FreeLife donates to the Shriners Hospitals for Children!

FreeLife® CEO Ray Faltinsky and President Kevin Fournier contributed to an inspirational session at Abundance ’09 with a special donation on behalf of GojiKids®.


The generous donation went to El Zaribah Shriners of Phoenix, Arizona for its work with the Shriners Hospitals for Children.

The presentation was made after an uplifting appearance, including a drum-off with Kevin, by special guest speaker Dan Caro. Caro, who suffered life-threatening, third-degree burns as a youngster, spent literally years in Shriners hospitals. He is now an ambassador for Shriners Hospitals for Children.

Started in 1922, the Shriners Hospitals for Children is a one-of-a-kind health care system dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing pediatric specialty care, innovative research, and outstanding teaching programs.

Every year, the Shriners Hospitals for Children provides care for thousands of children with orthopedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate, in a family-centered environment at no charge.

FreeLife, on behalf of GojiKids, was very pleased to be able to assist a group like Shriners Hospitals for Children, which has been helping kids such as Dan Caro defy the odds for more than 85 years.

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How TAISlim Helps to Control your Appetite

Experts agree that in order to lose excess fat, you must take in fewer calories each day than you expend. And yet, it can be difficult to break old habits and push yourself away from the table if you’re still hungry. Fortunately, TAIslim™ offers multiple ways to make it easier for you to eat less and still feel satisfied.

TAIslim’s exclusive Appitol Plus complex features two natural amino acids, L-phenylalanine and N-acetyl-L-tyrosine. Studies on these natural building blocks of protein suggest that they can help suppress food cravings and the urge for between-meal snacks. This is because of their action on the brain’s pleasure centers. Your brain is designed to reward you with feelings of pleasure for performing necessary actions like eating or seeking warmth or shelter, and it’s also designed to make you want to avoid uncomfortable sensations such as extreme cold or physical pain. A pleasurable activity such as eating triggers the release of a brain chemical called dopamine, which travels to special receptors to produce a sensation of pleasure—you feel satisfied, and you can therefore stop eating. But in many overweight people, something’s gone haywire with their dopamine receptors, so it takes more food for them to get the message that they’re satisfied.

The amino acids in TAIslim’s Appetol Plus complex are structurally similar to dopamine, and studies have shown that they can increase the activity of dopamine in the brain. That means that, by taking TAIslim at the start of a meal, you can feel that pleasurable sensation without having to overeat.

TAIslim also contains NuFlora™, a special fiber ingredient that promotes the early release of CCK, a hormone that makes you feel fuller faster. And it can make you feel fuller longer as well.

The hunger signal occurs several hours after eating as blood sugar levels begin to dip. Once you have eaten another meal, blood sugar levels once again rise to normal and your hunger goes away. Scientists know that if you can keep your blood sugar levels up
for a longer period of time, you can delay the hunger signal, and this is another way in which TAIslim can offer help. By delaying the absorption of food, TAIslim’s unique NuFlora fiber lets it into the bloodstream a little at a time—a constant trickle instead of a flood. This helps to maintain normal blood sugar levels, and also allows your body to deal with your food much more easily, without having to overproduce fat-storing stress hormones like insulin and cortisol.

With TAIslim, you can find it easier than ever to walk away from the dining table earlier, and you won’t be as anxious waiting for the dinner bell to ring!

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Know more about The Science of TAISlim

†These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.


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Freelife's Science Team

The FreeLife Science Team is composed of our in-house scientists and a global Scientific Advisory Board of leading experts in the fields of nutrition, health, and medicine.

• They represent 20 renowned centers of learning around the world, including the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Paris, Tufts School of Medicine, the University of California at Irvine, Cornell Medical College, and the University of Queensland in Australia.


• Our team members hold a combined 23 advanced degrees, including 7 honorary doctorate degrees.


• Their work has been published in over 1,400 medical and scientific journals and more than 100 books.


• They have given more than 700 scientific presentations.


• They are fellows of more than 50 prestigious scientific and medical societies.


• They have dedicated a combined 346 years to scientific research.


• They have been honored by their peers with more than 21 prestigious awards and prizes.


• They have served as expert judges for more than 40 peer-review journals.


• Their advice is sought by leading organizations such as the National Institute on Aging, National Cancer Institute, and the National Academy of Sciences.

