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A Message from Dr. Myron Wentz, Founder and
Chairman, USANA Health Sciences, Inc.
I find it tragic that the vast majority of people leave this earth too soon and spend too many of their years in pain and suffering. Chronic degenerative diseases are rampant throughout the world. Both of my parents died prematurely. My father succumbed to heart disease when I was 17 years old, and my mother died several years ago of cancer. When my father died, I remember my mother saying to me that she wished I could have done something to help him.
We now know that optimal nutrition is key to long-term good health. Unfortunately, the high level of nutrition that is necessary to maintain good health is difficult to receive from the typical modern diet. And, the nutritional supplement industry was filled with incomplete, unbalanced products. This discovery led me to found USANA Health Sciences in 1992 in order to develop advanced nutritional formulations and manufacture premier nutritional supplements. Today, I believe that with the USANA Health Sciences products, people can live healthier lives, and I’m excited about sharing this good news with others.
USANA customers can be assured that they are providing the cells of their bodies with the right kind and the right amounts of nutrients. Together, the USANA family has become a global force with a unique vision of helping people adopt the healthy lifestyle that USANA products support. I dream of a world free from pain and suffering. I dream of a world free from disease. The USANA family will be the healthiest family on earth. Share my vision. Love life and live it to its fullest in happiness and health.
The Roots of a Productive Life
"My father died when I was 17," recalls Dr. Wentz, founder and chairman of USANA. "It was one of the most traumatic events in my life. I so much wanted his approval and I may, in a sense, be compensating for his loss even today. And yet, like other teenagers, I felt I hadn't taken enough time for him. When he died, of course, it was too late. I think that put a mark on me that I was denied a father at a young age."
Although his father was taken from him while still in high school, Dr. Wentz enjoyed an upbringing that many would consider ideal.
"I benefited from a very loving home," he says, pointing out that his parents purposely spaced the births of their three boys years apart in order to give each of them their full attention during the crucial formative years. "Marvin is 14 years older than I am, and Charles was seven or eight years older. It was like having three 'only children.' I got a lot of attention as a child. My parents were very devoted to each other and to us."
Born in 1940 to parents of German descent, Dr. Wentz grew up in Napoleon, North Dakota, a small rural town of about 1,000 people. Like almost everyone else in that area of North Dakota in those days, Dr. Wentz' father was a farmer. But unlike most of his contemporaries, Adam Wentz was also a businessman. "He wasn't content to just farm," explains his son, "so he and one of his younger brothers created some businesses. They started a hardware store, a furniture store, and they bought a John Deere implement shop and a Ford dealership."
Because of these businesses, the Wentz family moved from their outlying farm to a home in town about six years before Myron was born. They were considered "sidewalk farmers" because they lived in Napoleon and farmed outside of town. The home was modest and, like many others in the community at that time, did not have running water or indoor plumbing.
The life of young Myron Wentz was happy, though not exceptional. The restless energy and high-activity level that would be characteristic of later years became evident at an early age. "He was a serious boy," says his older brother, Marvin, "but he knew how to have a good time. He wasn't a star athlete, but he loved to play sports and lettered in all the high school sports. He was always into music, played in the band, and sang in the choir. He has a wonderful voice. He wasn't an outstanding student in early grade school, but he excelled in high school and served as a class officer every year. When he graduated from college he got serious about doing something great."
Dr. Wentz’ mother, Bertha Wentz, was a very religious person, and she made sure that her sons went to church every Sunday and to other special meetings. In fact, she wanted Myron to become a minister. The family attended an evangelical church in the area. As a boy, Myron was sent to church camps every summer and was active as a Boy Scout leader.
It was a comfortable life in a loving home with good examples to follow. "My father was highly regarded as a man of generosity and compassion," Dr. Wentz states. "I remember, even years later, when I would go home from college to go duck hunting or whatever. When I would stop by a farm or a store, all I had to do was say I was Adam Wentz’ son and they would roll out the red carpet for me. It seemed that everybody in that area had been the recipient of my father's help or generosity, or they simply had a great deal of admiration and respect for him."
