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Orenda International
1900 W Broadway Rd
Tempe, AZ 85282
Phone 480.889.1001
Toll Free 866.673.1333
Fax 480.889.1002
Email
cs@orendainternational.com
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 Dr. Lu, MD, PhD, Director
Read stories featured in the Orenda Publication "A Closer Look" that features the sucess of our Orenda Marketing Partners. Orenda is proud to share the stories of our Partners. Learn more about Dr. Shanhong Lu, MD, PhD, Director.
My story starts in Beijing, China where I grew up with two traditions of medicine. From the Eastern tradition, my grandmother was a midwife who practiced Chinese medicine and believed strongly in nature’s ability to heal. On the other hand, my mother, an excellent cardiologist and clinical professor, is firmly rooted in the science and rescuing power of Western medicine. I have seen the beauty and power in both traditions, and I have made it my craft to integrate the wisdom of the East with the science of the West.
I completed six years of medical school, five years of graduate school, three years of postdoctoral fellowship, and three years of residency in internal medicine. During my 14 years of study and research, I absorbed information from some of the best health programs in the world, including the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of California San Francisco. I later studied the science of antiaging and regenerative medicine. I am double board certified by the American Boards of Internal Medicine, and AntiAging and Regenerative Medicine.
In 1998 I opened a private internal medicine practice in the small community of Mt. Shasta, nested in the mountains of northern California. I love living in Mt. Shasta, where people come to know you by your action and your heart.
I have seen some of the most complicated patients in my professional years of practice. I ask myself: why so many people on so many pills, yet so few people with good quality of life? I began implementing natural products in my practice and dedicating any spare time I had to ensure that I am offering the highest quality of products on the market.
Orenda came to me through a patient. I was so impressed by the physical and emotional changes I observed in her, I soaked in the science and quickly recognized that Orenda’s products have the three qualities I believe the most important: natural, simple to use, and highly effective. They address what I believe are the two greatest hazards to our modern human life: stress and environmental toxins. Orenda has been nothing short of a miracle for me and my patients.
Right now, it is an extremely challenging world for health care professionals of all disciplines. Both patients and providers are facing a health care crisis of global scale. The current health care system seldom cares about the quality of life. Physicians are often forced to see more and more patients at the expense of providing good quality of care. I know it is very hard to provide care for a whole person in just a few minutes.
My breaking point came the day I received a check For ONE penny from an insurance company. After 8 years of solo practice I knew I was a good, but financially-drained, doctor. I was frustrated and tired, as I know many physicians are, of being unable to serve the community and help people in the way I had always intended. I knew I had a choice: I could choose to sue, to fight the bureaucracy or I could choose to find a better way … I could choose not to be a part of that sinking boat anymore.
Within one year, Orenda gave me the financial strength to make the transition and freed me from the financial burden I had been carrying for so long. For the first time since I opened my practice, I have the confidence for “no limits” financially and “no limits” in the number of people I can help. I have the time and freedom to live a good life. The Orenda business vehicle allows me to become a part of a bigger family of people helping people, physicians helping physicians. I knew in my heart choosing Orenda was right for me. I am grateful every day for such a unique gift.
People cannot give what they don’t have: if you don’t have health, you cannot teach people how to be healthy; if you are broke, you cannot donate money to causes in which you believe; if you have no time, you cannot volunteer or spend quality time with people you love ... I am so grateful that I now have the ability to do all of these things that are so important.
For that, I must thank Co-Founders Bob and George Hall for providing only the best to their people so we can provide only the best to ours. Thank you for your generosity of rewarding hard work and leadership; for your big hearts in treating everyone as equal; and for bringing in Michael and Kindra for the future of Orenda, generation after generation.
I want to thank Anne Herrick and Dr. Dienel, as you opened my eyes to possibilities and helped me, step-by-step, to be a better person and to empower my team. Thank you, also, Nina and Dr. John Golden for your insight in the science, clinical experience and expertise with the Orenda products.
Thank you to all of my customers, friends, family and patients, for trusting me and loving me the way I am. I want to congratulate all of you on the changes you’ve made in your lives. To my Partners, Managers and my whole team, I am deeply grateful for your incredible courage and compassion towards people you love. And you’ve become my closest friends. Let’s do it together!
Thank you to my mom for setting the best example of an independent woman and a good doctor, keeping the best interest of the patient first. Thank you to my father for taking Orenda and being so compliant and looking younger every year. Thank you to my brother for being one of my first partners.
Thank you to my boyfriend, Sean, for being an incredible man with so much to give to so many people, for your unconditional love of the whole person I am, and for sharing your wisdom and your life with me.
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