ageLOC Y-SPAN Live by Dr Joe Chang

Well, once again, hi everybody. And today, the first of many I hope, all Facebook Live. My name is Joe Chang, and being the person responsible for product development and all scientific research we do here as part of our innovation in Nu Skin, I'm so glad to be here and hopefully be able to help you understand some of the products we launch that are so innovative. For some of the science that may be a bit difficult to understand, but I'm here to help you see what you can get from the latest product we launched from this so-called ageLOC technology that we have been developing over the last six, seven years. It's about the genes relating to the aging process, and the latest example of how we're using that kind of science to bring really significant health benefits to people taking our HR products would be this product that we call LifeSpan. Lots of benefits. I think this is perhaps what our scientists are rather proud of, and think that this is a product that is a culmination of all we have done over the last six, seven years with the ageLOC technology. It is the best breakthrough product we have ever developed because as scientists, we want to make sure that the ingredients we use in our products, such as White Span, these ingredients are carefully evaluated. They do what they're supposed to do, and not just something that we say, 'Hey, this is a great ingredient and we throw it in.' We don't just do that in Nu Skin, and especially for such a product like LifeSpan. So many benefits, and whether you understand the science or not is perhaps a little bit less important as what you can really get, as shown on this particular illustration. And that is that when you take LifeSpan, and you have to take this product regularly—I think it's almost like a food product, you take it on a regular basis daily—and you get these kinds of benefits. White Span is perhaps the first product ever that we have produced in Nu Skin through the ageLOC technology that can really provide benefits throughout the body. For example, I think most of us will realize that as we get older, our eyesight is not as good as it should be. We can preserve it. When we were young, we don't worry about what we can see and about our vision. Taking White Span will help you to preserve that acuity, what we call vision. So eye health is promoted and supported by White Span. The immune response—we all know in this day and age, whether it's pollution, whether it's all kinds of other external dangerous things that we're exposed to every day, we need to have a very strong immune response. And the immune system is primarily the dominant system in the body that protects us from external factors. So once again, I think taking White Span will boost your immunity. And joints—once again, this is something that I don't think I need to describe to you why the joints are important. You can imagine as you get older, you don't run as fast because your joints are not as strong or as healthy as when you were younger. So again, White Span will protect and preserve the health and the strength of those joints. And so on: bones, physical performance. I think you can get a very positive effect when you take LifeSpan regularly. And heart as well—I think the heart is the pumping organ in the body that provides blood for every tissue to keep them healthy, and keeping a heart strong is another thing that I think you can get from White Span. And finally, the brain. We all know that the brain is something that tends to go first perhaps as we get older. We can't remember things, we sort of think we've lost our keys, we can't seem to find them, we don't know where we parked in a big parking lot. These are what we call a senior moment. And I think it's not as if these are things that you can stop, but you can at least delay the onset of such a loss of memory or dementia, if you will, in the brain with White Span. So taken together, you can see now that all these tissues in your body, all these incredible functions that you must have to stay young, you can actually protect them by taking White Span. And that is really why we call White Span the total body protection product. It's a systemic youth preservation product, not just about anti-aging, but actually about preserving your youth. So that's pretty key, and the first time ever, and we are very, very excited about this product. And I think everybody listening in should at least look at this particular product because it will provide a lot of benefits.

Yes, it is, Kathy. It's really because of a variety of regulatory and legal reasons. We like to bring the benefits of such a product to every market that we are in, but sometimes a regulatory agency may not allow us to use the same identical name in that market, and that's why we switch it. But White Span is the same as the product that you get in the United States that we call YouthSpan, and in another market we might call it YouthSpan. So yeah, they're all identical products and they all provide the same exact benefits.

