Advance Physician Formulas company info
Advance Physician
Formulas
promotes these popular
herbal combination products:
* Diet Rx by Advance Physician Formulas
*
Eyesight Rx by Advance Physician Formulas has lutein,
ginkgo, taurine, carrot powder,
Carnosine, acetylcysteine, bilberry extract, goji
berry, and a number of other nutrients and herbs to improve day and night vision
along with color perception.
* Good Night Rx for better sleep
* Joint Power Rx by Advance Physician Formulas
* Mind Power Rx by Advance Physician Formulas for better concentration and focus
* MultiVit Rx by Advance Physician Formulas
* Passion Rx by Advance Physician Formulas to improve low libido and enhance
sexual pleasure
* Prostate Power Rx by Advance Physician Formulas
* Veg Rx - if you are vegetarian or vegan, take this supplement to supply the
missing nutrients in your diet.
About Advance Physician Formulas
Advance Physician Formulas is a nutraceutical company with headquarters in Irvine,
California, and customer care centers in several locations including Nebraska,
Iowa, and California. The aim of Advance Physician Formulas is to provide formulas of
the highest quality and effectiveness. Their scientific research team is highly
specialized to review the latest research on various supplements and herbs. They
carry high quality products from several respected supplement manufacturers,
including Source Naturals, Natrol, Now Foods, and others, and by respected
doctors and herbalists including world renowned medical doctor and best selling
author
Ray-Sahelian, M.D., who formulated several products listed
below for the Advance Physician Formulas label. Dr. Sahelian is one of the most
respected doctors in the world when it comes to nutritional knowledge and he
maintains a highly praised and widely visited web site on nutrition and natural
supplements. Dr. Sahelian writes a biweekly newsletter for Advance Physician
Formulas
and they consult with him regarding the latest nutritional and herbal research.
These Advance Physician Formulas products are available on their website.
Individual supplements
5-HTP 5 HTP 5HTP - 50 mg - 5HTP is the precursor to
serotonin and has a role to play in mood, sleep, emotional balance, and appetite
control.
Acai supplement- 500 mg - Acai is a berry from the Amazon forest with a high antioxidant
value.
Acetyl l Carnitine brain
enhancing supplement information and proper dosage information
Alpha Lipoic Acid - R -- 50 mg
Ashwagandha 500 mg
Beta-Sitosterol complex 350 mg
Catuaba - 500 mg
Choline - 500 mg
CMO - 400 mg
CoQ10 - 50 mg, see coq10 coenzyme
q10 information
CoQ10 - 100 mg
Curcumin and Turmeric - 500 mg
DMAE - 350 mg
Fish Oils, Wild
Graviola - 500 mg
Horny-Goat-Weed - 400 mg
Kava 300 mg
LJ100 Tongkat Ali extract - 25 mg
Maca - 500 mg
Mangosteen - 500 mg
Mucuna-Pruriens - 200 mg of 15% L dopa
Muira Puama - 500 mg
Saw Palmetto extract - 320 mg
Serrapeptase - 20,000 units, serrapeptase is a
proteolytic enzyme that was originally made in Japan.
Tongkat-Ali - 200 mg is a potent aphrodisiac from
Malaysia.
Tribulus - 400 mg
Advance Physician
Formulas
questions and emails
Q. I was considering buying some health food supplements at Advance Physician
Formulas,
and I have a question. I learned that one should look for the term “
pharmaceutical grade ” when he buys such products. However, I did not find it in
the descriptions of the products I was interested in at Advance Physician
Formulas. Does
it mean that their quality does not meet the standard of pharmaceutical grade?
It might be a naive question, and I am sorry for bothering you with such a
question.
A. The term pharmaceutical grade only applies to a select few
supplements such as the amino acid tryptophan and a few others. There is no such
pharmaceutical grade terminology with herbs and most other supplements.
Therefore, if you read on a website that their herbal products are
pharmaceutical grade, you may question their honesty since herbs are not
described in that manner.
