May 2006
Chuck Traylor

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Gina Citoli

August 2006
Dr. Janet Kearney and Fred Gissendaner

September 2006
Regina Cottrell

February, 2005
Wellness Achiever, Makasha

"Wow, Jeremy, we can't keep up with your dad anymore. Your dad has more energy than we do!" my 25-year-old son's friend said. These young men stood at 6'2" tall and had the strength of professional athletes. We had just finished playing a game of rough, hard basketball and the young men were taking a break on the sidelines.

I had to smile when I heard Jeremy's friend say that. I am healthy, energetic and full of life. I'm 5'9" tall and will be 67 in March 2005 and feeling better today then ever. But, trust me; I've not always had "more energy than a 25-year-old." The assault on my body from pollution, hard living and injuries began when I was young.

1958
As a young adult, I enlisted in the United States Navy and was stationed on the U.S.S. Boxer naval ship in the Marshall Islands in 1958 during the Korean War. In fact, I was at "ground zero" for the testing of the underwater, surface and air atomic bombs and was exposed extensively to radiation. At the time, no one knew the horrific impact of radiation and atomic fallout on a person's body. As I began aging, many people thought I looked sick and worn out. They were right.

Super Fast Lifestyle
When I was in my early 30s, I was a different person than the one I am today. At that time, my compulsive, addictive personality was my Achilles Heel. I lived in Las Vegas and lived what I thought was a glamorous life, becoming "addicted" to sugar, alcohol, and drugs. I was a "Ladies' Man" and lived hard, played hard, and loved hard. This kind of lifestyle attacks the body in a negative way, but I wouldn't realize it until many years later. As you can imagine, combining this lifestyle with the already toxic body from the atomic radiation in 1958, was not a good thing.

What's interesting is that somewhere along the way, I began to have soul-based experiences and was guided inwardly to let go of all the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas. In a way, one could say I began a new spiritual path - one of Well Body, Well Mind, and Well Spirit. I began the first steps to taking a "whole systems" approach to living and healing. I made a conscious shift to take accountability for my health in a more aggressive way and to research anti-aging methods. The road has been rocky and challenging, but enlightening.

I was diagnosed with a pre-cancerous liver condition in the mid - 80s. Because I was now into a "whole systems" approach to living and healing, I was determined not to go the regular allopathic route. Instead, I went to Hawaii and found a renewed sense of peace and happiness. Wanting to keep my body as alkaline as possible, I drank volumes of coconut water, raw Aloe Vera juice and wheat grass juice. This regime and lifestyle brought better health and vitality to my ailing body.

Degenerative Body
Over the past thirty years I've rarely taken medications. Instead, I've been more conscious of what I eat and drink, as well as being a consumer of a variety of nutritional supplements. These products worked fairly well, but last year I realized I had reached a plateau. Even though I had been pharmaceutical-free and was eating good whole foods, my body was still not getting to the level of health that I would like to have felt or seen as a result of all the toxins from the atomic radiation and my prior lifestyle.

For many years, I had severe headaches as a result of my inability to digest protein. The protein would overflow into my bloodstream and cause these excruciating headaches. I took hydrochloric acid to help with the digestion, but it didn't "heal" my body. I also had a foggy brain. My brain was so dull it took a couple of hours after I got up in the morning before I could think coherently.

For the past several years, I have had a difficult time walking up stairs. I had a knee injury from a snow skiing accident in my 20s, and this made climbing stairs and snow skiing painful. Many people assumed this was a natural result of aging and that it would never get better - that I just had to learn to live with it. But, I was determined to find a way and I persisted into looking for solutions. In the course of this exploration, I had 16 Rolfing treatments. Still, my knee wasn't healed and my Rolfer thought that I might need to have microscopic surgery to deal with the pain. Not only did I feel pain in my knee, but my left shoulder ached chronically from a car accident in my youth. My range of motion was very limited.

After I began taking all the Ziquin products, I noticed that - in about one and half months - the pain in my knees had started to fade away. I began to do more snow skiing, which is very hard on the knees. No pain. It seemed too good to be true. Then, I began playing basketball with my son and his friends. I suddenly noticed that I had no more aches in my shoulders and had full range of motion. This was an incredible feeling. I could not believe what I was seeing.

After 3 months into the program, my energy level just kept rising. I didn't need my daily "caffeine" fix in the afternoons anymore. In fact, at times I didn't even think about it, I had so much energy. My brain was clearing itself of all fogginess. I have noticed that when I take Ziquin's Mind & Body Tonic in the morning before meditation, there is a balancing that takes place within my body. It's hard to explain, but it feels as though my cells are coming alive and communicating with one another, creating a great synergy of health and wonderful sense of wellbeing. It's like a cellular dance in my body.

Support Through Tragedies
Another very important thing I've noticed about the Ziquin products is that they help the body to cope with life's stresses and problems much more effectively. Over the past year, there has been a lot of stress and grieving for me and my family. We had 3 major traumatic deaths. My granddaughter died in a fire in December 2003, a very dear friend drowned in Hawaii in January 2004, and another close friend died in a car accident in July 2004. All three of these losses had quite an impact on me emotionally.

I believe the Ziquin products helped me through the sorrow and stress of these tragedies. When there are great tragedies in life, these are the times when we see or hear about the physical body breaking down, chronic diseases becoming full blown or an immune type of disorder suddenly showing itself. Science has shown how the immune system is actually suppressed as a result of overwhelming or longterm stress. Fortunately, my body received the Ziquin nutrients it needed to keep me balanced and my immune system functioning at a higher level. Ziquin was the nutritional support that my body needed to have the strength to carry on and care for family and friends during this period.