Vitamin Express

Vitamin Express opened in 1982 dedicated to being a small business offering a unique viewpoint with personalized control of quality, exceptional choice of products, and discounted prices. By remaining small and focused throughout our 35 years our goals continue unchanged, our commitment to scientific knowledge regarding health and nutrition remains steadfast, and our desire to remain on the cutting edge of nutritional advancements enhanced. We now also offer unique items no one else provides and have added our high quality Labels of Vitamin Express, YES,and Herb Express. WE are dedicated to YOU, our customers. WE continue to offer products that can make a difference to your health. We consider ourselves a primary health providing center, where you can come first, or at times after all else fails, to improve and maintain your health. Michael's message from Vitamin Express: "We want you to be satisfied, pleased and a return customer! So we decided to make shopping as personal and convenient as possible. When you call our store you get a person during store hours who quickly and pleasantly answers your questions and provides great service and information. "We offer the finest supplements available. We search for excellent products and excellent products find us. We try them ourselves, look carefully at the ingredients and evaluate the company offering it. Our sources are all verified and vetted. "We are committed to health freedom. Health is our business, health is the wealth of a person and of society. It needs support and protection. "We discount our prices and provide products unique to the marketplace at the lowest prices we can offer and still remain in business." "We are committed to helping the community through the San Francisco Food Bank." Here's a link to our history through pictures and narrative. Here's a link to an updated video of the store. Michael LeVesque is the President and CEO of Vitamin Express which received the First Place award as the Best place to buy nutritional supplements and vitamins in the San Francisco Bay Area by the BayList through the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGATE. It is a reflection of the excellent staff, customer service, selection and pricing maintained throughout the last 35 years. Michael's first health food store was in Cortez, Colorado in 1973- Cortez Health Food Center. In April 1982 he opened Vitamin Express in San Francisco, California with 12 shelves of supplements and herb teas. By 1996 Vitamin Express achieved the Bay Guardian's "Best Place to Buy Vitamins in the SF Bay Area". At one time Vitamin Express had five locations; two in San Francisco, Berkeley, Mill Valley and Menlo Park. As Michael's health declined and times changed, he either sold or closed the stores except the original one in San Francisco on Irving Street by Golden Gate Park in the Sunset District. Michael's health continued a downward spiral with great weight loss and energy deprivation. The finest doctors and nutritional approaches were not enough to turn his health around. His illness was soon linked to his sensitivity to electromagnetic fields (EMF) and the environment's increased levels causing a steady decline in his health. Due to the good fortune of a customer's help, he was introduced to a RayGuard product. After several weeks, for the first time, he began to feel relief from his illness. Presently, due to his use of RayGuard, his health and vitality has returned and he has gained back 35 pounds of his weight now at a healthy 175. As a child he had polio, infantile paralysis, which may have increased his sensitivity to EMF's. As a child the Sister Kenny treatment provided recovery without any crippling. Nevertheless, severe leg pain followed any exercise. In 1971 the experience of taking calcium and magnesium powder suggested to him provided quick and complete pain relief, created an appreciation and interest in nutrition that ultimately propelled him into the science of nutrition. Michael was in the US Peace Corps in Ethiopia and Eritrea from 1966 to 1968 teaching science and agriculture.