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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.

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Part 2

There are a number of reasons most people are overweight and suffering degenerating health. It used to be this didn't happen until midlife. Now children younger than five years old have the metabolistic problems of dodderers.

That’s entirely due to what Professor Ehret termed the mucus forming diet. The mucus forming diet consists of red meat, flour products, dairy (including eggs), rice and refined sugar. With the exception of sugar, all of these products, once consumed, become glue inside us and are totally devoid of vegetable fiber. Without vegetable fiber, your colon has no idea there is food that needs to be moved along. What does eventually move it along is gravity and the force of yet another meal being crammed into the system behind it. The entire system becomes impacted and swollen. Excess refined sugar causes the stew to ferment. A truly ugly and dangerous condition.

Dead and dehydrating fecal matter adheres to the colon walls and morphs into the shape, consistency and colour of truck tire tread. Yards of horrible rubbery gunk. It will remain in the colon for the entire life of the person unless that person learns to fast or has a colonic to clean it all out. But colonics only clean colons, not the billions of cells in the rest of the body that are just as clogged as the colon was. The body itself is still constipated. Add today’s lethal chemicals floating about in the air and most people are acquiring body burdens that ten years ago would have been the stuff of a sci-fi horror movie.

A colonic is a process where a hose is inserted in your rectum and your colon is flushed out with warm water. Princess Dianna had it done once a year. It's a well accepted practice in Europe but here, most people try to ignore the fact that they even have a colon. Sort of like standing in front of an on-coming train reading a comic book about Superman.

Constipation generally starts with the first sip of cow's milk after a baby is weaned from mother's milk. Despite what the various milk marketing boards say, cow’s milk in almost any form has no business inside a human body – especially if the stay is going to be prolonged by constipation. As the baby becomes more and more constipated, its abdominal pain increases. Also see the notmilkman dot com website. The baby cries constantly as the torture continues. From that point, the child is chronically constipated for life unless it later gets access to large quantities of fresh raw vegetables and can start its own health restoration. Otherwise all its nutrition is poisoned in the colon before it can reach the bloodstream. Hard to digest items can become lodged in the colon and remain there undigested for decades. The entire system putrefies, stinks and starts to break down. That translates directly into expensive doctor and funeral bills.

All of the body's organs become irritated and inflamed from the increasing acidic decomposition going on in the body.

Good colonic health is essential for good health and optimum weight. There is no alternative and if you ignore it, you do so at your own peril.

When the colon is healthy, your poop will be virtually odourless. You might not believe this but all healthy people know it as an essential truth. Regularity is not once a day. It's at least once per meal. In my years helping people restore their health, I've come across many people who have bowel movements as infrequently as once a week or once every two weeks. These were people whose colons were dying for one single solitary reason - they didn't like eating vegetables.

Older people who have abused their colons for their entire lives may never experience the degree of regularity that denotes a truly healthy colon. That’s because after years of having been stretched out of shape it can’t shrink all the way back to its formerly slim self. Really stretched colons acquire so much weight that the large transverse colon can collapse from the top of the abdomen to the bottom of the abdomen. That situation cannot correct itself. It needs corrective surgery. To make matters worse, swollen colons are quite hard. The organs they are near are quite soft and prone to being crushed flat. Especially the prostate gland and in women the uterus and the ovaries. Being overweight is not something to ignore and eating all the wrong foods – junk foods and processed foods – anything in fact that doesn’t come from the produce section can cause serious trouble. Like your mother told you – moderation in all things is key.

It's a condition of life on planet earth that all life forms have to consume vegetable matter in order to maintain bowel function and thus life itself. That includes lions, tigers, leopards, eagles, white sharks and piranhas. Carnivores get their vegetables by eating the predigested plant material in the intestinal tracts of their prey. For that reason, the discerning lion does not eat a North American more than once if it can help it - for the most part we have no food value and we stink something awful because of the ten to fifteen pounds of dead, poison fecal matter most North Americans carry around in their guts. We probably don’t taste too good either.

