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XanGo featured on "The Morning Show" in Australia
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Once again XanGo has been featured in the press, this time on "The Morning Show" in Australia where Dr. Frederick Templeman appeared to discuss some of the health benefits of the mangosteen and specifically recommended XanGo's whole fruit formulation. I'll ask you the same question I asked you before: As more and more people look to add mangosteen to their diets, who's going to introduce them to it... you or someone else? Join me today at http://spiel.myjetstream.net and be a part of the mangosteen revolution. This is the year of the XanGo Invasion... are you going to be part of the party or just watch it from the sidewalk? |
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XanGo Opportunity Meeting in the Philippines
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New monthly average income figures for 2007...
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Must hear free training call Tuesday Evening
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Two XanGo Events in the Philippines this week!
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For the benefit of those of you who have visited my web site from the Philippines, I want to make you aware of two opportunities to learn about XanGo Juice and the XanGo business opportunity first-hand, one-on-one, with fellow Philippinoes. Attendance is free No reservation required If you have any question, PLEASE feel free to call me at 1-407-436-4212 or e-mail me at i.am.juiced@gmail.com Dr. Armando De Guzman, 500K & Carole Escolano 500K & Marlene Balingit, 200K are in the Philippines
If you have any questions, please always feel free to contact me. I'm here to help you make your goals a reality! As always, your humble servant... K. Scott Piel |
Becoming a Premier Training Webinar
I wanted to bring a great training seminar to the attention of my Pro Team. This webinar will be held tomorrow, Saturday, November 10th, and features Laressa Hurd who has been sponsoring new distributors into her organization at a blistering pace. This is a great opportunity for you to learn from someone who is succeeding. Remember, if you want to be successful, find someone who is and do what they do so you can have what they have. I'll be there, I hope you will be, too!
If you have any questions, please always feel free to contact me. I'm here to help you make your goals a reality! |
There's big news in the world of prescription drugs this morning.
Today's news about Merck's Vioxx settlement caught my attention because of what I do for a living. It really hit on a pet peeve of mine and that's how we use medications in our society. Don't get me wrong, I am not someone who is against the use of medications and I am by no means a conspiracy theorist, I'm not anti-government and I'm not out on the edge about all natural, organic diets and so on. I'm just an average person who is trying to run an honest business, help others and live a healthier life. I do believe this... I think Americans are far too infatuated with the quick fix and generally unwilling to take the steps that are necessary to prevent and fix problems, both in their health and in their lives. We want an instant cure and a get rich quick scheme. Food isn't the only thing that's "fast" in our society... everything is. We're allergic to work and always impatient for results. We put instant coffee in the microwave. The reason I have issues with drugs is largely, in my view, they don't fix the source of the problem, they just mask the symptoms and they usually have dangerous side effects. The simple truth is that the symptoms we experience when we're ill are the result of the body's natural immune/healing response to whatever the offender may be. The runny nose, the cough, the aches and pains are all a direct result of the body trying to heal itself. If that's the case, what happens when you throw a drug at the immune response that blocks that response? If the runny nose is how the body flushes a viral infection from our sinuses and protects the mucus membranes from insult, then isn't a drug that stops your nose from running just stopping your body from flushing out the virus and allowing it to attack the mucus membrane? Could it not be that our immune systems are becoming weaker and weaker exactly because we're not allowing the immune system to function as it was designed to do? Is it possible that the drugs we're using to treat our illnesses are slowly killing us by reducing our ability to fight disease naturally and exposing us to ever greater risk of infection? Personally, I think so... which is why I try to avoid using medications whenever and however I can. I want my immune system to be strong and if I'm ill, I don't want to interfere with my body's ability to heal itself. If you stop and think about it, shouldn't we really be focusing our attention on the things that will help prevent illness before it happens rather than hiding the fact that it happened? The problem is that preventing illness isn't sexy. There's no money in it. How do you know that the thing you're doing prevented you from getting sick? You can't prove a negative. You are completely unaware of the fact that you didn't get sick, so it just doesn't seem important. On the other hand, if you're doubled over in pain