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Arthritis Testimonial....Andrea Crosta & Rita Black

Andrea Crosta -New Jersey

I am a 34-year-old female and have been plagued with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis since I was 7 years old. My hands were so bad that I could only use 2 fingers sometimes to do anything, like getting dressed, drive a car, open a door, etc. All these movements were painful and difficult.

The years of painful treatments like PUVA (chemotherapy light treatment) with countless medications like Methotrexate, Prednisone, Celebrex and every known anti-inflammatory product produced over the years to no avail. I even tried Gold injections, but they didn't work either. In 1991 my Rheumatologist and my Dermatologist both told me I would be in a wheel chair soon if I didn't stay on the medications they prescribed!

This started my search for alternative methods of natural health care, using supplements, diets, yoga, meditation and colonics. My condition did improve when I could afford them. When you cannot work and earn a living everything is expensive.

Over the years there was always something missing, because no matter what I tried I never got totally well. Two and a half years ago I met Tommy Weber who is a Distributor for a nutritional health company, HTN, Health Thru Nutrition. Their natural health products were that missing link! I started drinking coral calcium treated water and in two days, I had full use of my hands for the first time in all those long years of pain. In four months, to my total amazement, my body completely cleared up of all psoriasis and pain and stayed that way for 16 months on the products.

In October of 1999 my finances became a problem and I had to go off their program until April 2000. All the psoriasis and pain came back during that six month period and the arthritis became much worse with knots developing in the finger joints making the fingers grow crooked, causing almost no use of my hands.

In the last two months now back on the products, I've again improved dramatically. Within the next two months I know I will again be healthy and pain free like I was in October of 1999, perhaps even better. I'll never be without these life changing health products again! This time around I plan to go full-time marketing these wonderful products, because I do have a success story to tell!

UPDATE: Andrea is now also taking Dr. Jeff's Joint Health and using Dr. Jeff's Joint Cream. Here Psoriatic Arthritis is no longer giving her any pain. For the first time in years, she is completely PAIN FREE! Back

Rita Black - Newport News, VA
Chronic pain was something totally new to me. I never got ill, not even a cold. My friends kept telling me my symptoms sounded like Lyme's Disease. Because I wanted so much to be able to just take antibiotics and rid my body of the agony, I made an appointment with a physician. Meanwhile, I went to a gathering of friends and felt free to lament to all about my distress. An angel by the name of Glenda Anderson told me she had a product she wanted my to try. It is called Coral Calcium. Immediately upon arriving home, I dropped a tea bag of Coral Calcium into 1-1/2 liters of distilled water, and started drinking.

I kept the appointment with the specialist, and degenerative rheumatoid arthritis was confirmed. Sulindac 200mg twice a day was prescribed. After two pills I began experiencing dreadful side effects that were printed on the flyer from the pharmacy. Enough of that! My philosophy is to REMOVE toxins. I felt I had no alternative, so I kept drinking the Coral Calcium water daily.

Within three weeks my energy returned in full. Up to this time, the arthritis was living my life; now I was able to take control again. The pain diminished, the insane itching and swelling is gone- all within three weeks! Without taking any medication, my blood pressure is normal, the first time in thirty years. The pains in my legs are gone; my shoulders are now flexible. These days it's the little miracles that count in my life.

I believe pollutants and toxins are being removed from my body on a daily basis, the alkaline/ acid balance is maintained, and my body is responding by healing itself. To help the healing process along, I've added HTN's ActiVin OPC, Assimilator, Lax-Max, and Omega 3/60+ with shark liver oil.

If you are facing a similar challenge, it is my hope that you will see HTN products as an opportunity to better your life. As drastic as a situation may seem, if you can get to the end of the tunnel, the reward is far greater than you can ever image. With the help of HTN's products, I am nearing the end of this tunnel.

Diabetes Testimonial..... Wesley Clanton

Wesley Clanton - Winnemucca, NV

Howdy .... My name is Wesley Clanton. I am a retired Air Traffic Controller (1971), 79 years old and reside in Winnemucca, Nevada (What the heck's a Winnemucca? Someday I'll tell ya!) In June 1994, I found I was always tired and worn out. I would have to rest for a few minutes after tying my shoes before I could proceed with other things I needed to do.

