INTERVIEW with RIK DEITSCH and WINDER LYONS
December 2005

Welcome friends. My name is Winder Lyons, and it is a great pleasure for me to have today Rik Deitsch who is the chairman of the company’s Science Advisory Board. Let’s start with some of your credentials, if you will.

Well, I am a biochemist; I completed my Bachelors Degree in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and a Master’s Degree in Biochemistry at Florida Atlantic University. I continue to teach at Florida Atlantic University. Up until two years ago, I taught at the College of Science where I instructed; Advanced Biochemistry Laboratory, Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Quantitative Analysis, and Quantum Chemistry. I now teach for the College of Business in such courses as Entrepreneurship and test prep.

I conducted my PhD research for the Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center at Duke University Medical School, working with Computer Adaptive Drug Design - using computers to take existing drugs and make them more efficient, more specific for their targets, so having fewer side effects. Many useful drugs, including chemotherapeutic agents were discovered out of that research.

After Duke University, I created a company called NDA Consulting, which helped pharmaceutical companies navigate the FDA process through drug approval. That eventually became my public company Nutra Pharma Corporation. I am the CEO and President of Nutra Pharma Corporation. We are a publicly traded biotechnology company. We currently have a drug for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) entering Phase II trials, a drug for HIV entering Phase II trials and a drug for Adrenylmyeloneuropathy (AMN) entering Phase III trials. Now that’s being reactive to disease. It’s the side of my life as a pharmaceutical biochemist.

On the other side I created a life as a nutritional biochemist and being proactive against disease, and to that end I worked for Rexall, Sundown and sister companies, GNC and MetRx, in designing dozens of dietary supplements, conducting over 30 clinical studies in the dietary supplement arena, and also lecturing globally to doctors in CME courses. And to that end, I’m now the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board where I manage a group of eight physicians and a chiropractor in over-seeing the quality control, quality assurance, and product development of Waiora Products, and also in educating the distributor force in the country at large on Waiora’s Products and their vision.

Very impressive. Let’s talk about one of the products that Waiora has – the Natural Cellular Defense. What is this and why is it unique?

Waiora’s Natural Cellular Defense is comprised of a naturally-occurring Zeolite. Zeolites are minerals that are formed in volcanic eruptions. When a volcano erupts, the lava and the ash go into salt water and fresh water lakes and form these minerals with open channels and pores in them. In other words, they are minerals that have spaces in the middle of them. It’s a cage-like structure, if you will.

There are about 40 naturally occurring zeolites and because of their unique properties, there are actually over 100 synthetic zeolites that are created specifically to enhance one or more of those natural properties. Zeolites are also negatively charged – one of the few negatively charged minerals found in nature. And so, the natural properties in zeolites are active molecular sieves or filtering agents, where they attract to themselves and trap into them positively charged atoms, ions, and compounds, and can remove them from a system. We use naturally-occurring clinoptilolite in the Natural Cellular Defense. This particular zeolite has been used for over 800 years in traditional medicine to improve general health in places like India, China, throughout Russia, and really all throughout Asia. In the United States this has been used in water filtration, air purification, animal feed and even in fertilizers to keep the crops healthy. Now we’re using it based on patented technology with our activation process as a dietary supplement for human detoxification.

So is this really the first time that this has been available to humanity in this form?

Well, certainly in this form. There have been powdered zeolites available in the past that weren’t as effective or active.

I see. So, what is actually in this mineral? Is it something that we can find on the periodic table? What is it exactly?

It’s a mineral with a cage-like structure. It’s created by aluminum and silica that are trapped in small tetrahedra (pyramid-like structures) created by oxygen atoms. These form 8-sided and 10-sided rings that stack on top of each other to form channels. The aluminum is positively charged and the oxygen around it is negatively charged, giving the entire molecule a net negative charge. This is a very stable compound. For all practical purposes, this is an invincible molecule.

Is there any possibility of the aluminum being released because of this?

Absolutely not. The aluminum is in the middle of the tetrahedron of oxygen. So imagine you have a pyramid that’s made of oxygen with aluminum in the center of that pyramid. It’s what they call non-exchangeable aluminum. We have done studies where we have re-captured a 100% of the aluminum as it came out in fecal matter and urine from the patients, and additionally we found that it would excrete additional aluminum, which means that the zeolite is pulling aluminum out of the body in addition to the aluminum contained in the product itself.

So what can somebody expect who is taking this? What will we see in our bodies as a result of using this product?

Well, there’s certainly systemic detoxification. It’s been clinically proven to remove mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic and other heavy metals. Research has shown that it does help balance pH, which makes a more alkaline system. A slightly alkaline environment in the body helps to stabilize the immune system. The zeolite may also pull out potential triggers to allergies, asthma attacks and migraine headaches, so you may experience fewer episodes if you are someone who experiences these issues.

Certainly its effect on pH can be felt in less attacks of acid reflux. So, if you experience acid reflux, you’ll experience less of that. Overall, you feel healthier, you have more energy, and you’re at less risk for certain diseases.

So you can say this is a chelating compound or a detoxification compound?

Certainly it is a detoxification element. It is an oral chelating product, but as far as oral chelators go it is very, very efficient as compared to the classic oral chelating compounds.