and I hand you a pill that takes that pain away, that's cool. You know it worked right then and there. That's where the glamour and the money are... which means that's where business goes. Making matters worse, there are few if any drugs that don't have dangerous side effects and all too often we don't even know it, or at least we're in too much of a hurry to stop and read the warnings and find out what the drugs we're taking can do to us. Without naming names, there's a drug currently being heavily advertised on television whose sole purpose is to prevent your toenails from turning yellow. And the price for this miracle of medicine? Not much... just a significant risk of organ damage, or possibly even failure. Are we really willing to trade our internal organs for pretty toenails? Consider every day drugs such as Tylenol and Advil... these NSAID's (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) are COX inhibitors along the same lines as Vioxx. COX-2 is an enzyme the body produces in response to inflammation that modifies the pain receptors in your nervous system increasing your awareness of pain. If you block the production of COX-2, you lower your sensation of pain... thus the term "Pain Reliever" that is applied to these types of drugs. The problem with these NSAID drugs is that they are not COX-2 inhibitors, they are COX inhibitors. They also block the production of COX-1 which is the enzyme your body produces to support kidney and digestive function among other things. Long term use of NSAID drugs can actually lead to kidney damage and ulcers. In chronic cases, COX-1 inhibitors can even lead to kidney failure. Did you know that taking these common pain medications could do that to you? Did you know why? Odds are you had heard these facts, but you likely didn't know why and you didn't think it was a serious risk. Why? Because we trust our doctors and drug companies spend many millions of dollars a day telling you how safe their drugs are... "the drug doctors recommend most" or "safe and gentle" and on and on. For that matter, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of these drugs over the counter, so they have to be safe, right? Not even close. Case in point, in today's news Merck has agreed to pay $4.85 billion to settle the civil law suit over its COX inhibitor Vioxx. You can be sure of one thing, if they are agreeing to this settlement, it's because they know it will cost them less than if that don't settle. Merck is currently facing roughly 26,000 law suits representing 47,000 plaintiffs over deaths and medical complications resulting from use of their now infamous pain medication. Vioxx went through how many millions of dollars of research and development before it went on to the scrutiny and eventual approval by the FDA for prescription use? In spite of all of the double blind studies and peer reviewed scientific papers and in the end, the drug was a killer. In fact, the only drugs the FDA approves are pretty much the ones that can kill you or do serious physical harm. There's something wrong with that picture. So, why did today's news grab my attention? Because, for me, it highlighted the FDA's hostile policy (for lack of a better term) on natural healing... and that's my business. While a drug approved by the FDA killed and injured many thousands of people, the FDA will not allow manufactures and distributors of natural substances to openly talk about, or even imply, the impact their products can have on your health. By law, the FDA prohibits anyone from saying that any substance the FDA has not approved as a drug is capable of preventing or curing any illness... regardless of how much evidence to that effect there may be. Yet Merck has the agency's blessing to advertise Vioxx in the middle of your favorite soap opera so you could go ask your doctor for some. The FDA does not regulate foods or natural supplements. In order to claim that a food or natural supplement can prevent or treat a health problem, the food or supplement must be classified as a drug and approved by the FDA, who then regulates its use as a drug along with all of the complications that come with that classification. Regardless of the scientific research or mountains of anecdotal evidence that may exist indicating the efficacy of a given food or natural supplement, if a company states that their product can prevent or treat a health condition, the FDA can (and absolutely will) shut the company down. Period. End of statement. No debate. The facts have nothing to do with it, only the claim. This puts people like myself and companies like XanGo at a clear disadvantage. While a company like Merck can spend millions of dollars a day to come into your living room and convince you the drug they are touting is safe and that you need it, in spite of the known deleterious side effects, I can't send you an e-mail to tell you that my product will very likely stop your arthritis pain without dangerous side effects. The decades of hard science behind the mangosteen fruit plus over a thousand years of traditional healing history and hundreds of thousands of success stories in the last five years are irrelevant. The FDA's rules and regulations actively prevent open public discussion and education of healthy natural options such as the mangosteen. My question is this... who's side is the FDA on? I'll grant you that we need a gatekeeper to protect the public