I would like to thank Dr. Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc. for his prompt responses to my questions. He has been very helpful and is probably the reason I am placing this order again.

Thanks Dr. Ettinger.

A. Moore

Dear Dr. Ettinger,

This email is simply to thank you for your effort to help someone whom you owe nothing to. Simply having the opportunity to speak with you has offered our family a glimmer of hope, and a mode of action to give us all a sense of control over what seemed like a near fatality.

My dreams of a future career envy yours. My BS is also in Biology, and this experience eludes a career in holistic medicine for me. To have the opportunity to offer healing in whatever form it takes, must lead to a full and adventurous life – congratulations and, Thank you.

B. Frank

November 14, 2006

Dear Dr. Ettinger,

It was a pleasure to talk to you personally yesterday. As I told you on the phone, my husband’s results from goji juice have been truly miraculous. Who would have thought that one of God’s natural berries that He created could do so much for a persons health and life. The goji berry did just that for my husband Wayne.

Diagnosed 9 or so years ago with Lyme’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis he could do not much of anything. First he underwent a really severe back surgery that did not seem to work at the time. Next came years of severe pain and the inability to do much of nothing. He could not even walk most of the time. He just sat in a chair and even at this point he started having severe memory problems from the Lyme’s. It affects the short term memory. So anything that was told to him he forgot almost instantly. There were years that he took between 60 and 80 pills per day. I had to lay them out for him because his memory did not let him deal with that. Our children had to watch their father’s health fail rapidly. At this stage his walking became worse since the Lyme’s disease went straight to the joints now. He had to drag his legs to try to walk places. At one point while driving he could not get his leg off the gas pedal to stop our truck and that is when we sought another opinion from a Doctor. This is when it was found out that his hips were destroyed by the arthritis caused from the Lyme’s disease. He underwent bilateral hip replacements within a year’s time. By now he was really getting disgusted with his health. His cholesterol was out of control; his blood pressure was out of control and his body was no longer producing testosterone. Along with that the medicines they had him on were causing all kinds of side effects. By January of 2004 Wayne went off all but 3 of his medicines by himself. It’s funny because he was no worse or no better. At least most of those chemicals were starting to leave his body.

October of 2005 a friend introduced us to goji juice. I bought him a bottle and he took it. He felt it did not do anything but I had seen a slight difference in his energy level. He did not take it again until January of 2006. By this time he started taking 9 ounces a day because of all the reading I was doing on goji. In the summer of 2006, Wayne went off his cholesterol medicine on his own because of side effects of joint pain. When he went to his family Doctor, she was amazed because for the 1st time in all these years his cholesterol levels were great without the pills. She said to him, Wayne short of Divine intervention I can’t figure out hat is going on with your blood. He told her about God’s little goji berry. Next He went to his Rheumatologist and he took his own blood to check Wayne’s RA counts and it showed his RA was in remission. Next step was to go to his Endocrinologist. She reported after her own blood work that his testosterone was good again. How amazing is all of this. His energy level is fabulous and he is now on his way to great health again. I would have never believed that 9 years ago he would be where he is at today and I just thank God for all of this.

Yours truly

D.G.

Q: Dear Sir:

I have a few questions regarding your goji juice. Do you use the berry stems in your juice? Also, do you have polysaccharides in it, if so, how many? Also, what species of Goji berries do you use and where are they grown? Also, do you have any kind of guarantee with your juice? Also, does it have a spectral signature?

The reason I am asking so many questions is because I’ve been on disability 30 years for Lupus and have been told Goji juice could help me tremendously. But the people that tell me that are with the FreeLife Company. They have a 90 day guarantee and say there’s nothing else as good as there’s on the market for a number of reasons. Your product is much more reasonable; but, dealing with the health issue I have, I need good quality; but price is a big matter because of living alone and on disability for 30 years.

I would appreciate any information you can render. Thank you very much for taking your valuable time to answer my questions.

Sincerely,

Lesley S.

A: Dear Lesley,

It is mandatory that every multi-level-marketing product has to possess at least one “magical quality or property.” This “magical quality or property” is what makes their (MLM) product so unique amongst the masses and keeps the user prejudiced to their (MLM) product. In this way the MLM and their distributors can claim the stars and down-play the competition. FreeLife has their “Spectral Signature”. Below are two links that will help. The bottom line is this: our goji juice has a higher concentration of real goji (no stems), has all the same unique, master-molecule polysaccharides as FreeLife’s, is less expensive and doesn’t have any MLM strings attached.

