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PART 1

Before I start get this idea out of your head right off the bat - don't think of Isagenix as a weight loss program. It does do that, but the weight loss is a by product of the program’s health restoration system. If you are over-weight, every organ in your body is in the same sad shape and in terrible need of restoration whether you know it or not.

After almost thirty years of conducting health research and helping people save their own lives, I never made any money at it because most people don't want to pay to hear they need to eat more cabbage, broccoli and learn how to fast. They also don't want to pay to find out they're chronically constipated even if they "go once a day".

Recently I learned about Isagenix from one of my best friends and former business partner Bob who was in the process of getting involved in the business. He and his wife invited me to an introductory meeting because she felt it was right up my alley. He agreed. It sounded like an Amway thing to me and the radar antenna went up immediately. I detest those direct sell recruiting meetings with a passion but I agreed to go, but only to make sure he wasn't getting involved in a rip-off scheme. He was well over-weight, had been for decades and in his case, losing a lot of weight while not taking his underlying medical problems into account seemed like a recipe for disaster.

The rah, rah, rah of the meeting was similar to Amway and just as irritating to sit through - at the beginning. But the products looked interesting despite my preconceived antipathy and the system they talked about seemed worth investigating.

Afterwards I examined the products and the system that's employed to build the business and promote health and wellness for its customers. I hated to admit it but I was and am impressed. Not just by the products - they're top quality; but by the system itself that successful users follow.

The reason I was impressed is because their system parallels the tried and true cleansing programs used by the most prestigious health spas since at least the beginning of the twentieth century and to a more limited degree by myself. The big difference is that the Isagenix program is much easier, economical enough for anyone with even a modest income and it works following the time honoured tradition of proper health restoration - and completely contrary to what modern medicine is all about - that is treating symptoms while ignoring underlying causes.

You lose weight as a result of improving your overall health and vitality; not the other way around.

Isagenix officials don't talk about the product in those terms because they legally can't since the products have not been checked out by the US FDA. Even if they were, I would be entirely suspicious of a government body that claims to be safeguarding health while approving Aspartame for general use and denying Stevia - a product far healthier than sugar.

If I was an American the authorities would probably put me in jail to prevent me from spilling the beans about the FDA and its too cozy relationship with the sugar and chemical industries.

Going back to the meeting, when I said this was an introductory meeting, that's only sort of correct. Most of the people who were at this meeting were people who were taking the product but not involved with the business itself. At first I thought the room was full of people like me seeing the product line for the first time. But no, there were only about seven people there who had never heard of the business or the products out of about two hundred people. Nearly all of the people there had been on the product for months and were so excited about their results that they wanted to get involved in the business itself. This was the situation my friends were in by this time.

In a way it was kind of irritating because all the time I’ve known him, I could have helped him restore his health and lose the weight. But no, he wouldn’t listen.

Bob had been taking the products and following the system for three weeks at the time of the meeting. He had lost fifteen pounds and his wife had lost seventeen. I've known them for twenty years and they've never lost an ounce in all that time as far as I know.

You don't have to spend a lot of money to restore your health or lose weight with or without Isagenix. There is no product out there that will help you get completely healthy unless you commit to a program of regular exercise. Good health depends on vigorous exercise because that's what gets the blood flowing to oxygenate your tissues down to the individual cells. But even regular exercise will not help if you don’t balance the exercise with a sound cleansing routine. Bob swam six miles a week and has done for years, not losing an ounce – a huge strain on his heart by my estimation.

The more I investigated Isagenix, the more I became convinced that either the people who run the company truly don't know how powerful a tool Isagenix is or the Food and Drug laws muzzle them to such an extent that the people at the lower rungs of the company don't have a clear understanding of how amazing the system is and the potential for emptying hospitals it has. It showed in the post by Chestanch where it was noted the Isagenix agent clearly didn't have a clue. Then GETREAL hoped that doctors weren't going to start promoting Isagenix. Too late. That's already happening. When medical professonals and athletic trainers see the results, even with their dismal nutritional educations, they are in. The Unregistered guest thought it was totally bogus and unsupported by science. The science was done back in the twenties and has been proven over and over countless times. It works and is not bogus.

In the early 1920's there was a medical researcher by the name of Professor Arnold Ehret. You can google him. He was the first pioneer in the art and science of health restoration. To this day he knows no equal. The next most important person in the field was Bernard Jensen, D.C. Ph.D., Nutritionist. Their combined works and the book titled the pH Miracle by Robert O. Young and his wife Shelley give you all you need to know to maintain optimum health - except for one vital thing - the actual mechanics of how to acquire prepare and consume the correct balance of nutrition that will generate the health we all strive for. In a busy world, finding time to concoct an effective nutritious diet is usually the weak link that defeats the best intentions.

As a student of those luminaries for the last three decades, I recognised in less than five minutes that the Isagenix product line fills the void between practical understanding, ease of application and the all important follow through.

I read on another thread on this forum where some people had tried Isagenix and had not gotten the results they were looking for. There is a good and sound reason for that.

Isagenix is not magic. You don't take stuff and the weight drops off - although it does seem to in many cases.

The Isagenix product line is a tool box of vital ingredients. A wide array of what the human body needs to be healthy. You've often heard doctors use the phrase everyone is different. That is a crock. We all evolved on the same planet. There are some dietary differences between races such as Negro vs Inuit. But for most of us in between, our bodies need the same stuff in the same balance.

When you ask a mechanic to fix your car, you don't expect him to fix it with one 9/16th wrench do you? No. He needs an assortment of tools and he uses them as the job requires. You don't tell your mechanic how to fix your car unless you're mechanic yourself - and then why wouldn't you be doing the job?

Your body knows what tools it needs to repair what needs repair. But it can't choose the tools. You do that, and most of the time you do a terrible job of selecting the tools. That's because you aren't a nutritionist and even then, most nutritionists don't know squat about restoring health. So you go to the health food store and try to figure out what you need from reading incomplete and incomprehensible labels without the nutritional knowledge to guide your choices. Most people understandably get it wrong and if they’re lucky don’t do any damage to themselves. Some cause havoc with their bodies that can be difficult to impossible to repair.

The most important health restoration tool is the fast. Most people equate fasting with starvation. That is not what fasting is. Fasting is the equivalent of doing an oil change on a car. If you don't change the oil in a car engine, the car engine fills up with oily mud and eventually seizes up. At that point the entire engine needs to be rebuilt. If you never fast, your body will do the same thing - it will fill up every single cell with sludge. Unlike a car, all of your organs including your brain and your individual cells can't be transplanted.

So when you start on a program with Isagenix, you are at long last giving your body the opportunity to fix what is wrong with it. It’s chance to finally clean house. It does that in order of priority. The most important things get fixed first. If extra flab was not high on the list of what your body feels is a priority, you are not going to lose much weight at first if even an ounce.

If you have a lot of things that need repair, weight loss is just not going to happen until its turn comes along. To dispense with the Isagenix plan is like shooting yourself in the foot and then wondering why it hurts.

Isagenix does not only help people lose weight. If you’re underweight, you’ll gain weight.