Hey guys,

I helped put together the Ortho Nutrition brand with Orthomolecular Medicinal Practitioner Brian Simonis. I'm not here to advertise; I just wanted to answer some questions here.

1) Our Curcumin 95 and Trans-Resveratrol 99% are from a solid manufacturing company that is both cGMP-Germany certified and cGMP-China certified. If you're familiar with GMP, then you'd know that in America, it is a very difficult thing to obtain. In Germany? Even moreso.

2) Our product combination is cheap, because we only mark it up roughly 100%. In fact, the cost to manufacture Curcumin has raised twice on us, and I haven't raised the price (may raise it a quarter per bottle). We can afford to do this because we're not a corporation, and outsource all the work needed (no overhead).

I agree that when it comes to product testing, the cost of R&D has to be passed on to the consumer for the company to turn a profit. While we don't use LongVida Curcumin, we do use a high-quality extract of Curcumin 95. I just looked over our CoA, here's some information:

Product Name: Curcumins 95%
Botanical Name: Curcuma longa L.
Plant Part Used: Rhizome
Particle Size100% through 100 mesh Complies 100 mesh screen
Assay (Curcumins)>95.0%
Results: 96.8%
Test Method: HPLC

We formed this little company as forumers like yourselves--Brian was recommending certain brands for some time and helping folks out with their health for free (and still is), and I approached him about putting together our own brand based on his specifications rather than give free business away to all of these other companies that we cannot trust 100% (crap fillers, non-veggie capsules, quality control, etc.). This also gave us the liberty to ensure that we have the right amount of actives, the right actives, and so forth. So far, folks really seem to like the Antioxidant Boost on *edit*, however, I am *not* averse to including LongVida Curcumin once we run out of our Curcumin 95 perhaps.

I'll await the quote from LongVida, assuming they're willing to wholesale to us, and let you guys know.

Take care,

Dan