic Naturals fish oils and now the NV) to

think outside of the box, for the well-being of my child(ren). I have

brought all of the information on anything I'm wanting to give Cale (who is 2

1/2 years old and apraxic) to his pediatrician or neurologist for them to

look over the ingredients and tell me if it is or is not safe. I wouldn't have

these doctors if I didn't trust them, so I am leaving it up to them to

tell me if the products I'm wanting to try are safe for my son. I encourage

you to do the same---that is what your doctors are there for and if they have

any doubts, they will tell you! Also, no one (that I have seen) has been

seeing any negative side effects or anything negative on these, so that

should hopefully calm some of your worries as well. Anyway, you have nothing to

lose by sending the info over to your doctor, voicing your concerns to

him/her and seeing what they have to say. Our doctors were skeptical of these

things working, but didn't have any problem with my son taking them---well,

I can't wait to see them again because our son is doing so much better

since starting on the fish oils and NV!

Good luck and best of wishes!

-Brittany

In a message dated 7/22/2010 10:02:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

emilyandmitch@... writes:

I fear my post won't be popular but I feel the need to see if there is

anyone else out there like us.

We have a 7 year old apraxic son. He is in public school at his grade

level although definitely struggling with reading and math. He has an IEP and

receives 3 30 minute sessions throughout the school week and 1 hour of

private therapy per week. In June, he tested at a 3 year 9 month articulation

level although his language approached his age. He has friends and gets along

fine despite his speech as he is fairly athletic. He did have sensory

issues when younger - his sensory issues now are limited to fear of haircuts,

bandaids and the doctors. Still, I worry about him tremendously.

I've been curious about the nutriveda but honestly, multi-level marketing

has always been such a huge turn off to me that I'm hesitant to try it. My

husband has always been completely anti some of these new things and unless

there is strong mainstream research on the product (which there never

seems to be with multi-level marketing - or it is sponsored by the sellers) he

doesn't want to put our son on it.

Early on, we tried many of the fish oils but our son wouldn't take them.

The only ones he likes (and takes daily) are rainbow light gummylicious.

If anyone else on the listserve has experienced the same doubts as us, I

would love to hear from you.

Thank you!

July 22, 2010

My husband and I don't need research for food and fish oils and NV are both

food. I did share both with our son's pediatrician who approved both. I'm still

hesitant to try NV because I pray I see the results like everyone else and I

fear I won't. It took me forever to try fish oils for the same reason but it

was within a week or so my son was able to say and do more. I don't think

anyone will be upset with you, we all have our reasons for not doing things we

know we should even if others think they are silly. Kate

>

> I fear my post won't be popular but I feel the need to see if there is anyone

else out there like us.

>

> We have a 7 year old apraxic son. He is in public school at his grade level

although definitely struggling with reading and math. He has an IEP and

receives 3 30 minute sessions throughout the school week and 1 hour of private

therapy per week. In June, he tested at a 3 year 9 month articulation level

although his language approached his age. He has friends and gets along fine

despite his speech as he is fairly athletic. He did have sensory issues when

younger - his sensory issues now are limited to fear of haircuts, bandaids and

the doctors. Still, I worry about him tremendously.

>

> I've been curious about the nutriveda but honestly, multi-level marketing has

always been such a huge turn off to me that I'm hesitant to try it. My husband

has always been completely anti some of these new things and unless there is

strong mainstream research on the product (which there never seems to be with

multi-level marketing - or it is sponsored by the sellers) he doesn't want to

put our son on it.

>

> Early on, we tried many of the fish oils but our son wouldn't take them. The

only ones he likes (and takes daily) are rainbow light gummylicious.

>

> If anyone else on the listserve has experienced the same doubts as us, I would

love to hear from you.

>

> Thank you!

>

July 22, 2010

I am SSOOO understanding of this post. I too was very skeptical. I

actually spent the money to become a distributor (have done nothing with

it so far), mostly so I could have all of the information at my fingers,

and if it did work, buy it for my family at cost. I will tell you that

with most things I don't see a huge difference in my daughter, but I am

seeing change, and I am not getting near as much in her as I should.

