The Advanced Menopause Support Story | Sanjeev Javia

**Dr. Vonda Wright** (0:03)
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Hi, everybody, it's Dr. Vonda Wright, and I am so excited today to talk to you about a new line of supplements that we have developed to really support and hug women during midlife. Listen, I've been through this. At 40, I was in the best shape of my life. I had written, literally written the books on fitness after 40, Guide to Thrive, Younger in Eight Weeks. And then 47 happened to me, and I thought I was gonna die because my best friend in the world, estrogen, had walked out of the door and I was not prepared. So now that I feel like I have mastered midlife through a variety of things, one of which we're gonna talk about today, I wanted to introduce you to a dear friend of mine, Sanjeev Javia. We've known each other 20 years. And not only is he a great friend of mine, but a master formulator and deep into the nutrition and supplement science. And so what I wanted to think through, how could we best support women in the best 40 years of their lives?
Who was I gonna call except Sanjeev? Because if you know me, you've heard me talk about some of your other products, PROS, we release newsletters all the time about PROS information. And I use your nerve product. I'm working out a lot right now and my right hip hurts. I'm not really kidding you, every night this goes on my hip. So I'm so thankful that you partnered with me for NOVA MD Advanced Menopause Support.
And I just want the opportunity to talk to you today about the months it took to formulate this product line, the philosophy behind it, how there is not one ingredient in this supplement, this support system that was just randomly added. It was all well thought through. So when you look on the supplement facts on the back, there are really three pillars that make this product. There are the vitamin minerals, there are the augmentins, and then there's a very special ingredient called Menophilus with over 31 years of research behind it. So why don't we just talk through, you are a formulator who builds off a philosophy. So what were you thinking as we were talking how to support women in midlife?

**Sanjeev Javia** (2:59)
Yeah, sure. So Dr. Vonda, thank you so much for having this opportunity to talk about not just the products but really kind of the philosophy which is really important because at the very end of the day it's not about the products. Really it's about understanding what are the needs for the body, what are the nutritional needs for the body, what are the mechanisms that we have to re-fire or trigger back again so that we can start living kind of that life that you mentioned when your best friend was with you, which in this case was estrogen, right?
And when you kind of look at formulations and when you do formulations, you always have to be like, you have to be a pharmacist who kind of understands ingredients and interactions and things like that. You have to be a naturopath, if you will, who kind of understands and uses nutrients a lot to promote health and wellness. And then you have to be kind of a pathologist in my mind because you have to understand what the mechanisms that you're trying to actually elicit with the work that you're doing with the nutrients that you have. And when you combine all of those things together and then you have a personal philosophy. And see, here's what I always say, Dr. Vonda, is that there's so many products on the market. And let's just assume that there is the top 2% who are all using really great ingredients, really proper dosages, clinical work, proper safety with their manufacturing and things like that.
What really sets them different? Well, what sets them different is that each product has their own philosophy. It has their own idea of what they're trying to do to drive the benefit that you're looking for. So that's what we're gonna discuss today.
And hopefully for you that are listening, you'll take pieces from this because this is a health philosophy. It's not a product philosophy. It's not an ingredient. It's a health philosophy, right? And so now going back, sorry, directly to answer what you were saying is that what we looked at is we said, we took a step back and we said, okay, we know that individuals that are going through this are having these types of ailments or these types of symptoms, if you will, okay, right?