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About Us :
As stated in our mission statement, Physician Select Vitamins®
strongly believes in preventive care, which we feel will result
in the overall lowering of health care costs in America.
Prevention through innovation is the primary focus of our company.
Treating the terminal stages of a disease is far more costly than
preventing it. This is true for the association between cancer
and smoking cessation, strokes and high blood pressure control,
and for the chronic complications that people get after they suffer
from their initial heart attack or from poorly controlled diabetes
mellitus.
Physician Select Vitamins® goal is to organize, associate,
and galvanize a caring group of healthcare professionals in local
communities throughout the U.S. to work towards a common goal.
Our underlying philosophy is to enable the healthcare industry
to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and to make an impact on
the macroeconomics of healthcare dollars; the eventual goal is
to keep Medicare and other forms of healthcare insurance viable
and productive for the coming generations of Americans, rather
than succumbing to its eventual decline and subsequent termination.
Unfortunately, healthcare expenditures will continue to increase
as the baby boomers and subsequent generations join the Medicare
eligible population age. Many solutions have been proposed and
set forth in motion, but they are primarily fiscal in thought.
The Physicians and Support Staff of Physician Select Vitamins®
feel that despite these proposed solutions to increasing health
care expenditures, they alone will not achieve the results needed
and desired by the populace. Almost all women and men desire more
than just to remain disease free; they desire an active and energetic
lifestyle.
And so our goal becomes not just to prevent disease and to consume
less healthcare resources with hospitalizations and medications,
but rather to improve the overall quality of life. This is the
ultimate goal of Physician Select Vitamins®, albeit
lofty.
To achieve this hope of ours, the Physicians and Support Staff
of Physician Select Vitamins® designed a solution called
"The Triangle of Health."
The Triangle of Health consists of exercise, nutrition, and personal
inspiration. There is significant statistical data that proves
that patients who follow the boundaries of this "Triangle"
are much healthier than the people who do not. These people tend
to live longer with an enhanced quality of life, and consequently
require a smaller percentage of that precious healthcare dollar.
Physician Select Vitamins® also believes that the focal
point in healthcare is launched from the physician's clinic. The
physician's clinic should be a source of information and inspiration
for the patient to learn about an appropriate diet and exercise
plan. Stratifying patients based on their health is the first
and foremost responsibility of the physician. After prescribing
a regiment of proper diet and exercise, it may become prudent
to begin initiation of supplements as the next step.
Recent research in a leading medical journal confirms what has
long been suspected, that "Most people do not consume an
optimal amount of all vitamins by diet alone." In addition,
as mentioned in the article, "it appears prudent for all
adults to take vitamin supplements." Furthermore, "Physicians
should make specific efforts to learn about their patients' use
of vitamins to ensure that they are taking vitamins that they
should
."
Supplements play an enormous role in the appropriate functioning
of our physiological systems in numerous and various ways. There
is an enormous amount of research that underlines the importance
of the use of supplements to maintain good health. The people
of Physician Select Vitamins® have gone through great
lengths in assembling a team of Physicians from a variety of specialties,
all of whom collaborated to create the most appropriate and calibrated
formulations of nutritional supplements that follow the philosophy
and guidelines set forth in our mission statement. These supplements
will be dispensed only through health care professionals who are
committed to these goals.
It is our sincere hope that these supplements will serve as a
vehicle to stimulate the formation of a network of physicians
and health care professionals throughout the country and in each
local community, that will be linked by Physician Select Vitamins®
with a common goal of promoting preventive medicine, increasing
the quality of life, and eventually saving the future of health
care expenditures, all starting at the door of your local physicians'
office.
It is our belief that even if we are able to keep 10% of the
population healthier, the positive impact on healthcare cost will
be astronomical. Physician Select Vitamins® will continue
to attempt to play a vital role in the sustenance of healthcare
in the U.S. through the propagation of good health and prevention
of disease through personal inspiration and motivation, exercise,
and proper nutrition.*
Physician Select Vitamins®, L.L.C
Fletcher RH. Fairfield KM. "Vitamins
for Chronic Disease Prevention in Adults." The Journal of
the American Medical Association 2002 Jun 19;287:3043. The Journal
of the American Medical Association neither endorses nor approves
any commercial products or services.
* The Food and Drug Administration has not evaluated these statements.
These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent
any disease.
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