Overseen by Dr. Haru Amagase, our Chief Scientific Officer, FreeLife’s GoChi studies have been accepted and published by three leading peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals. Such independent validation of GoChi’s benefits represents a first in the
Direct Selling industry, and is an accomplishment that our entire FreeLife Family can be proud of.

In addition to these published studies, Dr. Amagase and our Scientific Advisory Board members have in just a little over a year delivered 18 enthusiastically received presentations on our GoChi and TAIslim research at important symposiums and conferences around the world. These include:

• Experimental Biology Convention 2008, San Diego, April 5-9, 2008 (6 separate research papers presented)


• Annual meeting of the American Society for Photobiology, Burlingame, CA, June 20-25, 2008


• 7th Joint Meeting of Natural Products with Pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical, Cosmetic, and Agrochemical Interest, Athens, Greece, August 3-8, 2008 (4 separate research papers
  presented)


• Annual Scientific Meeting of the Obesity Society, Phoenix, AZ, October 3-7, 2008


• Experimental Biology Convention 2009, New Orleans, LA, April 17-22, 2009 (5 separate research papers presented)


• 16th Annual Meeting of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society, Breckenridge, CO, June 3-6, 2009

Dr. Amagase will also be revealing new TAIslim research at OBESITY 2009, the 27th Annual Scientific Meeting of The Obesity Society, Washington, DC, October 24-28, 2009.

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TaiSlim... For a Totally New YOU!

TAIslim helps you to reach and maintain a healthy weight in four important ways:

1. FIGHTS ABDOMINAL FAT:

TAIslim contains FreeLife’s exclusive GoChi®, clinically shown to decrease the body’s production of stress hormones that cause you to accumulate unhealthy belly fat.† Other ingredients act on digestive tract enzymes to help reduce the amount of calories absorbed from starchy or fatty foods.†

2. ENHANCES METABOLISM:

Clinical results on TAIslim have demonstrated a dramatic increase in the body’s calorie burning potential compared to placebo, giving you the energy to maximize your workout performance.†

3. HELPS CONTROL APPETITE:

TAIslim supports a positive mood, suppressing appetite and between-meal cravings to help you to cut unwanted calories.†

4. CLEANSES and REPLENISHES:

TAIslim's advanced proprietary NuFlora™ fiber provides gentle cleansing and detoxifying action to promote regularity and healthy microflora, while slowing the absorption of food to improve metabolism.†

Doctors and diet experts agree that there’s only one permanent way to lose pounds and inches, and that’s to burn more calories than you take in. But if you’ve failed with diet after diet, it’s not your fault. Trendy pills and potions use gimmicks to give you some early results, but the weight always returns. Over time, this yo-yo cycle of losing and regaining can actually slow your metabolism, making it even harder to lose weight. But now, FreeLife® science has found the way to lose the fat and keep it off, and that’s TAIslim.†‡

In Asia, the word tai signifies “total” or “complete.” And unlike any other diet you’ve ever tried, the comprehensive TAIslim plan addresses every key aspect of successful weight control. TAIslim is based on FreeLife’s revolutionary patent pending technology and research on the ability of the goji berry to reduce unsightly and dangerous belly fat.

Know about the TAIslim Success Stories


‡For best results, use every day in conjunction with healthy dietary choices and exercise, and drink 8 glasses of water per day.
†These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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Turn ON the BAT, and burn OFF the FAT

Thermogenesis refers to the body’s ability to produce heat from stored fat calories by increasing the metabolic rate. This fat burning is called lipolysis, and takes place mostly in unique pockets of brown adipose tissue (BAT) located throughout the body.

Other than in hibernating animals, BAT thermogenesis is not a prime energy source for the body. Rather, it is a means of getting rid of excess caloric intake, or as a supplemental source of energy when the body is under stress, attack, is exercising heavily, or is in need of heat (the fl ush of exercise and the “hot under the collar” sensations of anger are both driven by thermogenesis).

Babies are born with highly active BAT, and lots of baby fat to fuel the heat-producing process. This is why babies don’t shiver in the cold. As children become older, BAT thermogenic activity diminishes. By adulthood, BAT activity can slow to a crawl if not adequately stimulated by regular aerobic exercise. This can lead to weight gain, which is popularly explained as one’s “metabolism slowing down.” What’s really slowing down is the ability of the BAT to burn the fat!

Some people, especially those who work outdoors or who live in extremely cold climates, are able to retain BAT activity throughout their lives. In clinical studies on adults with active BAT, even eating thousands of excess calories over a long period often didn’t alter their weight, and some even managed to lose weight.

