the medical standpoint because people watching this show will say, "well, ken meares, you're the c.e.o. of the company. you just want to sell product." actually, i wanna help people. they always say the richest person in the graveyard is still dead, so it's not about, not about just that, it's about helping people. >> i... i want you to tell, just a minute here, real quick, i know, i didn't mean to interrupt you, but... >> no, go ahead. >> you talked about how expensive it is to make this one little pill to me... tell that. >> well, yes, this, this bottle takes 18 months to make. >> 18 months? >> the mussels have to grow. we grow those, we have a limited supply. there's an arrangement with the new zealand government that you don't fish out the waters, so they have to be grown, and then when they are processed, it'll take 18 months to make one bottle. and we're able to make about three million bottles a month. so, it's a limited-supply product-- we just don't turn a machine on and press out pills and make 'em, make 'em, make 'em. it's a natural product. this is a super food, it comes from the ocean, and this mussel

only comes from that place in the world, only in the waters of new zealand. it's called the oil extract of perna canaliculus. perna canaliculus, that's from the green-lipped muscle. and there's a patented process that our partners in australia paid millions and millions of dollars for. it took 15 years to stabilize the extraction process. this is a product that truly works... it's safe, it's effective, there's no side effects, and when someone has questions on it, you really have two choices: keep the pain or try it. >> or try it. >> you get an unconditional, money-back guarantee, and again, there's medical science and research and data to back this up, and that's why many, many medical doctors use this in their practice. that's why, um, dr. manilasco, who is the... was the head of the florida cardiologists for three years, he was the president... he has hundreds of

patients on the product, and he himself is a patient of the product. he said, "ken, i've never had a product that works like this." and he's able to prescribe an omega 3, which is a foundation, very important product for an individual to take. so it's a very unique product. >> dorothy: it is. >> one-of-a-kind. >> now, dr. downey, welcome to club 36, and i wanna ask you now, heart, for example, as you were talking, ken, the heart... there's so many people who die of heart attacks. >> the omega xl, the oil that's the ingredient in omega xl, is an anti-inflammatory, and the cause of all the things that we develop with aging and that cause pain is inflammation. so the whole, the whole purpose of that product is to decrease the inflammation, to reverse the effects of inflammation and to reverse the effects of aging and pain. that's how i present it to my patients, many of whom are probably watching tonight. uh, inflammation is the tendency

of the body to heal itself, but occasionally the inflammation goes uncontrolled and it becomes chronic inflammation, and with chronic inflammation you have swelling, and if there's swelling around a nerve you have nerve damage, if there's swelling in a joint you have joint damage and joint pain. so the purpose of that, that particular product and many of the medicines i prescribe, with hesitation because of the side effects, are trying to reverse that inflammation. so if you can prescribe a medication or a substance that can reduce inflammation without causing harmful side effects, that's the best of both worlds. you're providing relief without causing damage. >> and you don't have to have pain to take it. now, a diabetic, what does it do for a diabetic? >> diabetes... [clears throat] pardon me, diabetic individuals have elevated blood sugar, increased blood sugar, and the increased blood sugar has an effect on the nerves, for

example... >> yes. >> and the substance in the blood, the blood glucose, can impair the nerves and make them so they don't function correctly. this will decrease the inflammation around the nerve, prevent swelling around the nerve... >> dorothy: it's good for everything. >> ...there's no reason not to try it, or not to take it. the way i describe it to patients is, you're taking it... everybody that takes it, something gets better, and you don't know what it's going to be. >> dorothy: something gets better. [laughs] >> something's gonna get better. and if you take it long enough, i think the pain will decrease but also you'll decrease some of the effects of aging, of life. >> well, now, listen, i'm ready for that one-- how about you? >> dr. downey: i take four a day. >> you take four a day? >> two in the morning, two in the afternoon, that's right. >> uh, there are 60 soft-gel capsules in a bottle. and tonight, only tonight and in the replays, you can get two for the price ofne. they're giving you one free for the price of one. so if you go to your phones right now... now, when this is, when i don't have anymore, it's over, o.k.?

