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Glutathione: The Great Protector

Find out why this little-known antioxidant is key to fighting toxicity and premature aging — and warding off chronic disease.

By Catherine Guthrie / April 2011

If biochemistry were the stuff of comic books, antioxidants would be the superheroes — with glutathione (gloota-thigh-own) being no less than a cross between Superman and Underdog. As the most powerful antioxidant in the body, glutathione works around the clock to fend off nefarious characters. And yet, few people recognize its importance.

Glutathione is likely to get more attention in the near future, as experts begin to connect the dots between depleted stores of the antioxidant and the likelihood of chronic disease. “If you haven’t heard of glutathione yet, you will,” says Mark Hyman, MD, founder of The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, Mass., and a pioneer in the field of functional medicine. “In terms of staying healthy, it is one of the most important molecules in the body.”
Glutathione is a triple threat to toxins. It neutralizes free radicals, enhances the immune system and detoxifies the liver. But some worry that it has met its match. The trappings of modern life — everything from refined foods to over-the-counter painkillers to stress — rob the body of this vital antioxidant. And, even if you’re doing everything right, aging takes a bite. Around age 45, our glutathione levels start to slip. Ultimately, those levels can dip as much as 50 percent below optimal as we age.

Some scientists are now wondering if low glutathione levels aren’t partly to blame for the free-radical-induced illnesses so common in middle age and later, such as Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease. Indeed, research published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that, among people with heart disease, those with the least amount of glutathione in their blood were 30 percent more likely to have a heart attack than those with the most glutathione.

Hyman didn’t understand the full ramifications of a glutathione deficiency until his own health was in peril. In the mid-1990s, he was besieged by muscle pain, brain fog and “bone-numbing” exhaustion. “I went from feeling really healthy one day to really sick the next,” he says.

After months of medical sleuthing, he discovered he had mercury poisoning —  probably due to eating contaminated fish and breathing tainted air while working in China. He suspects that the burden of detoxifying the mercury depleted his glutathione levels, leading his body to break down under the strain. “As you detoxify, your body uses up more and more of your glutathione stores until it’s gone,” he says. “That’s when you end up with toxic overload.”

In exploring what went wrong, Hyman discovered he lacked a gene, called GSTM1, crucial to making and recycling glutathione. He estimates that roughly half of Americans are missing one or more of the genes necessary to produce enough of the antioxidant. The percentage climbs even higher among his critically ill patients, the vast majority of whom have rock-bottom glutathione levels. “At first I thought it was just a coincidence,” he says, “but I’ve come to realize that making and keeping a high level of glutathione is critical to preventing disease.”

Gloota-what?

Found in every cell in the body, glutathione protects the cell’s engine, called the mitochondria, from bacteria and viruses as well as toxins. It’s considered “the mother of all antioxidants,” as Hyman calls it, because all other antioxidants, including vitamin C and vitamin E, rely on it to give them a second life.

The average antioxidant has a short life span, sacrificing itself whenever it wipes out a free radical. But glutathione carries enough extra zip to not only bring spent antioxidants back from the dead but also to recharge itself, explains Leslie Fuller, ND, an educator at the National College of Natural Medicine and practitioner at the Nature Cures Clinic, both in Portland, Ore.

Most glutathione is made inside the body from three amino acids: glutamic acid, cysteine and glycine. In addition, some foods, particularly asparagus, spinach, avocado and squash, are high in a plant version of glutathione that the body converts to replenish its supply.

Under healthy conditions, and in a healthy environment, our bodies would be able to churn out plenty of glutathione to meet our daily needs. But cigarettes, alcohol, caffeine, processed foods and certain medications deplete the body’s stash. So does stress. And as Hyman discovered, toxic surroundings may pose an even bigger threat to our body’s glutathione supply.

Radical Riff-Raff

To fully appreciate glutathione, it helps to know a little more about its nemesis: free radicals. Free radicals are unstable oxygen molecules created by our metabolism. The instability stems from a missing electron. In a mad attempt to find balance, the misfit molecules rip electrons from their neighbors. As a result, those molecules also turn into free radicals. This damage can eventually snowball and disrupt a cell’s integrity, causing it to behave abnormally.

