HISTORY
Usana Health Sciences founder Myron Wentz, Ph.D., is a world-renowned pioneer in cell-culture technology. In the early 70s, he founded Gull Laboratories, which soon became the world's leading producer of commercially-available diagnostic test kits for viruses. While Gull played a critical role in the world health arena, Dr. Wentz always felt that disease prevention was as important as detection.
In his work at Gull, Dr. Wentz was fully aware that viruses need host cells to reproduce. You can't grow good viruses unless you can grow healthy, fully functioning cells. He found that by giving human cells proper nutrition, he could keep cells healthy indefinitely, with no evidence of degeneration or disease. Through nutrition, he could even restore health to damaged or degenerated cells.
This led him to a firm conviction: "The principles of good nutrition are universal. If we can "nutrient" the human body in a comprehensive way–on a daily basis–with the full spectrum of essential nutrients in the right forms, amounts, and in the proper balance, we can sustain long-term health and effectively avoid degenerative disease. Health, after all, must begin at the cellular level."
He states, "the skyrocketing amounts of free radicals that are being generated from the toxins that we have created in this century–the synthetic chemicals, drugs, pollutants, stress, and so on–are overpowering our dietary sources and innate production of antioxidants. The body's antioxidant systems cannot stop the chain-reaction of excessive free radical activity that barrages it day in and day out".
"That's why we need better nutrition than our grandparents and our parents had. We need supplements because our bodies require more nutrition than we could possibly get in our foods". When he introduced the USANA nutritionals, other medical and nutrition scientists had some reservations about his ideas of the high doses in his formulas, but after just a few years, seeing the results, those scientists all agreed he was right.
The phenomenal growth in the number of medical practitioners, nutritional authorities, and scientists, who praise his work, not to mention the rapidly growing family of people who claim that his products have changed their lives, stand as witnesses to the truth of Dr. Wentz' ideas and to the effectiveness of the tools of nutrition he has brought to the world.
