2 Powerful Health Product Lines Become One

Trivita Founder and CEO Michael Ellison with his wife, Susan, and Amazon Herb Company Founder John Easterling with his wife, Olivia Newton-John

Independent TriVita Business Owner
Charles Bluestein ID 14645674

On December 1, 2012, two companies with powerful health products including unique herbal products merged and became one company. These 2 companies figured out that together they can become much bigger than they could become individually. Here is why! Links are in blue. It is estimated by the World Health Organisation that 80 per cent of the world’s population uses herbal medicine in some form or another within primary health care.

[February 27, 2013] TriVita is like the Victoria's Secret of network marketing or MLM (multi-level marketing). They have their own in-house printing press. Right now they have a TriVita catalog and a Amazon herb catalog that they mail out. You can get the Amazon Herb catalogs at 50 cents each (10 or more).

This 31 page catalog is like a course on herbs of the Amazon rainforest. Really! It has pictures of, descriptions of and what products contain them of iporuru, graviola, sangre de drago, passion flower, muira puama, una de gato (cat's claw), suma, maca, chanca piedra (stone breaker), jatoba, kiwicha and boldo (the most popular herb in South America).

It has a detailed description of what every product does. It should win an award. When you are done reading and learning what is in it, you can almost say that you are an ethnobotanical herbalist like I am!

Amazon Herb Company is owned by Amazon John Easterling and his wife Olivia Newton-John (she has been using these herbal foods for over 10 years). Amazon John works with a dozen tribes in the Amazon rainforest to get the 30 different herbs from there that he uses like una de gato (cat's claw), pau d'arco, stone breaker (chanca piedra), dragon's blood (sangre de drago), boldo, camu camu fruit, graviola and other herbs that grow wild, in herbal formulas for health. Wikipedia says this about Olivia Newton-John:

Olivia Newton-John, AO, OBE (born 26 September 1948) is an English-born Australian singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles[1] and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Her music has been successful in multiple formats including pop, country and adult contemporary and has sold an estimated over 100 million albums worldwide.

[2] She co-starred with John Travolta in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Grease, which featured one of the most successful film soundtracks in Hollywood history. Newton-John has been a long-time activist for environmental and animal rights issues. Since surviving breast cancer in 1992,[3] she has been an advocate for health awareness becoming involved with various charities, health products and fundraising efforts.

Amazon John does not enjoy working in a corporate office. He likes to get around and meet people and help save the Amazon rainforest and the tribes there. The other company is TriVita that is owned by Michael Ellison. He is a business man and before TriVita he had a media business and that is where his expertise is. Their main product is Nopolea juice that is made from the Nopal cactus or opuntia fruit that is also called prickly pear. This company gets it from the Sonoran desert (AZ, CA and Mexico) that is the most biodiverse desert in the world.

Please watch this 90 second commercial with Charles, Prince of Wales [not Prince Charles], Prince William, Prince Harry, Pelé (soccer star), the Dalai Lama, Harrison Ford, Robin Williams and others about the importance of saving the rainforest. "Every year destruction of the earth's rainforests releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than all the cars, planes and ships put together!" --Charles, Prince of Wales.

Here is Wikipedia telling about prickly pear with a picture. It is the red fruit.

TriVita has been selling this product with a TV infomercial for a few years. It is a powerful anti-inflammatory product. People use it for pain and aches which appears more frequently as people age. Some medical doctors (MDs) have tried it and liked it. They then tell their patients about if even though they are not an associate or an affiliate (now called an "independent TriVita business owner"), but only a customer. Both companies use a network marketing or multi-level marketing (MLM) compensation plan. The associates are the ones who are not just customers but also make money with it.

For simplicity the product costs the same for customers and associates. The customers that come in from infomercials are sold to affiliates. That way people can build this business just by buying customers and not contacting anyone else (unless they want to). Also people that they get in can also buy customers to build their business.