“Almost every chronic illness known to humankind has been linked in some measure to free-radical-induced tissue damage,” says Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO, coauthor of The Definitive Guide to Cancer: An Integrative Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Healing, Third Edition (Celestial Arts, 2010).

That’s not to say the goal is zero emissions. Indeed, some free-radical damage is natural. Every breath inhaled, every calorie burned, every muscle contracted leaves a wisp of free radicals in its wake. “Even if we lived in a pristine environment, our bodies would make free radicals,” says Alschuler. And, as she explains, some free-radical damage is a good thing because a damaged cell is triggered to be either repaired or destroyed. By sparking either a renovation or a demolition, free-radical damage gets the body’s attention, and, if the body is healthy enough and the free-radical damage is not overly extensive, free radicals may play a role in preventing diseases like heart disease and cancer.

Unfortunately, our bodies must contend with an ever-growing onslaught of free radicals in the environment. Free radicals hitchhike into the body on the backs of chemicals in the air, the water supply and the food chain. The cumulative load is called oxidative stress. Corrosion caused by oxidative stress (or oxidation) inside the body is often compared to the slow rusting of metal when it’s exposed to the elements.

Protecting cells from oxidation is where antioxidants, particularly glutathione, come into play. All antioxidants retard oxidative stress, but because glutathione recharges its allies, it plays a particularly important role in helping the body keep up with our accelerated modern-day demands.

“We are in a situation where our manufacturing and our recycling of glutathione is maxed out,” says David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM, author of Power Up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment (Hay House, 2011). “We just can’t detoxify fast enough.”

Cleanup Crew

Found throughout the body, glutathione is concentrated in the liver. The body’s primary detox organ, the liver is charged with giving nutrients the nod to be absorbed and giving toxins the boot. But expelling a toxin isn’t easy. In phase one, liver enzymes must convert the toxin into a compound that can be flushed. In phase two, glutathione is used to grab hold of the toxin and escort it out of the body via urine or bile. If there isn’t enough glutathione on hand, the toxins stack up like so many cars in a traffic jam.

Glutathione owes much of its detoxifying prowess to cysteine. A sulfur-rich amino acid, cysteine is abundant in eggs, garlic and whey protein. “Sulfur is a sticky, smelly molecule that acts like flypaper trapping toxins in the body,” explains Hyman. This is why vegetables high in sulfur, including garlic and onions, have been at the heart of detoxification diets for years.

Another plant substance, called cyanohydroxybutene (found in broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage) helps restock the body’s glutathione supply. “We’ve always been taught that broccoli and other cruciferous veggies are important to the detox protocol, but we didn’t fully understand why,” says Perlmutter. “Now we know that it’s because they enhance glutathione production.”

Green tea, fish oil and resveratrol also house substances that switch on genes responsible for making glutathione, Perlmutter notes. Aerobic exercise and yoga are thought to goose glutathione levels as well.

Although glutathione doesn’t come in a simple pill form, Perlmutter says, “You can take and do things that turn on your body’s genes to make more glutathione, and that’s pretty powerful stuff. You are modifying your own genetic expression.”

Logically, if more glutathione means better detoxification, people with the highest levels of the stuff should live the longest. That was the theory that drove Danish researchers to enroll 41 centenarians in a study of glutathione levels. Their results, published in the journal Age and Ageing, found that glutathione levels were highest in the healthiest seniors. Additionally, they discovered that the centenarians had higher levels of glutathione than people 20 to 40 years younger, hinting that glutathione may be one reason why their subjects had lived to such a ripe age.

Need More? Make More

Recognizing when the body is running low on glutathione takes some detective work. Because it oxidizes quickly outside the body, the antioxidant does not lend itself to a blood test. So some healthcare practitioners, like Hyman, look for missing genes. Others consult indirect biochemical markers, such as short telomeres (the caps of DNA on either end of a chromosome, like handles on a jump rope) or high levels of oxidation in the blood. A history of chronic illness is also a clue.