Q. I have been very satisfied with the Physician Formula products particularly Eyesight Rx and MultiVit Rx. Keep up the good work. I tell my friends about how good the Advance Physician Formulas service is, the phone reps are excellent.
Q. I noticed that Advance Physician
Formulas
products say certified on them. I wondered who certifies the strength and purity
and lack of heavy metals in your products.
A. The Advance Physician Formulas products are made NHK Laboratories which
is independent from us. This lab is regularly evaluated by the FDA to make sure
all ingredients and the manufacturing processes follow FDA guidelines.
Q. I think very highly and my family about Advance Physician Formulas products. I am about to try the mind power but my husband and son-in-law love 5HTP and I love the Joint Power RX and Multi vitamin. My husband has ADHD and my son-in-law has bipolar and they both find 5 HTP fantastic for their brain.
Q. Are products on the Advance Physician
Formulas
website organic?
A. Advance Physician Formulas has hundreds of products from dozen or more
companies. Most of the herbs are not organic, and it is difficult to find a
whole line of products that are organic. Most herbs supplied by the major raw
material suppliers are not organic, however, unlike food, the amounts of herbs
ingested are often less than 1 mg which is practically insignificant when
compared to the kilograms of food eaten.
Q. Does Advance Physician Formulas have a
distributor in Costa Rica?
A. We ship to Costa Rica, but they don't have a distributor in
Costa Rica.
Q. Dr. Ray Sahelian's supplements are
stated as being 'high quality' but I notice other supplements are sold on
Advance Physician Formulas web site, not just the "Rx" brand. One such example is
'Source Naturals'. There are others. Are all these other brands high quality. I
have heard of Source Naturals and thought it was just one of those mediocre
brands on the market, nothing outstanding.
A. Advance Physician Formulas carries products from many companies. Dr. Sahelian has formulated about
40 products for
Advance Physician Formulas. Since the web
site sells about 300 products, not all of them are formulated by Dr. Sahelian.
Source Naturals is a respectable company.
Q. I know that vitamins supplements that
are USP verified which contain the USP symbol have been tested to make sure that
they disintegrate in the body and label are true and accurate. How would I know
if Advance Physician Formulas vitamins supplements are? What does a certificate of
analysis display? Are your vitamins supplements distilled? Are the harmful
ingredients (pesticides, etc...) removed?
A. Advance Physician Formulas supplements are manufactured by a GMP
certified facility called NHK labs in Santa Fe Springs, CA and this facility is
FDA evaluated every few months to pass industry standards. Furthermore, Dr.
Sahelian, a product developer at Advance Physician Formulas, reviews the certificates of
analysis to make sure the ingredients are of high standards. USP is an
independent organization and charge a fee for testing. USP is not a governmental
organization and companies do not have to have a USP label on their product.
Q. I want to export Advance Physician
Formulas
products overseas such as Passion Rx. I will send your stuff to some importer in
India or Maldives. That importer will sell to the end user. Can you sell to me
in large quantities?
A. Yes, Advance Physician Formulas can sell at wholesale in large
quantities. If you can ship the product overseas, then the stores can put the
product on the shelf and the consumer can buy it. PF can sell you the products
at wholesale which is 50 percent off the discounted price listed on the web
Physicians Formula web site. If you buy in larger quantities then higher
discounts can be given.
Q. I have enjoyed the Advance Physician
Formulas website and the products it offers. I appreciate that your facility
meets FDA guidelines for GMP, however I have a few questions you may address for
me regarding this issue. How often are your manufacturing facilities inspected
to meet FDA guidelines for GMP? Do you have an independent testing lab that
certifies the quality and quantity of the ingredients in your products? Are the
ingredients for your products procured internationally or are most of them from
North America?
A. The actual manufacturing of the bottles is not done by us but by
separate and independent companies that are FDA inspected. We contract with
several different companies to make our products and they are located in
California and Arizona. The raw ingredients that are purchased are independently
tested by HPLC. We use hundreds of different herbs and some of them only grow in
South America, Asia, or other continents so it is not possible to have every
ingredient come from the USA since not all herbs are grown in this country. We
try as much as possible to obtain ingredients that are made in the USA.