"I think that made it even harder to lose him at such a young age. He died at 57 from heart disease. But as far back as I can remember he suffered from heart disease, having to go to hospitals and long-term care facilities."
Dr. Wentz saw degenerative diseases claim other members of his family. With only a few exceptions, he watched cancer and heart disease claim his many aunts and uncles on both sides of his family. Even his mother had her challenges. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in her 60s and went through surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. "She was a fighter, though, a real survivor," Dr. Wentz says. "She wasn't about to let cancer and its therapies kill her early." Cancer took a further toll on the family when it claimed his older brother Charles, at age 66. "Degenerative disease is definitely a problem in my family," he states.
Meeting the Challenge Head-On
Different people handle problems in different ways. Some surrender to them. Others deny or hide from them. And then there are those who make a personal commitment to fight their problems and beat them. Dr. Myron Wentz is one of the latter. He made it his life's work to meet degenerative diseases head-on and do everything in his power to conquer them.
He attended North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology and pre-med in 1963. "It seems that most of my fellow students went into pre-med programs and then on to medical school," he recalls. "It was the thing to do. But I am not a 'me too' person. I decided that I was going to do something that was, in my opinion, better. Rather than going the route of medical school and being a front-office practitioner, I wanted to create scientific solutions to provide the tools for medicine, rather than just use them."
Having decided not to go to medical school, he took a year off to map out the best path to reach his goal. During that time he worked as a microbiologist and decided that he wanted to pursue the study of infectious diseases. "So I enrolled in the graduate school at the University of North Dakota, got a part-time job as a bacteriologist, and earned a master's degree in microbiology."
From there, the aspiring student—now married to his college sweetheart, Jackie—went on to pursue a Ph.D. in microbiology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He chose this school because he was interested in immunology, and it boasted one of the strongest immunology departments in the country. Also, he was accepted to study under a renowned professor in his field.
After earning his Ph.D. in microbiology, with a specialty in immunology (his dissertation was on tumor immunology), Dr. Wentz joined a pathology group in Peoria, Illinois. "Although my curriculum had included all the medical courses, it was unusual at that time for a Ph.D. in the medical sciences to be a partner in an M.D. group," he recounts. He served as the infectious disease expert for the group, directing all the microbiology and immunology lab work for three hospital laboratories in the Peoria area.
A Necessary Turn in the Journey
After three years with the group, Dr. Wentz saw an opportunity to make a deeper contribution to medical science. There were only two viral diseases at that time, hepatitis and rubella, whose diagnoses could be confirmed in the laboratory, so he decided to try his hand at developing diagnostic tests for the many other viral infections. He hoped that such tests could be completed and reported to clinicians much more rapidly than was then the standard practice.
He left the pathology group in Peoria and returned to Salt Lake City, Utah, where a fully equipped laboratory with cell-culture facilities stood vacant. "I sold everything I owned," he says, "got a $40,000 SBA loan, and bought the equipment needed to develop viral diagnostics. I knew that the large pharmaceutical firms had been attempting for years to do the same thing that I was trying to do, but for some reason they had fumbled the ball. I decided that I would grow all the viruses of diagnostic importance to man and prepare test systems for those viral diseases. And that's what I did."
Dr. Wentz launched Gull Laboratories in September 1974 as a one-man operation. By June 1977, just over two-and-a-half years later, several of his viral diagnostic assays were FDA-approved and ready for sale.
He decided to focus on the herpes viruses first and developed assays for several of them. "Those were the first such products on the market," he explains. "But the one that stole the show was the assay for the Epstein-Barr virus. The world, especially Europe, was waiting for that assay, and it made the company a tremendous success. Even though I had developed over 30 diagnostic tests, the Epstein-Barr virus assay was the one that I became known for in medical diagnostics. It was a test that nobody could duplicate, and to this day, it remains the gold standard for diagnosing the virus."
USANA is Born
Some years later Dr. Wentz felt strongly that it was now time for him to throw himself completely into the fight against degenerative diseases, which had surpassed infectious diseases as the primary cause of health concerns worldwide. "Back at the turn of the 20th century, the five leading causes of death were all infectious diseases," Dr. Wentz says. "The epidemic of degenerative diseases had developed throughout the last century and continues today." The fact that his own health seemed to be deteriorating under the stress and pressure of his work cemented his resolve.