so i need you to go to your phone right now and call and get... get one. it's $49 for one bottle and that will give you two bottles and you can try, see the difference it will make in your life. you may say, "well, i've tried to take about 10 of them. well, i didn't feel any difference," um, keep trying. because with my girl, she took one and she felt the difference. so, i don't know what it's gonna do for you, but i'm asking you to try it, it'll make a difference in your life. >> well, in recent months, we have heard a great deal in both the media of television, print and newspapers, about adverse effects from anti-inflammatory drugs. several of these drugs have been taken off the market. thus, given the patient population that i serve, i had to search for a new anti-inflammatory agent which would be helpful in the care of my patients. my search led to the discovery of a new product, omega xl. this lipid extract is a very powerful anti-inflammatory agent

and has been very effective, as i've used it in the relief of symptoms in my patients who have inflammatory conditions. >> just keep going to your phone because it's gonna take a lot of phone calls to get all these bottles and you want to make sure you get your free bottle tonight, so go to your phone. you know, i'm reading this and it says it's good for allergies and arthritis, asthma, cardiovascular disease... can kids take this? >> ken: absolutely... from two to 102. there's eight million children in the u.s. under 17 years old who have asthma. asthma is getting worse and worse and worse. the air pollutions, particularly the fumes that come out of the back of a diesel truck, the diesel particles will attach themselves to the oxygen and you'll try to breathe it in and it will stunt your lung growth. it has now been proven, large cities-- the l.a.'s, the detroit's, the chicago's, where they have a lot of heavy vehicle traffic-- it's actually causing stunted lung growth. probably the first generation

that may die at an earlier age than the current generation. but children from two to 102, again, eight million children under 17 years old with asthma in the u.s. >> so you just... they'll take... 'cause it's a gel-cap. >> it's a soft, little, teeny, soft gel-cap, little, teeny, gel-cap... >> so easy. >> and if someone doesn't want to actually swallow it, you can actually put a little pin in it and squeeze it on their food, if they're two or three years old, but it's also very good for pregnant women. how many times have you heard, you can't have a pregnant woman take anything? a diet rich in omega 3s will help the brain development of the child, actually even from the time the woman is pregnant. from the time a woman conceives, the first 24 months the child's brain triples in size. doctors across the country are embracing omega 3s. it's coming down from the tops of the a.m.a. omega 3s are so important and dr. downey can address that. it's... you talk to any doctor and you say, "i'm taking an omega 3." they'd say, "keep taking it. keep taking it." and it's only the second time

that the f.d.a. has ever allowed a qualified claim. the f.d.a. has allowed a claim to say a diet rich in omega 3s may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. it's the first time the f.d.a. has allowed a qualified claim for a non-prescription medicine, the second time in their history. >> now, a child, two years old. see, i have a granddaughter, she's 18 months... i mean, she's a little wildfire, but could i give her one? >> dr. downey: yes. >> dorothy: that's from a doctor, y'all. so she can have one how often? in my opinion, this is the safest substance you can swallow... period. >> period. >> i mean, it's for pediatrics, adults, geriatrics... what you're doing, it's a preventive medicine. you're treating that which you've got, the inflammation that you've got and you're preventing that inflammation which is gonna come down the line. so, in my opinion it's the safest thing you can ingest.

