PRESS RELEASE ABOUT HA and SYNTHOVIAL SEVEN
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February 10, 2003
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NEW RESEARCH MAY PROVE AN END TO PAINFUL AND EXPENSIVE INJECTIONS AT THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE FOR OSTEOARTHRITIS AND AID FIBROMYALGIA SUFFERERS.

(Kansas City) The statistics are grim for us Americans. It has been reported that currently 20 million of us suffer from Osteoarthritis. By the year 2020, that figure is expected to soar to 40 million. And according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, one-third of us suffer from some sort of joint disease. Although these figures may sound discouraging, there is hope on the horizon.

Hyaluronic acid, the natural lubricant in our joints and in which osteoarthritis sufferers receive via painful injection at their doctor’s offices, has been modified into an oral supplement and now its effects are being studied.

Dr. K. Dean Reeves, M.D., a physiatrist (Specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) out of Kansas City, is a researcher of hyaluronic acid and is conducting the double blind study on the oral hyaluronic acid supplement, or Synthovial 7 as it is called, for patients with knee arthritis.

“Hyaluronic acid is virtually everywhere in the body. It is not only a lubricant for our joints but we’re finding that it surrounds cells and acts like a sieve where almost everything that affects our cells, need to interact with it.”

So, how would an oral hyaluronic supplement work? For those of you with medical  savvy wanting a detailed description, visit Reeves’ website, www.DrReevesOnLine.com under General Information on Hyaluronic Acid. For the rest of us, Reeves took the oral part out of the equation and explained it like this:

Hyaluronic acid in our joints is a long and complex molecule and makes a ball shape which resists compression. Arthritis is a condition where those molecules have broken down to smaller pieces and lose their ability to keep a ball shape.

A patient then feels pain and stiffness as a result. In severe cases, a patient may receive several hyaluronic acid injections in several joints at the same time (such as fingers and knees) by their doctor. In addition to pain with the injections, infection is possible and the cost is considerable.

Hyaluronic acid taken orally is usually degraded by stomach acid. But recently it has been modified to prevent this degradation in the stomach and its effects are now being studied.

Reeves can’t comment on partial results of his double blind study just yet, nor on the way hyaluronic acid has been modified to prevent the degradation in the stomach. However, he does state that the oral hyaluronic acid has been in use for quite some time without any harmful effects. In fact, the only effects that have been reported are favorable ones.

Janice Lyle, a retired airline Flight Service Manager has been an arthritis and fibromyalgia sufferer for nearly eight years. She discovered Synthovial Seven from her brother, an engineer with severe hand arthritis who had success using the oral form. After trying Synthovial 7, she said her pain was gone only after a week. She was so thrilled that she now dedicates her time and retirement funds on getting the word out.

She started a website: www.HumanBodyRecon.com and now has become a distributor of the product. According to Lyle, Synthovial 7 has already proved itself. One only has to read the flood of daily emails she receives from others that have used the product.

“Thank you God for helping these wonderful people make this Synthovial 7,” one email states, “I am getting my life back!” Another states their pain as getting better by “90-98%.” “We’re hearing some reports back and people are saying that they’re doing real well,” Reeves says. However, he admits that the research is taking longer than expected.

Reeves, who is being minimally funded for his study, and who has dedicated his “spare” time to other research in the past as well as using his own funds, now needs more patients. At least forty more to be exact. Each participant will receive 6 months of oral hyaluronic acid without charge for willfully taking either the real thing or placebo for 2 months.

So, what does this potentially mean for current and future arthritis sufferers? No more uncomfortable injections for one. Injections can cause a patient hundreds even thousands of dollars each visit. The oral form would be a fraction of the cost in comparison to those injections. Also, the method in which a patient receives the oral hyaluronic acid is non-invasive. The oral form is a tasteless liquid. All the patient has to do is add one dropper of it in a glass of juice or water once daily.