But don’t wait until you’re sick to think about glutathione. High stress levels, certain medications, past infections and a poor diet can all nibble away at the body’s glutathione stash. The average American consumes only 35 milligrams of glutathione per day, says Alschuler, far short of the optimal daily intake of 250 milligrams. “This, coupled with decreasing glutathione production as we age, leaves most of us deficient.”

The good news: Protecting your glutathione levels is fairly simple, says Perlmutter, and “the health implications can be profound.”

Easy Ways to Maximize Glutathione Production and Activity

Eat lots of glutathione-rich foods, such as asparagus, spinach, avocado, squash, melons, grapefruit and peaches. Whenever possible, eat these foods raw or minimally heated, since heat — and microwaving — tends to destroy antioxidants.

Eat more colorful, antioxidant-packed produce, such as strawberries, bell peppers and mangoes, all of which are particularly high in vitamin C. The more one-shot antioxidants you’ve got on board, the less your body needs to lean on its glutathione reserves.

Eat more foods high in cysteine. The sulfur-rich amino acid is a key building block for glutathione. The best sources are eggs, garlic and whey protein. If you buy whey protein, make sure it is bioactive and made from undenatured (or nondenatured) proteins, meaning the bond between the amino acids is preserved, and the cysteine is more bioavailable.

Limit exposure to toxins by buying organic produce, filtering your water, cutting down on refined foods, and avoiding chemical-packed personal-care  and cleaning products. Minimizing your toxic burden will help preserve your body’s ability to produce glutathione, and also reduce excess demands on your body’s glutathione supplies.

Catherine Guthrie is a health writer in Bloomington, Ind., and a contributing editor to Experience Life.

The Next-Best Things: Glutathione Precursors

One reason that glutathione wallows in relative obscurity is that, unlike vitamin C or E, it isn’t easily shoehorned into a supplement you can swallow. “With glutathione it’s not that easy,” says David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM, author of Power Up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment (Hay House, 2011).

That’s because to succeed as an oral supplement, a nutrient must be able to wiggle through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream, he explains. Otherwise it’s doomed to be destroyed in the gut. Here is where glutathione’s size works against it. A large molecule, called a tripeptide, glutathione cannot sneak through the intestinal wall intact. Instead, its three amino acids are broken apart during digestion and reassembled in the blood. (To get around this problem, many practitioners give therapeutic doses of glutathione intravenously.)

Experts disagree on exactly how much oral glutathione reaches its final destination, but all agree the best bet is to deliver plenty of building blocks (a.k.a. precursors) the body needs to make glutathione on its own.

In addition to eating glutathione-rich foods (see above) here are four more ways to get the raw materials you need:

N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC): NAC supplements are made synthetically from the amino acid l-cysteine. The small molecule slips seamlessly into the blood where it combines with glutamic acid and glycine to restock the liver’s supply of glutathione. A potent liver detoxifier, NAC is approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a tool to limit liver damage caused by acetaminophen overdose.

Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA): A key antioxidant, alpha-lipoic acid (not to be confused with alpha-linolenic acid) is both water- and fat-soluble, meaning it can vanquish free radicals throughout the body, including in the brain. That’s no small matter, since oxidative damage is tied to many brain diseases, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. The best dietary sources of ALA are organ meats (such as liver) and brewer’s yeast.

Selenium: A mineral found in Brazil nuts, meat and seafood, selenium boosts the body’s ability to recycle glutathione. “Eating just one to two Brazil nuts daily supplies enough selenium for most people,” says Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO, coauthor of The Definitive Guide to Cancer: An Integrative Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Healing, Third Edition (Celestial Arts, 2010).

Vitamin C: One of the most well-known antioxidants, vitamin C is glutathione’s crime-fighting cohort. In studies, people with high levels of vitamin C typically have high glutathione levels, as well. The two antioxidants work in tandem to rid the body of water-soluble toxins.

Can’t I Just Take A Pill?

The Good News …

For years, science has struggled to provide a practical and cost effective way to increase the levels of glutathione in your body. Until now. MaxGXL® is a patent-pending formulation that provides a unique composition of nutrients– enabling your body to produce optimal levels of glutathione.