However............................................

She has had eczema from 3 weeks old, and she is almost 5. She was

diagnosed with dermalgraphism a couple months ago, and at that point I

stopped the fish oil and the NV, what little she was losing, in the

hopes that maybe her skin would calm down. It made no difference... so

slowly she went back on the fish oil. After a few weeks we mixed some

more NV for her waited for a difference. Her language changed, but

there were still meltdowns, maybe even more. I have noticed she jumps

easier, and her singing has been changing. The big difference was that

she wasn't constantly scratching, which I have watched her do nonstop

for 5 years. Then there were no hives, no welps, no eczema.... it was

shocking. I don't know if it is helping her in this way first, and

other things will come or what, but she HATES drinking it. Hates it.

But when I tell her that it will keep her itching from coming back she

downs it. A five year old knows that it has made a big difference.

As skeptical as I was, I am now a believer. I do plan on selling it,

but not to make money, just to help others the way my daughter has been

helped.

One honest mom-

[ ] Nutriveda and Multi-level

Marketing

I fear my post won't be popular but I feel the need to see if

there is anyone else out there like us.

We have a 7 year old apraxic son. He is in public school at his

grade level although definitely struggling with reading and math. He has

an IEP and receives 3 30 minute sessions throughout the school week and

1 hour of private therapy per week. In June, he tested at a 3 year 9

month articulation level although his language approached his age. He

has friends and gets along fine despite his speech as he is fairly

athletic. He did have sensory issues when younger - his sensory issues

now are limited to fear of haircuts, bandaids and the doctors. Still, I

worry about him tremendously.

I've been curious about the nutriveda but honestly, multi-level

marketing has always been such a huge turn off to me that I'm hesitant

to try it. My husband has always been completely anti some of these new

things and unless there is strong mainstream research on the product

(which there never seems to be with multi-level marketing - or it is

sponsored by the sellers) he doesn't want to put our son on it.

Early on, we tried many of the fish oils but our son wouldn't

take them. The only ones he likes (and takes daily) are rainbow light

gummylicious.

If anyone else on the listserve has experienced the same doubts

as us, I would love to hear from you.

Thank you!

July 22, 2010

My son is 32 months and suspected apraxic from 2 different evaluations. I

started him on fish oils last week (Nordic Naturals Jr.--he won't eat or

swallow them, so I have been squirting them in his yogurt each morning). I

haven't noticed any difference yet with his speech. He has been more

moody.

I brought the ingredients printout for nutriiveda to his pediatrician a few

days ago, and was told there was nothing in the ingredients that would hurt

him but not to expect anything, as there are always different " fads " going

around.

I am planning on starting nutriiveda in a week or so after he has been on

the oils a few weeks. I admit there is a slight turnoff (not sure if that

is the right word) when profit is involved by those who recommend it, but I

rationalize that they are not the ones who determine how the company markets

and distributes their product and everything else points to the fact that

they are very passionate about helping kids with speech problems. Also, it

is the only way to purchase the product, so I would rather purchase it from

someone who is using it for the same reason. Anyway, given all the positive

input received regarding the product from parents using it for kids with

similar speech issues , I can't NOT try it for my son. Worse case scenario,

I'm out a few bucks and I know I at least tried everything in my power.

Good luck!

Malinda

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:05 AM, emilyandmitch <emilyandmitch@...>wrote:

>

> I fear my post won't be popular but I feel the need to see if there is

> anyone else out there like us.

>

> We have a 7 year old apraxic son. He is in public school at his grade level

> although definitely struggling with reading and math. He has an IEP and

> receives 3 30 minute sessions throughout the school week and 1 hour of

> private therapy per week. In June, he tested at a 3 year 9 month

> articulation level although his language approached his age. He has friends

> and gets along fine despite his speech as he is fairly athletic. He did have

> sensory issues when younger - his sensory issues now are limited to fear of

> haircuts, bandaids and the doctors. Still, I worry about him tremendously.