The PDR is the Physician's Desk Reference for doctors to look up medicines. Here is the Nopolea product on the PDR so doctors can look it up even though it is not a drug or medication. It says:

What's in Nopalea (Nō-pah lay´uh)
Antioxidant rich Nopal cactus Superfruit is a ready to drink liquid, blended with naturally sweet Agave and an array of other beneficial nutrients. Nopalea contains a rare antioxidant called Betalain, which has been scientifically proven to help the body detoxify, reduce inflammation and promote optimal cellular health.

SONORAN BLOOM™
For thousands of years the native people of the Sonoran Desert have relied on the amazing healing properties of the indigenous plants and cacti. Sonoran Bloom brings native traditions and ancient wisdom from the Nopal cactus to you in its purest and freshest form. People everywhere are sharing the story of Nopalea™ and its wellness benefits.

Amazon Herb Company has many different herbal products for different health benefits and to help different systems. TriVita also has the best selling vitamin B-12 supplement on the planet. This is because Dr Libby works with this company and he has the original patent on it dissolving under the tongue (sublingual method). This webpage tells the story of why he developed this. It says:

He was given the chance to test his theories on volunteer drug and alcoholic in-patients in May 1980 at the State of California psychiatric hospital. His continued reading and research had convinced him that vitamin B12 was an essential nutrient necessary for the recovery of these drug addict and alcoholic patients.

There was an actual and remarkable increase in the blood level of vitamin B12 of 90 percent as compared to 19.1 percent decrease in the control group! 

It turns out, that drug addicts and alcoholics are not the only people that experience nutritional deficiencies, B12 (cobalamin) in particular.

Some of the associates in Amazon Herb Company and TriVita make a spare time income of around $200 a month and some make a very good full time income from it. The 2 companies together created a brand new product called Zamu Gold to help the immune system to be strong enough to avoid colds and the flu. It also contains the herbs that are in our anti-aging product. This product will be sold to customers on the infomercials just like the Nopolea product is being sold, but they will be done by Olivia Newton-John.

Here is the article about this merger on the Direct Selling News magazine. It says that the merger will happen January 1, but it was moved up to December 1, 2012. It has a picture of both owners together. It says:

That kind of innovative, mission-oriented thinking has given the company consistent organic growth over the last 13 years. TriVita ranked No. 70 on the Direct Selling News 2012 Global 100 list—leaping from No. 92 in 2011—with $102 million in net sales. The merger with Amazon Herb obviously makes the company larger, but for Ellison and Easterling, size is just a tool. For both of them, it’s all about advancing the mission. They’re simply stronger together.

TriVita has offices in the United States, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong that serve 14 countries. Ellison says that the power of technology will allow the company to do business in 100 countries in 10 years, expanding its mission around the world. [TriVita is in U.S., Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales), Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand.]

“We are moving into a world that is an online, connected world,” Ellison says. “We don’t need offices in 100 countries. We need people doing the mission in 100 countries—people who have been equipped with the technology needed to make presentations so that people can experience wellness and get products into 100 countries. Our goal is to expand TriVita globally to help people everywhere experience wellness.”

Everything will be run from the TriVita office that you can call from 4 AM to 11 PM MST 7 days a week at [US: 1.800.991.7116 and Canada: 1.800.344.8797]. If you are not a customer or an associate yet, my name is Charles Bluestein and my Trivita ID number is 14645674.

Your subdomain of TriVita website is just like the company website except that everyone who joins as a customer or an associate goes under you automatically. So my TriVita website is http://www.trivita.com/14645674 (note my ID number on it) and you can order from it anytime.

TriVita will sell the products from both TriVita and Amazon Herb Company. Some people are much better than others at building an MLM business but this has the infomercials that act as an equalizer to individual ability.

Also brand new MLM companies are extremely risky since 98% of them go out of business in the first 5 years. Both of these companies are over 5 years old, but the merger makes it a brand new company and opportunity. Here is John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John together in December 2012 singing the song: I Think You Might Like It.

