I think dietary supplements do work, as they have been lifesaving (and money saving) for me. Examples: Instead of taking heart medicines with their harmful side effects, I take CoEnzyme Q10 with amazing results. I drink Goji Juice instead of harmful cholesterol lowering drugs, and my cholesterol went from 278 to 245 in less than a month. Acetyl-L-Carnitine relieves the heaviness in my legs (PAD syndrome?) without taking harmful drugs.
C.P.

Thank You, CAOH; I LOVE Your Goji Juice. My thinking has more clarity, my sinuses are clear, and my hearing is good! Finally, my husband is going to try it!

Fri Dec 29 07:23:12 PST 2006
S.O.
St. Louis MO

Experimental Gerontology. 2005 Aug-Sep;40(8-9):716-27
Yu MS, Leung SK, Lai SW, Che CM, Zee SY, So KF, Yuen WH, Chang RC

Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Anatomy, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

“As aged population dramatically increases in these decades, efforts should be made on the intervention for curing age-associated neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Natural plant extracts of Lycium barbarum [Goji] are well-known to exhibit anti-aging effects.”

I’ve used your Goji juice for nearly 3 years — and all are amazed that I’m 55 years old — for most think I’m in my 40′s! I love it!

Yea for God’s provision!

V

Caution: Every indication is that goji is safe to drink in moderation. However, there is one exception to that rule. Like some other natural products, it may have anti-coagulant activity. While this is generally desirable, it could lead to a dangerous situation for anyone who is taking the prescription medication Warfarin (Coumadin). One should therefore be careful about taking the two together, as this could lead to dangerous episodes of bleeding (Lam 2001).

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.

Dear Marcus, Please see below. This person included this with their order for Liquid Power. Can you send some data to her? Thanks, Heather (caoh.com customer service rep.)

E-mail address removed here.

“Dr. Mindell guaranteed me that his goji juice would cure my 9 yr. old golden retriever of her cancer. I just started her on it 1 week ago, so it is too soon to know if it is working yet. If I want to keep her on it, I’d rather get it someplace that isn’t into the MLM; I hoped to get a product catalog with the goji juice, instead I got a book on MLM……..
I also ordered his zincosamine for my husbands bad back, Dr. Mindell assured me that the zincosamine combined with MSM would relieve his pain in 30-45 days. Do you have something that would compare to these products as well but at a lesser price?”
Thank you, Linda C.

Comment:

I spoke to Linda for 25 minutes this morning and she said that it WAS Dr. Mindell, himself, that gave her the information. This is the third time that I have talked with someone who said that Dr. Mindell made health claims and gave health advice regarding his products. Whether it is someone representing themselves as Dr. Mindell or really him, it is not ok to do this.

Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc

Q: Dear Doctor; How are you today? I have been reading a lot about the Goji Berry and I think it sounds great. I would like to know , after reading about all the curing powers for cancer and everything else, how it could help my Father-in-law who has had 2 strokes in the past 4 years. Now he cannot speak sentences, just a few words. From what I understand, the electrical part in the brain that sends the message (or Sentence) cannot get through to the speech part of the brain. Therefore he is limited to just single or double word responses . Will this Goji juice have any effect to help him get the messages through the brain and out through his lips into sentences? I await your reply Thank you

Doug

A: Doug, I have to be completely honest with you, I have no idea how or if it will help your father-in-law. My father had a stroke 8 years ago and I loaded him up on every antioxidant I could find and he recovered (I am not 100% sure what caused him to recover completely).

I do know this; our goji juice with 250mg of vitamin C per 30ml is not going to hurt.

I hope this helped.

Sincerely,

Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc.

Small Red Berry from Tibet Is Attracting a Lot of Attention

By BRITTANY OAT

July 14, 2006 – Although Ponce de Leon never found what he was looking for, the human quest for longevity continued.

Now nutritionist Earl Mindell, author of the bestselling book “The New Vitamin Bible,” believes he has discovered an anti-aging secret in the juice of a tiny, red berry called goji.

“I have never seen anything like this,” Mindell said.

Despite the fact that goji has only been tested on humans in one published study, a simple Internet search reveals hundreds of websites selling goji juice, dried goji berries and even goji plants.

Goji is now available in products on your supermarket shelves and has recently become the subject of some experimental cancer treatments. But does it work?

“We Are A Sick Nation”

Mindell said he learned about the medicinal properties of goji, also known as Lycium Barbarum, from an Asian healer he met on a visit to the Himalayan Mountains in 1996.

For more than 6,000 years, herbalists in China, Tibet and India have used goji because they believe it helps them regulate their blood pressure, prevent cancer, balance blood sugar levels and protect their body from premature aging, he said.

“In that part of the world it is not unusual for people to live to be 100 years old, Mindell said.

In Bapan Village, a remote town in Bama County of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China, seven of its 515 residents are centenarians, according to China’s 2000 census -  that’s 1.4 percent of the population. As comparison, only about two-hundredths of a percent of Americans become centenarians, according to Census figures.

“We’re not dying of old age in this country, we’re dying of degenerative diseases,” Mindell said. “Wake up America: We are a sick nation.”

A 1994 study in the Chinese Journal of Oncology found that 79 cancer patients responded better to their cancer treatments when goji was added to their regimen.

Dr. Victor Marcial-Vega, an oncologist from Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, said that he agrees with those findings, and has been using goji to ease the side effects chemotherapy and radiation is his own cancer patients.

In his 2005 study, which has not been published, 80 percent of his patients who took goji while undergoing cancer treatment maintained a healthy blood count, and 87 percent experienced changes that indicated their immune systems may have improved, he said. “The results are so dramatic that the doctors will never go back to saying never use antioxidants with chemotherapy,” he said.

Commentary: I agree with Dr. Mindell 100%, I have never seen anything like it either. The testimonials we receive from happy customers are phenomenal. Since we [California Academy of Health] added camu-camu fruit to the juice the phones won’t stop ringing with orders for the juice. Consumers are becoming more educated about the health products available to them and that’s a good thing. “C.A.O.H. offers a superior goji juice product that today’s educated consumer is looking for, at an affordable price.” Dr. Marcus Ettinger DC, BSc.

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