>

> I've been curious about the nutriveda but honestly, multi-level marketing

> has always been such a huge turn off to me that I'm hesitant to try it. My

> husband has always been completely anti some of these new things and unless

> there is strong mainstream research on the product (which there never seems

> to be with multi-level marketing - or it is sponsored by the sellers) he

> doesn't want to put our son on it.

>

> Early on, we tried many of the fish oils but our son wouldn't take them.

> The only ones he likes (and takes daily) are rainbow light gummylicious.

>

> If anyone else on the listserve has experienced the same doubts as us, I

> would love to hear from you.

>

> Thank you!

>

July 22, 2010

, I understand as I two an very skeptical about most things. I do think

out of the box but for us we do not do any special diets or minerals. With that

being said there is not one thing in NV that would be harmful so I put

(10yrs this past Tues) on it back on Jan. 2010. My Matt is very verbal but

stuggles with speech/Lang and a whole other host of issues. My biggest concern

back in Jan. was uncontrolled seizures, which were ever two weeks at

best. As of last week has hit SIX months seizure free!!!! And I type

that with tears in my eyes. So if you ask me is it worth trying NV I would have

to say hell ya!!!! What do you have to lose, except a couple of dollars to

order it.

I wish you luck in whatever you do.

Alyssa

On Jul 22, 2010, at 9:05 AM, " emilyandmitch " <emilyandmitch@...> wrote:

I fear my post won't be popular but I feel the need to see if there is anyone

else out there like us.

We have a 7 year old apraxic son. He is in public school at his grade level

although definitely struggling with reading and math. He has an IEP and receives

3 30 minute sessions throughout the school week and 1 hour of private therapy

per week. In June, he tested at a 3 year 9 month articulation level although his

language approached his age. He has friends and gets along fine despite his

speech as he is fairly athletic. He did have sensory issues when younger - his

sensory issues now are limited to fear of haircuts, bandaids and the doctors.

Still, I worry about him tremendously.

I've been curious about the nutriveda but honestly, multi-level marketing has

always been such a huge turn off to me that I'm hesitant to try it. My husband

has always been completely anti some of these new things and unless there is

strong mainstream research on the product (which there never seems to be with

multi-level marketing - or it is sponsored by the sellers) he doesn't want to

put our son on it.

Early on, we tried many of the fish oils but our son wouldn't take them. The

only ones he likes (and takes daily) are rainbow light gummylicious.

If anyone else on the listserve has experienced the same doubts as us, I would

love to hear from you.

Thank you!

July 22, 2010

Hello ,

I understand where you're coming from. But, for your son's sake, just try NV.

There is a money back guarantee on the product if you don't see a change in him.

You have nothing to lose. Why not see what it can do to give your son relief?

You don't have to join the business side of it if you don't want to, just become

a customer if that is all you can muster for now. I bet though, after you see

how it helps your boy, you'll want to shout this product from the mountain tops

and share it with everybody you know who you could help as well with it! :-)

Also, the price of the NV is the same for distributors as it is for the

customers. Zrii pays out bonuses to it's distributors based on the volume of

product that moves through their organization, so, don't worry about it. If you

want a refund, you can get one. :-)

Sincerely

Romesa

From: emilyandmitch@...

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:05:52 +0000

Subject: [ ] Nutriveda and Multi-level Marketing

I fear my post won't be popular but I feel the need to see if there is anyone

else out there like us.

We have a 7 year old apraxic son. He is in public school at his grade level

although definitely struggling with reading and math. He has an IEP and receives

3 30 minute sessions throughout the school week and 1 hour of private therapy

per week. In June, he tested at a 3 year 9 month articulation level although his

language approached his age. He has friends and gets along fine despite his

speech as he is fairly athletic. He did have sensory issues when younger - his

sensory issues now are limited to fear of haircuts, bandaids and the doctors.

Still, I worry about him tremendously.

I've been curious about the nutriveda but honestly, multi-level marketing has

always been such a huge turn off to me that I'm hesitant to try it. My husband

has always been completely anti some of these new things and unless there is

strong mainstream research on the product (which there never seems to be with

multi-level marketing - or it is sponsored by the sellers) he doesn't want to

put our son on it.