If you have any questions, you can email me at whiz8kid(at)yahoo(dot)com.

Successful College Student's Pyramid

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The above is good for the financial health of college students. Although there is now more money owed on college loans than on credit cards. There are some free colleges. Some require you to work at least 15 hours a week for the college. Some are completely free and some are online.

Here are 10 Free Colleges by the Huffington Post.

8 Things Every Breastfeeding Mother Should Know Before Giving Birth

I came across this article and this is something that every pregnant woman should know about. Breastfeeding is much healthier for the baby and helps the mother lose weight since she is giving some of her calories to the baby.

1. It says that breastfeeding should begin within an hour of birth but does not explain why. I guess this makes it easier for the baby to learn to get its nutrition through its mouth than through the umbilical cord.

2. You should have a couple of nursing bras and nursing tanks in your hospital bag.

3. Allow your body to go into labor naturally to greatly increase your chances for establishing successful breastfeeding.

4. It is normal for the breastfeeding to hurt the first few days but it gets better.

5. The first few days you get a little colostrum that is like pre-milk. It is extremely healthy for the baby. Some companies sell colostrum from cows as a supplement. Note that this is the correct spelling, not the one on the article. Wikipedia says:

Colostrum (also known colloquially as beestings,[1] bisnings[2] or first milk) is a form of milk produced by the mammary glands of mammals in late pregnancy. Most species will generate colostrum just prior to giving birth. Colostrum contains antibodies to protect the newborn against disease, as well as being lower in fat[3] and higher in protein than ordinary milk.

6. Make sure to have a breast pump ready at home.

7. The baby should be breastfed whenever it wants to not on some schedule.

8. Quote from article below: "Bottles or pacifiers should be avoided for as long as possible to avoid nipple confusion. Nipple confusion is a problem that arises when a breastfed baby is given an artificial (rubber or silicon) nipple and must try to learn to nurse both from his mother's breast and the bottle nipple."

8 Things Every Breastfeeding Mom Should Know Before Giving Birth

The Health Benefits of Greens

I have recently learned that leafy greens do a lot more for health than I knew about. Leafy greens like kale and spinach are the best source of the B vitamin folic acid or folate.

A recent study in the British Journal of Nutrition found that those with the highest folate levels, lose 8.5 times more weight when dieting. When folate levels drop, levels of obesity, heart disease, stroke, cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease and depression goes up.

Also studies show that as folate consumption goes up, the diseases of aging like cardiovascular disease, cancer and arthritis go down. Joel Fuhrman says that leafy greens have something else in them, other than folate, that prevents placque from forming on the arteries. They help to make the inner lining of the arteries more resistant to plaque. The plaque clogs the arteries leading to heart attacks and strokes.

I have seen a couple of articles that say that kale is the new beef. Kale tastes so good if you add tahini to it as or with a dressing. Tahini is sesame seed butter. I add to the tahini a little lemon juice, olive oil and raw apple cider vinegar-- all good for health. I cannot emphasize enough how good this combination tastes since I am not a big lover of salads usually. You can even add some raw sunflower seeds. If you are not a big eater of seeds or nuts, just add them to your salad.

In vitamin supplements folate is called folic acid or vitamin B_9. But folic acid is an artificial form of folate and not nearly as good for you as folate. There are lots of leafy greens to get folate from.

Like Trader Joe's food markets have an organic herb salad mix (all organic). It has in it dill, frisee, arugula, radiccchio, romaine, oak leaf, Lollo Rosa, tango, red & green chard, mizuna, parsley, and cilantro.

Then there is kale which is the new beef, spinach, collard greens, turnip greens and a lot more. My neighbor told me that I can have the radishes growing in his yard and told me to take the whole plant. I checked and saw the greens from radish plants are edible. So I ate some raw radish greens in my salad and also cooked some. It tasted much better than spinach but it may be because they were grown with compost and freshly picked.

