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Health
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Research
Initial
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Eighteen_Months_Later
Snake
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My Name Is Douglas
Nusbaum. I am in my early 60's and in pretty good health.
In my late teens and early twenties I began to make some
discoveries about nutrition in general and my health in
particular. At that time I was suffering from seasonal
allergies. In fact I would tell people that I was
allergic to March, April, May and June. Anti-histamines
were a part of my life. In addition I had a very low
energy level, often sleeping ten or more hours a day. I
also had frequent colds that lasted a week or more.
At
that time, I became aware of the role that proper diet and
nutritional supplements might play in ones health, and I
started taking vitamins and changed my diet. I still had
mild seasonal allergies, but by drinking a lot of water, taking
extra vitamin C and avoiding dairy products, I was able to
cease taking anti-histamines. I had more energy, and
fewer and much milder colds.
For the next 30
years things stayed more or less the same. I tried
various different substances powders and potions, but nothing
really produced noticeable effects.
In late August of
2002 I was made aware of Legacy for Life and immune26. I
was skeptical. Most items advertised on the
internet - especially those that involve earning money are
frauds. I did research. And I strongly suggest that
you do your own research.
Before continuing, be aware of what it means to be healthy.
Contrary to what you may see on television, a healthy person
does not take pain medication, does not have allergies, does
not suffer numerous colds, does not have stiff or sore joints.
This is true regardless of age. Health is the opposite of
disease (dis-ease) I am now much closer to health than I have
ever been. Perhaps what you read here will bring you closer to
health. And perhaps it will bring you closer to wealth also.
This is what my research turned up:
1 doctor
who, when responding to a patient with long term chronic immune
problems who asked about immune26 and said it made him feel
better, said that the product would do nothing, and that he was
just having a placebo reaction.
I suggest that you do
searches in google or
alltheweb Use
various combinations of legacy for life, fraud, scam,
immune26. In fact while writing this page, I did another
search and turned up http://www.worldwidescam.com/
which has a lot to say on biochoice. I suppose that had I
read this before becoming a distributor I would have hesitated
a little longer than I did.
I will address only
one of the negative items on this page. Almost all of the
others seem to be either name calling, (if you have no
facts, use name calling) or trivial. The one exception to that
is the complaint from one woman, (The only specific claim to an
adverse reaction I found despite many hours of searching.) I
do not disagree with the truth of her assertions, but see my
remarks on testimonials, both positive and negative,
below.
The statement I wish to address is from Dr. Leo
Galland. I was told that he simply wished more privacy in
his life. He has not, to my knowledge, disavowed any of
his claims about the products.
Perhaps a better
evaluation of the company and its products can be found at this
site
http://www.mlmwatchdog.com
I looked at some of the research mentioned in the
site, and also did google searches on the some of the senior
legal, science and medical staff. When one considers
that negative information is much more likely to be posted than
positive information, and that I found so little information I
think one may conclude that this product and company are as
good as they claim, if not better. As a result of all of
this research, I was impressed and I signed up.
So what
happened? Well, I was in the midst of one of the worst
colds I have ever had. In fact, the last time I was that
sick was 16 years ago. This stuff had no discernible
effect on my cold. On the other hand, I did not expect
anything so dramatic. Any reasonable person would not
expect a nutritional supplement that affects the immune system
to make a sever cold go away.
This is fall allergy
season. For the first time in many years, I have had no
allergy symptoms. Specifically, I have had no allergy related
asthma symptoms and have not had to use an inhaler for over 5
years.
Several years ago during a visit to a zoo I
noticed I had difficulty getting a full breath. We left
the zoo early. So as a test, I took my son to a petting
zoo. We spent about three hours there, and I detected NO
symptoms. In addition, a creaky knee got much much better
and I have a substantially higher energy level than I have had
in the past several years.
Will this benefit you or any
others in your circle of friends and relatives? I do not
know. My understanding is that only slightly more than
half of those who try the immune products stay with them. If
you checked out one of the above sites, you will have seen
someone who claims that the product almost killed her. Of
course she was very sick before she started taking the product,
and she blames vitamin K. The main purpose of this
vitamin is to promote blood clotting. It is found in
green leafy plants. The woman had a problem with to much
blood clotting. You may draw your own
conclusions.