In July 1994, I was diagnosed as a Type II Diabetic. My blood sugar was 500! Immediately my doctor put me in the hospital for a week where they were able to lower my blood sugar to less than 200. I was put on doctor-prescribed medication to help my body produce the necessary insulin. They also put me on a restricted diet. About this time, a lady-friend introduced me to Metabolizer 2000. I had heard that chromium would assist the body in regulating insulin naturally. So I began taking the M2000's sporadically. Finally, I started to faithfully take 2 capsules a day. By October, with my doctor's permission, I phased out all of my insulin producing prescription medicine. My blood sugar has stabilized and regularly stays around 130, even with a cookie now and then!

Due to my high stress job, I had been put on blood pressure medicine, which I had taken for 25 years. After four months on HTN products, my doctor said the high blood blood pressure medicine was no longer required. I have also lost 35 pounds!!! (225 lbs. down to 190 lbs.) At the present time, I take Endura-Max and ActiVin OPC for maintenance. I feel great! I heartily recommend HTN products to everyone, sick or well. If you are ill, you most certainly need HTN; if you are well you need the products to maintain good health! My thanks to HTN and all the good people who helped me attain better health.

Cancer Testimonial ...Marie Kargol

Marie Kargol - Saegertown, PA
I maintained a healthy lifestyle for many years. But I was a workaholic, and physical stress and emotional upheavals in my personal life finally took their toll. I wasn't paying attention to my body's warning signals, and my good health began slipping away.

Disease doesn't just happen; It develops over time, often years. My body became very toxic and no longer able to fend off disease. I lost thirty pounds in less than two months, became extremely ill, and, unable to work, was forced into early retirement.

Then I was diagnosed with malignant breast tumors and advised to have radical surgery with chemo and radiation. The oncologist told me if I wanted to save my life, I had less then thirty days to have these procedures done, otherwise I was going to die. Then the greatest challenge of my life began. I wanted to live. I wanted to be there for my children and grandchildren. I was only 62 years old.

I was filled with fear and anguish, yet I knew there had to be a way of overcoming this dreaded disease. Against the advice of the medical profession and family members, I declined all medical treatment and started researching volumes of information on cancer, and I learned all that I could about natural healing.

I was seeking truth and praying for direction, when the turning point entered into my life: a retired, naturopathic doctor gave a video to me. This doctor had helped people all over the world for over twenty years to overcome degenerative disease through natural healing. I was very excited and felt in my heart that this was the answer to my prayers.

I cleansed and detoxified my body with herbal formulas, eliminated parasites through colon cleansing, and rid myself of the emotional baggage that had accumulated during my lifetime. I nourished my body with raw organic foods, fresh juices and lots of pure water. Slowly my energy returned; I started feeling better and grew stronger.

I was learning to listen to my body and to give it daily everything it needed to repair and rebuild itself. When you are willing to do whatever it takes, there are no incurable diseases. The fear and anxiety lifted, and I knew that I was on the road to recovery.

A new milestone in my healing journey occurred when another naturopathic doctor introduced me to a company called "Health Thru Nutrition" (HTN). He told me how HTN's nutritional products were helping patients overcome degenerative diseases. He told me stories about other physicians who were helping people overcome life-threatening illnesses using HTN's nutritional products. I couldn't ignore what I was hearing about so many people being helped, so I decided to try these products, and the results were extraordinary! My energy increased, my memory improved, I began sleeping sounder, and I became happier and more enthusiastic.

It is now five years since I was diagnosed with cancer and told that if I didn't submit to chemotherapy and radiation within 30 days I was going to die. I am thankful everyday that I am alive and well. I am enjoying life and getting better every day.

Being excited over my success, I introduced the nutritional products to my family, and they are having excellent results too. Especially the grandchildren; they are sharper, better focused in school, and much less hyperactive. The 2 1/2 year old loves his chewable supplement and asks for it every day. His mother is delighted because he is now a happier, more out-going child full of healthy energy. This is truly giving the children a head start.

It is astonishing what your body can do when you provide the proper nutritional building blocks and restore balance to the internal environment.

I have overcome my disease and you can too! Nutrition builds and maintains health. This is absolutely true. As long as you are alive, you need nutrition. If the nutrition is not in your food, and it isn't because of deteriorated soil and an environment polluted on every level, you need to supplement. There is daily a cost for health and a cost for disease. If you stop supplementing and start eating the same foods you ate before and live the same lifestyle you lived before, you will fall back into degenerative disease again.