Foods That Prevent Disease-- GOMBBS

This is a great article by Joel Fuhrman M.D. He is one of the country's leading experts on nutrition and the best expert in the country on not eating or fasting. He graduated University of Pennsylvania Medical School. This was the first medical school in the country making UPenn the first universtiy in the country. Harvard was the first college in the country.

He created the nutritarain diet and the ANDI scale of foods that is used by Whole Foods markets. On Youtube there is a video of Dr Oz introducing Dr Fuhrman as the country's expert on losing weight.

GOMBBS: Greens, Onions, Mushrooms, Berries, Beans and Seeds

It says:

Also, several leafy greens and other green vegetables (such as bok choy, broccoli and kale) belong to the cruciferous family of vegetables. Vegetables contain protective micronutrients and phytochemicals, but cruciferous vegetables have a unique chemical composition. They contain glucosinolates, and when their cell walls are broken by blending, chopping or chewing, a chemical reaction converts glucosinolates to isothiocyanates (ITCs) -- compounds with a variety of potential anti-cancer effects. Because different ITCs can work in different locations in the cell and on different molecules, they can have combined additive effects, working synergistically to remove carcinogens, reduce inflammation, neutralize oxidative stress, inhibit angiogenesis (the process by which tumors acquire a blood supply) and help kill cancer cells.

Consuming mushrooms regularly has been associated with decreased risk of breast, stomach and colorectal cancers. In one recent Chinese study, women who ate at least 10 grams of fresh mushrooms each day (about one mushroom per day) had a 64 percent decreased risk of breast cancer. Even more dramatic protection was gained by women who ate 10 grams of mushrooms and drank green tea daily -- an 89 percent decrease in risk for premenopausal women, and 82 percent for postmenopausal women.

White, cremini, Portobello, oyster, shiitake, maitake and reishi mushrooms all have anti-cancer properties -- some have been shown to be anti-inflammatory, stimulate the immune system, prevent DNA damage, slow cancer cell growth, cause programmed cancer cell death and inhibit angiogenesis [creation of new blood vessels by cancer growths].

Method of MDs Reduces Breast Cancer by 90%

October is breast cancer awareness month. Medical doctors have a method or procedure to prevent breast cancer. In a study, it showed that it reduced the number of women getting breast cancer by 90%. This means that out of 10 women that would have gotten breast cancer, only 1 woman will get it if they use this preventative method.

So that is very significant. But I feel that if it were 2% or 3% (2 or 3 out of 100) that would get it, then that would be pretty good but 10% is too high. But that is what it showed it to be-- reducing breast cancer by 90% instead of reducing cancer by 97% or 98%.

So what is this method that reduces breast cancer by 90% and why haven't you heard of it? Maybe you have heard of it. Women who are at a high risk of getting breast cancer are getting this procedure done.

It is called prophylactic bilateral mastectomy or bilateral prophylactic mastectomy. Prophylactic means preventative. Bilateral means both sides. Mastectomy is when you cut off the breast. So it means cutting off both of them before the woman gets breast cancer. Susan G Koman for the Cure says:

Studies suggest that prophylactic bilateral mastectomy can lower the risk of breast cancer in women at high risk by 90 percent or more [203-208].

But if you see a previous post Vitamin D and Breast Cancer, you will see that a Doctor of Pubic Health, I mean a Doctor of Public Health, Cedric Garland, says that enough vitamin D (lifeguard levels) will "virtually eradicate breast cancer." Virtually would mean more than 90%.

Also that webpage has a link to this page, Cancer Treatment and Cancer Prevention, that is a lot more reading. But it goes into much more detail about vitamin D and breast cancer including quotes from Johns Hopkins, Harvard and others. I just found another medical doctor online, that has a website on this blog website, a subdomain of this domain. It is Robert Baker MD Health Newsletter (update on vitamin D).

