About Health

It all started back in 2005 when my mother was diagnosed with a serious blood ailment, her prognosis wasn't good and to top it off she also had joint mobility issues and was in desperate need of a hip replacement operation. I was desperate to give her a better chance at life, so I set out researching natural products. During my search I came across an article on resveratrol in the Australian Science Magazine Cosmos. In the article Dr. David Sinclair, a scientist at Harvard University, shared his fascinating research on the substance and its numerous potential health benefits. This really caught my attention and I thought I need to get hold of some of this for my mother to try. The astonishing results At the time, resveratrol wasn't being sold anywhere; however, I was determined to source some for my mother. I eventually found a supplier and together we selected the formula that later would become known as New Zealand’s number one selling resveratrol supplement, Res-V Plus. I gave my mother some to try and just 10 days later I received a phone call from my father who exclaimed: "Your Mum no longer needs her mechanical claw to pick things up off the ground!” Although I had set out to help Mum with her much more serious health issue, this unexpected benefit was a great result. Within weeks, I started receiving positive feedback from my mother's friends who had seen significant improvements in my mother’s mobility and wanted to try some themselves. I was hand writing the ingredients on labels and out the door it went, I hadn’t even given it a name. I thought to myself there must be so many other people that could benefit from this product; it was this that led to the founding of About Health in 2006. I have since invested a lot of time into researching natural products and formulating multi-ingredient, multi-benefit supplements. Lester's Oil, is our latest formulation and is named after my father Lester who passed away in 2009. Dad died of one of the worst cancers you can get, pancreatic cancer. The thing that makes this cancer so deadly is that by the time you are diagnosed, it has usually spread to other organs, like your liver. This means that from the point of diagnosis, you generally live just months. Dad was only 67 when he died, and I think that’s far too young. During his illness, I often thought to myself; What could I have given my father, that could have reduced his chances of getting sick in the first place?’ and from that question came Lester’s Oil (www.abouthealth.co.nz/products/lestersoil) While there are no guarantees in life, I firmly believe that supplements can help increase our chances of living longer, healthier lives. Read the full story of Daniel's Mum here: http://abouthealth.co.nz/about-health-story/ Read the full story of Daniel's Father here: http://abouthealth.co.nz/news/2316/for-my-father