In 1992, armed with a unique depth of cell-culture expertise, as well as a strong belief in the importance of cellular nutrition, Dr. Wentz created USANA and its now-famous family of nutritional products.
In a world of pharmaceutical and surgical "solutions" to cancer, heart problems, and other degenerative diseases, why did he choose nutrition as the weapon with which to confront the giant? "I became convinced that the single most effective thing we could do to promote optimal health was to give our bodies proper nutrition," he explains. "To resolve the essential nutrient deficiencies of our modern diet and counteract the free radical damage from our toxic environment that is overwhelming our antioxidant defense systems."
That same realization has come to many people based on many different levels of understanding. But Dr. Wentz insights into nutrition came from the most basic level of all: the individual human cell.
"In order to develop the best viral assays for Gull, I had to develop the best viral antigens," he states. "But viruses need host cells to reproduce. You can't grow good viruses unless you can grow healthy, fully functioning cells. I found that by giving human cells proper nutrition, I could keep cells healthy indefinitely, with no evidence of degeneration or disease. Through nutrition, I could ensure that the cells were kept at their optimal health."
Dr. Wentz’ work in developing a refined nutritional system to keep laboratory cells healthy led him to a firm conviction: "The principles of good nutrition are universal. If we can nourish the human body in a comprehensive way on a daily basis with the full spectrum of essential nutrients in the right forms, amounts, and in the proper balance, we can sustain long-term health and effectively avoid degenerative disease. Health, after all, must begin at the cellular level."
Never has optimal nutrition been more critically important than in today's society. "In fact," he states, "the skyrocketing amounts of free radicals that are being generated from the toxins that we have created in this century, the synthetic chemicals, drugs, pollutants, stress, and so on are overpowering our dietary sources and innate production of antioxidants. The body's antioxidant systems cannot stop the chain-reaction of excessive free radical activity that barrages it day in and day out.
"That's why we need better nutrition than our grandparents and our parents had. We need doses of natural, dietary antioxidants that are far larger than what the government has established as recommended daily amounts. We need supplements because our bodies require more of these nutrients than we could possibly get in our foods. When I introduced the USANA nutritionals, other medical and nutritional scientists told me I was extremist; they thought the megadose amounts in the formulas would be toxic. After just a few years and seeing the results, those scientists now agree I was right."
The phenomenal growth of USANA, not to mention the rapidly growing family of people who claim that its products have changed their lives, stand as witnesses to the verity of Dr. Wentz' ideas and to the effectiveness of the nutritional tools he has brought to the world.
Driving Hard to the Finish Line
In the final analysis, it is his dream to help people live longer, healthier lives that drives Dr. Wentz so relentlessly. Such a pace could be attributed to an unusually high level of energy. But Dr. Wentz attributes it to something else: an urgent sense of mission. "I have always felt that the time is too short for me, that life is too short for what I feel I need to get done," he says. "I was too late to help my father. I was too late to help my mother. But I think I am making contributions that are now allowing people to live the way they were intended to live: in health. I think I am helping people live their lives to the fullest without having them cut short by premature death or illness."
When the sun sets each day, Dr. Wentz interrupts whatever he is doing, walks outside, and stands facing the sun in silence. It is a personal ritual. "I've never really thought much about it," he says. "I take that time to meditate and reflect. I assess what I have been able to accomplish that day and determine whether I am pleased with it. I ask myself whether I have done all that I could. I think about what still remains ahead for me."
We have forgotten what it is like to die of old age in this world. Instead, we die of man-made diseases that could and should be prevented. Statistics tell us that one in three people will die of cancer, one in three will prematurely die as a result of heart disease and most of the rest will die of either another form of disease or by accidental death. Only a few of us will die of old age.
I find it tragic that the vast majority of people leave this earth too soon and spend too many of their years in pain and suffering. Chronic degenerative diseases are rampant throughout the world. Both of my parents died prematurely. My father succumbed to heart disease when I was 17 years old, and my mother died several years ago of cancer. When my father died, I remember my mother saying to me that she wished I could have done something to help him.
