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A. I would be happy to Mark, first of all before I started working with the company I had been taking it for several years. after being on JP for that first year, I started noticing I was not getting that occasional cold or flu along with my son ( if there was something going around, you could count on him to bring it home) before starting JP, then back in December of 2008 I put my son on it to see if it was only my imagination that I was not getting sick while taking my JP. 

The first thing I noticed right off was that  within those first few months... was that he still acquired the flu virus, but instead of missing a week of school... his symptoms only lasted 2 days instead of the normal 5 or 6.  I was disappointed though because I thought "how in the heck could he still be getting sick at all", but I realized the longer he was on JP, the less he was getting sick, until eventually he wasn't getting sick at all along with me.

It did take approximately 8 months for the benefits to become apparent, but they did...just like I hoped, and he has even had a growth spurt from being the smaller child in class, to very much catching up with his other class mates and even outgrowing a few. I can not say it is  the JP, but what I can tell you, is that he will be taking JP for the rest of his life just as I and everyone I care about will.

So, with this experience I became very interested in learning anything and everything about this product, which later led me to start representing it and finding it my obligation to share with everyone, because in my opinion there is not a person out there that does not deserve to at least know about JP.

I could go on all day about how it has helped my mother & others too, but I will spare you and go right into the history of this product and how it came about to begin with.

A little bit of history about the Master Herbalist that came up with this and why.

This brilliant man goes by Smokey Santillo, N.D.  He became very passionate about better health after he developed 33 allergies and the early stages of rheumatoid arthritis.  He started seeking answers. This led him to earn the degrees of Doctor of Naturopathy, Health Practioner, and Master Herbalist. With his own health restored, he has since offered counseling and healing to more than 30,000 patients through his practice.

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Excerpts From the book  "Your Body Speaks...Your Body Heals" by Smokey Santillo



" It was 1980 and I was on a lecture tour, teaching herbal seminars in Denver, Co. During a break, I received a phone call from my father. He told me his spleen had swollen to the size of a football. It was so large he was using one of his Marine Corps belts to hold it up, and it was so painful that he could hardly move. My mother made an appointment for him at a nearby hospital, where the doctors could not believe how large his spleen had grown...and it was still growing.

At the end of the day, my dad called me again and said he was diagnosed with lymphoma, cancer of the lymphatic system. I was so stunned I couldn't reply. I just held the phone, praying I didn't really hear what he had said. My throat closed up, so tight I could hardly breathe.

He felt my shock and distress and told me everything was going to be okay. Being a naturopath and teaching people for years how to live by the laws of nature, I had to ask myself, why did this have to happen? (Don't we all wonder why, when something so traumatic happens to us)?

I told my dad I'd be home in four days, as soon as my tour was over. By the time I got there, his doctors had already removed his spleen and started chemotherapy. I was floored, totally irate. No questions had been asked...they just did the surgery and started pumping him full of drugs.

After three weeks, my father had lost 40 pounds and nothing was working. The Chemotherapy had failed, and there was nothing more they could do. His doctor called our family together and told us my dad had no more than three weeks to live. After breaking the news to dad, I asked if he'd like to try natural therapy at my clinic in Tucson, where I would take care of him. He said, " I would have come to you before this, but I didn't want you to be responsible if anything bad happened to me".

I picked him up and carried him out of the hospital without even checking him out. By the time we got to Tucson, he weighed 136 pounds, and his cancer was traveling so fast through his body that he couldn't eat or drink. How do you nourish somebody who can't eat or drink? I started massaging him everyday with olive oil so his body would absorb the fat through his skin.

He could only sip water, so I devised a plan to get more nutrients in through another route. I built a slaught board for him to lie on, made fresh green juice with kale, parsley, and some additional liquid chlorophyll, and used enema bag to feed him through the bowel with this juice daily.

As he got stronger, he was able to drink vegetable juices by mouth. Fruit juices, however made him feel ill because of their sugar. You don't want to feed cancer cells sugar, because they thrive on it; it acidifies the body, putting even greater strain on a sick person's system.

I wanted to find a way to get more concentrated nutrition into his body to increase his strength and boost his healing, and it occurred to me that if I could juice the vegetables and dry the juice, the powder would be more concentrated than the juice itself. I set up some small dryers in my office and found that it took hours to dry the juice, but it worked.
 
I gave him tablespoons of vegetable juice powder stirred into small amounts of water daily. To my amazement...keep in mind, at that time we knew nothing about phytochemicals...in two months he put on 30 pounds. There was no meat and no carbohydrate other than tablespoons of dried vegetable juice in his diet.

 I wondered, how could someone put on so much weight without eating? He then got to the point where he could also drink fruit juice powder without feeling ill, so he had fruit juice powder in the morning and vegetable juice powder the rest of the day. I gave him very little fruit juice powder, though, as I noticed that giving him too much made his urine's pH acidic. I also added proteolytic enzymes and some herbs to the regime.

The results were astonishing. Within three months of my taking over his treatment, my father got out of bed and remodeled my kitchen. He had been a carpenter his whole life and loved working with wood.
 
Continuing on a nutritional program of eating large amounts of vegetables, dried juice powders, and soaked and sprouted seeds and nuts, he went back to work within six months and worked as a carpenter for another six years. It's my opinion that he'd still be alive today if his doctors had not removed his spleen and given him such high doses of drugs during his hospitalization.

From my father's recovery, I realized the hidden healing power of whole foods, so I began studying all fruits and vegetables known to man, and I discovered that some were much more nutrient-dense than others. The ones cost concentrated in nutrients were the ones most people didn't eat at all, or always cooked before eating: parsley, beets, cabbage, and broccoli, to name a few.

Experimenting with several fruits and vegetables over several months. I designed one concentrated powder formula with fruits an another with vegetables. These two formulas contained an array of the most nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables on the planet.

By this time my clinic looked more like a drying facility for fruit and vegetable juice powders, and everyone who came to me, regardless of the problem, was given a bag of each powder. The healing that I observed where no less than miraculous. I knew I was on to something big when my patients were getting well so fast.

I quickly contacted a patent attorney, but it took five years to get the patent on my idea, which I received on my birthday, That was significant to me because I believe that everything that happens to us is God-sent, a gift to receive and learn from.

The formulas that I used for those years in my clinical practice are now called Juice Plus. I designed and patented this product, and NSA, Inc. (Memphis, TN) manufactured, distributed, and promoted it. Today, these God-given products are benefiting thousands of people in more than thirty countries.

Just before my father died, he was so concerned about my professional reputation that he said, "If I die, will people still believe in you?
I said Dad, what we accomplished together, this idea of concentrated fruits and vegetables, someday will be known all over the world. And that's exactly what happened. My father's recovery gave birth to the most wonderful product line of fruit and vegetable concentrates, Juice Plus+

My father taught me pride and honor. He would tell me that a man's word is all he has. In more than 50 years of being a carpenter, he never once had a written contract with anyone...only an agreement of a smile, honor, and love. He will always own a piece of my heart. I know he is always with me; he's my strength and motivation."

So, Mark as you can see with a man like this and a heart to go along with it and of course the outcome of my own experience. I can say with all honesty, this is why I chose JP! Oh ya, The research that goes along with it...how could I not!

The book is awesome... another 5 star. Go pick it up if you want more info on how your body speaks and heals.