Robert Baker says:

Hyper-proliferation of cells is what occurs with cancer. Vitamin D has repeatedly been shown to prevent this. Many large studies have now shown that various types of cancers are associated with very low vitamin D levels. In a well publicized cancer study that spanned 8 years, the lowest levels of vitamin D were associated with the worst outcome and highest mortality in breast cancer.

Vitamin D could have a profound effect on health care expenditures; it has been called a national health care plan in itself. It makes sense that Vitamin D is so basic to life and health. Scientists agree that life began near the equator. Early humans had unlimited access to sunlight, and didn’t have sunscreen or a wardrobe, so at one time humans’ vitamin D levels were very high.

The understanding of the importance of Vitamin D remains the most important preventive medicine development in over a century.

Also the above mentioned website, Cancer Treatment and Cancer Prevention, besides going into greater detail about vitamin D, also tells about many other things that can reduce your chances of getting breast cancer like weight reduction or weight loss (losing weight), getting exercise and details on what to eat and not to eat.

Like you can be drinking green tea all day and that will reduce your risk of getting cancer, especially breast cancer. Research shows that this will have side effects like helping you to lose excess weight and reducing your chances of getting Alzheimer's disease. Also you can be consuming the spice tumeric to reduce your chances of getting cancer.

Tumeric has the phytochemical curcumin in it that is also sold as a supplement. Curcumin is a phytochemical just like lycopene in tomatoes, resveratrol in grapes and wine, hesperidin in citrus fruits, quercetin in tea and apples, ellagic acid in walnuts, strawberries and grapes and catechins in tea, grapes and cocoa (chocolate) .

Note that webmd.com has an article saying that orange juice lowers high blood pressure due to the hesperidin in it. After the the radiation accident in Japan articles listed what was good to protect you from radiation and hesperidin was one of them. Phytochemicals are chemicals in plant foods that can improve the health of people in many different ways. There are thousands of them and 900 have been identified already.

Note that a new study, Clear Brain Plaques with This Nutrient, says that both vitamin D and tumeric reduce your risk of getting Alzheimer's disease. But first read the blog post on vitamin D and breast cancer to just get an idea of this. Green tea and tumeric are the most powerful anti-inflammatory foods. This type of food prevents lifestyle diseases that get worse with aging like cardiovascular problems, heart disease, arthritis and cancer.

Then when you have more time, you can go to the website with much more information on vitamin D and also goes into a lot of detail about cancer and diet with different sources of where this information came from. So Dr Cedric Garland is saying that the vitamin D can virtually eradicate breast cancer but I give more information to increase your odds even more of avoiding breast cancer.

Some of that information comes from the book Anticancer (2008). It is about a doctor that got cancer and then the doctors cured it. But then it came back again just like with Steve Jobs who had his pancreatic cancer cured in 2004 and then recently died from it and also John Edwards wife.

So this doctor researched it on his own and made lifestyle changes. Then his cancer was cured and after he was free of cancer for 15 years wrote this book. His book also covered the cancer mind and that people with a type C personality are more likely to get cancer.

Vegetarian Becomes a Supercentenarian (110 Years Old)

  
Vegetarian Becomes a Supercentenarian


There are opinions and there are facts when it comes to a healthy diet! The medical dictionary says "Supercentenarian: Someone 110 years old or over (no upper limit). This term was coined in 1991." Only one in 1,000 centenarians becomes a supercentenarian. Bernardo LaPallo became 110 years old a week ago-- August 17, 2011.

He lives in Mesa, Arizona and is a renowned chef. Wikipedia says that he is a pescetarian but that is wrong. Maybe they will fix it when they see this. A pescetarian is like a vegetarian but also eats fish.

A news report says that he is a vegetarian. So which one is correct? From Bernardo LaPallo's blog (November 2010):

Do you eat any animal products at all?

I do not eat meat, except perhaps once a year. Eggs, dairy and cheese comprise a small part of my diet, too.