This is a great point because I think when you think about aging, I think some of you younger folks and younger leaders in our business and so on, the kind of thing that you hear in your mid-20s or even the early 30s is you don't need to take an anti-aging product. And that is why sometimes I feel that when we call White Span an anti-aging product, it's probably the wrong name. It's a misnomer, if you will, because really White Span is a youth preservation product. And when you think about White Span along those lines, you can imagine that even if you're in your mid-20s, this is a great product for you because we have some evidence to suggest that the earlier you take this product, the better the results are going to be. Because as you can imagine, if you can prevent or slow down the aging process when you were younger, it takes far longer as you get older for those age-related effects to show up. So taking White Span in the mid-20s is a great idea, and I would encourage everybody to think about it because the earlier you take White Span, the better the benefits will be.

Okay, sorry. Thanks to you guys out there. No, Joe Span, my friend.

It can be flexible. I think I do recognize that many of you, not all of you, including myself, we have a busy lifestyle. So the best I would imagine is to think about taking White Span twice a day. So the two capsules that you take in the morning, you can take any time, whether it's before breakfast or after breakfast. I think some of the listeners on this Facebook Live, I think you should take it after breakfast because if you have some food in the stomach, then I think White Span can be tolerated even better. But you can take it two hours later as long as it's in the morning, I think it's fine. And then once again during dinner time, take White Span another two capsules, and again after dinner would be great. Just before you go to sleep, it doesn't have to be 7 o'clock. You don't have to take it at 7 o'clock; it can be 8 o'clock, an hour later or a couple of hours later. As long as you take it twice a day, I think you'll be totally fine.

It would be advisable for many of you to take it after meals. It's not a strict recommendation, but I think it would be a strong suggestion to all of you because sometimes if you have an empty stomach, especially in the morning after a whole night's sleep, your stomach tends to be empty. And then taking some food will help to buffer some of the ingredients in White Span so that you won't have a stomach upset or some irritation, and it will make White Span much more tolerable after food, especially in the morning.

This is a great question because we have obviously developed a prior product that we call R² through the ageLOC technology as well. So now we have White Span, and it's always a natural question to say, 'Well, hello, can I take R² together with White Span?' It's a great combination, and here's why. When we developed R² based on the scientific studies and discoveries that we had about three or four years ago, we wanted to make sure that every cell in your body is absolutely clean. Because as you can imagine, when your cell works throughout the day to keep your body functioning, those cells get, in a way, scientifically what we would call a bit dirty. So there's a lot of biochemical processes going on inside the cell, and dirt or cellular debris is being created inside the cell, and they need to be taken out. Just like all of us every week or so we take the trash out from our homes, the cell has to do the same thing. So we developed R² to be a product that can actually clean the cells, make them clean and pure, so that when you take LifeSpan after taking R², then the White Span is going to become more effective because you're working in a clean environment. And I think all of us can appreciate when you're working in a cleaner environment, your productivity is going to be more efficient and more effective. And that's a similar situation that happens inside your body. If you keep your cells clean, and you can do that with R², then White Span works better. So to combine the dosing of White Span with R² at the same time is a wonderful combination, and you can expect at the minimum some very synergistic and additive benefits by taking the combination.

Yeah, so weight management is about really getting rid of fat in the body, right? So sometimes people think they are managing their weight; they look at a scale and see they're losing weight, but the scale doesn't tell you where that weight loss is coming from. If it is coming from muscle, then it's not a good thing. The weight loss has to come from fat tissue, and that's what we think about when we think about healthy weight management. So now, do White Span and R² directly affect the fat tissue in a sense of making them lose fat? No, they don't directly do that, but they do make your body a bit more efficient in terms of metabolic activity. So it will, in a way, by making your body more active and increasing your metabolism, naturally there will be some positive effect on burning calories. So when you burn more calories, the more fat you would lose. So either way, White Span and R² do have an indirect benefit towards the eventualities of weight loss. The most effective product system that we have at Nu Skin that helps in weight management is a system that we call TR90, and that's the one that we would recommend as a focus for weight management. But White Span and R² are incredible HR products that can help to promote the weight loss that can come from taking the TR90 system.

Oh, I think if you want to start, I would recommend taking R² first. Because this is a way to think about it: clean yourself out. That's the first thing to do, right? When you buy a new house that somebody has already lived in, when you go in, the first thing to do is to clean the house. So that's what you do the first thing for your body: make sure that you detoxify and purify your body with R². So you take R², cleaning out for a month, and that usually is sufficient time to clean your body, cellular purification if you will. And then immediately start White Span. And once you've added White Span to your R² dosing, then you should continue with the combination throughout the time. So the first product to start, I would start with R² instead.