Good Health Starts at One

The solution is MaxOne™-quite simply the most advanced glutathione support you can find, anywhere.  MaxOne is powered by exclusive RiboCeine™ technology, which is backed by more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles. When it comes to unsurpassed cellular health, the One, clear choice is MaxOne.

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Visible Solutions will be available after the Las Vegas Kick Off Event in January 2011.

At the Vegas event, you will learn more about the Visible Solutions Skin Care System and you’ll hear from network marketing leaders who have built successful businesses with skin care. You can pick up your order at the Las Vegas event, or we will ship it to you on Jan. 24th.

Steve Scott has been working with top experts and scientists for years to develop Visible Solutions, and each component of the system has a proprietary anti-aging formula. Like all Max products, there is simply nothing else like it on the market.

Remember when you were a child and you could just run and run and run without getting tired?  You could play the entire day and still have energy to spare!  You probably drove your parents up the wall…and now, you are the parent and you wonder where that energy went!  You watch your own children run and play all day and you wonder what happened to you!

You stop and imagine…If I could just bottle up my kids’ energy and sell it…

5 Hour Energy, Monster, Rock Star, Red Bull and many others have been doing just that for years…and doing it well!  The energy drink market is HUGE! I don’t think anyone can deny that!

We are all in search of more energy, and for years, these products have provided a temporary solution to that need.  But at what cost?

Generally, energy drinks include methylxantines (a big word for stimulants – including caffeine), vitamin B and herbs.  Other common ingredients are gaurana, acai, and taurine, plus various forms of ginseng, malodextrin, carbonated water, inositol, carnitine, creatine, glucuronolactone and ginko biloba.  Some contain high levels of sugar and many brands also offer artificially-sweetened “diet” versions.  The central ingredient in most energy drinks is caffeine, the same stimulant found in coffee or tea, often in the form of guarana or yerba mate.

A variety of physiological and psychological effects have been attributed to energy drinks and their ingredients.  Two studies reported significant improvements in mental and cognitive performances as well as increased subjective alertness.  Excess consumption of energy drinks may induce mild to moderate euphoria primarily caused by stimulant properties of caffeine, however, may also induce agitation, anxiety, irritability and insomnia.

There are however, some adverse affects of consuming too many energy drinks…

In the US, energy drinks have been linked with reports of nausea, abnormal heart rhythms and emergency room visits.  The drinks may cause seizures due to the “crash” following the energy high that occurs after consumption.  Caffeine dosage is not required to be on the product label for food in the United States, unlike drugs, but some advocates are urging the FDA to change this practice.

Adverse effects associated with caffeine consumption in amounts greater than 400 mg include nervousness, irritability, sleeplessness, increased urination, abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmia), and stomach upset.  Energy drinks do not provide electrolytes, and have a higher likelihood of an energy “crash-and-burn” effect.  Caffeine in energy drinks can excrete water from the body to dilute the high concentrations of sugar entering the blood stream, leading to dehydration.  If the body is dehydrated by 1%, performance is decreased by up to 10%!

So how does one gain that energy without the adverse affects…I mean, we can’t all be kids again!

What exactly does all that energy the kids have come from exactly?  Quite simply…their own bodies!  Without even getting into technicalities, I’m sure we can all agree that as we age, things just don’t quite work as well as when we were younger.  We don’t recover as fast, we can’t just run for miles and miles…and then do it again, we need naps and Energy Drinks to get through the day!

We are learning more and more everyday about the benefit of antioxidants and the “feel good” effects of them.  This is because as our bodies age, the oxidation process builds up and slows us down.  It’s kind of like a lead pipe…over time, if not properly taken care of, oxygen begins to eat away at that lead pipe through oxidation and rust.  It starts to pit and basically eats itself and falls apart.  This is what we are doing to our bodies every day.  We are creatures that rely on oxygen to function…the downside is that we rely on oxygen to function, which creates oxidation, or rust, in our bodies.  As we get older, that rust starts eating away and we start turning to those energy drinks!

