Zona Health CEO Steve Wood was recently interviewed on the nationally syndicated radio program Good Day Health hosted by cardiologist Dr. Ken Kronhaus. They discussed the history of the Zona Plus as well as how it works to lower blood pressure naturally.

You can listen to the interview by clicking here: Good Day Interview

Interview Transcript:

Doug (Good Day Health Co-host):
“If you are on needles and pins because you have a problem with your blood pressure, Dr. Ken and I have a solution. We have been talking off and on about this new product and the fellow who is responsible for it is Steve Wood who is the President and CEO of Zona health. So with all the conversation about it Ken, we thought it would be appropriate to have Steve here. I want to call him Dr. Wood. If he is not a doctor, he ought to be. Are you a doctor Steve?”

Steve Wood:
Chuckles. “No, thank you, but I am not.”

Doug:
In a jovial tone, “You can play one on the radio for a while with us, it’s okay.”

Steve Wood:
Laughing and with an air of good-humored sarcasm, “Oh, okay.”

Doug:
“So explain a little about how you came to create this thing. As I said we have been talking a lot about it, sending people online to zona.com where they can get the free 20 page high blood pressure guide. Dr. Ken, as a matter of fact, wrote the foreword to it. Why did you get involved in this?”

Dr. Ken (Cardiologist, MD, PhD, and Good Day Health Host):
“Because blood pressure is such a big problem in America and it is a preventable, treatable easy to treat problem and I want to help people avoid the number one killer, heart attacks, and the number one disabler, stroke, and also erectile dysfunction. All these problems can be prevented by getting the blood pressure under control.”

Doug:
“Steve, tell us a little bit about this. This is like the guy who liked the razor and bought all the razor blades.”

Steve Wood:
Chuckles. “The Gillette story, yes, yes it is. What happened with me was that I am a private pilot and you have to take a medical every two years. My doctor told me, “blood pressure is going up, make some lifestyle changes and if that does not work I am going to put you on drugs”. And I did not really want to be on drugs, there are side effects to them that I didn’t want.”

Doug:
“I have never met a patient who wanted to be on drugs, at least the ones I prescribe!”

Steve Wood:
Chuckles. “Exactly. So I looked for alternatives, couldn’t not find any until accidentally found this one, something that had been invented for pilots by pilots. And I tried it and by blood pressure dropped dramatically over 20 points. So, I thought there is something here that people need to know around the world that here is a way to treat this. And eventually my brother and I ended up with some friends buying the company.”

Doug:
“But Steve, what you did, which is unique, you went and invested in the research before you really brought this to the American public. Tell us about all the research that shows that this is safe and effective.”

Steve Wood:
“Oh thank you Dr. Ken. That is probably the biggest “bugaboo” for me, I want to know something is credible and it is very important that you do clinical research, that you go out scientifically get independent University’s and clinics to do this, and Zona Plus in case that’s what we did. There is over 10 published journal articles at this point that show 100% success.”

Doug:
“And these are not “comic book” publications, or what doctors call “throw away” publications, these are real peer-reviewed publications.”

Steve Wood:
“Exactly. And they are not just even in the U.S., International Journal of Cardiology has this, Medicine Science Sports and Exercise has it, Physiology Today; there are a lot of them.”

Doug:
“And the Harvard medical letter really put this on the map. The Harvard medical letter is so critical they only talk favorably about evidence based products and that are safe and effective, and they gave this a fantastic review.”

Steve Wood:
“Yeah. They did a full page article on it and said “what have you got to lose?”

Doug:
“Wow. So how does it work? That is really what people are more interested in knowing, now that we know the research shows that it works, how does it work?”

Steve Wood:
“That’s a great question Doug. What you do, what it is, is a small computer built into a handheld device with a display on top so you can see what you are doing. It guides you through a series of forearm contractions, what is call isometrics, takes about 12 minutes once a day only 8 minutes of which you are actually doing anything (there is 4 minutes of rest) and what you do is squeeze it with your right hand as hard as you can- that sets your strength for the day. The beauty is it works for somebody that 20 years old or 90 years old because it is measuring you. It then calculates a two, two minute therapies for each hand as you work your way through it, then you just sit there statically, you are not squeezing in and out, you sit there keeping the ball centered effectively, just like a pilot would, keeping that ball centered.”

Doug:
“So it’s a preventative, as well as something that is a treatment.”

Steve Wood:
“I was surprised to find that one of our researchers, a leader of a very well known medical school, he does not have high blood pressure. He says, “What I have found I am going to start using this for the rest of my life”, and he does!”