If you can relate to any of the anxiety disorder symptoms, you may want to talk to someone who is professionally qualified to help. For normal anxiety, the following strategies will also help you to stay calm:

• Exercise. Physical activity helps your body and mind. It doesn’t matter whether you jog, work out, play tennis, or go for a walk. Just get off the couch and get moving!
• Eat a balanced diet. Don’t skip meals, and try to eat from all of the food groups.
• Limit alcohol and stimulant use. Alcohol can aggravate anxiety and can also cause panic attacks, and too much caffeine can do the same as well.
• Get involved. Being active in your church or community creates a support network and gives you a break from your everyday stress.
• Do your best instead of trying to be perfect. We all know perfection isn’t possible, so be proud of however close you get.
• Take a timeout. When you’re feeling overwhelmed, just take a deep breath and count to 10. Stepping back from the problem lets you clear your head. Practicing meditation, listening to soothing music, or getting a relaxing massage are great ways to calm down.
• Put things in perspective. Think about your situation. Ask yourself whether it’s really as bad as you think it is or if you might be blowing it out of proportion.
• Talk to someone. Don’t let things bottle up to the verge of explosion. Reach out to trusted friends or family if you’re feeling low.
• Find out what triggers your anxiety. Take notes or write in a journal when you’re feeling anxious or stressed, and then look for patterns.
• Drink 4 ounces (120 ml) of GoChi every day!


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Amagase H, Nance DM. A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Clinical Study of the General Effects of a Standardized Lycium barbarum (Goji) Juice, GoChi™. J Altern Complement Med. 2008; 14(4), pp. 403-412. Abstract available on PubMed at http://www.pubmed.gov (PMID: 18447631) Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList]]> http://getgojiberries.com/blog/himalayan-goji-juice-and-anxiety/feed/ http://getgojiberries.com/blog/finding-the-competitive-edge/ http://getgojiberries.com/blog/finding-the-competitive-edge/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:53:07 +0000 admin http://getgojiberries.com/blog/finding-the-competitive-edge/ Winning athletes will tell you that nothing beats the exhilaration of competition, and that’s just as true for weekend golfers as it is for elite Olympians. Even a workout in the gym is an athletic contest: after all, you can only make gains by bettering your own personal best.We’re all looking for a competitive edge, and that’s why successful athletes train as hard as they do. And yet, you might be surprised to learn that there are many things that may be preventing you from reaching peak athletic performance.

These include:

Poor nutrition – There’s a large body of evidence showing a relationship between diet and athletic performance, yet many athletes make poor food choices based on misinformation. For example, many people feel athletes need a high-protein diet to support muscle growth despite the fact that researchers have repeatedly proved this false. The body tends to convert excess protein into body fat, and that’s the last thing an athlete wants. Only strength training and exercise will promote changes in muscle, and a well-balanced diet will serve the needs of most active people.

Insufficient hydration – Water is the most important, yet over-looked, nutrient by athletes. Water and fluids are essential to maintaining good hydration and body temperature. Sweat losses to keep the body cool can exceed several liters in a 1-hour period.

Inadequate sleep – Adequate sleep is critical for athletic recovery, as the body’s maintenance and repair functions occur mainly at night. An ongoing Stanford University study has shown that a little more high-quality sleep can result in dramatic improvements in athletic performance, mood, and alertness.

Low energy and poor stamina – Everyone runs out of energy sooner or later, but the best athletes are able to fight through fatigue to reach that “second wind.”

Impaired focus and concentration – Athletic competition is both mentally and physically challenging. Great athletes learn to tune out distractions by sharpening their focus and concentration.

Free-radical damage – Working muscles generate large quantities of harmful free radicals that, if left unchecked, can cause premature aging of the body’s healthy cells. This is why it is essential for athletes to maintain high blood levels of the body’s own protective antioxidants superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase.

Here are some tips that can help you to reach peak performance:

• Follow a balanced athletic conditioning program to build strength, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, core development, and resistance to injury.
• Eat a sensible and balanced diet.
• Drink plenty of water.
• Drink 4 ounces (120 ml) of GoChi every day!

The U.S. Government’s Medline Plus database defines antioxidants as substances that help to protect your cells against the effects of free radicals. Free radicals are molecules produced when your body breaks down food or by environmental sources such as tobacco smoke, radiation, and automobile exhaust. You even produce harmful free radicals when you exercise! Left unchecked, free radicals can damage or kill cells. They play a role in heart disease, cancer, and other diseases, and they can also contribute to the premature aging of your body and mind.

Fortunately, antioxidants can come to the rescue! The antioxidant process in your body is similar to stopping an apple from browning. Once you cut an apple, it begins to brown, but you can prevent discoloration by dipping each slice in lemon juice, which contains the antioxidant vitamin C.

Antioxidants are divided into two classes: the dietary antioxidants that you get from food, and the endogenous antioxidants that are made by the body. In addition to vitamin C, dietary antioxidants also include beta-carotene, vitamin E, selenium, and polyphenols such as anthocyanins, flavonoids, and xanthones. Polyphenols are found in some fruits and juices, and even though they may look impressive in antioxidant tests such as ORAC, those tests only measure antioxidant potential in a test tube. The truth is that most antioxidants in fruits and juices do not perform well in the human body because they are poorly absorbed and therefore remain trapped in the digestive tract, and this has been shown in important scientific studies.