A child produces their own endless supply of energy because their body is functioning at its peak.  It has yet to suffer the adverse effects of oxidation and cell death.  They have enough ATP and mitochondria in their cells to produce all the energy they need to run and play without end!

ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is the most widely distributed high-energy compound within the human body.  This ubiquitous molecule is used to build complex molecules, contract muscles, generate electricity in nerves and light fireflies!  All fuel sources of Nature, all foodstuffs of living things, produce ATP, which in turn powers virtually every activity of the cell and organism.

Jerry Bergman, Ph.D. wrote:

The Function of ATP

The ATP is used for many cell functions including transport work moving substances across cell membranes. It is also used for mechanical work, supplying the energy needed for muscle contraction. It supplies energy not only to heart muscle (for blood circulation) and skeletal muscle (such as for gross body movement), but also to the chromosomes and flagella to enable them to carry out their many functions. A major role of ATP is in chemical work, supplying the needed energy to synthesize the multi-thousands of types of macromolecules that the cell needs to exist…Without ATP, life as we understand it could not exist.

On June 23, 2010, Max International introduced a brand new product based on the research of Dr. Herbert Nagasawa.  With more than 25 years of research, Dr. Nagasawa was able to find the key to generate “Clean Energy” generated from your own body without the adverse effects of other energy drinks.

This new product will be available to everyone on Saturday, June 26, 2010 and can be ordered by Clicking Here

Come back to SuccessPlan.com on Saturday, June 26, 2010 to learn more and to be one of the first to create clean, natural energy in your own body!

***Update – January 2012***

I want to ensure that everyone reading this is informed that after almost 2 years of exclusively building with Max International, I have since added Yoli’s products as gaining my full support as well!  As a normal guy who aspires to be a great athlete, the Max products are still products that I use as the results are great in recovery and support of my athletic endeavors.  I have since found the exact same formulation of the MaxGXL product for only $39.95 (roughly half the price!!!) which you can order by Clicking Here!

Yoli has introduced new products, including the Better Body System.  Some of these products also help the body to produce glutathione and the whole system is a product system that as a Father, athlete and regular guy…I can stand behind 100% and build with a very solid company!

I’ve chose to leave this information here for those interested in learning more.  If you have any questions, feel free to Email Me!

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Original Post Below…

This is my story of how MaxGXL changed my life…and now about 1 1/2 years later, how MaxOne powered by Riboceine along with MaxGXL continues to drive me every day to help people change their lives for the better!

Since my post a few days ago regarding a founding distributor leaving Yoli, I’ve received many responses all asking the same two things: Who and Why?

…Time for an update…and to answer some questions!

So who is leaving? Me

Why would you leave such a successful launch? Read on…

All of the statements I made about Yoli in the post a few days ago are my honest opinions.  I think that Yoli’s product is a great alternative to a lot of beverages out there in the marketplace today…MLM or otherwise!  My kids love it and I feel better about them drinking Yoli vs. them drinking beverages filled with sugar!  I will continue to order Yoli’s products and really look forward to future formulations.

Am I passionate about Yoli?  Unfortunately…no.

Allow me to tell you how I got to where we are today with Yoli and where we have moved to…

As I stated in a previous post, I had knowledge of Yoli a little over a year ago.  I have been working with Len Clements for almost 10 years…through the thick and thin!

I had been loyal to Len in Longevity Network, and when Len took the plunge to start his own company, I was fortunate to be a big part in that endeavor.  I can’t tell you how much time and effort was put into the planning phases, pre-launch, launching, meetings and the ultimate downfall to the company.  I won’t go into why the company failed, however, I can share with you that after Epic, the wind was taken out of my sails.

Being loyal, Len flew me out to Vegas to meet with two company owners of another company.  To summarize…great products, great vision but not so great execution!  Looking back, I know I was not committed 100% to that company…you see, the wind was just not strong enough and I was also a little apprehensive after the experience with Epic!

