Bill Demong lives to compete. Make that—win. He garnered two World Championship medals and 11 World Cup podiums in 2009 alone. Call it warming up to his biggest accomplishment yet: becoming the first American ever to win gold in Nordic combined skiing event. The 29-year-old took the podium twice at the Vancouver Games—once for the individual 10 km race and once for the 4×5 km team relay.

“The feeling of going head to head for those last few vital minutes of a race is an insane rush,” he says. “You have to give it everything you’ve got. You have to want it. Want to hurt. Want to be the strongest.”

To achieve that, Bill, an outdoor enthusiast, spends hours on intense training. In the summer, he bikes for up to seven hours a day, relying heavily on Shaklee Performance® and other Shaklee products. “I use Shaklee products exclusively as part of my daily routine,” he says. “I like Shaklee Vitalizer™ because it’s in one easy packet. I also take Defend & Resist Complex to help keep my immune system up, especially during all the travel.*” He adds, “I trust Shaklee to help supplement my nutrition. It’s an integral part of how I not only maximize my training, but also how I recover.”

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Shaklee Get CLean Starter Kit

“We are in super cleaning mode this weekend and just had ourselves a Shaklee Get Clean fest! Lots of fun mixing together the items in our kit and getting our house clean with non-toxic safe products!! (It also doesn’t hurt that the packaging is pretty – I’m a sucker for that stuff!) Thank you Nadya Nemova Tatsch for supplying us with Get Clean!”

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Supplement Usage on the Rise -

More than Half of US Adults Use Vitamins & Other Nutritional Supplements

Laura Collins Hughes
Senior Vice President, Shaklee Sales & Field Development of Shaklee Corporation

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that more than half of U.S. adults use dietary supplements.  This represents a significant increase since 1988, when data was last compiled.

Here are some links to emerging news stories on the CDC report, which offer a very positive outlook for nutritional supplement usage in the U.S.:

• USA Today – “Study: More than half of U.S. adults over 20 take vitamins” http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/medical/story/2011/04/Study-More-than-half-of-US-adults-over-20-take-vitamins/46044846/1
• Washington Post – “Dietary supplement use keeps rising, federal survey shows” – http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-checkup/post/dietary-supplement-use-keeps-rising-federal-survey-shows/2011/04/11/AF58q4VD_blog.html
• Council for Responsible Nutrition – “Government Report Cites Increase in Supplement Usage” – http://www.crnusa.org/CRN11-CDCNCHSReportSupplementUse041311.html

This great news highlights what everyone in the Shaklee Family already appreciates – that supplements are an important part of a healthy lifestyle, and that maintaining good health is a growing trend that offers a great foundation for earning a healthy living. Share this good news with everyone you know!

Best wishes for good health and success,

Laura Collins Hughes
Senior Vice President, Shaklee Sales & Field Development of Shaklee Corporation

New Shaklee Published Clinical Research Study

Dr. Jamie McManus, M.D.
Chair, Medical Affairs, Health Sciences & Education
Shaklee Corporation

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new Shaklee-sponsored clinical research study confirming that key Vivix® ingredients blunt the biological stress response that occurs after consuming a high-fat meal¹.* This biological stress response refers to the acute oxidative and cellular responses that occur in the body to address metabolic by-products of common lifestyle factors such as eating an unhealthful diet, being overweight, or smoking. If the biological stress response persists over time, it may lead to many of the age-related health challenges we see today.

One way to study this biological stress response is to observe what happens in the bloodstream after eating a high-fat fast food meal, as this is known to produce a significant amount of oxidative and biological stress.

So Shaklee scientists collaborated with researchers to study the effects of Vivix ingredients on the metabolic responses to eating a typical fast food meal. The researchers gave key Vivix ingredients or a placebo immediately before the consumption of a high-fat fast food meal and measured oxidative and biological stress response for five hours following the meal. Results showed significant blunting of the typical oxidative and biological stress response to a high-fat meal, as well as significant activation of Nrf-2, a key regulator of the body’s antioxidant defenses, in the group consuming the Vivix polyphenols.* See the picture below.

The study was published Feb. 2, 2011, online in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. We encourage you to access the study from your nearest university library or from the Clinicals.Shaklee.com Web site and to look for future Health Sciences Bulletins for more information on the health risks associated with oxidative and biological stress responses.

This research nicely complements our mitochondrial mass study showing increased cellular energy production with Vivix ingredients compared to resveratrol alone AND our laboratory study showing that Vivix ingredients are more powerful than resveratrol at inhibiting AGE protein formation.

What does this mean to you? You can now share the incredible news that we have a human clinical study published in a prestigious peer-reviewed medical research journal that shows significant and positive physiologic effects in people consuming key Vivix ingredients.

To your great health,

Dr. Jamie McManus, M.D.
Chair, Medical Affairs, Health Sciences & Education
Shaklee Corporation

¹A Resveratrol and Polyphenol Preparation Suppresses Oxidative and Inflammatory Stress Response to a High-Fat, High-Carbohydrate Meal. Ghanim H, Sia CL, Korzeniewski K, Lohano T, Abuaysheh S, Marumganti A, Chaudhuri A, Dandona P. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2011 Feb 2. [Epub ahead of print]

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