Early on, we tried many of the fish oils but our son wouldn't take them. The

only ones he likes (and takes daily) are rainbow light gummylicious.

If anyone else on the listserve has experienced the same doubts as us, I would

love to hear from you.

Thank you!

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July 22, 2010

Hi !

I don't think about where a product is from or who is paid -if it helps my child

I will not only use it but recommend it. I never did meet the owners of Nordic

Naturals -darn you think they would have wanted to meet their number one fan of

ProEFA!!!! Check the archives, everything from doctors, therapists, therapy

materials to toys and Pom Wonderful...and I do so because it helped my child and

I want to share. How cool that for once I have an opportunity to not only share

what I think is the greatest discovery ever to hit our group...that appears to

be working across the board- but to raise monies for research to help all of our

children while at the SAME TIME helping the parents and professionals who share

it too?! And in my opinion no parent or professional is going to recommend a

product or service that they don't believe in.

There has been more than one company (not direct sales) that offered to pay for

my endorsement, and I won't if I don't believe in them. I love Disney,

ReserveAge resveratrol from Vitamin Shoppe and Pirate Booty...but none of them

asked me and I will tell you all day and even post to my fb wall how great

Toy Story 3 is and not be paid a dime. All doctors, therapists, and most

nonprofits ask for money in exchange for help and there's nothing wrong with

that. For most of our existence as a nonprofit in over a decade I have been

here to share information and outside of a rare instance like to cover an event

we never ask for donations and quite honestly I see now how where I thought I

was being nice thinking of all of us not having money and not wanting to ask for

anything.... apraxia is becoming more and more a voiceless diagnosis, or part of

autism, which it isn't. Not only that I've heard from two different Autism

doctors who are both experts in autism from two different states that between 40

to 50 percent of patients that come to them diagnosed as autistic are

misdiagnosed and are apraxic. And there is no end to fundraising for autism,

and that's great. But we don't focus just on apraxia or autism -it's to bring

all the children a voice. We have an opportunity for clinical research to

validate what we know with fish oils (I'm not allowed to share details here but

for anyone serious about donating please contact me and I can get you all the

details lisa@... ) So I started a fundraiser with nutriiveda because of

a grandmother of an apraxic child in our group who has made over 7 million

dollars in direct sales in about the past decade and who offered to help. I was

planning on the parents and professionals using nutriiveda...If you want the

whole story I've covered it many times and it's due to my son Tanner. Was NOT

expecting nutriiveda to be therapeutic -that's just God's sense of humor! And

the rest is history http://pursuitofresearch.org/pursuit.html and I'm sure

there will be a movie for those that don't read about the research in the

history books.

While your huge concern is that a product is distributed friend to friend or

through word of mouth instead of Walmart to customer or through expensive

commercials, a huge concern of mine is the increasing number of parents

-including some of you here- who have put your child onto medication

recommended by your child's doctor whether it be Namenda a drug developed for

adults with alzheimer's with a list of tremendous side effects even though it's

well researched http://www.drugs.com/sfx/namenda-side-effects.html Then there

are the drugs for herpes and labor also now exploratory being recommended by

some medical doctors for children.

Every single ingredient in nutriiveda is certified a food by the FDA. It's 100

percent water soluble and 100 percent natural and contains all the essential

amino acids and nutrients needed daily through whole food sources which is the

purest and most easily digestible form. Each ingredient is tested free of heavy

metals, herbicides and it's GFCF, fat, sodium and caffeine free. There are

over 300 clinical studies (you can easily find reference to) for every single

ingredient/whole food in nutriiveda(NV) but of course not yet on the actual

product as it has only was launched in September of 2009, but there are studies

being talked about both through the manufacturer as well as through independent

sources due to their child. In fact however I myself would highly respect

research done by Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Simon and the other medical

doctors behind NV who are all respected.

http://pursuitofresearch.org/advisors.html Because these world renowned medical

doctors both formulated and endorse Nutriiveda it has the strongest endorsement

in the industry.

