DOCTOR AMAZED! NO MEDS AT AGE 81!

"We continue to enjoy the supplements! Neither of us are on any drugs, which most people can’t begin to imagine. Fred’s last check up – the doctor just shook his head and said he couldn’t believe he was 81 and in such great health. Don’t know if he would have been without Shaklee or not? He has to list everything he is taking – the Dr said he is not familiar with Shaklee but impressed!
We just plug along each day counting our blessings! Life is good!"

Hugs, Mona

LYMES - BITTEN EIGHT TIMES!!

Thanks to Shaklee, I will be antibiotic-free for one year this July!

Five years ago, I was bitten by a deer tick. It did not leave the customary red circle and..., because it was nothing more than irritated, I did not seek medical attention. By the following winter, I developed symptoms which were increasingly difficult to explain including “brain fog”, night sweats, “burning” sensations on my legs, dizziness and more.

The following May, after hiking in the neighboring Virginia fields, I was bitten twice by deer ticks. This time, the area was red and swollen but still no characteristic bull’s eye. By the tenth day, I became violently ill. My previous symptoms worsened, I developed a fever of 103 degrees, had difficulty walking, experienced extreme fatigue, as well as several other symptoms.

My doctor recognized the symptoms and immediately placed me on doxycycline. The initial test returned negative results for Lyme. Due to insurance regulations, my doctor could keep me on antibiotics for no longer than 6 weeks. Following the 6 week antibiotic therapy, I still carried a fever of 100 degrees (which lasted for a total of 3 months) as well as many other symptoms.

 Immediately, I sought the help of a Lyme specialist who tried several tests before one came back positive for Lyme. She kept me on weekly antibiotics throughout the first year. As I had success using Shaklee’s multivitamins for about 15 years, I added Shaklee’s Immunity Formula 1, Nutriferon, B complex, Vitamin C, and Garlic. In addition, I incorporated a liver detox using Shaklee’s Liver DTX.

The following summer, I was bitten again while visiting my daughter in another state. My Lyme doctor kept me on antibiotics. During that time, she noted that I was doing much better than I should have been based on my history. She stated, “I don’t know what you are doing but keep doing it.”
During the next year, my antibiotic therapy was being lessened on a monthly basis as I continued taking my Shaklee supplements. The following spring, I was bitten four times after gardening by deer ticks. I started the antibiotic treatment in full doses again.

By the following fall, I was feeling much better with only a slight sensation of burning in my legs. All other symptoms had vanished. During the beginning of this year, my energy returned and I decided to stop some of the supplements. This included a daily dose of Shaklee’s Immunity Formula 1 and Nutriferon. Within a couple weeks, my symptoms were returning. I reintroduced Shaklee’s Immunity Formula 1 and Nutriferon. A couple weeks later, I was symptom-free except for an occasional burning sensation in my legs!

 In July, 2015, my Lyme doctor removed me from all antibiotics—the first time in four years!
 I credit God first and secondly Shaklee for returning my health and my life.

Debbie Bankert

 

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS

So I wanted to thank you for introducing me to Shaklee products. As you know, I've been enjoying the Shaklee 180 kits, https://optimal--wellness.myshaklee.com/us/en/shop/healthyweight/shaklee180kits/product-_p_vitalizing-planp which included shakes and Vitalizer for women vita-strips for the last 3 years. Recently, I switched to the energizing soy protein shakes https://optimal--wellness.myshaklee.com/us/en/shop/healthyfoundations/protein/product-_p_energizing-soy-proteinp but still take the Vitalizer vita-strips.  https://optimal--wellness.myshaklee.com/us/en/shop/healthyfoundations/essentialsvitaminsandminerals/product-_p_vitalizer_p_

I originally contacted you because since turning 45, it was harder and harder to lose those last 10 pounds. I worked out regularly, took a daily multi-vitamin, watched what I ate, but couldn't drop the weight and had no energy by mid-afternoon. I had tried Weight Watchers, but just didn't have the time to track everything I ate. I was referred to you by a friend and thought maybe I'll give it a try.

I'm a busy mom of 2 boys and work from home watching other children, so I needed something simple. I have a Shaklee shake for breakfast and lunch, which saves time and eliminates making bad food choices. I'll be turning 48 in July and proudly say, I'm not taking any medications and wearing a size 6!!

My weight is about the same as when I started the program, BUT I have more muscle, my clothes fit so much better and I have lots of energy.

I have a family history of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, arthritis and diabetes. My parents and siblings are on medications to control these, but not me! I often ask myself, am I just lucky in the genetics department or is it because I started Shaklee? Perhaps it's a combination of both.
I will continue with my protein shakes for breakfast and lunch and make healthy snack and dinner choices. Don't get me wrong, I love desserts and an occasional glass of wine, but have learned to enjoy those in moderation.