Wikipedia says that Lapallo is the world's oldest blogger. You can say that he is not a strict vegetarian like Michael Jackson was who was stricken dead. Bernardo LaPallo suggests 5 foods for living longer on the news show. They are garlic, olive oil, chocolate, cinnamon and honey. I wrote on a blog that I am veganese (a vegan) but I also like to eat my honey!

An MD (Steven Pratt) wrote a book with the 21 healthiest foods called SuperFoods Rx (2008). All of these 5 foods are among the 21 foods in the book. Other foods that are among these 21 foods include apples, avocado, beans, blueberries (includes other berries), broccoli, kiwi, oats, onions, oranges, pomegranates, pumpkin, spinach (also other greens), tea, tomatoes and walnuts. Wild salmon and yogurt were also on this list.

This 110 year old (Bernardo LaPallo) has written a 2011 book about health called Age Less Live More (see top left). Bernardo was taught herbology by the father of American herbology, Dr John Christopher. He consumes herbal products. They do not have side effects like drugs. Below is him on the TV news. Wikipedia says:

Lapallo was born in Brazil on August 17, 1901, and moved with his family to the United States at age five. He grew up in New York, were he has lived most of his life. In later years he has lived in Mesa, Arizona. At age 110, he is currently working on a second book.

On August 17, 2012 LaPallo became 111 years old. As of October 16, 2012 he is still alive.

TV News Show 109 Year Old Eats Chocolate

"The longest unambiguously documented human lifespan is that of Jeanne Calment of France (1875-1997), who died at age 122 years, 164 days." --Wikipedia. Du Pinhua was a vegetarian and Buddhist who lived until she was 120 years old. "When she turned 116, she credited her longevity to not eating meat until she was 110 and to never arguing with others."

Teresa Hsu Chih is a vegetarian and is still alive at age 113 years old. She is known as Singapore's Mother Teresa. She is a Buddhist/Roman Catholic and Buddhists are known to meditate. Meditation has been shown to increase lifespan.

Leona Lewis wrote her first song and became a vegetarian at age 12. She has been a vegetarian for 14 years. I like this song of hers:
Leona Lewis- Happy- Youtube

Here is a 108 year old vegan in the news (February 2008). Joel Fuhrman M.D. has around 5 foods for fighting cancer and other diseases. He created an acronym for them. An acronym is the first letters of words to created a word that is an abbreviation. For example laser used to stand for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Scuba used to stand for self contained underwater breathing apparatus.

So Dr. Fuhrman's acronym is GOMBS (rhymes with combs) or more recently GOMBBS. An article on that is on this or one of my other blogs. It stands for greens; onions; mushrooms; berries and beans; and seeds and nuts. So I created an acronym to remember the vegetarian supercentenarian's 5 foods for longevity. The acronym is CCHOG. So that stands for chocolate, cinnamon, honey, olive oil and garlic.

When I wrote this the oldest living person in the world was 114 years old and that day she became 115 years old. Besse Berry Cooper (née Brown; born August 26, 1896) was born in Georgia, USA and now lives in Tennessee. She is a retired teacher.

Here is just one aspect of why a vegetarian diet is better than a diet with a lot of meat. No animal foods have fiber. Fiber helps the colon to function better. All plant foods have plenty of fiber unless it is taken out with processing. For example processing whole wheat (whole grain) into wheat (refined wheat)(refined grain) and processing brown rice into rice (white rice) takes out a lot of fiber and nutrients like antioxidants.

The U.S. National Library of Medicine says:

Dietary fiber intake provides many health benefits. However, average fiber intakes for US children and adults are less than half of the recommende­d levels. Individual­s with high intakes of dietary fiber appear to be at significan­tly lower risk for developing coronary heart disease, stroke, hypertensi­on, diabetes, obesity, and certain gastrointe­stinal diseases. Increasing fiber intake lowers blood pressure and serum cholestero­l levels.