Well, of course, that company too had some challenges and this time, the wind just died!  Again, I still didn’t hate the industry…I just wasn’t really excited by what was out there!  I guess I had learned too much from Len and loved some of the aspects from previous companies that no other company out there offered!  There just wasn’t anything that I really was passionate about.

A little more time goes on, and I join USANA with Len.  I wasn’t excited…I wasn’t passionate…I liked the products, but they didn’t really change my life.  I guess I just settled!  You see, I love this industry.  I love to work with and help others!  I belong in this industry!

Unfortunately, the passion just still was not there.

Even as we join USANA, Len tells me that a few other things are on the horizon for us that may or may not pan out.  If they don’t, then we are a part of a solid company with solid products.  If they do pan out…then we just inform our groups of our decision to move elsewhere and the reasons why.  So, how passionate do you think I was during that time?!

Well, around last October’ish time-frame, Len informs me that one of the possibilities will be becoming a reality.  At this time, I still don’t know exactly what it is but I trusted Len when he assured me that this would be something we could get passionate about!

Over the next year, I start building towards the launch of Yoli!  The wind picked up…we hoisted our sails and I got excited again.  You see, my wife had been laid of from work and what better timing for us to get excited again!  She was home…she was excited…I was excited…we just couldn’t wait for Yoli to launch.

Was there a small amount of reservations left in me?  I suppose you could say that…however, those reservations slowly began to wain as we learned more about Yoli.  When we got samples, that sealed it!  We loved the taste, the kids loved the taste and we were now committed!  Our pre-launch team was growing and every day was getting closer to the launch…nothing could stop us now!

Well…almost nothing!

In June of this year, I changed locations at work.  Now, I’ll say this…I love what I do!  I have a great job, great boss, solid company and changing locations was going to be for about 6 months…and it was great for my development (I just got promoted this past Friday!!!).

So what does this have to do with this story?  Well, it really is just a time-marker.  You see, a few months later I slowly started into a downward spiral that I didn’t see coming at all.  I can’t explain it…I don’t know what brought it on!  I had been fairly healthy…exercising, eating well and of course I’ve been taking some fantastic products from various MLM companies for years.  Not to mention that we were excited about our budding Yoli business!

For whatever reason, I was not sleeping well…I had virtually NO energy…I was irritable at home — and worst of all, I had lost my “umph” that I have had my entire life.  I just had no zest…no desire…no passion – and I couldn’t explain it and that just made it worse and worse.

I guess it is about mid-August now…aside from my slow demise, work is going well and I’m gearing up for my panel at the end of the month to show the senior mgrs of the company that I am capable of the promotion that I am seeking.  You see, my job does require a certain amount of critical thinking, multi-tasking and concentration…all the while still having a high level of energy for the physical demands.  Well, my panels go well and I’ve got my things to work on.

Here is where I really start getting concerned…

Physically, I’m getting worse.  I have to stop at the service station before work to buy 2 Monster Energy drinks just to make it to lunch-time (at this time, I’m really looking forward to Yoli and it’s products!).  I have to get 2 more Monsters at lunch-time to get through the rest of the day.  I can’t focus, I’m exhausted and I’m really feeling “lost.”  I’m concerned that something in seriously wrong with me and it is affecting not only my job, but my home life as well!

I struggle to stay awake driving on some days.  I have no energy to play with the kids.  I have no desire to do anything at all!  I began to wonder if I was clinically depressed or if I had chronic fatigue or something.  To put it mildly…I was scared!

So…I’m at an auction one day with a co-worker and we are chatting with Christy (the lovely woman who takes care of us at this auction).  Completely out of the blue, she starts ranting and raving about this product that Jason (an acquaintance of ours) gives her to take.  She was so happy about how good she felt and had been sleeping well and the energy she had that she was just beaming!  I asked here what it was and she said she had no idea, but she was buying it!  She found a website about it and I wrote it down and planned on checking it out when I got home.

When I got home, I checked out the site and it turns out that it is an MLM company.  Well, we are committed to Yoli at this time so, I quickly dismiss it and don’t really look into it that much…

…but…Christy’s testimonial just kept eating at me!