>> cindy, you have children? this dr. downey's wife, beautiful cindy. [laughs] >> yes, four. >> four? and do you give them to ur children too? >> yes. >> that's wonderful. can you tell the difference in their school, their behavior? >> they are all adults, young adults. >> oh, young adults. >> out of school. >> you don't look old enough to have young adults out of school. >> dr. downey: it's the omega xl. [laughter, applause] >> the anti-aging part. >> the anti-aging part of it. well, if it does to me what it does to her, i think i'll take four a day. [laughs] i'll tell you. so, why do you like to take it, cindy? what do you see about it? >> oh, the energy level in me just increased... dramatically within, i'd say, three days. i had a rotator cuff problem in my right shoulder for seven years and i am completely pain-free.

and that, um... [applause] i have had inflammation of the stomach probably for the past 12 years. i have none of that. >> wow, so those people who have acid reflux, it would be good for them. >> we went one night without it and it was an amazing difference the next... difference the next day, and i told him, i said, "you forgot to give me my omega xl last night." and i could tell immediately just with the indigestion and the stomach problems. >> wow. >> so i won't go without it, ever. >> ever. >> he said buy 500 bottles before they run out. [laughter] >> buy 500 before they run out. >> mm-hmm. >> we have got all these bottles here and you go to your phone, just because they want you to try it tonight. this is one bottle, but you're gonna get one free. for every bottle you buy, one free. all right? if you wanna buy five, six, can they do that? and one free? no, just one. >> ken: buy one, get one free.

>> just one, o.k. you buy one, you get one free, o.k.? so, um, this is wonderful for you and you will have the opportunity to have two months' worth, right here. so this... that gives you two a day. now, if you're like me, i would need two bottles a month because i like it and my husband will like it. >> ken: that's right, that's what happens. >> but, how much is a doctor's visit? you know, this is such a preventative medicine... we're putting you out of business, doctor, i'm sorry. >> you know, uh, i, i... we have a practice, augusta pain management, here in augusta, geora, and we see a hundred, a hundred people a day in pain. >> dorothy: in pain. >> and that's pain that they've... that's become lifestyle-limiting. they can't do the things they wanna do, they can't go to church, they can't go to the bookstore, they can't do things with their family. so they come to see us with this painful condition. and our, our goal is to get them out of pain, and to get them out of pain as safely as possible.

and sometimes i have to prescribe strong, narcotic pain medications and strong anti-inflammatory medications. but i always defer and recommend, try this, try this anti-inflammatory that's natural and no side effects and no harm, so that you can't go wrong with at least trying it. and then i recommend they stay on it because something will get better. >> ken: we're actually helping his business because when you help people, they'll tell their friends, so it'll actually help the doctor's business... not put him out of business, it'll expand his business. >> dorothy: expand his business because everybody will want to have this. the preventative part is what i really like. i really like the fact that i've... i've always been concerned about the heart thing. this will help prevent a heart attack. that's wonderful. >> well, it will help, you can't guarantee that it will, but it'll certainly help. >> i said help prevent it. >> absolutely, it will help. absolutely, it will help. no question about it. >> i can think of a bunch of our

partners right now who have heart problems and i would love to have them call tonight and get this, because they've gotta have it. >> ken: there's 1.1 million people dying a year, but now they call them cardiovascular event... and heart attacks are bad, but you can recover without any real noticeable effects. but what's worse is a stroke, because you can either lose your ability to speak or you can lose all your motoring skills, you can lose the ability of your leg or your arm. strokes are devastating, and i've worked with stroke victims and it's frightening... when you have the ability to think but the words won't come out and the circuitry in the brain has been short-circuited and it causes such agony to the, to the person who's had the actual event and then what it does to the family members, it tears their heart out. so the word "healthcare," it's not outdated, but doctors like dr. john downey here, there's only so much they can do for you. but it's also the combination of healthcare and self-care. you have to help yourself.