Even though the results of the oral hyaluronic acid study are not completed just yet, it seems very promising that the end of painful and expensive injections are near. And that’s good news for the 20 or so million more Americans that will develop Arthritis during the next seventeen years.

PRESS RELEASE FROM BISSON BARCELONA
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CONTACT: Traci Bisson
May 7, 2003
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Local company’s new product offers relief for arthritis and fibromyalgia sufferers.

Raymond, NH:The Human Body Recon Company, which offers resources for health and longevity, announces the addition of Synthovial Seven to their product line. Synthovial Seven, a 100% natural food supplement, offers joint pain treatment by replacing the body’s natural lubricating substance. It consists of pure hyaluronic acid, which exists naturally in all living organisms.

In the human body, it is found in greatest concentrations in the synovial fluid of articular joints for lubrication, the fluid of the eye, and most abundantly in the skin. As we age, the body produces less hyaluronic acid. The joints become stiff and painful to move, and the skin becomes dry and wrinkly.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, one-third of Americans suffer from some sort of joint disease. Janice Lyle, owner of The Human Body Recon Co., had suffered from arthritis and fibromyalgia for nearly eight years. She discovered Synthovial Seven from her brother, an engineer with severe hand arthritis who had success using the product. Much of the pain of fibromyalgia is due to the drying out of the ligaments that are attached to the bone. However, the pain is felt in the muscles and often misdiagnosed as muscle pain. When the synovial fluid (which contains hyaluronic acid) in the ligaments is restored, the pain goes away.

“After trying Synthovial Seven, which is an oral product, my pain was gone within a week,” said Lyle. “It was at that time that I decided to commit myself and my retirement funds to spreading the word about this product.”

In November of 2000, ABC News Prime Time Live with Connie Chung examined the effects of retaining hyaluronic acid in the inhabitants of a village in Yuzurihara, Japan otherwise known as the “village of long life”. Bill Sardi, author of How To Live 100 Years Without Growing Old, visited this same village to study the diets of these people which helped them retain hyaluronic acid. Dr. Toyosuke Komori, the town doctor who has studied and written books on longevity in Yuzurihara, believes that their locally grown starches help stimulate the body’s natural creation of hyaluronic acid, which aging bodies typically lose. This may ward off the aging process by helping the cells of the body thrive and retain moisture, keeping joints lubricated, protecting the retina in eyes and keeping skin smooth and elastic.

Another reason why hyaluronic acid is so effective is because it is a double molecule. Glucosamine, which works for some arthritis sufferers, is only half of the molecule of hyaluronic acid and must be taken in high doses for extended periods of time for any results.

Additional benefits of using Synthovial Seven include: fibromyalgia symptom relief, rheumatoid arthritis relief, increased mobility, smoother and softer skin, cessation of hair loss from arthritis, and relief from dry eyes and dry mouth.

For more information, please visit www.humanbodyrecon.com or call 1-866-466-SYN7.

PRESS RELEASE FROM NEW ENGLAND BUSINESS BEAT

Human Body Recon by Jennifer Monroe
When American was still in its infancy in the nineteenth century, speculators traveled the new country pitching “cure-alls.” While this “quick-fix” industry expanded during the next two centuries, Janice Lyle believes that two years ago she found “the best snake oil yet.”

She uses the term in jest, as the products she sells through her company, Human Body Recon, LLC, are rooted in solid science. Synthovial Seven is an oral form of hyaluronic acid which is found in human synovial fluids. “When we reach forty five or fifty years old, we stop producing and retaining as much synovial fluid as we do when we are younger,” Lyle explained. It is through this we lubricate our joints, skin, and eyes.”

Lower levels of synovial fluid can contribute to osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, and dry eye syndrome among others. Until the introduction of the oral Synthovial Seven two years ago, the only way to get hyaluronic acid replacement was through injections. Lyle learned about the product from her brother, who had tried it to treat the arthritis in his hands. “One of his friends from high school and his brother found it and were going to be exclusive retailers,” Lyle said. Her brother was so impressed with his results that he bought some for their mother who was preparing for hip surgery. She was equally impressed and did not have the surgery. Then it was Lyle’s turn. “I had arthritis from my fingertips all the way down to the bunion in my foot,” she said. “By the end of two weeks my pain was completely gone and has not come back.”

