Natural Alternatives International, Inc.

general.The following is an edited transcript of that conversation. BVM: Can you talk about the genesis and evolution of NAI? LeDoux: “I started my company in my garage, back in 1980.My sole reason for starting it was because I recognized that modern medicine was running into a buzz sawwith pharmaceutical compounds that were being synthesized and were causing unneces- sary side effects in people and creating, sometimes, more problems than benefits. “And so, I made it a personal mission to start identifying what are the natural alternatives to dangerous drugs that might help the body heal itself; not to replace medicine, but to allow the hu- man immune system to operate more efficiently by giving the necessary nutrients to the human body so that this miraculous thing could address whatever issues it needed to in order to either repair itself or to improve health. “Obviously, this doesn’t replace medical interven- Mark LeDoux, Founder and CEO