We now know that optimal nutrition is key to long-term good health. Unfortunately, the high level of nutrition that is necessary to maintain good health is difficult to receive from the typical modern diet. And, the nutritional supplement industry was filled with incomplete, unbalanced products. This discovery led me to found USANA Health Sciences in 1992 in order to develop advanced nutritional formulations and manufacture premier nutritional supplements. Today, I believe that with the USANA Health Sciences products, people can live healthier lives, and I’m excited about sharing this good news with others.
USANA customers can be assured that they are providing the cells of their bodies with the right kind and the right amounts of nutrients. Together, the USANA family has become a global force with a unique vision of helping people adopt the healthy lifestyle that USANA products support. I dream of a world free from pain and suffering. I dream of a world free from disease. The USANA family will be the healthiest family on earth. Share my vision. Love life and live it to its fullest in happiness and health.
Dr. Myron Wentz
An Urgent Sense of Mission
- The Roots of a Productive Life
- Meeting the Challenge Head-On
- A Necessary Turn in the Journey
- USANA is Born
- Driving Hard to the Finish Line
The Roots of a Productive Life
"My father died when I was 17," recalls Dr. Wentz, founder and chairman of USANA. "It was one of the most traumatic events in my life. I so much wanted his approval and I may, in a sense, be compensating for his loss even today. And yet, like other teenagers, I felt I hadn't taken enough time for him. When he died, of course, it was too late. I think that put a mark on me that I was denied a father at a young age."
Although his father was taken from him while still in high school, Dr. Wentz enjoyed an upbringing that many would consider ideal.
"I benefited from a very loving home," he says, pointing out that his parents purposely spaced the births of their three boys years apart in order to give each of them their full attention during the crucial formative years. "Marvin is 14 years older than I am, and Charles was seven or eight years older. It was like having three 'only children.' I got a lot of attention as a child. My parents were very devoted to each other and to us."
Born in 1940 to parents of German descent, Dr. Wentz grew up in Napoleon, North Dakota, a small rural town of about 1,000 people. Like almost everyone else in that area of North Dakota in those days, Dr. Wentz' father was a farmer. But unlike most of his contemporaries, Adam Wentz was also a businessman. "He wasn't content to just farm," explains his son, "so he and one of his younger brothers created some businesses. They started a hardware store, a furniture store, and they bought a John Deere implement shop and a Ford dealership."
Because of these businesses, the Wentz family moved from their outlying farm to a home in town about six years before Myron was born. They were considered "sidewalk farmers" because they lived in Napoleon and farmed outside of town. The home was modest and, like many others in the community at that time, did not have running water or indoor plumbing.
The life of young Myron Wentz was happy, though not exceptional. The restless energy and high-activity level that would be characteristic of later years became evident at an early age. "He was a serious boy," says his older brother, Marvin, "but he knew how to have a good time. He wasn't a star athlete, but he loved to play sports and lettered in all the high school sports. He was always into music, played in the band, and sang in the choir. He has a wonderful voice. He wasn't an outstanding student in early grade school, but he excelled in high school and served as a class officer every year. When he graduated from college he got serious about doing something great."
Dr. Wentz’ mother, Bertha Wentz, was a very religious person, and she made sure that her sons went to church every Sunday and to other special meetings. In fact, she wanted Myron to become a minister. The family attended an evangelical church in the area. As a boy, Myron was sent to church camps every summer and was active as a Boy Scout leader.
It was a comfortable life in a loving home with good examples to follow. "My father was highly regarded as a man of generosity and compassion," Dr. Wentz states. "I remember, even years later, when I would go home from college to go duck hunting or whatever. When I would stop by a farm or a store, all I had to do was say I was Adam Wentz’ son and they would roll out the red carpet for me. It seemed that everybody in that area had been the recipient of my father's help or generosity, or they simply had a great deal of admiration and respect for him."
"I think that made it even harder to lose him at such a young age. He died at 57 from heart disease. But as far back as I can remember he suffered from heart disease, having to go to hospitals and long-term care facilities."
