50-year-old third generation Armagh family firm takes new direction after owner's heart problems...and now aims to 'heal the world, one seed at a time' - video Dailymotion

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Love Your Local: Patrick Woods, managing director of Linwoods Health Foods reveals more about featuring in the firm’s new podcast where he discusses family business, his alopecia and mission to improve public health – one seed at a time

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00:00My wife Laura took him to the GP, said you know his heart rate's quite low there.

00:04It turns out he had a condition called complete heart block.

00:07Laura went with him in the ambulance and I remember crying in the car thinking...

00:14It's difficult to tear down your own castle. There was no light at the end of the tunnel

00:18for the business. You either have to go big or get out. For me that was difficult.

00:23It was probably the first major challenge that I had faced. It was still difficult in my late

00:2820s to be losing my hair and my eyebrows fell out and my beard fell out. The very purpose of

00:33our business is enhancing people's health and well-being, helping them feel great every day.

00:38That's an area that I feel that Lynwoods have a role to play. A curer has to move

00:43from hospitals into the community and secondly a switch of focus from sickness to prevention.

50-year-old third generation Armagh family firm takes new direction after owner's heart problems...and now aims to 'heal the world, one seed at a time'

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