We believe that it is far more meaningful to human health to maintain high serum levels of the body’s own endogenous antioxidants, namely superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase. These vital antioxidant enzymes circulate in the blood throughout the entire body to neutralize all types of free radicals before they can do harm.

Here are some tips for increasing your body’s antioxidant power to help prevent premature aging:

1. “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” These words of wisdom are from Michael Pollan’s remarkable new book, In Defense of Food. His directives are simple, sensible, and to the point:
   • “Eat food” – Eat a wide variety of the kinds of natural and healthy foods that your grandparents ate, not today’s unhealthy processed or “engineered” foods that are loaded with salt, fat, or high-fructose corn syrup. The digestion and metabolism of processed foods can deplete your body’s vital endogenous antioxidants.
   • “Not too much” – The more calories you consume, the more free radicals you generate. Animal studies have shown that those that eat less live longer, healthier lives.
   • Mostly plants” – Plant-based foods are healthier and put far less oxidative stress on the body. Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, seeds, and nuts also contain beneficial phytonutrients that can contribute to health and well-being.
2. Drink 4 ounces (120 ml) of GoChi every day!

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Himalayan Goji Juice has been taken to a new level. FreeLife International’s study showing that GoChi can improve health and well-being in 13 areas in as little as 14 days has been published in the highly-regarded, peer-reviewed Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (JACM)! The study, titled “A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Clinical Study of the General Effects of a Standardized Lycium barbarum (Goji) Juice, GoChi™, was published in the May 2008 issue.

For a limited time only, you have the exclusive opportunity to order copies of the JACM study on FreeLife.com

Himalayan Goji Juice has been taken over with GoChi, these studies and our product is hands down the most effective health promoting product you can find.

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This groundbreaking clinical study has been published in the highly regarded Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (JACM), and it can also be viewed on the U.S. Government’s encyclopedic PubMed website at www.pubmed.gov. The acceptance of our study by the independent experts of a peer-reviewed publication such as JACM represents a first for a functional juice beverage in the Direct Sales industry, and it demonstrates FreeLife’s ongoing commitment to supporting its claims with solid scientific research.

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Anyway read this article on Himalayan Goji Juice.

The 14-day study included 35 test subjects, divided into two groups. The first group was given GoChi. The second group, the placebo group, drank a similar-tasting juice that did not contain any LBPs, the active ingredients of GoChi. The GoChi group experienced statistically significant results in all 13 categories,

whereas the small changes experienced by the placebo group were deemed to be statistically significant in only one category. Neither FreeLife’s scientists who conducted the study, nor its employees, who served as the study’s participants, knew if they were drinking the real GoChi or the placebo, which looked and tasted like GoChi.

What does the research say about GoChi?
In the randomized, double-blind placebo controlled studies done, GoChi was found to give amazing benefits in just 14 days, including:

• Less fatigue
• Improved athletic performance
• Increased energy
• Reduced stress
• Sharper mental acuity
• Better sleep
• Better bowel regularity
• Feeling happier and more content
• Plus more!

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Dear Friends,

In our 13-year history, FreeLife has had many “firsts.” We were the first company to develop a compensation plan which truly rewards leaders with significant upfront income, mid-term income, and true long-term residual income. In fact, any leader who studies our compensation plan quickly comes to the realization that it is the most lucrative compensation ever offered in Direct Sales. We were the first company to bring the goodness of the goji berry to the world. Finally, we are the first company to offer peer-reviewed, published scientific research demonstrating the health benefits of our own product. In fact, today Kevin and I are proud to announce yet another first that no other company in Direct Sales has ever been able to offer.

PubMed.gov is a U.S. government sponsored search engine for accessing abstracts of biomedical research articles. It is run by the United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. We encourage you to go to PubMed.gov and enter “GoChi” or “FreeLife” in the search engine. Up will pop the latest study published on the goji berry titled, “A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Clinical Study of the General Effects of a Standardized Lycium barbarum (Goji) Juice, GoChi.” Yes, PubMed.gov, the U.S. government sponsored scientific research database, has accepted our latest GoChi study for publication! No other Direct Sales company that we know of has ever had a positive human study accepted on PubMed.gov regarding any of their products. To our knowledge, we are the first company in our industry ever to have achieved this scientific validation.

Our hat goes off to our Scientific Team for this incredible accomplishment. We have stated many, many times that the scientific validation of GoChi is unparalleled in the nutrition industry. No other product in our industry has this clinical science backing up their product. And I will also state that we have just scratched the surface of our scientific journey. We have in the pipeline further research on GoChi which, when announced, will quite frankly, boggle your mind and make you and your Customers want to drink GoChi for the rest of your lives. Stay tuned!”

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The study according to Freelife was this:

“The second study, conducted by a prestigious medical center in Asia, was a 30-day investigation into antioxidant activity in the human body. Fifty healthy adult volunteer test subjects were divided at random into two groups—a GoChi group and a placebo group. Each group received a 4 oz daily serving of either GoChi or an inactive placebo respectively. None of the test subjects were associated with FreeLife® nor had they consumed Himalayan Goji® Juice or GoChi prior to the study. After 30 days, the GoChi group showed significant improvement in antioxidant activity, as evidenced by significant increases over starting point values in blood levels of the important antioxidant enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px). Also found in the GoChi group was a significant decrease in levels of toxic malondialdehyde (MDA), a key blood marker of oxidative stress, free-radical damage, and premature cell aging. No significant differences were observed in the placebo group in these areas.”

What will they come up with next!