Interview by a
nutrition magazine in June 2008 regarding Dr. Sahelian and Advance Physician
Formulas
Q. When did Dr. Sahelian start Advance Physician Formulas and why?
A. Dr. Sahelian started Advance Physician Formulas in 2004 with a
partner that had two decades of experience within the natural foods industry.
Since then he has sold his shares and is now an independent contractor in charge
of research and development, formulating new products, and writing a popular
enewsletter called Supplement Research Update. The company was started in
order to provide effective formulas based on the decades of experience and
knowledge gathered by Dr. Sahelian through his background in nutrition, his
medical knowledge, experience with tens of thousands of patients, vitamin and
herbal research, and his personal use of nutritional supplements.
Q. How many products do you now sell?
A. Advance Physician Formulas has about 40 different products under
its brand.
Q. What are your best-selling products?
A. Passion Rx sexual enhancer, Diet Rx appetite suppressant, Mind
Power Rx brain booster, Eyesight Rx vision enhancer, Prostate Power Rx for
healthy prostate maintenance, MultiVit Rx energy enhancing multivitamin, and
Joint Power Rx for joint health.
Q. What are your newest products?
A. Diet Rx is the newest formula that works as an appetite
suppressant without caffeine, guarana, citrus aurantium or other stimulants. We
are extremely pleased with feedback from users who find that they eat half as
much during the day and have more natural energy than usual without the side
effects of increased heart rate or increased body temperature. Within a few
months Diet Rx became our second most popular formula.
Q. What sets the Advance Physician Formulas products apart from other supplement
brands?
A. Many companies, like ours, use high quality raw materials and
have reliable products. The major difference with Advance Physician Formulas is
that Dr. Sahelian personally takes every formula himself and has feedback from
patients along with a group of volunteers who help us test these products to
determine their effectiveness and report to us potential side effects. For
instance, Dr. Sahelian has taken every herb individually in the sexual enhancing
product Passion Rx and each time we make a new batch he takes it himself to see
how well it works. Another major difference between our formulas and other
companies is that Dr. Sahelian make improvements, sometimes major, sometimes
minor, on a regular basis to keep enhancing the effectiveness of the formulas
while minimizing the side effects. On the www.PhysicianFormulas.com website we
are honest in mentioning the benefits and adverse effects of the products that
are sold. We do not sell products that we don't think are effective, such as
human growth hormone products.
Q. How do you market your products and drive traffic to the Advance Physician
Formulas Web site? (Do you do any DRTV or radio advertising? Any print
advertising?)
A. At this time Advance Physician Formulas focuses mostly on
internet advertising and word of mouth. There is no TV or radio advertising.
Q. What percentage of your sales occur via
the Web site? What percentage occur via phone?
A. The vast majority of the sales are through the internet, the
percentage varies each month.
Q. Do you sell Dr. Sahelian’s branded supplements in other channels? (Retail?
Physician?)
A. There are many health food stores and doctors offices that carry
the products formulated by Ray Sahelian, M.D., but no attempt has been made to
approach large retailers or pharmacy chains.
Q. What are the advantages of having these products formulated and marketed by a
physician?
A. Consumers trust the information provided by a medical doctor,
particularly if the doctor has a nutrition science degree, is a bestselling
author, and is honest in presenting both the benefits and shortcomings of
supplements.
Q. What are the advantages of selling direct to the consumer via the Web and
telephone?
A. Many consumers do not have close access to a vitamin store that
carries our effective formulas, and it is convenient to order online.
Q. You also sell other supplement brands on your Web site. What percentage of
your sales do these other brands make up?
A. The majority of the supplements sold on the
www.PhysicianFormulas.com website are the ones formulated by Dr. Sahelian since
we focus our advertising on these effective and unique products. The actual
percentages vary over time.
Acetylcysteine antioxidant
supplement used to protect the liver from toxic compounds such as acetaminophen
Bilberry extract is used for vision
enhancement, often along with lutein and zeaxanthin carotenoids