Lynette and Alejandro de la Vega have been practicing architecture as de la Vega Architects Pty Ltd since 1983 initially with offices in Australia and Washington DC. International work continued over the years through to Singapore, The Philippines and Argentina. de la Vega Architects has been a successful multi-disciplinary architectural practice committed to excellence in design that enhances market value, whilst communicating a sense of cutting edge sophistication. The practice has sought to encompass architecture, interior design and product design.

In 1987, Lynette and Alejandro introduced a new paradigm for restaurant dining in Australia with the opening of their famous Zigolini’s Restaurants in Woollahra, Double Bay and Sydney City followed by Trezini’s in Mosman and Melbourne, all of which were owned and run as businesses for several years. Smart, chic and relaxed environments, these restaurants, reflected the imaginative and high level of interior design expertise within the practice, introducing a unique de la Vega language which revolutionised café and restaurant culture of the day.

Since the mid 1980′s, Lynette and Alejandro have also intermittently worked on the development of technology for a range of beverage delivery mechanisms and packaging concepts aimed at the health and nutrition industry.

The Passion Projects {allyouneedislove} Pty Ltd project however took on a greater purpose in 2005 when their 8-year-old son was diagnosed with severe Dyslexia. The de la Vegas, driven by Lynette’s life-long passion and understanding of the benefits of nutritional supplements, decided to team up with world re-known Biochemist Henry Osiecki, culminating in the creation of a vitamin dispensing mechanism, and a range of specific vitamin formulas, the resulting effect being a new beverage category in the health and nutrition industry.

Since the original conception of convenient vitamin dispensing, the world of bottled water and consumer interest in vitamins and health has matured. Clearly the passion and the timing have now converged, thus propelling the project forward to reality.

Henry Osiecki, B Sc (Hons), Grad Dip Nutrition and Dietetics, has been a leading Clinical Nutritionist in Australia for over 25 years, during which time he has changed practitioners perception of nutritional thinking from one that is diet based to one that is bio-chemically and physiologically based. From professional training as a Biochemist, Dietician, and Nutritionist, Henry’s talents have also taken him to broadcasting whilst authoring many specialist publications and books for the professional, including a number of books that are used as textbooks in universities and colleges. His publications most notably include “The Physician’s Handbook of Clinical Nutrition”, “Hypernutrition for Sport”, “The Nutrient Bible”, “The Asthma Breakthrough”, and “Cancer: a Nutritional/ Biochemical Approach edition I and II”.

Henry Osiecki has been for some time one of Australia’s foremost multi-media communicators on nutrition. Henry began lecturing extensively at the Brisbane College of Natural Therapies, coordinated the Correspondence Nutrition Course for TAFE and lectured as a guest at the University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology. After many years of lecturing, Henry continues today as a much sought after and well respected seminar lecturer, touring as a keynote speaker throughout Australia, the US and Asia. He has recently toured as the keynote speaker at anti-ageing and cancer conferences in Australia and overseas. He continues to enjoy lecturing at numerous universities and colleges sharing the knowledge that he has gained as a leader in the field of nutrition.

For over 10 years, Henry featured as a radio show nutritionist on the ABC, 4BC, and 4IP. He hosted a 2-hour weekly time slot, which included a talk back listener consulting segment. Henry worked for the Courier Mail as a nutritional journalist on a weekly basis for about 10 years. In addition he has written numerous scientific articles in a diverse range of magazines and papers, and has been interviewed on television on
nutritional matters.

Due to his interest and reputation in the biochemistry of sport, Henry is respected as a leader in ultra-advanced nutritional techniques for high-performance sporting competitors. He was involved in several Olympic teams, personally worked with three Olympic gold medalists and has been involved in high-ranking Rugby, Football, and Cycling for individual improved performance. Other roles have included Consulting Nutritionist to the Multiple Sclerosis Organization, Nutritional Adviser to the Australian Disaster Relief Organization, and Executive Director of the Save The Children Fund.

For many years, Henry Osiecki was the principal of the very successful nutritional service, Brisbane Dietetics, and is currently the Senior Partner and Founder of an Australian owned company, Bio Concepts Pty Ltd, that has been formulating high quality Practitioner-only products for over 20 years. Through his company, Henry works with only essential and synergistic ingredients in his nutritional formulas placing Bio Concepts at the forefront of developing innovative nutritional formulae and concepts. The Bio Concepts story started with Henry’s frustration with indifferent results from various products and quickly grew to a respected company thriving on integrating cutting edge nutritional research to produce therapeutic products of maximum efficiency with maximum results. Henry has seen many hard-to-treat disease states respond dramatically to his new protocols.

Driven by an obsession for utmost quality, Henry went on further to co-found his own product manufacturing company, NPD (New Products Development). This has allowed Bio Concepts to ensure that the highest quality standards are used in the manufacturing of its two well-respected brands, Orthoplex and Dr Vera´s Formulations.