The CEO of the company that makes NV is a solid billionaire who has been a

billionaire since the 80s, Bill Farley http://www.meetbillfarley.com who is a

marketing icon. You may not know who he is but he's taken numerous companies

from multi million to multi billion. And even though you think you don't know

him you may be wearing Fruit of the Loom underwear...so you and your husband may

be more intimate with Bill then you knew because that's one of his many

companies (think he bought that at 500 million and brought it to over 2.4

billion) Bill doesn't need the money or stress- sometimes people do things to

help the public...goodness knows we do need help when it comes to health!!.. may

want to watch the video on this page

http://pursuitofresearch.org/serving_suggestions.html ...but we are skeptical as

a public as your message clearly points out. I have had the pleasure of meeting

Bill Farley a few times now and I again know there will be research to validate

what we are seeing. Until then the company can't talk about it-but I am allowed

to and all behind it are aware of what we are seeing.

As far as it being direct sales; typically with direct sales companies there

isn't an option to purchase the product at the distributor cost. You can try

nutriiveda/NV and pay exactly the same amount as a customer or distributor and

either way it comes with a money back guarantee. Also direct sales products can

cost more than what you can buy at a store. Again try to find casein free whey

alone...then look for all the slow growing vegetations and make sure they are

free of lead etc. (one of the biggest issues with foods grown in the ground)

But you know what- there's no reason to become a distributor if you are NOT

going to share it. You'll save yourself 24 (that's twenty four) dollars as this

month that's how much it is to become a distributor.

For parents who are seeing surges in their children, or professionals that see

surges in their caseload that become a distributor to share something that

helped the children they care for...they get to now maybe get a piece of the pie

too and help us raise monies for research....how cool is that and if you don't

think it's cool again I can tell you all day long how incredible Toy Story 3 was

and we don't get a dime toward research.

I did put up this page as we do now have a few parents and professionals who are

distributors http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=115029735601 & topic=14809

Hope this made it clear. In my opinion all have the right to do what they

want...but to not try a product as high quality as this in all regards because

it's sold through direct sales...I'd really reconsider that .

=====

July 23, 2010

, I too had reservations. Wondering, if the product were so wonderful,

why isn't it more readily available? I finally decided to try it because the

supplement my daughter was on isn't available back here in North America where

we are spending the summer. I've been so impressed with the results- much more

dramatic than the fish oils. However, I still resent HOW I have to get it. I

don't appreciate that I have to buy it on a direct subscription (yes I know I

can cancel at any time, but do you realize you aren't allowed to resubscribe for

6 months?) I just bought 6 months worth and they pressured me onto staying on a

subscribed customer or I might have trouble resubscribing if it's less than 6

months time. So I'm going to have a small batch sent to my parents in October-

just to stay in their good graces. Irritates me to say the least. Also, it

takes almost 3 weeks (10 business days) to get here so I'm buying almost a month

in advance anyway. My daughter hated the chocolate flavor and we were running

out of vanilla, but I couldn't get my hands on more for almost 3 weeks. That's

frustrating.

So, do I like the management of the product and how it's distributed? No. Would

I buy another product this way? No. Having said that, the differences in my

daughter have been so profound that I did give up the rest of our holiday budget

(and then some) so I could buy 6 months supply and hope we'll be back for xmas.

If I could buy it more easily I would have put my other daughter on it as well,

but since I can't get it and can only bring back so much, she's missing out.

I'm hoping distribution changes soon.

>

> Hi !

>

> I don't think about where a product is from or who is paid -if it helps my

child I will not only use it but recommend it. I never did meet the owners of

Nordic Naturals -darn you think they would have wanted to meet their number one

fan of ProEFA!!!! Check the archives, everything from doctors, therapists,

therapy materials to toys and Pom Wonderful...and I do so because it helped my

child and I want to share. How cool that for once I have an opportunity to not

only share what I think is the greatest discovery ever to hit our group...that

appears to be working across the board- but to raise monies for research to help

all of our children while at the SAME TIME helping the parents and professionals

who share it too?! And in my opinion no parent or professional is going to

recommend a product or service that they don't believe in.

>

> There has been more than one company (not direct sales) that offered to pay

for my endorsement, and I won't if I don't believe in them. I love Disney,