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Our need for vitamins and supplements is clear.

70,000 new chemical compounds have been dispersed in our environment since 1950. Only a fraction of these have ever been tested for human toxicity.

Of 167 chemicals currently found in the average blood stream, 76 cause cancer in humans and animals. In a given moment when a person stands on a street corner and breathes in the fumes from a passing bus, the amount of free radicals entering their body in that single moment is more than a person 150 years ago was exposed to in their entire lifetime.

Too much estrogen can cause breast cancer. Too little estrogen can cause hot flashes or early onset of osteoporosis. An overactive immune system can cause rheumatoid arthritis or allergies.

Health professionals are increasingly recommending therapies and treatments from the supplement and vitamin realm which prevent disease and produce no side effects, as drugs often cause.

Shaklee believes your body has its own way of fighting disease and maintaining your comfort, which it can do if you help it balance. Shaklee harnesses the therapeutic compounds in plants. The appropriate use of such supplements can help a person fight and prevent disease in a balanced way. Balance and healing are Shaklee’s mission. This goes for Shaklee’s pills, supplements and also for Shaklee’s cosmetics and household cleaning products.

Why does Shaklee not create and sell hormones? Other companies offer hormones. Shaklee considers taking hormones to be taking something the body naturally creates on its own. Supplying such a substance for the body can create a dependency, an addiction, as it were, in which the body stops doing its own job of producing the hormone for itself.

Shaklee’s standards are high.

Shaklee has a standard of excellence more intense than organic. Purity is our standard. We acquire ingredients from around the world. One example is the non-GMO (non genetically modified) tomatoes Shaklee picks in Israel. These tomatoes contain the highest form of licopene, a healing agent. They are picked at exactly the right time. The blueberries Shaklee uses for ingredients are picked in Nova Scotia in August, at exactly the right time to maximize their anthocyanidin content. "

A field of crops can be called organic by a farmer and by regulatory agencies who certify organic farms. But that only protects the soil and crops from chemicals deliberately applied. Air can still transport lead to the crops. Shaklee tests every raw material, every plant, every leaf, every root for 300 contaminants such as fungicides, herbicides pesticides and atmospheric gas exposure.

In 2004, Consumer Reports published a list of the 12 most dangerous supplement ingredients such as Chaparral, Germander, and Scullcap. Shaklee is the only supplement company who never used any of those ingredients, many of which are still used today by other companies.

In 1998 the US Department of Agriculture randomly selected 43 Ginseng-labeled products and tested them for active ingredients. 39 of the 43 had no active ingredients. They tested garlic tablets. 100% had fewer active ingredients than labeled. 33% had none. 70% of St. John’s wort products contained fewer active ingredients than labeled. 10% contained none. 50% of Ginko Biloba products contained less than labeled; 25% contained none.

Five brands of a 200 unit capsule of vitamin E were tested. Brand 1 had .15 units of absorbable vitamin E. Brand 2 had 15 units. Brand 3 had 1 unit. Brand 5 had 200 units. That was Shaklee.

Shaklee’s products are tested for bio-availability. Not only must a pill contain a substance, but that substance must be accessible for a person.

Over a hundred of Shaklee’s clinical studies have been published in official medical journals available at medical libraries such as at UCLA. One example is a vitamin B-complex study called “Enhancement of Folic Acid Dissolution in Solid Dosage Forms of Dietary Supplements,” written by DeBernardi, Subramanian, and Hegenauer, published by the American Chemical Society, Division of Agricultural & Food Chemistry, Spring 2002. Other studies appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, American Journal of Cardiology, Journal of Applied Physiology, and Journal of the American College of Nutrition.

Shaklee studies some products which it will not sell. Polycosinol is the waxy substance found on sugar cane. Shaklee learned of a well designed, double blind, placebo controlled clinical 8 week study done on polycosinol which was shown to lower the bad cholesterol called LDL. Shaklee decided to repeat that study for 12 weeks. Shaklee obtained the same results in week 1-8. LDL decreased. However, in weeks 9-12, the LDL went back up to equal the levels of week 1.

Numerous products on the market brag about the cholesterol lowering qualities of polycosinol, including Beta Sitosterol made by Puritan's Pride and Endur-acin from Endurance Products Company.

Vita-Lea is Shaklee’s multiple vitamin. Shaklee does 349 quality controlled tests on every lot of Vita-Lea before releasing it. Shaklee’s quality control manual for the production of Vita-Lea is 5 inches thick. It includes 208 pages of specifications on raw materials and 337 pages of test methods.