Thanks again for introducing me to benefits of Shaklee and always being there to answer my questions.

Cheers,
Carolyn

HOW SHAKLEE HAS HELPED IN MY LIFE

05/05/2016

Dear Becky:

I was always struggling to lose weight ever since my college days. I also had a challenge with energy levels. At around 3-4 pm everyday I would get very sleepy. Since I started taking the Shaklee vitamins and 180 shakes/bars, my energy level has increased and I no longer have that afternoon dip in energy.

      I have lost 15 pounds and have kept it off for over 2 years. I enjoy the Life shakes (all the flavors) and the meal bars are fantastic (and very filling!). Hats off to the Shaklee products and to Becky O'Brien for her faithfulness in sharing the secret of a healthy life.

Jesus and Shaklee make a great combination!

Sincerely,
Danielle Speranza

What is the Key?

So it all started here.  Way back in1997.  And it made NO SENSE to me at all!  I just knew something was "right" about it, once I did it?  What in the world am I talking about !?  Well, the story goes like this.

My business team leader kept talking about making something called a "Vision Board".  I had never heard of such a thing and it sounded strange to me.  "You say you want me to sit down and cut pictures and words out of magazines that depict my life's VISION (?!) and then glue them on a piece of poster board?  Why?"  Like I said, it made no sense to me. 

Back then, if someone would have asked me what my vision is, I would have said, "With or without my contact lenses?"  Hah!  That was how limited my vision was.  For my life.

So, veerryy reluctantly, I agreed to go to a meeting where we were all going to make these Vision Boards.  I figured I'd go and "get it over with".  And then get back to doing what I was "supposed to be doing". 

So I gathered all my "stuff", sat down and started flipping non-enthusiastically through the magazine pages.  How in the world was I supposed to know which words and  pictures to choose?  Finally, I just figured I would pick out some things I sort of liked and put them on there.  And then . . . as soon as I began to simply start looking, something happened.  Simply by getting started, even though I didn't understand it all, I had unwittingly "positioned" myself for something I didn't even expect.

I'm a praying person, and suddenly I found myself spontaneously saying a prayer, asking God to help me pick out what HE liked.  And that changed EVERYTHING!  To my surprised delight, He liked a LOT of the words and pictures in the magazines and showed me which ones to cut out.  My scissors were flying!  Before I knew it, I had a nice stack of some pretty inspiring things!  So, I started positioning and gluing them on my piece of poster board.  Something inside me felt different.  As I read the words and gazed at the pictures, a desire within me began to grow; a desire to SEE these images and words come to pass in my life.  Suddenly it dawned on me what vision is!  A Vision is a picture of the future you want to create.  We have a God-given ability to conceive something in our mind or heart, which then awakens the creativity and innovation He placed in each of us.  Like Him we envision, and then we create the vision.

So then I was sold on this truth about vision.  Vision Boards simply ENHANCE this process.  They are not an end in themselves, but a means.

Which brings me now to the Key picture here.  This is Key Picture #1 in a series of pictures I will post about Keys. 

Very clearly, I knew I needed to glue this picture right in the center of my Vision Board.  Even though, back then, I didn't understand it's meaning, something deep within me knew it was at the core of my vision.  

So what is it?  It's a man picking up an ancient key that is discovered because there is light shining down from a lighthouse revealing it's location.  The man's purpose was simply to . . . pick it up.  

And so I did.  I picked it up.  The next nineteen years of my life then became an evolution of understanding what I had picked up and why.

Still with me?  Thank you!  My goal is to inspire you.  
Inspire you to what?  To pick up YOUR key.
So what is your first step?  Desire.  Desire to create YOUR vision.  You will then have YOUR key that unlocks.  And there's so much more!

So Key #1:  Desire to pick up the key that unlocks your vision.

More "keys" to come.  Stay tuned!

HELP FOR CROHN'S DISEASE

My Crohn’s disease testimony:

 

I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 1996. Crohn’s disease can affect any part of your digestive tract from you esophagus on down. It causes inflammation and narrowing of affected area and causes extreme pain when trying to eat or have a bowel movement. Fun, huh?  

Well that is the simple definition. It is an auto-immune disease which means your body is attacking itself as the “enemy”. I am certain that I have has this since I was 16 because I have been having these symptoms since then but was never diagnosed.  

Since my diagnosis I was put on steroids (yuck) 1 year and 8 months. After being on them that long I was still having trouble but my doctor (I no longer have him, YEA) would only tell me to “up” the dosage. So for 2 weeks I took the prescribed amount. I have always had low blood pressure and have hypoglycemia (the opposite of diabetes). Well, the higher dose was causing me to have high blood pressure and go into diabetes. Needless to say I didn’t want either to continue, so with my husbands and the Lord’s permission I started going off the steroids slowly. 

