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I received a phone call yesterday from someone who just 4 days earlier had tried Himalayan Goji (GoChi Juice) for the very first time. Her problem she said was that she was out of it and needed more and didn’t want to wait several days for it to be shipped to her. She was trying to find someone from whom she could get more in her local area. Unfortunately I was unable to help her locate a local distributor. She kept saying how much she had fallen in love with the GoChi Juice in that short time.
Her story while slightly different is not that unusual. I’m constantly hearing from people saying how much they love the GoChi goji juice drink.
It’s no wonder professional athletes love it, even when they’re not being paid to endorse it. After all a recent double-blind placebo controlled peer reviewed study showed in increased athletic performance. Here is the story of one professional football player that loves the product.
Robert Meachem
Professional Football Player
Rookie Wide Receiver Robert Meachem was selected as the 27th pick in the 2007 draft by the New Orleans Saints.
A graduate of Booker T. Washington High School, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Meachem was named a high school All-American by Parade and SuperPrep reporting services. Meachem went on to attend the University of Tennessee in the South Eastern Conference (SEC), where he garnered rave reviews, and had what was considered his breakout year in 2006, earning an all SEC, consensus All-American selection.
In 2007, Meachem decided to skip his senior season and enter the pro football draft.
“As a professional football player, I need to keep my body in top condition for Sunday games. That’s why I drink Himalayan Goji Juice just before I go to sleep and just after I wake every day. I feel great and I have more energy.”
Here is an abstract from the recent GoChi study published in Pubmed.gov. A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Clinical Study of the General Effects of a Standardized Lycium barbarum (Goji) Juice, GoChi.
Amagase H and Nance DM.
FreeLife International, LLC, Phoenix, AZ.
ABSTRACT Background: This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial is the first study reported from outside China that has examined the general effects of the orally consumed goji berry, Lycium barbarum, as a standardized juice (GoChi(); FreeLife International LLC, Phoenix, AZ) to healthy adults for 14 days. Methods: Based upon the medicinal properties of Lycium barbarum in traditional Asian medicine, we examined by questionnaire subjective ratings (0-5) of general feelings of well-being, neurologic/psychologic traits, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and cardiovascular complaints as well as any adverse effects. Also, measures of body weight, body-mass index, blood pressure, pulse rate, and visual acuity were assessed before and after consuming 120 mL of GoChi/day or placebo control solution. Data were statistically analyzed for changes between day 1 and day 15. Results: Significant differences between day 1 and day 15 were found in the GoChi group (N = 16) in increased ratings for energy level, athletic performance, quality of sleep, ease of awakening, ability to focus on activities, mental acuity, calmness, and feelings of health, contentment, and happiness. GoChi also significantly reduced fatigue and stress, and improved regularity of gastrointestinal function. In contrast, the placebo group (N = 18) showed only two significant changes (heartburn and happiness). No significant changes in musculoskeletal or cardiovascular complaints were observed in either group. All parametric data (body weight, etc.) were not significantly different between groups or between day 1 and day 15 for either group.
Conclusions: These results clearly indicate that daily consumption of GoChi for 14 days increases subjective feelings of general well-being, and improves neurologic/psychologic performance and gastrointestinal functions. The data strongly suggest that further research is indicated to confirm and extend knowledge of the potential effects of Lycium barbarum upon human health.
Another First in the Direct Sales Industry for GoChi and Goji Juice.
We were the first company to bring the goodness of the goji berry to the world. Finally, we are the first company to offer peer-reviewed, published scientific research demonstrating the health benefits of our own product. In fact, today Kevin and I are proud to announce yet another first that no other company in Direct Sales has ever been able to offer.
PubMed.gov is a U.S. government sponsored search engine for accessing abstracts of biomedical research articles. It is run by the United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. We encourage you to go to PubMed.gov and enter “GoChi” or “FreeLife” in the search engine. Up will pop the latest study published on the goji berry titled, “A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Clinical Study of the General Effects of a Standardized Lycium barbarum (Goji) Juice, GoChi.” Yes, PubMed.gov, the U.S. government sponsored scientific research database, has accepted our latest GoChi study for publication! No other Direct Sales company that we know of has ever had a positive human study accepted on PubMed.gov regarding any of their products. To our knowledge, we are the first company in our industry ever to have achieved this scientific validation.
Our hat goes off to our Scientific Team for this incredible accomplishment. We have stated many, many times that the scientific validation of GoChi is unparalleled in the nutrition industry. No other product in our industry has this clinical science backing up their product. And I will also state that we have just scratched the surface of our scientific journey. We have in the pipeline further research on GoChi which, when announced, will quite frankly, boggle your mind and make you want to drink GoChi for the rest of your lives.
Don’t you love it when the guy who’s been knocked around, the underdog rises to the top, gets the girl and generally makes you feel good about life? You know the kind of story, it’s the kind that gets made into a movie. In fact the more the hero had to overcome the better the story, and the more we tend to admire, even love that individual when they finally succeed at something. Especially that person whose been knocked down and bullied so often they have to look up just to have poor self-confidence. Well this is just such a story. In fact when you’re done take a look at the YouTube videos referenced in the story. They’ll make the hair raise on your arms and give you goose bumps.