Dare to change! Nutrition builds and maintains health! Celebrate life! Overcome supposedly incurable disease and create your own healing miracle! The power lies within you! May you live long, love and enjoy life to the fullest!

Through my association with HTN, I have grown and expanded my life. I now live a life that enables me to reach out and make a difference in other people's lives. I live on a beautiful one hundred twenty acre farm. We grow as much of our own organic food as possible and plan to raise our own organically fed livestock in the near future. I am very grateful for all the experiences in my life, including my disease. I believe all my years of learning were preparing me for this day. I am truly grateful to God for all the people He has brought into my life and for those that are yet to come. I thank Him for HTN and for the nutritional products that have done so much for my family and me.

ALS Story.....Dave Mefford - Hampton, VA

Dave Mefford is 55 years old and employed as a high school guidance counselor at Phoebus High School, also in Hampton. He has always been a "high energy" man, and for years has painted houses after work and on the weekends. Just prior to June of 1996 he started slowing down for the first time in his life. Along with a lack of energy, he developed an overall feeling of unrest about his general health. He began to experience aches and pains that were completely uncommon for him, and just felt generally unwell.
Dave's Story:
I first started feeling ill in 1996. It took the doctors a year to diagnose my illness as ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. So, there I was in the doctor's office in August of 1997, and the doctor told me that there was no help for me - no treatment and no cure. I sat there trying to think of something intelligent to ask. So, after a minute I thought, well I'll ask him what he would do if he were me. I asked him and he said, "Well, I would retire from work, go to Florida, buy a trailer and wait to die." I drove home very depressed.

Shortly after that visit to the doctor, I kept an appointment with my chiropractor, Dr. Joseph Nusbaum, who was also a good friend, and talked to him about my diagnosis. He talked to me at length about taking antioxidants, and I started on those immediately. For the next nine months I read everything there was to read about vitamins. I ordered vitamins from companies all over the world. The problem was, with every combination of vitamins I took, they worked well for a while and I would feel better - then they would seem to stop having and effect after a couple of weeks.

In the meantime, my overall general well being was deteriorating and it was getting more and more difficult to keep a positive attitude. I have always been self-sufficient so it was difficult for me to begin to lose the edge of my independence as the disease progressed. My wife, Diana, was vary supportive, as were my stepchildren and the faculty at school, but even with their help it was becoming harder and harder to stay upbeat. You see, it was as if my life was on a timeline and I was looking for a way to stop the deterioration and live again in such a way that I didn't have to think about the "timeline" every day.

By August of 1998, a year after diagnosis, I was experiencing severe symptoms of ALS. I could only walk sixty-six steps without having to stop and rest. My mouth severely drooped on the left side and I was losing my ability to write and button my buttons with my right hand. I refused to allow anyone to help me, and I learned to use a pair of needle nose pliers to grab the button and push it through the button hole on my shirts. My left foot tingled with "pins and needles" all the time, and I had a very noticeable limp with a "drop foot." My balance was seriously affected and my speech was extremely slurred. As bad as all that was - the fact that I had extreme difficulty swallowing was the worst part. For most people swallowing is a natural reflex and they don't even think about it. In July of 1998, in order for me to swallow I had to consciously concentrate on what my throat was doing. I was in constant danger of choking - it had become life threatening. And that is the way in fact that most ALS patients die: they choke to death on their own phlegm.

Then, one day in late July, while doing some work on a lady's house I met a man named Tandy Brown. Tandy saw me limping around and when I took one of my frequent breaks, he and I struck up a conversation. He said, "You need to be drinking more water." I agreed, but told him I didn't like the taste of water. He offered me a glass of water with Coral Calcium in it, and it tasted great! He sold me a one-month supply, and I started using it every day. Approximately two weeks after I began using Coral Calcium on a normal maintenance program, I started to feel better.