i mean, medicare, medicaid, medi-cal, we're collapsing our medical system. you've got 8,000 people a day turning 60 years old for the next 18 years, the baby boomers. 47 million people had no health insurance in the u.s.a. last year, for the whole year, and during a part of the year, 81 million people had no health coverage at all. that causes stress to people, and with stress you can have an inflammatory... stress and inflammation are two very, very bad problems. and inflammation is probably the number one underlying cause of most conditions. >> i started taking it back in december and immediately started noticing that i had a little more energy within the first couple of days. about three to four weeks later, i realized that i was not having lower back pain. >> with the omega xl, you know, my life has been changed completely... to be able to exercise after 25 years of not being able to exercise. you know what, i wish they'd have had the omega xl 30 years

ago when i first got arthritis-- it's 30 years-- but now since i do have it, i tell everybody that has aches and pains, everybody that has any type of inflammatory problem that this is the product they need to try. >> there's two different benefits that i've noticed by taking omega xl, one being the increased benefit of not having to worry about stiffness or joint problems. the other benefit has been the difference i've seen in my skin. um, i've seen more resilience in my skin. being out in the heat, the sun exposure can definitely dry out your skin, get dehydrated, and so by taking this, in particular, omega 3, being omega xl, i've definitely seen a great improvement in my skin. >> well, i had two compressed discs... i went to see a very renowned back specialist here in miami and was told there was really nothing i could do for it, not even surgery... but i started taking the omega xl and in about 72 hours, i started noticing a significant

difference in my back and the swelling was a lot less. it was really an answer to prayer. i didn't know what i was going to do. i have children down to a very young age and i want to be active with them for as long as i can. it's allowed me to keep up with them and experience good things and that's thanks to omega xl, no doubt about it. >> i included omega xl in my daily regimen and after taking the product for 30 days, my pain significantly diminished and now after six months of taking the product, i can say with my whole heart that i no longer feel stiff and sore, i don't feel the constant pressure in my back that i once felt and i have increased my mobility. >> she gave me several of these little gold-looking pills and she said, "try this." and so i said, "o.k." so i tried it and i liked it and i think i was on it for about two weeks and suddenly i noticed that i had very

little pain. >> couple years ago, i had nerve damage that started affecting inflammation and problems in my toe area. i was introduced to omega xl and i took it myself and i can tell you that it works because i am not in pain, i am not in discomfort and i can resume my daily active lifestyle that i used to have for the last 30 years. i believe in omega xl; it works. >> i have pain from what i call arthritis in both eyes and at night time, i could not sleep without most time getting up, taking something for it and it really didn't do a whole lot of good. and since i've been on omega xl, i can go to sleep at night and not have to wake up with pain, which makes a big difference because i feel much better in the morning. and also my husband takes it-- gene brown. he takes it for his neck and his shoulders and it helped tremendously. he has so much problem because he does construction work and he

would be in the evening time in lots of pain. and that is not happening right now. >> i drive between seven and eight hours every day and sitting behind the wheel has taken a toll on my back, which i've had a problem with for over 40 years. and driving the limo has made it worse and since i've started using omega xl, it has helped considerably. i've used several other products, some of which i really don't want to take, but nothing has worked as well as omega xl. >> so i started taking the product. i immediately noticed my energy level changing. i would drag in the morning, i would be tired. i found myself jumping right out of bed and getting myself ready to go to work. i also noticed probably on the fifth day of taking the product, pains in my leg stopped. >> dorothy: it's really important that we do take care of our bodies, and if there's preventative things we can do, i mean, then you don't have to go to a doctor and you don't have to buy all those drugs. those drugs are expensive. i don't know about you, i haven't had to buy any, but when russell was beat up and he was

in the hospital and then we had to buy drugs for him, afterwards, i mean, they went into hundreds of dollars. >> ken: absolutely, and some people take better care of their cars and their boats than they do their own body and their own health. and it's really about prevention and the whole healthcare system today is looking more at prevention as opposed to correction. omega xl offers hope, it really works. >> it really works. >> you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. >> i think i better take one right now-- do you want one? have you had one today? >> rebekah: i've had mine, thank you. >> you've had yours? everybody had theirs? well, i haven't had mine, so here's mine. we'll be replaying this program, but i just want you to know that if you'd like to have one of these, please go to your phone. there's still phone partners here to answer your call. so we're asking you to go to your phone-- make that call. [♪...] >> announcer: the preceding was a paid program brought to you by

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