Dr. Wentz saw degenerative diseases claim other members of his family. With only a few exceptions, he watched cancer and heart disease claim his many aunts and uncles on both sides of his family. Even his mother had her challenges. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in her 60s and went through surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. "She was a fighter, though, a real survivor," Dr. Wentz says. "She wasn't about to let cancer and its therapies kill her early." Cancer took a further toll on the family when it claimed his older brother Charles, at age 66. "Degenerative disease is definitely a problem in my family," he states.
Meeting the Challenge Head-On
Different people handle problems in different ways. Some surrender to them. Others deny or hide from them. And then there are those who make a personal commitment to fight their problems and beat them. Dr. Myron Wentz is one of the latter. He made it his life's work to meet degenerative diseases head-on and do everything in his power to conquer them.
He attended North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, where he earned a bachelor's degree in biology and pre-med in 1963. "It seems that most of my fellow students went into pre-med programs and then on to medical school," he recalls. "It was the thing to do. But I am not a 'me too' person. I decided that I was going to do something that was, in my opinion, better. Rather than going the route of medical school and being a front-office practitioner, I wanted to create scientific solutions to provide the tools for medicine, rather than just use them."
Having decided not to go to medical school, he took a year off to map out the best path to reach his goal. During that time he worked as a microbiologist and decided that he wanted to pursue the study of infectious diseases. "So I enrolled in the graduate school at the University of North Dakota, got a part-time job as a bacteriologist, and earned a master's degree in microbiology."
From there, the aspiring student—now married to his college sweetheart, Jackie—went on to pursue a Ph.D. in microbiology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He chose this school because he was interested in immunology, and it boasted one of the strongest immunology departments in the country. Also, he was accepted to study under a renowned professor in his field.
After earning his Ph.D. in microbiology, with a specialty in immunology (his dissertation was on tumor immunology), Dr. Wentz joined a pathology group in Peoria, Illinois. "Although my curriculum had included all the medical courses, it was unusual at that time for a Ph.D. in the medical sciences to be a partner in an M.D. group," he recounts. He served as the infectious disease expert for the group, directing all the microbiology and immunology lab work for three hospital laboratories in the Peoria area.
A Necessary Turn in the Journey
After three years with the group, Dr. Wentz saw an opportunity to make a deeper contribution to medical science. There were only two viral diseases at that time, hepatitis and rubella, whose diagnoses could be confirmed in the laboratory, so he decided to try his hand at developing diagnostic tests for the many other viral infections. He hoped that such tests could be completed and reported to clinicians much more rapidly than was then the standard practice.
He left the pathology group in Peoria and returned to Salt Lake City, Utah, where a fully equipped laboratory with cell-culture facilities stood vacant. "I sold everything I owned," he says, "got a $40,000 SBA loan, and bought the equipment needed to develop viral diagnostics. I knew that the large pharmaceutical firms had been attempting for years to do the same thing that I was trying to do, but for some reason they had fumbled the ball. I decided that I would grow all the viruses of diagnostic importance to man and prepare test systems for those viral diseases. And that's what I did."
Dr. Wentz launched Gull Laboratories in September 1974 as a one-man operation. By June 1977, just over two-and-a-half years later, several of his viral diagnostic assays were FDA-approved and ready for sale.
He decided to focus on the herpes viruses first and developed assays for several of them. "Those were the first such products on the market," he explains. "But the one that stole the show was the assay for the Epstein-Barr virus. The world, especially Europe, was waiting for that assay, and it made the company a tremendous success. Even though I had developed over 30 diagnostic tests, the Epstein-Barr virus assay was the one that I became known for in medical diagnostics. It was a test that nobody could duplicate, and to this day, it remains the gold standard for diagnosing the virus."
USANA is Born
Some years later Dr. Wentz felt strongly that it was now time for him to throw himself completely into the fight against degenerative diseases, which had surpassed infectious diseases as the primary cause of health concerns worldwide. "Back at the turn of the 20th century, the five leading causes of death were all infectious diseases," Dr. Wentz says. "The epidemic of degenerative diseases had developed throughout the last century and continues today." The fact that his own health seemed to be deteriorating under the stress and pressure of his work cemented his resolve.