Humans have a “long” digestive tract as opposed to the short digestive tract found in carnivores. It takes much more time and effort to digest plant material than it does meat. It takes about 12 hours for food to pass from your mouth to your anus. So why would anyone want to carry a load of rotting food around with them for any longer? You wouldn’t but most do anyway for weeks, years, decades even. Since our digestive tract is so long, it gives lots of time for the nutrition in our colons to migrate through the colon walls into the bloodstream. If the colon environment has been pre-poisoned, what sort of nutrition are you going to get? How’s your brain going to function on bilge?

The first thing Isagenix does is help you clean up your toxic system. In doing so, your health returns. Nothing the FDA can say will change the fact that this is a process that works.

It’s common knowledge that on most weight loss programs you can lose a few pounds by shedding excess water. But when you start cleansing your system, what you’re losing as well as excess water is excess poop. You lose that fairly fast if it’s loose in your system. If you happen to be one of those carrying a spare tire in your colon, you’ll be quite some time ditching that without either the colonic mentioned earlier or learning how to fast properly.

Fasting is not nearly as difficult as you might think. Aside from not eating, the big challenge is to keep on not eating. The traditional fast is done with lemon and water. Nothing else. A teaspoon of lemon juice in a large glass of water as often as you can get it down. Usually eight to ten glasses a day. The idea is to strip mucus from your system. It works exactly the same way as when you use a finger bowl in a restaurant. Stick your greasy fingers after eating ribs into a warm bowl of water with a tiny wedge of lemon in it and the grease floats away. The same thing happens when you drink lemon and water; it flushes the mucus out of you. It works like a charm. The first day you get a headache. They can be quite painful. Flake out on the couch, don’t take a pill for it. The headache is essentially a brain cramp as loads of toxic gunk is turfed out of your brain. Truly a case of no pain, no gain. You also experience hunger. It can be very uncomfortable and first timers tend to spend the day inventing recipes. By the second day, the pangs have subsided. They’re still there but manageable. The headache may be gone or at least bearable. If not, you really had a load of crap up there. By the third day, the body starts actively moving lethal garbage to the shipping bay. During this time you may be constipated. Laxatives were the answer to that*. Laxatives are poisons designed to cause a violent muscle spasm in the colon that jolts it back to life. After the third day of a fast, that’s when the body really starts to motor and clear out years of accumulated filth. But since you spent years polluting your body, don’t expect a single fast to unpollute it. It does take equivalent years to purify your body and restore it to good health.

In thirty years of helping people restore their health, I’ve only met one person who did the job completely and properly the traditional way and I’ve only met one adult who was perfectly healthy and needed no restoration. So real, honest good health has been extremely rare throughout human history. In the twenty first century, the human species is the sickest species on the planet and that’s mostly due to poor eating habits in the midst of plenty.

There are some people who do have trouble losing weight. They are generally people who have been on other diets and may have experienced some success that didn't last. The syndrome is famously termed yo-yo dieting. The more diets tried and failed, the tougher it gets to lose weight.

The reason for that is that unexpectedly, it turns out that your individual cells are smarter than you thought. They can make decisions on their own and in concert in direct opposition to what your brain may want. Yo-yo diets and the practice of a coffee in the morning and nothing until supper convinces your cells that you are trying to starve yourself and thus them, to death. Naturally they don't want to die so they take remedial action and refuse to release their energy insurance - their stores of fat.

This can be a huge problem for many people and it leads directly to obesity. That's why you hear these people say they can't lose weight no matter how hard they try. They're right about that until they start changing their body chemistry from death (cancer/heart etc.) inducing acidity to life giving alkalinity.

This is no easy thing to do even with Isagenix and requires self discipline.

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Part 3

The Isagenix method of cleansing by comparison with the traditional method I’ve described is far more comfortable and the headache/hunger syndrome is largely avoided. But the end results so far appear to be the same.

It would be really interesting to compare recovery rates for chronically ill people using the traditional method, the Isagenix system, modern medical techniques and no method at all. My experience so far indicates no method at all is generally fatal. Modern medicine has mixed results and a mediocre outcome at best and the traditional method of fasting and living on a mucus free diet leads to long healthy life. My examination of the Isagenix system leads me to believe that it should fare at least as well as the traditional fasting method in terms of finished results and it should exceed the traditional method in terms of the number of people who stay the course to achieve their goal of optimum health.