Aha, so I think many of you would realize that I do have access to every single Nu Skin product I care for. And many of you would have heard about the new ageLOC Me device, that little magical robot that can dispense our ageLOC formulations. It is so convenient for me now to be able to customize my ageLOC anti-aging formulation for skincare. So that's the product I'm using currently, and it makes it very convenient for me in the morning and evening to apply a Nu Skin facial product.

Yes, it is, isn't it? It's a jungle out there, as they say. Because every time, regardless of which country you're in, you walk into a health store and you see thousands of supplements manufactured by many, many companies. I get confused when I walk into such a store and see these supplements there. Which one should I be taking? I think it comes down to the fact that I have a little bit of an advantage over many of you in so far as I am trained to look at supplements from a scientific point of view. And I know there are many supplements out there that are not made to the highest standards, and it is a reality, a sad reality that we are all facing right now. And that is why at Nu Skin, when we develop our supplements, we have developed and created this process we call the 6S process. And this is a process that we use every time our scientists think about making a particular supplement. The reason why we call it the 6S process is because we make sure that we get the highest quality ingredients. And when we get highest quality ingredients, we know what comes out at the other end will be a great product. If you start with lousy ingredients, you're never ever going to get a great product. So that's one of the S's in our development approach. And secondly, we make sure that there are no contaminating ingredients, because we know these are natural products, and every time we analyze some of these mystical natural products, we do find some contaminants such as heavy metals, pesticides, fertilizers. So our process ensures and guarantees that we get rid of all those contaminating toxic ingredients before we use the raw materials. So that's another aspect of the 6S process relating to safety. And then finally, as a scientist, we believe in evidence and making sure that when we choose and select an ingredient, that selection is based on scientific evidence and not just a belief system. And that's important to us because we do realize that the ingredients are going to go into your body, and we want to make sure that every ingredient that we use in our supplements, in the Pharmanex supplements, those ingredients are safe and effective. So that's how I choose. I ask, 'Have you done any scientific studies with the supplement? Have you done a clinical study with the supplement?' These are important questions. 'Where do you get your ingredients from?' and 'Do you manufacture your supplements and guarantee quality control?' And we do that, and that's why we have 75 scientists in the Nu Skin world, because other scientists will not be able to answer any of these questions.

Oh dear, you're asking me to name my favorite kid? Yes, getting all my children right is always difficult, as you can appreciate. When you're asked such a question, well, clearly over the years we have developed many, many great products. And each one of them, when we produced and developed it and launched it, it was the greatest product based on the science that we know. And it's wonderful; they're all great. I think it's not as if one product is inferior to another. But historically, looking at all the products that we have in the Pharmanex product catalog, there is one product that is dear to my heart, and that one because that was close when I got involved when I sort of co-founded Pharmanex almost 18 years ago. And this is a product that you all see here: it's Tēgreen. It's a great product. It's green tea, highly purified, it preserves all the active ingredients that we get from a tea leaf. And it's been around, it's priced at a very good price point for many of our consumers and customers. And I think after this Facebook Live, we're going to make a good offer, an offer that you can't literally refuse. We're going to give you a promotional offer on this particular product so that you can at least start enjoying what we have at Nu Skin as far as supplements and how you use our supplements to preserve your youthfulness.

No, you can, and we have taken this into account. We anticipated that this could happen with many of our customers, and therefore we have made sure that taking LifePak Nano—we have many versions of LifePak Nano, but many versions of LifePak, I'm sorry—but LifePak Nano can be taken together with LifeSpan with no worries at all. You won't overdose on the ingredients. As many of you recognize, there are certain ingredients that overlap, but the increase in the amount when you take the combination, those amounts will not affect you in any way. There won't be any side effects.

I'm sure it will be wonderful to talk about other things that are happening in the world of Nu Skin.