At www.shaklee.com there is a link called “health information.” At the following screen is a link called “clinical studies.”

When viewing this web page, notice the address bar no longer says www.shaklee.com/this_page. The address bar instead says content.nhiondemand.com/this_study. This is a third party web site hosted by Natural Health Information On Demand. NHIOndemand is the only global provider of natural health information for healthcare professionals and researchers. In all business, big corporations engage outside accounting agencies. Such a practice keeps the books honest. Shaklee’s clinical studies web page is an abundant source of information on hundreds of herbs and healing compounds. All this information is monitored and presented by a company, NHIOndemand, which is separate from Shaklee and respected by health professionals all over the world.

Doctors from outside Shaklee are coming to us of their own volition and supporting what we do. One such doctor is Bruce Miller, DDS, a certified nutrition specialist with degrees from Univ. of Texas and NY Univ. and author of the best-seller, "The Nutrition Guarantee."

In 1997 Dr. Bruce Miller sent the following letter to many companies and has never received any valid answers except from Shaklee.

"Dear Sirs and Madames: I am extremely interested in (name of product). I have a request. Please send me a complete bibliography of all of your research that has been accepted for publication in refereed or peer reviewed professional journals. This can be published research done by scientists employed by you or those on your advisory board concerning work on the actual products you are selling."

Such a bibliography is available from Shaklee.com, which is constantly receiving scientific updates on health from the NHIOndemand company. At this site you can find data on hundreds of diseases and supplements.

Shaklee has a Scientific Advisory Board who are nationally recognized physicians and scientists. They provide unsurpassed expertise in nutrition, biochemistry, cardiovascular health, and sports medicine. Do other nutrition and cosmetic companies have a scientific advisory board. Do they even make the products they promote? Do other companies have research and development centers or manufacturing plants? The Shaklee Research Center is in Hayward, California. It is 52,000 square feet of laboratories devoted to good pure and effective products, most of which are manufactured at the Shaklee plant in Norman, OK. It is 312,000 square feet in size.

You can make or buy your own pills and fill your own bottles with your own or somebody else’s substances. You can call yourself a nutritional company. No law will demand you get a medical education or punish you if customers get mistreated or hurt by your products.

The Washington Post stated that since 1993 there were 7000 reported cases of consumers getting hurt by vitamins or food supplements. Some say that is a vastly lower number than the claims against drugs. This shows how unmotivated the government and insurance companies are to regulate the vitamin and food supplement industry.

Dosages were inaccurate. Pesticides, bacteria, lead and glass have contaminated some products. Ephedra, meant for weight loss, was linked to heart attacks. On 7 March 2003 the FDA announced ten new regulations for 2005 for labeling and purity of vitamins and food supplements. The proposal would not require that the supplements be proved safe and effective, as drugs must be. The regulations mainly concern cleanliness and record keeping, as well as labeling. The FDA could remove products from the market if they are adulterated or contain sub-potent or super-potent levels of the ingredients.

There are an estimated 1,000 supplement companies. It is a $19 billion industry.

At the time of the FDA proposed regulations, Shaklee’s current practices met two of the ten requirements and exceeded the remaining eight.

Panax Ginseng is an adaptogenic herb which Shaklee uses to make some supplements including CorEnergy. From Greek pan means all, and akos, means cure. Adaptogens support the immune system and increase energy. Almost all supplement companies acquire their Ginseng from the same location.

A batch of Panax Ginseng received by Shaklee contained some quintozene fungicide contamination. This did not meet Shaklee’s quality standards. Quintozene is a carcinogen. Shaklee sent the batch of Panax Ginseng back to China. When another batch arrived, Shaklee was again dissatisfied that quintozene was present. Shaklee sent the Panax Ginseng back to China. It was discovered that all harvested Ginseng was stored in the same place and all had been contaminated by a flood. Rather than take a risk, Shaklee suspended from manufacture and sale all its Ginseng products for a year and a half. Some customers were disappointed. They were advised to find alternate treatments until uncontaminated crops of Ginseng were available. Customers were free to shop elsewhere during that time period, for numerous other companies showed no lapse in their offering of Ginseng products. Which company would you trust?

Safflower contains many valuable phytochemicals, the uniquely potent healing elements found only in plant sources. Medical science does not know how to synthesize phytochemicals.