Isagenix as a company is too young for even one person to have seen a cycle of total health restoration that generally takes about seven years. However, it may be that the system actually speeds up the process because there is so much nutrition packed into the program. It’s a seven day a week, rest of your life program. No time off. The food? You’ll eat better than you ever have. Your sense of taste generally gets restored to you in the process of a typical restoration program so it must work that way with Isagenix too.

After examining the products myself I decided to put my money where my mouth is and try the program to see how well it works. I had no preconceptions about what results I was looking for. I wasn’t over-weight, but I wasn’t really fit either due to a number of recent injuries.

I started off at one hundred fifty five pounds and a chronic insomniac and typically lost at least two nights sleep a week to brain run-on, wasn’t getting nearly enough exercise and my sugar intake was too high.

I started the thirty day plan. The first night I slept like a log and have ever since. My insomnia was always accompanied by foot and leg cramps. I haven’t had one since. My weight dropped to one hundred forty five pounds. My regularity became more frequent and there was no odour. Urination was way more frequent and cloudy – consistent with a toxic flush. That is imporant to know. Most of the toxins your body will release will be carried away in your urine. If you don't drink enough you inhibit or even halt the cleansing process. The whole idea is to flush your body clean. If you have to, think about what would happen if your body was a toilet and you never flushed it. Within a day it would be pretty rancid wouldn't it? Well, if you aren't cleansing your internals properly, that's exactly what you are doing to yourself - only we're not talking days; we're talking years worth of never flushing out your body. NOW can you understand why cancer is so prevalent? Cancer, even multigenerational cancer is not a disease. If it's dietary in origin, it's a self inflicted injury caused by slovenly personal habits that become so bad it can disrupt genetic integrity and span generations. You have to drink, and drink often. Its' the rinse cycle.

To some, talking about body functions with that degree of openness is offensive and disgusting. It’s also why so many people are so sick. They don’t want to talk about their body functions and therefore never learn what is normal. These people commonly suffer in silence and pain until they are driven to seek medical help. At that point it’s often all over but the funeral. When animal health is discussed; whether it’s a dog, cat, fish or zoo animal or bird, feces and urine samples are the main subjects of conversation. That’s because stool and urine tell the story about health without the need for the patient to speak – the language is universal. It’s called scatology.

Do yourself a favour - lose the squeamishness. The quicker you do, the quicker you’ll be on the road to restoring your health. Do not be embarrassed. No one will fault you or tease you or think less of you. You have to deal with this in an open and straight forward manner. Your life depends on it.

This information was not posted as a sales pitch for Isagenix. If you are well enough versed in nutrition and health restoration techniques, you can achieve similar results without Isagenix products. But I believe that my own past failures, even with all that knowledge, to assemble that nutritional multitude on a consistent long term basis while running a design business has shown me at least that Isagenix products are a viable and economical solution to a problem that others who are as busy as I am can have lasting if not permanent success with. My research has shown that other methods can work but over time become a burden. They are also not focussed on proper health restoration techniques. As such, they have to fail at some point due to the fundamental error of the core concept. Excess weight is an indication of an underlying problem. It is not the core problem. If the core problem is not addressed there can be no lasting success. Kristy Allen and Oprah Winfrey are very famous examples of people who simply do not get it and they will never have lasting success at achieving and maintaining optimal weight until they do - it's basically impossible. At some point they will also fall victims of the yo-yo diet syndrome and that will be tragic.

*Isagenix has a product that stimulates the colon that is non-toxic. It’s a brilliant idea. Its product name is Isaflush. It is not a laxative but it does gently stimulate the colon and get it moving. It's completely safe as no laxative can be. The danger of using laxatives is that you can become dependent on them. If that happens you are in danger of killing your colon. The next step is a colostomy – removal of the colon and having to wear a plastic bag outside your body to catch body wastes. Doesn’t look good on the beach. Better to eat your broccoli.