Posted by Allen Sanders on October 29, 1999 at 04:59:25:
Dear Liz,
I think it's important that you know some background about us and our findings before dismissing us.
My wife and I own a small company here in the Philippines, with our address at 2088 New York St., Dau, Mabalacat, Pampanga 2010 RPI. We have been producing food supplements for five years. The technical foundations for the 12 preparations which we now produce came from the Philippine National Government, which began an extensive study of naturapathic alternatives to pharmaceuticals in the early 1980's. The idea was to free the Philippines, a third world country, from the control of a multi-national pharmaceutical companies who control all of the medication here.
The government surveyed 700 medicinal plants, vetted and subsequently approved as safe and effective alternative medicines 79 of them. They especially focussed their attention on 10 of these herbs, which appeared to be clinically acceptable as far as toxicology, pharmacology, mutagenecity, and effectivity. Modest clinical trials were undertaken concerning these 10, and extensive trials were conducted on 4 of the herbs.
The Secretary of Health who was responsible for much of the effort, Dr. Juan Flavier subsequently graduated to the Senate and the program lapse into a coma.
At that time, my wife and I were engaged in supplying leaves to that government program and the effective dissolution of the program left us without a market for our leaves. We were then forced to develop some other way to sell our leaves. We tried tea but people here don't like tea and don't associate tea with medicinal values. A fortunate accident with our tea shredder produced a big pile powder, and being practical I didn't wish to throw it away, so we put the first tea which was good for coughing and colds into the capsules and found they work better than the tea.
We obtained 8 sample capsules from the only pharmaceutical capsule manufacturer here and thus developed 8 preparations to fill the 8 sample capsules, and in all honesty that defines the provenance of our current 12 preparations.
The specific preparation that focused on Diabetes includes "Ampalaya" which was one of the Top 10 herbs previously noted, "Banaba" which had been patented in Japan as a Diabetic preparation, and an herb called "Duhat" which had a reputation as an anti-daibetic and cell regenerator here and abroad.
I confess at the time this preparation was confounded I had no idea what was going to happen. I had no background in Diabetology, I had an even thinner knowledge of the endocrine system, and certainly had no understanding about the interlocking effects of Diabetes and kidney failures, heart problems, eye problems, stroke and so forth.
The subsequent good effect of the synergistic joining of these 3 herbs has forced me to become more conversent with the realities of the disease, but I am still woefully ignorant about many of the cellular or mollecular level discussions observed on the net. By the way, yesterday was our first day on the net, and we came because our recent findings as a result of trying to clinically validate the preparation are so promising that we want to find others that are more
knowledgeable to help us understand what's going on while at the same time wishing to present the potential for hope.
We think the practical way to demonstrate the effectivity of our protocol which by the way is more comprehensive than just taking a handful of pills, is to seek someone who might be willing to understand and agree to the protocol concerning diet, exercise, smoking, prayer, and supplements and then try it at no expense at all, and then faithfully report all of the results good or bad for the edification of anyone who might be interested in observing.
We are currently 40 days into a 90 day observation of the effects and the first 30 days results are driving me crazy. I feel obliged to share what we've found and this message is also a request for someone to help us make sense to some of the discrepancies we are finding in the results.
We are not snakeoil salesmen, we are real people who have developed something by producing and distributing by our own efforts, more than 1Million capsules. The only publicity was word of mouth, and it was accompanied by money back guarantee which no one has availed since our initial offering which follwed BFAD approval of our distribution on March 14, 1995.
More recently, we observed a paradigm shift occuring concerning naturapathic preparations and we upgraded our manufacturing capacity so that we are now duly licensed as manufacturers of food supplements complete with pharmaceutical requirements for GCP. Although we are small company we are anticipating an enormous outpouring of antipathy towards our wholistic approach and we're attempting to cover our rear in advance as much as possible so we must make every effort to search and research every avenue to help us determine is this real or not.
If this is real, and our anecdotal results over the last several years remain constant when subjected to more rigid scrutiny, then somebody better sit up and listen. We hope to find exactly what LIZ is offering, and that is someone who's willing and eager to listen. The most credible testimonial on our behalves will come from one who doesn't want to believe.
If there are any takers for our offer please contact us, not someone else or some regulatory authority, and find out exactly what we're finding and how we intend to share it with anyone who wishes to participate in any manner.