Shortly after that first meeting with Tandy, he introduced me to Art Franklin, the Founder of HTN, the company that sells Coral Calcium. After hearing Art lecture on the HTN products, I began using the HTN's Pack-of-Life Plus on a daily basis. These special, all-natural product formulations are owned and sold exclusively by HTN. About a month later I could tell the difference in my body - the deterioration had seemed to stop. A few weeks later, in September of 1998, after a second conversation with Art about Cleansing, Nourishing, and Balancing my Body so that it could heal itself, I decided to double up on the Pack-of-Life Plus.

I have now been using HTN products for eleven months, and I am twenty-five months post-diagnosis. My symptoms are almost completely gone. I no longer have any difficulty swallowing and the drooping in my mouth has almost completely disappeared. My once noticeable limp has now gone away and my speech has greatly improved and is only very slightly slurred. I can walk unlimited steps and my balance is only a "little off" once in a while. My writing has returned to normal, and I no longer have any difficulty buttoning my buttons. I am working full-time in my position as a high school guidance counselor, I continue to paint houses on the side, and I just returned from a two-week vacation to see my mother in Iowa.

HTN has given me my life back. For my continued health and well being I have made a commitment to taking the HTN products for the rest of my life. Each day I take the double Pack-of-Life Gold Plus (includes: Coral Calcium Gold, Assimilator, ActiVin OPC 50, and Omega 3/60 with Shark Liver Oil), Silver Max (which I keep with me at all times to help my swallowing), and the Metabolizer 2000XTRA for energy. In addition, for the past two months I have added the new products Nature's SBOs (soil based organisms do colon cleansing) and the new Centurion hGH Booster (hGH-human growth hormone). These products immediately helped me reach a new level of improved health. I believe if I had been taking the SBOs from the beginning, my recovery time would have been cut in half. The only things I have changed in my diet since beginning my regimen of HTN products are that I no longer drink any soft drinks or coffee. In addition to the HTN products, I take vitamin C and vitamin E on a daily basis. I also get a deep muscle massage once a week to release toxins from my muscles and I have a fifteen-minute Reflexology session following the massage. I had been getting an occasional colonic to cleanse my small intestine villi, but now I believe the SBOs will take care of that. I want to stress to those reading this that I am not saying if you take vitamins for a few days you will be cured. As I said earlier, this is a lifetime commitment to wellness.

Amazingly, there are people who, while watching my progress into wellness, have actually suggested that I was misdiagnosed and never had ALS at all. My response to them is, "Does it really matter?" You see, I know that I was very ill and near death. Now I know that I am better and getting better everyday. What does it matter what they call something if there is nothing they can do about it? I had all of the symptoms of ALS, and that is what the doctors at MCV (Medical College of Virginia) diagnosed me as having. If it hadn't been for HTN, I believe I would be dead or in a wheel chair by now. Out of five people I know who were diagnosed about the same time as me, two have died and two are in wheel chairs with failing health - I am the only one who is still up and walking around and feeling great.

I have tried to get others with ALS to listen to my story about the HTN products and, sadly, the answer I most often receive from them is - "I am going to do exactly what my doctor tells me." Three years ago I would have agreed with them, but not today. Now, I have decided two things - a person's health is totally up to them. Nobody is going to care about your health the way you do. The second is - no matter how you feel, you cannot really, one hundred percent describe it to anyone else. So, only you can really see the differences going on in your life. Doctors have a place in our society, but when they tell you there is nothing they can do for you and advise you to give up and prepare to die, you have to look elsewhere, and you have to not give up. Doctors are valuable, but they don't know everything about how to heal yourself naturally.

My goal, today, is to live a healthy life. I am enjoying my life and looking forward to another great year at school helping students to work at their highest level of achievement. I refused to settle for a wheelchair or an untimely death. With HTN, a positive attitude, and the rest of my daily regimen, I believe that I can do what it takes to be healthy for a long time to come. I am so grateful to my family, and the faculty at my school, as well as everyone at HTN especially Tandy and Art for being positive and supportive of me. Even when times were very difficult and it was hard for my wife and my peers, they did their best to help me keep a positive outlook. It took me nine months to find HTN and that was nine months wasted time. I strongly urge anyone to take a look at what HTN has to offer, no matter your disease or health condition. It may work for you just like it has for me and thousands of others. (HTN is currently working with other ALS diagnosed individuals who are also experiencing improved health with HTN products.) If you have ALS or have a loved one with this dreaded disease, or even if you know someone, please look into the HTN ALS Pak.