In 1992, armed with a unique depth of cell-culture expertise, as well as a strong belief in the importance of cellular nutrition, Dr. Wentz created USANA and its now-famous family of nutritional products.
In a world of pharmaceutical and surgical "solutions" to cancer, heart problems, and other degenerative diseases, why did he choose nutrition as the weapon with which to confront the giant? "I became convinced that the single most effective thing we could do to promote optimal health was to give our bodies proper nutrition," he explains. "To resolve the essential nutrient deficiencies of our modern diet and counteract the free radical damage from our toxic environment that is overwhelming our antioxidant defense systems."
That same realization has come to many people based on many different levels of understanding. But Dr. Wentz insights into nutrition came from the most basic level of all: the individual human cell.
"In order to develop the best viral assays for Gull, I had to develop the best viral antigens," he states. "But viruses need host cells to reproduce. You can't grow good viruses unless you can grow healthy, fully functioning cells. I found that by giving human cells proper nutrition, I could keep cells healthy indefinitely, with no evidence of degeneration or disease. Through nutrition, I could ensure that the cells were kept at their optimal health."
Dr. Wentz’ work in developing a refined nutritional system to keep laboratory cells healthy led him to a firm conviction: "The principles of good nutrition are universal. If we can nourish the human body in a comprehensive way on a daily basis with the full spectrum of essential nutrients in the right forms, amounts, and in the proper balance, we can sustain long-term health and effectively avoid degenerative disease. Health, after all, must begin at the cellular level."
Never has optimal nutrition been more critically important than in today's society. "In fact," he states, "the skyrocketing amounts of free radicals that are being generated from the toxins that we have created in this century, the synthetic chemicals, drugs, pollutants, stress, and so on are overpowering our dietary sources and innate production of antioxidants. The body's antioxidant systems cannot stop the chain-reaction of excessive free radical activity that barrages it day in and day out.
"That's why we need better nutrition than our grandparents and our parents had. We need doses of natural, dietary antioxidants that are far larger than what the government has established as recommended daily amounts. We need supplements because our bodies require more of these nutrients than we could possibly get in our foods. When I introduced the USANA nutritionals, other medical and nutritional scientists told me I was extremist; they thought the megadose amounts in the formulas would be toxic. After just a few years and seeing the results, those scientists now agree I was right."
The phenomenal growth of USANA, not to mention the rapidly growing family of people who claim that its products have changed their lives, stand as witnesses to the verity of Dr. Wentz' ideas and to the effectiveness of the nutritional tools he has brought to the world.
Driving Hard to the Finish Line
In the final analysis, it is his dream to help people live longer, healthier lives that drives Dr. Wentz so relentlessly. Such a pace could be attributed to an unusually high level of energy. But Dr. Wentz attributes it to something else: an urgent sense of mission. "I have always felt that the time is too short for me, that life is too short for what I feel I need to get done," he says. "I was too late to help my father. I was too late to help my mother. But I think I am making contributions that are now allowing people to live the way they were intended to live: in health. I think I am helping people live their lives to the fullest without having them cut short by premature death or illness."
When the sun sets each day, Dr. Wentz interrupts whatever he is doing, walks outside, and stands facing the sun in silence. It is a personal ritual. "I've never really thought much about it," he says. "I take that time to meditate and reflect. I assess what I have been able to accomplish that day and determine whether I am pleased with it. I ask myself whether I have done all that I could. I think about what still remains ahead for me."
Books:Wentz M., Wentz D., and Wallace D., The Healthy Home. New York, New York:Vanguard Press;2011.
Wentz M. A mouth full of poison. Rosarito Beach, Baja California:Medicis, S.C.;2004.
Wentz M. Invisible miracles. Rosarito Beach, Baja California:Medicis, S.C.;2002.