Shaklee found toxicity in some safflower raw material. Shaklee went back to the extraction facility which was run by another company. How was the flower dried and powderized? The Shaklee scientists, watching the company’s extraction process, noticed hollow steel balls over a conveyor belt. The steel balls had been filled with lead. Supposedly the dried flowers were contacting only the steel surfaces in the crushing process. However, lead was seeping into the flower powder from inside the steel balls. That extraction facility, hired by numerous food supplement manufacturers, had been operating for years. Shaklee was the only company to catch that toxic aspect and demand the steel balls be changed.

When you buy pills at a health food store, you have no idea how they were produced. How were they grown, stored, shipped, processed, extracted, re-shipped, manufactured and packaged? Do you care whether the company you patronize monitors all aspects of production?

Shaklee’s products are not only safer, they are also more effective than other brands.

The antioxidant and flavinoid value of Shaklee vitamins were tested against 7 competitors. Shaklee far exceeded all brands including Juice Plus.

Numerous Olympic world records were achieved by athletes who use strictly Shaklee performance enhancers.

Shaklee’s Immune Building complex is a revolutionary product made from such substances as pumpkin seed, honey suckle, and plantain extract. This little pill builds the human body’s natural interferon which is manufactured by smart white blood cells to protect the immune system. IBC increases the T-Lymphocyte count. T-Lymphocite cells organize your body’s defense against infection.

There is such a thing as an over-active immune system. IBC naturally increases your immunoglobulins, which are needed to prevent your body from fighting beneficial microbes which help your body. Hepatitis C patients can avoid the complications of that disease if they begin using this natural pill before they get symptoms.

Dr. Richard Brouse, a biochemist who studies the blood of people recovering from cancer treatment, found their improvement with daily intake of IBC was 4 times as fast as it had been without IBC. Dr. Brouse is so amazed at how well IBC facilitates a body’s fight against infection that he suspects we will be able to avoid immunization shots in the future as a result of this product.

Shaklee’s vitamin C is in a natural gum base resin, not a synthetic plastic release system.

Shaklee's nail polish has no phalates, formaldehyde or Toluene. Other nail polishes are supposed to be recycled at your local gas stations. Shaklee's can be thrown away in your garbage. Yet measures of its long-lasting and chipware qualities are equivalent to the top of the line nail polishes.

Shaklee’s Enfuselle now has 8 patents. It is conventional wisdom that humans should not be able to improve sun damaged skin. Enfuselle has proven we can. See the UV photos in our catalogue. As a result many major pharmaceutical companies want to license Enfuselle. Shaklee will not offer licenses of this product to any other company. Shaklee will hold the patent for a very long time.

We need safe cleaning products.

A seventeen year long EPA study concluded that women who work in the home have 54% higher death rate from cancer than women who do not work in the home. This is specifically due to exposure to cleaning products.

150 chemical compounds are in the home. Many of these cause allergies, birth defects and psychological disorders. The National Cancer Prevention Coalition declared the top 12 cancer causing products include Johnson and Johnson baby powder with talc, Ajax cleanser, Lysol disinfectant, and liquid dish soap.

There are 2.5 million accidental poisonings per year in children under the age of 6 directly caused by liquid dish soap.

Many brands of cleaning products contain formaldehyde and ammonia. Shaklee has never used formaldehyde, ammonia or talc.

Of the chemicals in the available personal care products, 884 are toxic, 146 cause tumors, 218 cause reproductive complications,

Asthma was considered a very rare disease. The National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control says that in one decade there was a 42% increase in asthma; 29% for males and 82% for females. This is considered to be the result of exposure to chemicals in household products. Asthma in children is very high. The average child visits a doctor 23 times in the first 4 years of life. The most common problem is respiratory ailments.

Children’s ailments can be triggered by contacting surfaces and fabrics washed with dangerous products. Shaklee’s solution was to create effective and safe cleaning products which lead the industry for decades.

In 1991, the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona began a 2 year study with people inside a sealed glass building containing its own ecosystem. This was a model for the eventual building a space station. This sealed environment had its own water system and farm. The scientists took Shaklee cleaning products into their two year long sealed study. They wanted products they knew were safe for the people as well as for the environment.

Any cleaning products, vitamins, food supplements, or air purifiers or water purifiers needed for the home can be supplied by Shaklee in a superior way.

Shaklee welcomes you to return any of their opened or unopened packages, partially full or even empty. You can always receive a full refund if you are unsatisfied.


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