I have no doubt that a few people will be
adversely affected by these products. Humans are
different. Our dietary needs vary widely, as does our
sensitivity to various things in our environment. But you
will be hard pressed to find individuals who have a legitimate
complaint about these products. I have yet to find a
complaint that I consider legitimate.
I myself have a
sensitivity to Diet Coke. If I drink a lot of it I get
severe joint pain. I discovered this when I had occasion
to drink a lot of Diet Coke and subsequently got severe Joint
pain and limitation of movement. I started to think about
what had changed in my environment to cause this pain. I
realized that the only thing that had changed other than
location was my cola consumption. I stoped, and the pain
gradually went away.
If you do not have what you
consider optimum health and want to try this to see if it makes
you feel better, than by all means you should. If you
have a chronic health problem, or are for any reason under the
ongoing care of a health care professional, than start with
about 1/4 of the recommended serving. Stay with that for
a few weeks and see how you react to that amount. Then
increase if you and your doctor detect no adverse affects.
Some people take two or three servings a day. If
you are under a doctors care, check with the doctor. Use
common sense. As a retail user you will have three months
to experiment with no financial risk. If you are taking
drugs use more than common sense. Drugs and anything else
can sometimes have serious side effects. Anything else includes
common foods like grapefruit.
Eighteen_Months_Later
Here
it is Mid January of 2004, about 18 months after I first
started taking the product. I can say that it is NOT a miracle
product. If I am extremely careless about what I
eat I will get an alergic reaction consisting of the typical
runny nose and sneezing. This can last for up to several
hours. I have had two such episodes in the past year.
I have Not had to use my inhaler, ever, during that time. In
fact I would be hard pressed to find it. While my son,
who does not take this product, or takes it sporatically, has
twice missed school for a week due to colds, I have had two
days, seperated by several weeks, during which I did not feel
well, felt sort of achey, and slept a lot. My gums are
better, as are my joints. My eysight has marginally
improved. So I continue to rate this as a great product
that lives up to its claims.
Snake Oil and the FDA.
As you explore Legacy for life
and their various products you will see numerous disclaimers.
For the most part these are created at the behest of the
legal department so that the company can keep its products in
compliance with directives from the FDA. This agency is
responsible for making sure that what we consume is safe. And
if the the product is a drug, the FDA is responsible for
making sure that the product is effective.
Unfortunately
the FDA appears to suffer from two serious drawbacks. To
a great extent, its decisions are influenced by executives,
money and lobbyists from the Drug and Food industry. To
find out how and why a decision is made, do as Deep Throat
advised and Follow the money.
Senior staff, as do most
of those in government, assume that anybody who is not them is
as dumb as a post, and totally incapable of making a good
decision about what they should or should not imbibe.
For example, a few years ago the FDA was on the verge of
mandating that most vitamins whose dosage exceeded the RDA be
available only by prescription. Now the Europeans are
following
suit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,790733,00.html
Or
consider DMSO http://www.dmso.org/subLevels/what.htm
Clearly safe, and effective, but never blessed by the
FDA. Follow the money. Who will spend the tens of
millions to obtain that blessing when no patent can be obtained
and huge profits can not be made? DMSO and neosporin are the
only medicines that I keep in my medicine cabinet for my
use.
Here are the leaders. People
of Legacy for Life
Check out Dr. Greenblatt. Other
senior medical and technical people with the company have
similarly impressive resumes. You will be able to read
about them if you become a distributor.
If you would
like to find out more about the senior doctors on staff, try a
google search on Kenneth M. Kroll or Subramanian V. Iyer
Here
is a link to many people who have given testimony about how
much and why they like the product. Testimonials
Please note that many of these people are practicing
physicians.
Here are some quotes from a few
physicians:
http://www.legacyforlife.net/Products.asp?display=ImmuneDrQuote&image=immune26On
the main site click on Products
and then check out either Immune or Doctors corner in the bar
right above BioChoice®
Products
Well, that is about it.
This page contains all the reasons that I use the
product. That includes a few negative statements which I
decided had little merrit. I leave the decision about
trying this product up to you.
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