Fortunately, you don’t have to work outdoors in an Alaskan oil field to activate BAT. Foods such as cinnamon, ginger, and hot peppers can make you perspire and feel flushed, and that’s thermogenesis in action, but the effect quickly wears off. The effects of coffee and tea last a bit longer, thanks to their combination of polyphenols and caffeine, which work together to keep the fat burning going. In fact, the fat burning effect of green tea has been scientifically measured, and it’s equal to burning 80 extra calories a day. That means that you could lose nearly 10 pounds a year just by drinking green tea. But what if that’s not enough?

Now, there’s a better way to turn on your thermogenic power, and that’s TAIslim. In a controlled human clinical study, TAIslim burned calories at the amazing rate of 200 calories per day – that’s 250% more than what was shown in the green tea studies. The 200 calorie thermogenic boost is just one of TAIslim’s four modes of action which, combined, are responsible for the incredible results that people are seeing with TAIslim.

TAIslim’s thermogenic effect is also long lasting. In fact, after 4 hours, clinical study participants taking TAIslim were burning 20 times more calories than those drinking coffee or green tea! So, drink TAIslim. It’s a great way to turn on the BAT, and burn off the fat!

Know about the TAIslim Success Stories


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Ronald Bartell

“I was just recently introduced to GoChi and Chi3 and after trying these products, I absolutely love them! During my training in the off-season, Chi3 has really helped me stay sharp and energized on a daily basis. It gives me an edge to get through those tough workouts and I feel great at the end of the day. I love the taste of GoChi and will continue with it as part of my daily regimen during the season as well.”

Ronald Bartell
Professional Football St. Louis cornerback

Ron Bartell is considered one of the best young cornerbacks in the league and was recently granted a new four-year deal with St.Louis. Bartell was drafted in 2005 in the second round by St. Louis (50th overall). In 42 career games, Ron has 129 tackles (108 solo), five interceptions, one touchdown, 23 passes defensed, four forced fumbles, and one fumble recovery. Ron played his college ball at Howard University after transferring from Central Michigan where he started every game as a sophomore. Born and raised in Detroit, he now resides in St.Louis.


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FreeLife® Co-Founders Spread Generosity Across the U.S. with GojiKids®

FreeLife® CEO Ray Faltinsky and President Kevin Fournier presented donations to two youth charities on behalf of GojiKids® during their Co-Founders’ events.


Ray made a special donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Idaho while he was in Idaho Falls. Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has enriched the lives of children with life-threatening medical conditions through its wish-granting work. The Idaho Make-A-Wish (idaho.wish.org) organization was established in 1986 and has granted more than 700 wishes through the work of about 200 volunteers.


Kevin, who was in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, presented a generous check to Little by Little, a local charity that teaches the value of education and college to economically disadvantaged children in third grade and older. Little by Little, a subsidiary of Partnership for Children (smartstart-nc.org), rewards youngsters who achieve certain goals by taking them to college basketball games and on tours of colleges, and it provides scholarship funds of more than $500 per child for children who participate in the program and show signs of improvement.

GojiKids is proud to assist such worthy organizations as Make-AWish, which is devoted to bringing smiles to deserving children, and Little by Little, whose goal is to break generational poverty through education.

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Real Science, Real Benefits

At FreeLife, we pride ourselves on our commitment to scientific research. We are proud to have demonstrated 19 impressive benefits with GoChi® in three human clinical studies, and our results have been independently validated by acceptance and publication in three scholarly scientific journals. The worldwide nutrition research community is excited about the discoveries of our Science Team, and yet, it seems that some competitors just can’t resist the temptation to knock us. They certainly have a right to their opinions, but we have the right to object when they don’t play fair.

What really troubles our Science Team is when other companies assert superiority for their products based on faulty comparisons. This is especially true when the subject turns to antioxidant power. Many products are marketed with boasts about high antioxidant potency, but most are basing their claim on two inappropriate tests: ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) and FRAP (Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Potential). These two tests were designed to measure only the theoretical antioxidant potential of a substance in a laboratory beaker, but the tests tell you absolutely nothing about how that substance might actually perform in a human body. The truth is that many fruits that test very high for ORAC and FRAP actually perform miserably as antioxidants in the body because they’re not able to be absorbed. High-ORAC foods do provide nutritional benefits, but to say that those benefits are because of their antioxidant power is simply not telling the scientific truth.

