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Ever get those less-than peak performance days when you just can't seem to get switched on to your exercise program? You did manage to drag yourself off the couch and even get started, but you feel like you're just

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

going through the motions.

Achieving your peak performance, your body goals, or any goal for that matter, is determined by the behaviours that you engage in, and I don't just mean exercise.

Your behaviour is determ

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ned by the emotional state you are in. In this case the behaviour is dragging your feet over getting into your exercise workout, but it applies to any behaviour - how you feel directly affects what you do and how wel

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

l you do things.

If you want to behave differently, you have to feel differently. The problem is we might want to behave in a certain way but we sometimes seem unable to. It's almost like we have no control over how

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

we feel and therefore no choice over how we behave. Consequently we succumb to urges, lack discipline and react to stimuli that trigger undesired behaviours and are then at the mercy of our habits.

Now most people t

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

y to change this state directly, through sheer effort of will. Unfortunately willpower is a very difficult way of changing behaviour. It involves increasing struggle within oneself and has little likelihood of succes

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

s. Willing yourself into a peak performance state is impossible. Willing yourself to exercise results in a poor effort and sets you up for injury. So if discipline and willpower don't work, what does?

Well if you re

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

lly want to change your behaviour you have to change your emotions. Any top athlete will tell you that if their emotional state is not right they won't even come close to peak performance. Once you have different fee

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

lings you will automatically engage in different behaviours.

With these 3 steps you can take charge of your mind to direct your power to make a peak performance exercise workout.

Step 1:

Once in y

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

ur workout gear and ready to start find a quiet place where you won't be distracted. Take three deep slow breaths.

Clench your fist as you recall (with eyes closed) previous occasions when you felt strong and motiv

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

ted. It can help a lot to set up this trigger mechanism beforehand by creating the mental association between the clenched fist and the feeling of enthusiasm, motivation and power. You mentally anchor these feeling

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

s to the action of clenching your fist so that when you clench your fist it triggers off the feelings like a conditioned response.

Feeling the feelings is most important.

Step 2:

Once you feel the

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

sensations, mentally see yourself performing your exercise routine. See it in specific detail and feel what your body would feel exactly as you know it would be if you were actually working out.

Step 3:
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
rong>

Now think of a word that encapsulates your peak performance at the degree of workout intensity you desire. This power word could be anything but you might choose a word like "power", "force", "focus", "impact
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
, "drive" or "yes!" etc.

Keeping your fist closed, mentally exclaim the word several times, letting its meaning sink into your consciousness. Then unclench the fist, open your eyes and take a deep centering breath
t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
efore getting into your exercises.

Through this process you are programming your subconscious mind to deliver the mental and physical power you need to drive your behaviour for a peak performance workout.

Your powe
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
r word serves as your workout reminder trigger. If you find your mind wandering or your enthusiasm flagging, simply repeat your power word (out loud or mentally) three times with emphasis.

Each time you perform thi
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
refocusing technique you are reinforcing the conditioning and strengthening the neuromuscular link to promote peak performance. For more details on exactly how to create powerful triggers beforehand so that you can
.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
almost instantly create a change in emotional state and your behaviour, read my article "Peak Performance Shape Up".

You don't have to be a top level athlete to aim for peak performance. Aim for peak performance in
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
ll areas of your life and you will find more success and satisfaction all round. Trigger techniques enable you to nip the problem times in the bud so your peak performance is not only more achievable but easier to do

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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