I felt so much better! I was in pain from the Crohn’s but it wasn’t any different on or off the steroids. This was in October 1998. By January, I started getting an infection that they assumed was my Appendix. After an emergency room visit and several tests (which required me to drink something, most of which ended up on the emergency room floor) they discovered that it was not my appendix but that I had an infection so they put me on antibiotics.  

Long story, short after 6 emergency room visits and 3 hospital stays (one, in which I was given 2 of the strongest antibiotics and one where they gave me a new drug for Crohn’s, Remicaid) they finally decided to do surgery and I got me a new Gastroenterologist (Tummy Doctor. Yea!!) 

After the surgery I felt 100% better!!! What they discovered was the Crohn’s disease had fistulized (broke out) and attached itself to my bladder, thus all the infections they could not control. So they took out 1 inch of my intestine, removed my Appendix, and removed the Crohn’s disease from my bladder.  Whew!!! 

So from May 1999 to September 1999 I felt really great and went on with life, home schooling my two kids ages, 11 and 8.  Well, in September, I starting feeling the Cronh’s pain again and I don’t mind telling you I was scared! I had had enough of doctors, needles and medicines and that usually didn’t work. So I said nothing to anyone about the pain and just endured. 

In October 1999 my sister called me and asked me how I was doing and told me about this lady she knew who was a Godly, christian woman who had helped some people with Crohn’s disease and could she have her call me. I trusted my sister but I reluctantly said yes. The lady called me and let me decide when and where I wanted to try Shaklee vitamins. What she didn’t know is that when I was diagnosed with Crohn’s I went to the local GNC store and found what they recommended to help me. I tried their products but they either hurt or went through whole (I know it’s gross)!   

So when Becky suggested that I take lots of vitamins and especially B vitamins I was leery and didn’t believe her at first. I waited a month looking up the company called Shaklee and investigating their products and praying.  

In November when Becky called back the pain was worse and I needed help and I started on the Basics Vita Lea, B, C, E and the Soy protein.  

All I can say now is WOW! What a difference! One of the things Crohn’s does is it causes you to not be able to digest anything. Well, I could digest the Shaklee vitamins and they really do break down to the cellular level and boy, did that feel good!!!  

In years past, because my immune system was so low, I got everything! Flu, colds etc.. Well, in the year 2000 I didn’t get anything! Even when my kids got sick, I didn’t! What an amazing difference! 

Since then I have tried different combinations of things with the Shaklee vitamins and this is what I now daily use: 

2 Vita Lea with iron             6 - 10 Alfalfa                 1 Optiflora pill                  1 Fiber tablet         

6 B                                        6 Lecithin                      1 Mindworks                     1 CoQ heart

1 C                                        3 Omega guard              2 Vivix                                                                       

1 E                                        3 GLA                            2 Menopause

7 Osteomatrix                      2 Carotomax                   3 Stress Relief Complex 

I also drink the new Shaklee Life Protein smoothee.  

I am so glad my sister called me and told me about Shaklee! She is in heaven with Jesus, but I am still so very grateful to her! I am also very grateful to Becky who has stuck with me all these years and helps so many people! I want to be like her when I grow up! LOL!! 

 

Sherry

SINCE 1994! Jenne hasn't aged! Feels great!

You are welcome to share the fact that we all love Shaklee products and have used them since at least 1994.

 

We are proud that Shaklee is such a forerunner to current health issues and offers quality products that one can trust.

 

Our family has surely benefitted from them, and we will be lifetime users!  I have NO doubt that my health would have suffered greatly over the years, even if it was just "little chronic annoying things" and considering all the travel and interactions with various people I have had in all those places, I know for a fact that I was much less sick than all my counterparts, wherever I was.

 

People tell me all the time that I haven't seen in years: "You haven't changed ONE bit!  How do you do it!?" (of course hair dye is lovely, but aside from that, good living, good attitude, and SHAKLEE are 3 very important reasons).

 

I've lost weight with Shaklee and have kept it off, I've had NO troubles with pesky childhood eczema, feel on top of the world, and have a spring in my step.

 

Our son Carl has been a Shaklee guy since before he was even born and I know that has helped him stay healthy - he hardly ever gets sick and he has a REALLY full schedule with school, social, and sports! 

 

My husband Donald has enjoyed various health benefits; even now that Joint Health Complex was for him as he's heard people talk about one of the ingredients (glucosamine or some such thing) and with all the 5K's and running that we do, it's good for both of us! 

Anyway, with all that meandering, we LOVE Shaklee :^)  and thank you for being involved and for being you!

 

Hi to all & hugs - Jenne & Team Warf