Leading scientists believe that to really obtain a compound’s antioxidant effect, tests should be conducted on actual effectiveness in the human body, and that is what we have done with GoChi.

In a recent randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study, blood tests on participants drinking GoChi showed highly significant improvements in levels of the body’s two most important antioxidants, superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase. This was accompanied by a corresponding reduction in blood levels of malondialdehyde (MDA), a prime indicator of free-radical damage and a known health-risk factor.

Competitors can talk all they want about their test-tube scores, but of all the products of its kind that we know, only GoChi has demonstrated such significant antioxidant power inside the human body, with independent validation by the expert judges of the peer-reviewed journal Nutrition Research.

Our antioxidant study is yet another demonstration of the remarkable power of GoChi, and it illustrates FreeLife’s ongoing commitment to bringing you the best that nature and science have to offer, and to backing up our claims with published clinical research.

–Rick Handel, Chief Product Officer

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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Eli Home & Centro del Triunfo receive contributions through GojiKids

Monthly donations through GojiKids® are part of FreeLife’s guiding principle “to serve each other by promoting good health, well-being, and the opportunity for an abundant life.”

FreeLife CEO and Co-Founder Ray Faltinsky presented The Eli Home (elihome.org) an Orange County, California shelter for child abuse victims, with a generous donation on behalf of GojiKids®.

The Eli Home began in 1983 as a Bible study group and has developed into a shelter that provides comfort, healing, encouragement, and strength to the victims of child abuse and neglect. It breaks the cycle of child abuse by preparing victims to re-enter the community and lead stable, non-violent lives free of fear and intimidation.

The multi-faceted, faith-based organization includes three shelters, a thrift store, and professional counseling and therapy facilities. It began in the living room of Mike and Lorri Galloway, whose passion has inspired multitudes of contributors throughout the years. The Eli Home has earned multiple citations from U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.


Centro Del Triunfo also benefited from a GojiKids donation. It provides services to mentally challenged children from 2 months to 21 years old in Puerto Rico. Created in 1972 by concerned parents and professionals, Centro Del Triunfo has addressed an increased need after the closure of Puerto Rico’s Diagnostic & Orientation Center for Mentally Retarded Children.
The GojiKids team was very pleased to be able to assist two groups, The Eli Home and Centro Del Triunfo, which improve the quality of so many young people’s lives.

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Mia St. John

“I drink GoChi every morning! Not only does it taste amazing, but I’m able to work out longer and with a higher intensity. GoChi plays an important role in my daily regimen. I had also been looking for new ways to increase my endurance and a friend recommended that I try Chi3 Energy, a much healthier energy drink compared to any of the others I had seen before. Though I was resistant at first given the ‘energy drink hype,’ I decided to give it a try. I found that Chi3 Energy improves my workout stamina without all the caffeine and sugar its competition relies on. Moreover, I no longer have to experience that sugar or caffeine ‘crash’ at the end of the day. Unbelievably, I am finding that I am eating less despite the fact that Chi3 is only 16 calories per serving! Best of all, Chi3 Energy tastes great and never gives me the jitters.”

Mia St. John
WBC International Boxing Champion

In 1996, Mia decided to pursue her true passion full time in the sport of combat. On Valentine’s Day 1997, Mia made her pro debut in boxing, knocking out her opponent 54 seconds into the first round. Mia signed with Don King and stayed with the promoter for a year and a half before she dropped King for his rival Bob Arum of Top Rank. At Top Rank, Mia spent four years opening for all of Oscar De La Hoya’s major fights.

As well as being a hard-hitting boxer, Mia is media savvy. She has appeared on such shows as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight, Extra, E!, and countless others. She has also acted in commercials and played herself on the TV show Pacific Blue. Mia also has her own Playstation game by EA sports.

Her exercise DVD, Million Dollar Workout, is now in stores nationwide in both English and Spanish. She is also hosting for networks such as Fox Sports Net, ESPN, and providing color commentary for many pay-per-view fights. Mia is an author as well. Her fitness book, The Knock-Out Body Plan, is now available in Barnes & Noble and Borders.

On June 14, 2008, Mia fulfilled her dream of fighting in her mother’s home country of Mexico. She won one of the toughest fights of her career, becoming the WBC International Boxing Champion at the age of 40. She continues the fight in Mexico, not only in boxing but with her charity work as well. In November 2008, the Governor of the Mexican state of Zacatecas awarded Mia an outstanding achievement award for her work
in sports and humanitarian causes.

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