Link -Is FreeLife Goji Juice the best?

Link – Goji Spectral Signature

Here are 10 Reasons Why Our California Academy of Health Goji Juice Is So Special:

1) The Goji berries and Camu-Camu fruit in our juice are hand picked when at the peak of ripeness, they are then cold pressed and flash pasteurized to preserve their freshness and the natural levels of all bioactive compounds.

2) Our Goji (Lycium barbarum) berries are grown in pristine and unpolluted farm land, and only pure snow run-off is the only water our goji plants.

3) Our growers personally pick out the best lots of Goji berries before the rest are taken to market. We pay a little more for our raw product but it’s worth it. The combination of superior raw ingredients, technical expertise, responsibility and ethics has allowed us to produce a Goji juice that is the “hands down” leader in the market place today.

4) Even though the practices used to grow and harvest the berries conform to stringent USDA Organic Certification criteria, we still have the berries tested for pesticides and heavy metals. Our Goji juice is produced in an FDA inspected laboratory. Note: The facility we use is presently in review for GMP certification.

5) Our Camu-Camu (Myrciaria dubia) fruit is grown along lush river banks throughout the Amazon rain forest. The fruit is wild-harvested by pickers standing in canoes because the fruits mature during the high water or flooding seasons in the Amazon. Our growers there take personal pride in their jobs and only pick the best fruit for us to use.

6) California Academy of Health Goji Juice is 60% pure Goji berry juice and 40% Camu-Camu fruit, fruit and berry blend. WE DO NOT ADD WATER to our juice, NOR DO WE USE CONCENTRATE; it’s just 100% pure fruit and berry juice.

7) Our Goji juice supplies 250mg of natural vitamin-C per fluid ounce.

All four unique Lycium Barbarum Polysaccharides (LBP) are in our Goji juice.

9) Our Goji juice is made from berries that are cold presses then flash pasteurized. The “flash pasteurization” method heats the juice to 160°F (71°C) for 15 sec, followed by rapid cooling to below 50°F (10°C). The juice can then be stored at room temperature. This process has a negligible harmful effect on the juices healthful properties. Note: Be aware that “all” non-pasteurized products require an FDA warning label stating that fact. A preservative free product = A heat pasteurized, hot (bottle) filled product = little nutritional value.

In addition, other products on the market are made from a dehydrated concentrate that is reconstituted with water. The dehydration process in and of itself is pasteurization and is far more harmful to the healthful properties in the fruit. This process also removes the living water that the fruit produces naturally.

Each Goji juice batch is tested for purity and contaminates. The product is produced in an FDA inspected laboratory. FYI – there is no such thing as an FDA approved lab

10) Lastly, we are the first company to bring such a unique product (Goji/Camu-Camu blend) to market with a 100% satisfaction guaranty.

Sincerely,

Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc.

Response: Dear Dr. Ettinger:

Thank you so very, very much for your prompt reply to my questions about your Goji juice. Something in my spirit didn’t feel right about the Free Life goji juice. It’s not that I didn’t think it was good (they have a 90 day guarantee), but I’ve always thought that any multi level company may have a good product but have to charge more for their product so they will be able to have the money to pay all their distributors. I would have had to have gone into debt to afford FreeLife’s goji juice because of my having been on disability for 30 years.

I plan to share the information you sent me with my podiatrist I am seeing tomorrow. He is a brilliant man that does a lot of research on a lot of different fields besides podiatry and also including nutritional things. He had been given the Free Life “line,” and he was encouraging people to purchase it and become distributors. Your information may not change his mind because of his heavy involvement at present, but you have helped change mine. I have been praying for weeks about what to do regarding the goji juice situation because I was diagnosed with systemic Lupus 30 years ago and know this product could help me, but couldn’t justify the expense verses my budget at present.

Thanks, again, so very much for your information.