I kept thinking to myself, Wow!  Imagine that…network marketing working the way it is intended…a product that changed someone’s life in such a positive way that she just starts raving about it!

Over the next week, I research it a little here and there…and I start getting interested in trying the product.  Maybe it can help me the way it helped Christy!  The next week at the auction, I find Jason and ask him about it.  I tell him up front that I am only interested in the product as my wife and I have a new company coming up that we have been building with and have committed to.  He tells me what the product did for his wife and how it helped her and that is why he got involved.

Well, I tell him that I’ll research a little more and probably order from his site soon.  Another week or so goes by and the more I learn about this product…the more I’m in a difficult situation.  You see, the sails were set…the wind was blowing with Yoli and I’m now learning more and more about this product that seems just too good to be true!  My conscience is slowly eating at me…I’m committed to Yoli…we’ve got a good group going…and Yoli has some great potential!

I try to forget about this other product and just focus on Yoli…yea, I want to see if it will help me the way it helped Christy, but I’m terrified that it will work and I’ll be torn between two companies.

I’m on my way home from work one day and I catch the tail-end of a radio ad about Steven K. Scott and a home-based business.  Well, out of curiosity, I call the number to see who in the area is running a radio co-op and what company it is.

When I get home I get a call from Rodney.  Rodney tells me that he is calling to follow up with me requesting info from the radio ad.  I tell him right away that I was just curious as to what company was doing a radio ad and he tells me that he is working with Max International.  I say, oh, that glutathione company right?  Needless to say, this is the company that I have been looking at to try this product!

Well, we chat for a while and he offers to give me some product to try.  We agree to meet for lunch the next day.  He gives me a week’s worth of product, a DVD, an audio CD and some literature.  I tell him again that I am only interested in the product and that I am focused on building another company.

On the way home, as I listen to the audio CD, I keep thinking about Rodney and how green he is in this industry.  He has a construction background and got involved with this company a little over a year ago and has had some pretty darn good success.  I also think that he is going to go broke giving all this stuff out to people who only want to be a customer!  Although…what is interesting is that this product made such a positive change for Rodney that he believes in it without fail!

In any case…I’m anxious to try this product…and I’m also subconsciously looking for a reason for this product to NOT work for me!  Remember my conscience?  I’ve got Yoli and I can’t have this product working for me!

So, I’m taking this product for a week and I have also searched on eBay to see if I could find some former distributors dumping all their product for cheap.  Well I end up buying a couple boxes (turns out that nobody is dumping product…they are selling it because they know that the customer will fall in love with it, but that’s another story…).  The extra boxes I got are going to arrive right as my week supply is up and I plan on “testing” it on family and friends.

So, the week is almost up and I’m not sure what I’m going to say to Rodney about it not working — my conscience still wants this product to not work so I can feel good about focusing on Yoli.  Well, a few days before I’m out, I get sick — like Flu sick!  I’m excited…not because I’m sick, but because that is my excuse.  I can tell Rodney that this crap made me sick and I can close the door on it forever and never look back!  During this same week, my 8 year-old son tests positive for the darn swine-flu!  So, maybe my sickness was the pig flu…I’ll never know.

Well, after an auction right near the end of this week, I’m on the golf course and Rodney sends me a text: “Are you taking your Max?  How’s it working?”  Here is my chance…I call him and tell him about my son and about how sick I just was and this stuff is junk!

Low and behold, Rodney insists that he get me another week and that I should take MORE to help get through the sickness!  Dang…this guy is persistent…I had my out, but why did I not take it?

I guess I had not even realized it, but that week on that product (aside from the sick day), I started to feel better.  I wasn’t drinking as many Monsters…but I didn’t really realize it because I still wasn’t “all better.”

So, I guess my sub-conscience answered for me and I agree to another week.  Plus…I have the other boxes about to arrive and I can double the amount to power through the end of the sickness!

I guess it was about the 8th day or so…not exactly sure what day…but I remember waking up to go to work – BEFORE my alarm went off!  Not only that, I sat up in bed and was astonished at the night of sleep I had just gotten.  I mean I SLEPT! Like a baby…like a log…I had dreams…I was literally amazed at how I felt!