No matter how beaten up you may be, how much debt you might be in, how much you owe on your credit cards, how many rejections you have faced, how far away you are from your goals, I’m here to tell you…
Don’t give up. Success lies just around the corner!
Let me share a moving story about someone who never, ever gave up. In spite of great obstacles, he kept his dream alive.
Paul Potts was raised in Bristol, England, by his father, a bus driver, and his mother, a supermarket cashier. He developed a love of singing in his school choir, but he was shy and because he stayed out of the spotlight, his talents were overlooked.
Young Paul had a bit of a weight problem and he had been badly bullied in school, to the point that he had no self-confidence whatsoever.
“It was pretty bad,” he said. “They used to beat me up. I even thought of throwing myself down some stairs one day—not to kill myself, but to make people feel sorry for me.”
Growing up in a tough urban neighborhood, Paul did not dare disclose his growing love of opera for fear of being bullied even more. His passion became public only because he accepted a dare from friends to enter a local karaoke competition dressed as Luciano Pavarotti. His friends thought it would be funny to see him fumbling on stage, but the laughter stopped as soon as Paul opened his mouth.
Gaining a little confidence from his performance, Paul began to sing and even entered a local television talent contest. Although he didn’t take first place, he won enough money to pay for more voice lessons in Italy, where he actually got to sing in front of his idol, Pavarotti. The great tenor was impressed with Paul, and urged him to continue his studies, but unfortunately, fate had other plans.
Shortly after returning from Italy, Paul was stricken with a ruptured appendix and during emergency surgery, doctors found a tumor on one of his adrenal glands. They wanted to remove it right away, but Paul had no insurance and little means to pay. Although he was now singing opera with local companies, he was unpaid for these performances. He sang in the truest meaning of the word “amateur”—for the pure love of singing.
Ultimately, he had no choice but to have the surgery, and he had to sell his car to pay for it. This meant he now had to bicycle 15 miles to his “day job” as a salesman at Car Phone Warehouse, and work 13 hour days just to put food on the table for himself and his new bride.
In 2003, as if he had not had enough bad luck, Paul was knocked off his bicycle by a careless motorist and suffered a badly broken collarbone and severe whiplash.
The long and painful recuperation was made even worse by extreme financial difficulty, and Paul was so desperate that he even stopped singing for the next four years. By 2007, he was 30,000 pounds in debt, living on the brink of poverty. One day, while surfing the Internet, he came across “Britain’s Got Talent” website by accident.
It was a pop-up and he meant to close it, but instead, he maximized it. Paul filled out the application form <b>but when he reached the bottom where he could either submit or cancel, he could not decide. Was he too old? Did he have enough talent? He had not sung in four years! And so, in the end, he literally got a 10-pence piece out of his pocket and flipped it. He decided if it landed on heads, he’d go for it, and if it landed on tails, he wouldn’t. It landed on heads.</b>
With his best $35 suit, he dragged himself to the audition. Here’s a quote from Paul regarding that night: “I remember getting to the edge of the stage, and I seriously considered walking out onstage, waving to Simon Cowell, and walking off again. I didn’t know what I was doing there. It was a big risk, and I’ve never been much of a risk-taker. I just think it’s easier to think that you might have gotten something than to know that you didn’t.
You can see what happened that night by going to youtube.com and entering “Paul Potts.” It’s an incredible scene.
Paul went on to win that program and 100,000 pounds. He announced his retirement from Car Phone Warehouse, took his wife on a luxury vacation, paid off his 30,000-pound debt, and got his teeth fixed. “I’d wanted to deal with the teeth because I felt very self-conscious about them,” he said.
He went on to sing in front of the Queen of England and appeared on news programs around the world, including Oprah. He signed a million-dollar worldwide record deal and his album became number one in 17 countries, selling over two million copies.
Paul now sings around the world and is regarded as one of opera’s greatest Cinderella stories. “I still can’t believe it,” said Paul. “I keep waiting for someone to pinch me and say, ‘Wake up, Paul. It’s time for work—you’re late again!’”
If Paul Potts never gave up on his dream, why should you?
Are you tired of rejection? So was Paul.
Are you insecure about yourself? So was Paul.
Are you in debt? So was Paul.
Do some people laugh at your dreams? They laughed at Paul.
Do you have some health challenges? So did Paul.
Are you a bit overweight? Paul was.
Are your teeth a little crooked? Paul’s were.
Are you too busy working a JOB? Paul was.
The bottom line is that none of that matters, not even a little bit. All that matters is that you never give up on your dream.
Maybe we can’t sing like Paul but each of us, everyone of us has a unique and special talent that we can share with the world. What is yours? Are you afraid to let the world see it? Look how close Paul and the rest of the world was to losing out on being blessed by Paul’s incredible talent - the simple flip of a coin. My God I hate to think of how much poorer each of us would be now if Paul had not taken that risk, if he had simply decided to play it safe and not sing.