Sincerely,

Lesley S

Dr. Ettinger and I just returned from Las Vegas, NV where we attended the NNFA conference. I really find these conferences interesting with all the new products and ideas – it’s just a neat thing to go see. The one thing that really caught my attention was the amount of new Goji, Mangosteen and Acai products that are being sold. We have been selling Noni now for seven years, Goji for four years, Mangosteen for three, and Acai almost two. I have to say some of the new products are not what one would expect; especially some of the, so called, “pure” Goji Juices that are being displayed. A little known fact is that raw goji juice pretty much looks like fresh carrot juice. To some this may seem odd because the dried goji berries are reddish orange in color. What we found were thick, cooked, dark brown liquids, not cold pressed pure juice.

One particular company claims to be the first pure 100% goji, with absolutely nothing else added. First of all, the juice is a thick dark brown syrup. Secondly, it smells like a liquid mix of honey, caramel and molasses. Third, it tastes terrible. So again, knowing what 100% pure goji juice looks and tastes like, there is just no possible way what we saw and tasted is 100% cold pressed, flash pasteurized goji juice. My guess is that it is a 100% lifeless cooked down version.

One of the main reasons we have always blended our juices is because, through SYNERGY, we can achieve better product stabilization without adding preservatives and chemicals. Juices just don’t do well by themselves, storage-wise. But when a juice is properly blended (Proprietary Process) with other juices and berries, we can achieve a natural stabilization. Then we flash-pasteurize the liquid and bottle it without harming the beneficial properties, Mother Nature gave the fruit. Some may say that this is too simple, but that it is our little trick and believe me; it took us some trial and error to get it right.

There will be more to come on this topic and few new product surprises are coming as well !

Thanks,

Kelly

Dr. Ettinger and I just returned from Las Vegas, NV where we attended the NNFA (NPA) conference. I really find these conferences interesting with all the new products and ideas – it’s just a good thing to go see. But the one thing that really caught my attention was the amount of new Goji, Mangosteen and Acai products that are being sold. We have been selling Noni now for seven years, Goji for four years, Mangosteen for three, and Acai almost two. I have to say some of the new products are not what one would expect; especially some of the, so called, “pure” Goji Juices that are being displayed. A little known fact is that raw goji juice pretty much looks like fresh carrot juice. To some this may seem odd because goji berries are reddish orange in color. What we found were thick, cooked, dark brown liquids, not cold pressed pure juice.

One particular company claims to be the first pure 100% goji, with absolutely nothing else added. First of all, the juice is a thick dark brown syrup. Secondly, it smells like a liquid mix of honey, caramel and molasses. Third, it tastes terrible. So again, knowing what 100% pure goji juice looks and tastes like, there is just no possible way what we saw and tasted is 100% cold pressed, flash pasteurized goji juice. My guess is that it is a 100% lifeless cooked down version.

One of the main reasons we have always blended our juices is because you can achieve better product stabilization and synergy without adding preservatives and chemicals. Juices just don’t do well by themselves storage-wise. But with a proper blend of certain juices and berries you can achieve a natural balance and then flash-pasteurizing the liquid you can bottle products without harming the healthful properties of the juice. Some may say that is too simple, but that it is our little trick and believe me, it took some trial and error to get it right.

There will be more to come on this topic and some new product surprises are coming soon!

Thanks,

CAOH

To Whom It May Concern:

I’m the mother of a six-year-old boy named Christopher, who has a history of hyperactivity and behavioral problems. Christopher is normally a sweet and loving child, but frequently throws tantrums in which he becomes so frustrated and angry that he starts kicking, hitting, biting, clawing, and screaming. These tantrums have often lasted for several hours at a time, sometimes ending only when he becomes completely exhausted and cries himself to sleep. Several people, including a preschool teacher and a clinical psychologist, who examined and evaluated my son, suggested that he be referred to an M.D. to be given Ritalin or some other type of behavior-altering medication. Instead, I took Christopher to Dr. Marcus Ettinger who gave him two nutritional supplements (Min-Chex, a holistic nutritional supplement and a-Aminobutyric Acid [GABA], an amino acid). I administered one capsule each of Min-Chex and GABA per day, the results were amazing! On several occasions, when Christopher began throwing a tantrum, I would hold him down long enough to get him to eat a small amount of food with the supplements mixed in. Within 15 to 20 minutes he would be calm and pleasant. There has not been a single instance when Christopher’s behavior has not improved after he received Min-chex and GABA. Our family members and friends have also commented on the behavioral changes. I’m extremely grateful to Dr. Ettinger for providing a holistic alternative with no harmful side effects.

M. Walker
Hemet, CA