Cancun in your Life Cycle Plan

A nice photo from the HBM in Timisoara last weekend. It was a great success. We received several messages after the training on how wonderful the experience was and what a great job Winnie did.

The next HBM in Romania will be in Bucharest at the end of June. I will be there. When will you attend your next HBM?

And remember to put a picture of Cancun on your Life Cycle Plan.

Some important choices were made here

This was a great and interesting meal. Last month in Copenhagen, at Bella Center. Poor us, we had to eat through a whole range of choices for the Gala Dinner at our Convention, as well as sample lunch options for general lunch boxes and the VIP lunch.

The chef is the young guy in the middle. Dynamic, friendly and looks healthy in a Nikken way. Wonder if he's got a magnet hidden somewhere. I missed to pitch him. Too bad... we should always take the opportunity!

Anyway, the service and the food was great. I think you will love this. Something very tasty, well composed and actually regional in a way is waiting for you.

Come celebrate Rhythm of Life with us.

Our Wellness Office

With the hoopla surrounding the "swine flu", every responsible company has to take measures. Whatever the reality is. Seems like GPs are very liberally labelling anything that comes with a runny nose and a high temperature as swine flu for the moment.

Anyway, preventing disease is always a good thing. And doing it naturally. Common sense and some good products would go a long way.

This is why every home should have an air purifier that not only gives clean, energised, ion-rich air. But one that also eliminated bacteria and viruses. Seems like the right thing to do. That's why our AirPower 5's are running all over the place at the office. It's good to come to an office with clean "forest" air - shinrinyoku.

At Nikken we offer a very generous staff discount to encourage our staff members to use the products. We have also always Jade Greenzymes available to staff for free. Today, we announced that Lactoferrin and Ciaga will also be supplied to all staff free of charge.

Here are some photos from around the office, just proving that people are "on the products"!


I found these on my PA Veronica's desk. Good girl!













Here is a Nutri5 box in our HR Manager's office.

I think she has this for lunch.











Phil seems to be sipping Ciaga during work hours.

Interesting stats on HRT - and US warning text

Dr. Lars Hoye has spent more than 20 years researching soya. The recent years his studies have focused primarily on the effects on menopausal symptoms. In his findings are some quite interesting facts about the difference in Europe and the US when it comes to how HRT is promoted. The question is - why is there no statutory warning on HRT drugs in Europe?

Here are some interesting facts:

- The Food and Drug Administration in the US demands that a health warning pointing out the serious side effects is given out with each prescription of HRT treatment.
- American Doctors are not required to recommend HRT as the first option to treat menopausal symptoms
- The research results on HRT have resulted in a 70 % drop in use of HRT in the US since 2002
- With the reduced use of HRT in the US, the occurrence of breast cancer has dropped at the same rate!

Isoflavones are safe and effective

Isoflavones are safe and effective, say academics

Studies in isoflavones demonstrating the “modest but valuable benefit for menopause relief” presented at a symposium of almost 20 isoflavone experts in Italy should dismiss animal studies that have questioned the safety of the antioxidants, according to the US Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN).

Read more at Food Quality News

The way to celebrate your Silver day!

Else Ekkelenkamp from the Netherlands did the right thing. The day she was told that our bonus run would be finished and we should be able to confirm her as a new Silver, she took her car, the ferry over the canal, and drove from the English coast to our office in Milton Keynes.

Having toured the office I met her and had a chat. The bonus run had still not been confirmed when she was downstairs in Customer Services. So we popped into my room, had another look and ... YES! There it was... proof of her having completed her Silver month. Just leaving my office Tony was walking by so... great chance to be pinned by our European Managing Director literally a few minutes after confirmation of being a new Silver!

I think she set a good example to follow. When are you taking your next pin? Why not come over and see us and be pinned at the office? Else is coming to the Copenhagen Convention of course... and will be recognized again on stage. Will you?

In the photo below two people are actually posing that were pinned on the same day, Monday 16 June. Anthony Chaplin, our MD earlier in the day received his pin for 13 years of service at Nikken! So congratulations to both!

Impressive Nutri5 start in Finland

Germany, expectedly, was the number 1 country in Europe when it comes to Nutri5 sales in May. More surprising was the fact that the second biggest Nutri5 sales came from Finland!

A lot of great preparation has gone into preparing the Finnish market for the introduction of the product and the volumes may have been helped by the fact that the focus has been on physical retail sales of the product.

Anyway - well done for a really strong start!

Nutri5 sales - top 10 - May 2009

1 Germany
2 Finland
3 France
4 Switzerland
5 Norway
6 Sweden
7 Belgium
8 Austria
9 Denmark
10 Hungary

The Menopause Ambulance

After great product launch meetings in Nürnberg and Budapest I return back to England with lots of new information, ideas, impressions and... amazement of the potential we have with Nutri5.

Dr Lars Höye did a series of marvellous presentations and I can appreciate our new product more fully now. Personally, I take it each morning, mixed in a hand mixer with some fruit juices, optimized water and a banana...

In Budapest we had many medical doctors in the audience, all seemed happy with the information they got and some very influential doctors decided to join Nikken after the meeting.

But how about this... In Hungary they have just launched a "menopause ambulance". There are TV ads about it, promoting a toll free phone number that you can call if you are having menopausal symptom attacks. They will connect you to the nearest hospital or centre with a menopause ambulance that will come an help you out!

Pretty cool, ha? But what an incredible amount of money this must cost. And all it takes is a shake or two of Nutri5 per day and the problems are history.

Another great start... this year's Conventions!

The Paris Convention on Saturday 16 March went really according to plan. It was fantastic to see the great culmination of many month's hard labour.

Can't tell you many details yet, since we want to keep elements of the event a big surprise to you when you attend in Copenhagen or Budapest. But it was brilliant, energetic, fun, colourful.

The the left - this is what it looks like when you put 30 Pi-Mag water systems next to each other. Below some other photos from our preparations on Friday before the big day.

Register for the Nikken Rhythm of Life in Copenhagen or Budapest today!

Great start on our Search Engine Optimization for Nutri5

The Nutri5 web sites rank very high on search results for "natural solutions for menopause" around Europe. In Sweden, Consultant and corporate Nikken sites completely dominate the first page of results. In Holland the results are equally impressive and in Germany our corporate Nutri5 sites rank at all positions between 3 and 8 and the top one is a yahoo video posted by one of our Consultants.