At the time, Lyle was settling into her recent retirement after 28 years with TWA. After the product changed her life, she wanted to help spread the word. “I contacted the retailers asked them if I could sell it for them as their East Coast rep,” she explained. Their answer was “yes” and they granted her permission to publish a Web site to help market the product. “I started about two years ago with only my testimonial on the site,” she said. “I had never sold anything in my life, but I had to see what I could do.”

Today her site, www.humanbodyrecon.com, generates business around the world. Entering the world of the self-employed has not been without its challenges, but all and all, Lyle has enjoyed the process. “That’s the fun of it,” she said, “getting my name and setting myself up as a LLC. I called a lawyer and everything he said he’d help me do I’d done myself: going to the state house in Concord, filling out all the paper work. “I have, all my life, tried to do things in the simplest possible way,” she continued. “I wanted to do the LLC so I wouldn’t have to have a separate tax return for the company.”

The name of the company, “Human Body Recon,” was deliberate. “I was trying to come up with something very different,” she said, “I was trying to think of something that truly describes what this product does; it reconstructs from the inside. Marketing was another question, and Lyle decided the Web site and word of mouth were the answers. She also writes news releases and articles and is discovering how to strike the appropriate balance between news and marketing. “I can’t afford advertising,” she admits, “but it was fun learning the proper key words to get people to come to my site. I also started talking to a lot of people and telling them about it. The best form of advertising is word of mouth.”

But placement of her “snake oil” article in The Senior Beacon gave Human Body Recon a big boost. “I got an e-mail from someone in Australia who had read the article on another Web site,” she said. “It’s amazing what one article can do.” Orders began to come in through the Web site and Lyle continued to make face-to-face contacts with the help of the chamber of commerce, Microcredit NH and the Women’s Business Center. From her home in Raymond, NH so far this year she has sold $12,000 dollars worth of product. Most of what she has made so far, however, has gone directly into her business. “I put so much back into it,” she said, “the Web site is being reworked and I’m working on my expo booth for health fairs. Everything costs money. I hope to make some money by the end of the year, maybe.”

While much of her business is to individuals via the Web site, Lyle also distributes to retail outlets in the Northeast. “I do have this product in several doctors’ offices, natural pharmacies in the northeast, and a place in Boston. I start it and then my customers take it to their doctors. “I deliver to some personally and some sales I do via telephone or e-mail conversation,” she continued. “Most of my online orders come from California and Texas, and I’ve had a big upsweep in Hawaii. I don’t know what’s driving those orders.”

When she isn’t working with customers, she is conducting research on the competition. No other company has the same formula. Since hyaluronic acid is not a drug, it does not need FDA approval, but the scientist who designed the product is finishing a double blind study which will be published in one of the American medical journals. From their office in Kansas City, the original retailers, along with Lyle in New Hampshire, are preparing to introduce three new products as well. “We now have a product for horses available, and another product for small animals.” Even the Discovery Channel is interested in a story for its Health Watch program. She says she’s ready for what that exposure would bring.

“I love talking to people about it,” she said, “I’m ready for the boom in business.”

Lyle does admit, however, that self-employment is not a path to be taken lightly. “It depends on where you are in your life and what you want to do with it,” she said. “This has been such an eye opening experience. It’s not for everybody; I was just lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. Had it come to me a year sooner, I wouldn’t have even thought of it.

“I’ve learned how much stamina it takes to just keep going with it,” she continued. “Every time I stop to think ‘What am I doing?’ I know how good it is and how much good it can do for nearly everybody. I’m 54 and I feel 10 years younger than I did two years ago because I don’t have any pain left. I get right back to the positives. It’s the product itself that keeps me going.”