I drove to work and felt “alive!”  I mean…I just felt fantastic!  Not like bouncy or anything, just felt that everything was “working” – like I was in tune with my body and realized that everything was just right.  Right in to work with no stop for the Monsters!  The focus I had during that day was beyond amazing.  I was no longer struggling to find the words to complete my sentences…I was using “big” words so fluently that I impressed even myself…I could multi-task and pay attention to so many things at once.

On the way home, I wasn’t struggling to stay awake.  I had energy when I got home to interact with my family!

The next day was more of the same and the next day and the next.  What still got me was the sleeping.  I don’t know if I can accurately depict on this blog what I mean, but believe me when I say, I SLEPT! Just that alone still amazes me…not to mention my body just functioning correctly!  I’m back!

So…now to “test” my family and friends.  So those of you in the “NFL” club know how uncomfortable it is to go to all of your family to give them another product to try.  Especially me since I’ve been working on Yoli for almost a year now!  I mean dang, what kind of credibility does that show?!

Here is what I did…I gave a week supply to 4 different people: Mom, Step-dad (Steve), Mom-In-Law (Linda) and Father-In-Law (Mike) ***Jill (my lovely wife) is now taking the product as well but I can’t do the same test as she already has seen what this stuff is and can do***

I tell my test subjects: Take this stuff for a week.  I didn’t tell them what it was…I didn’t tell them what it might do…I didn’t tell them to expect anything…I just said take it for the week and let me know if you notice anything at all, or if you experience nothing!  I said that I know what it did for me and Jill and I need to make a serious decision between this product and Yoli.

In all my years in MLM, I’ve never experienced what happened next.  With the exception of Mom, within the week, all of them wanted more…and I didn’t even have to ask!

Steve told me that he just felt like he had so much “vitality” throughout the day (his word…not mine!)

Linda can sleep at night and her arthritis pain was virtually gone!

Mike has never had trouble sleeping, but always woke up stiff as a board and really struggled to get his day going…he now jumps out of bed and is as fluid as water!

Mom took a little time…she has been taking anti-depressants (for help in dealing with the loss of a loved one and the final days of another) and she knows that she doesn’t want to keep taking them…especially with me hounding her to get away from drugs like that, but I understand the situation.  Well, she doesn’t want to give them up because when she started taking them, she started sleeping…the same way that I had experienced and that she was afraid of losing that feeling!  I kept pushing and guess what…she slowly stopped taking the drugs and she still sleeps every night like a baby!

Now, she didn’t notice this other thing, but I sure as heck did…you know those “senior moments?”  Well, I LOVE talking with my mom…what can I say…I’m a Mommy’s boy!  Lately though, it has been just frustrating!  She could not complete a sentence…she couldn’t find the right words and she kept insisting that she was getting Alzheimer’s!  You know what…those “senior moments” that Mom has…are now gone.  I can have a conversation with her without having to talk for both of us!

Test subjects completed.  My personal testing completed.  Jill’s testing completed!  Decision made!

So why did a Founding Distributor with Yoli leave?

Quite simply…the MaxGXL product changed my life!  It worked so well for me and my family that we made what turned out to be a very easy decision to align ourselves with this company to make this product available to others like us!  I am compelled to tell everyone and the passion is back!  The sails are full!

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***Update – January 2012***

I want to ensure that everyone reading this is informed that after almost 2 years of exclusively building with Max International, I have since added Yoli’s products as gaining my full support as well!  As a normal guy who aspires to be a great athlete, the Max products are still products that I use as the results are great in recovery and support of my athletic endeavors.  I have since found the exact same formulation of the MaxGXL product for only $39.95 (roughly half the price!!!) which you can order by Clicking Here!

Yoli has introduced new products, including the Better Body System.  Some of these products also help the body to produce glutathione and the whole system is a product system that as a Father, athlete and regular guy…I can stand behind 100% and build with a very solid company!

I’ve chose to leave this information here for those interested in learning more.  If you have any questions, feel free to Email Me!-

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