Scientific papers in microbiology and the effects of nutrition on long-term health:
Pena A, Wentz M. Lifestyle modification and intravenous antioxidant therapy for Parkinson's disease: A Case Report. 7th National Parkinson Foundation Symposium 2001;8-9. Preobrazhensky S, Malugin A, Wentz M. Flow cytometric assay for evaluation of the effects of cell density on cytotoxicity and induction of apoptosis. Cytometry 2001;43(3):199-203. Malugin A, Preobrazhensky S, Wentz M. Ascorbic acid at physiological concentrations can induce necrosis and apoptosis in lymphoid cells. Free Radical Biol Med 1999 (Oxygen '99);27(Suppl 1):S147. Wentz M, Malugin A, Preobrazhensky S. Induction of apoptosis in cultured lymphoid cells by genistein, resveratrol curcumin and ascorbic acid. 9th Annual Research Conference, American Institute for Cancer Research 1999;2-3. Preobrazhensky S, Malugin A, Wentz M. Flow cytometric assay for evaluation of the effects of cell density on cytotoxicity and induction of apoptosis. 1999 ISAC Samuel A. Latt Conference. Preobrazhensky S, Malugin A, Wentz M. Effect of cell density and serum concentration on induction of apoptosis with ascorbic acid, oxidized low-density lipoprotein and anti-Fas antibody in human lymphoid cells. Keystone Symposia 1999. Rabovsky A, Cuomo J, Wentz M. Inhibition of fat absorption with grape seed antioxidants. Free Radical Biol Med 1998 (Oxygen '98). Preobrazhensky S, Malugin A, Rabovsky A, Wood T, Wentz M. Effect of vitamin E supplementation on susceptibility to oxidation of isolated low density lipoprotein and apolipoprotein B-100 in unfractionated blood serum. 11th International Symposium on Atherosclerosis 1997. Preobrazhensky S, Rabovsky A, Goldmacher V, Wentz M. Comparative study of cytotoxic action of oxidized low density lipoprotein and cumene hydroperoxide on various lymphoid cell lines. 11th International Symposium on Atherosclerosis 1997. Rabovsky A, Preobrazhensky S, Wentz M. In vitro antioxidant activity of flavonoids measured using different procedures. Free Radical Biol Med 1996 (Oxygen '96). Rabovsky A, Preobrazhensky S, Ivanov V, Wentz M. Synergistic action of ascorbic acid and bioflavonoids in protecting apolipoprotein B from oxidation. 8th Biennial Meeting, International Society for Free Radical Research 1996. Wilson AJ, Sant H, Van Duser PK, Wentz M. Enzyme-based methods for IgM serology: Standard Indirect ELISA vs Antibody-Capture ELISA. Lab Med 1992;23(4):259-63. Wiedbrauk DL, Chyang HY, Wentz M. Evaluation of two Immunoglobulin G removal methods before Immunglobulin M serologies for the human Herpes viruses. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology 1988 Mazumder P, Chuang HY, Wentz M, Wiedbrauk DL. Latex agglutination test for detection of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii. J Clin Microbiol 1988;26(11):2444-46. McNeil C, Ladle JN, Helmick WM, Trentelman E, Wentz M. An antiserum to ovarian mucinous cyst fluid with colon cancer specificity. Cancer Res 1969;29(8):1535-40. Wentz M, Scott RA, Vennes JW. Clostridium botulinum type F: Seasonal inhibition by Bacillus lichenoformis. Science 1967;155(758): 89-90. USANA's HistoryUSANA Health Sciences develops and manufactures high-quality nutritional supplements, healthy weight-management products, and personal-care products, which are marketed by independent Associates in 14 international markets. Since its inception in 1992, USANA has achieved many milestones, received several prestigious awards, and earned recognition from a host of industry experts. The following lists some of the highlights in USANA’s history of excellence: 1992
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Myron W. Wentz, Ph.D. Selected Citations
Throughout his long and distinguished career in biomedical science, Dr. Myron Wentz has conducted important research on his own and has guided teams of researchers in many other investigations. The result is a noteworthy body of work that includes papers published in prestigious scientific journals, poster presentations exhibited at scientific congresses and symposia, and other, more general, published works. Additional, less technical writings by Dr. Wentz can be found in back issues of USANA Health Sciences publications.
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