against false and outrageous claims. There are those who will happily sell you snake oil and someone needs to keep a watchful eye on the practice. It's just that the playing field isn't level. My problem with the FDA is that frankly many of the drugs that are being sold with FDA approval are snake oil that can kill you and the no one is stopping them until the damage has already been done. I remind you, too, that Doctors have a license to "practice" medicine... they are guessing at what's the best drug to prescribe for your condition based on their assessment of your problem and what they know about the drugs available to them. If that isn't bad enough, now the drug makers are bypassing the doctor-patient relationship and asking you to go tell your doctor which drugs to prescribe for you. It's a circus. The fact that a doctor prescribes a medication that is approved by the FDA does not mean that it will either work or that it is safe to use. Every human body is different and drugs react differently in everyone. While a drug may work in one person, it may not in another and may even kill the next. For that matter, doctors often prescribe medications "off label" for medical conditions other than the ones for which they were tested and approved. What in any of this distinguishes the use of prescription drugs, or over the counter medications, from the use of natural remedies? I do believe the FDA should be in the business of regulating the use of dangerous drugs. Someone does need to be in the business of looking out for public safety because greed kills and without a cop on the beat multi-billion dollar drug companies wouldn't have an issue with hawking drugs that don't work and can kill. They already do... Merck being a classic example. However, the FDA should not be in the business of telling people what they can and can't say, particularly when they have ample evidence that what they are saying is true. The FDA should not be able to shut down a business for claiming its product can prevent an ailment... it should shut them down when the evidence shows they are lying. Merck has spent $1.2 billion dollars to date defending itself against legal claims for death and injury resulting from the use of Vioxx. It has another $2 billion set aside for its ongoing legal defense and is agreeing to pay $5 billion to settle the claims. Where did that money come from? If that's the budget for it's legal defense, what was the advertising budget that sold Vioxx along with Merck's other drug lines? Thousands of people were killed and injured as a result of Vioxx, with the FDA's approval no less. Yet, in spite of hundreds of thousands of users of XanGo over a period of five years with no known ill side effects and countless success stories, I can't tell you what medical conditions you should consider using it for. It isn't relevant that the Xanthones in mangosteen have been shown to be a COX-2 specific inhibitor (they block COX-2 without blocking COX-1 and thus pose no risk to your kidneys, etc.). The scientific proof that the mangosteen's Xanthones are anti-inflammatories isn't relevant either. Mangosteen is a fruit, not an FDA approved drug, so I can't tell you XanGo will probably relieve your pain... the FDA won't allow it. Mangosteen has been used in Southeast Asia for over a thousand years to treat a broad range of ailments... over 130 known health applications ranging from diarrhea to arthritis, psoriasis, skin ailments and pain relief. The simple fact is this, if the fruit didn't possess medicinal problems, healers wouldn't have kept using it. It's been used for over a thousand years for one simple reason, it works. Likewise, if using the fruit killed people, healers wouldn't have continued to use it. But still the FDA says I can't tell you that you should use mangosteen juice to address your illness because it's not a drug. I can't help but wonder, who does that protect? |
Did you happen to see Dr. Oz talk about mangosteen on Oprah?
Dr. Oz appeared on Oprah on Monday, November 5th. In case you didn't see it, here's a video with the segement from Oprah's show... Let me point something out in this video... pay close attention to what happens when Oprah takes a taste of the Mango-Xan mangosteen juice. Oprah says, "Well, that's interesting" but her expression seems to say it all... she doesn't appear impressed. Watch her a few moments later as she tries Dr. Oz's green drink, her face lights up as she comments on the taste, she even says "Wow" and goes back for a second sip. Mango-Xan got lucky and got the feature spot in this segment, but XanGo is a superior product by far. It's a shame that XanGo wasn't the mangosteen juice that Oprah was introduced to. Given XanGo's incredible flavor I am sure that her reaction would have been much more like her reaction to Dr. Oz's green drink. Was she enthusiastic, or what! If you're ready to add mangosteen to your diet, you can get pricing and ordering information here. You owe it to yourself, mangosteen is the gift your body deserves! I'll ask you the same question I asked you a few days ago: As more and more people look to add mangosteen to their diets, who's going to introduce them to it... you or someone else? Join me today at http://spiel.myjetstream.net and be a part of the mangosteen revolution. This is the year of the XanGo Invasion... are you going to be part of the party or just watch it from the sidewalk? |