Mars, Venus and Isagenix

Trainer: Mars Venus Author, Isagenix Millionaire and 6 Star Golden Circle Dr. John Gray

Why are men and women so different? Tune in as best-selling author of the Mars Venus book series, Isagenix® Millionaire and 6-Star Golden Circle Dr. John Gray shares the differences between men and women and how Isagenix plays an important role in helping people feel healthier, happier and have lasting romances.

>> All right. Well, good evening everyone and welcome to our two–or excuse me, our third day night product training with Isagenix International. It is a pleasure having you with this tonight. My name is Kjersti Cote, your host. And boy, oh boy do we have an exciting call in store for everybody.

We have the one and only Dr. John Gray with us tonight. And he’s gonna be talking about Mars and Venus and Isagenix. So your more than welcome to take notes and so just a quick reminder that tonight’s call will be recorded so that you can access at a later time and also available through podcasting which I’ll tell you a little bit more about that towards the end of the call as well.

So without further ado, I loved to introduce Dr. Gray to everybody. He’s been with Isagenix almost nearly since the inception and a little bit of his backgrounds. He is one of the bestselling relationship authors of all time. He’s actually authored 16 best selling books, including Mars–or excuse me, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus one of the best selling books of the last decade. And that book in particular has sold over 40 million copies in 45 different languages throughout the world a very, very popular book. Dr. Gray is an expert in the field of communication. He focuses on helping men and women understand, respect, and appreciate their differences in both personal and professional relationships. And throughout his books and CDs, DVDs, tapes, workshops, and seminars that he does and that he’s written and he really provides practical tools and insight to effectively manage stress, and improved relationships at all stages and at all ages by creating, The Brain Chemistry of Health, Happiness, and Lasting Romance. Now his latest book, “Why Mars and Venus Collide?” is fantastic book. It recently reached the Amazon top 100 lists. And it’s a book that really focuses on–and reveals how men and women can improve their relationship by understanding how they cope differently with stress.

He has appeared on the Oprah show in many times, The Today Show, The CBS Morning Show, Good Morning America, The View, Larry King Live, and he’s been profiled in many different publications including Newsweek, Time, Forbes, USA Today, you know, and many, many more. In addition to being a Certified Family Therapist, Dr. Gray is consulting editor of The Family Journal.

He’s also a member of the Distinguished Advisory Board of the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors. And like I said before, he’s been with Isagenix. The first time I met Dr. Gray was in June of 2002, just a few months after the company began and came to our very first event and when I walked past him I thought, “Guy–that guy looks really familiar,” and then of course I put two and see together on who he was that he’s been incredibly successful in Isagenix. He is a 6 Star Golden Circle. He is a member of our Isagenix Millionaire Circle and we’re just grateful for him and what he’s contributed to Isagenix and for having you on the line tonight with that, good evening and welcome Dr. Gray, great to have you.

>> Oh, thank you so much [laughter]. That’s a quite a long introduction [laughter].

>> I love it. It’s so great.

>> Thank you.

>> You know, just for people that you know maybe might not be too familiar with you, boy, I can’t imagine who but some, you know, you have a substantial background and I guess before we get into everything. There’s a lot of listeners on the line and what I think I love for you to shares just gonna take us back a little bit in how you discovered Isagenix? Where did all begin for you?

>> Well, the beginning of the company, somebody had told me about a product that was an amino acid rich shake. An enzyme rich amino acid shake. And at the time, I have been researching a variety of different nutritional products in order to help the body assimilate amino acids to produce brain chemistry. It turns out in my research on the differences between men and women.

One of significant differences, there’s many. But one of them is that under stress, women will tend to run out of serotonin and so they tend to stay overwhelmed and rushed. Men on the other hand tend to run out of dopamine and they feel exhausted and tired and they sit. They loose their sense of motivation. As they aged, they also become less motivated whereas women today tend to see of more and more overwhelmed by too much to do and this is a direct result of how our brain reacts differently.

How men and women’s brains react differently to stressful stimulus, you know, a lifestyle even moderate stress significantly raises our stress reaction. And if we could find, so what I did as I research, you know, all the different natural pathways in to which how can we increase more serotonin for women and how to increase more dopamine for men and a big part of the puzzle was solved with the understanding of the specific amino acids that create dopamine and serotonin and then exploring why is it that we don’t utilize those amino acids effectively and why do we run out? And the answer was that often we were under stress, our digestion doesn’t work as well so we’re unable to digest and get those amino acids and also if our diet is deficient in minerals. Minerals are cofactors that assist enzymes in digesting proteins.

So, for deficient minerals are experiencing a lot of stress, we’re not able to get the amino acid out of protein to make the brain chemicals. So I was looking for easy access getting the amino acids into the brain and found a lot of different treatments some were very, very expensive that you have to go to clinics in Europe for or at various parts of the country and you get this amino acid drips and could immediately make the brain work better. But I thought, “Well that’s very costly and time consuming is there any product that someone could just take?” And I was testing lots of products. And I tested Isagenix I went, “Wow, this has the same effect that I was experiencing by getting this amino acid drips.” And you know, why would I be interested in this? Is that what I found is that men are naturally more energetic and motivated and interested in their partners when their dopamine levels go up and women are more happy and fulfilled and less stress when their serotonin levels would go up. And the amino acid drips which are like10,000 dollars and take 9 days. They will have that effect on someone but it only last for few months. But not only was it costly and time insensitive but it wouldn’t last. As, you know, I was looking for way the people get on a daily basis to get an amino acid supplement that was easily digested go right to the brain and that’s what Isagenix was at the time, still is. But it has a protein which was even advertised in the beginning and now it is.

It was undenatured whey protein which means that it wasn’t pasteurized or it wasn’t high heat pasteurized. When you pasteurize a dairy with high heat, you killed the enzymes, you can’t easily digest it. And Isagenix had both enzymes added to it. It had the undenatured whey protein and which is one of the best sources of the amino acids for the brain. And it had the all 70 trace minerals which are used by the body as cofactors to activate those enzymes. But just that made it superior product that I had accessed to all the products in the market and I loved it. And then when I started doing just the basic cleanse, it was two 9 Day, back to back 9 Day Cleanses. I lost, I think about 16 or 17 pounds but I didn’t even know I needed to loose I mean that was just spectacular. I just thought, “Yeah, I gain a little weight as got older but didn’t really feel overweight. But I started seeing very quickly, you know, if finished you loose 5 pounds, anybody does.

You have so much extra energy, you know, in 10 pounds even more energy. So that was really fun to experience that transition and now after 5 years to continue experiencing those extra benefits. I’ve been using the products faithfully and not like just the nutritional supplement but as food. You know, it’s basically my breakfast. And whenever I’m on the run, I’ll take it, you know, I have it as a quick meal, and so what a great way to just eat your supplement as food rather than to take a whole bunch of pills and various things. I’m not against taking different supplements but the majority of mine all come from basically the basic shake program.

>> Wow, wow! Well, I know it’s been quite a journey over the last 7 years and I love, you know, all of the research that you put forth in working with the labs, universities, and chemists to find out what the brain needs and then of course find out this therapy in Europe and then of course that leading to Isagenix.

>> And I just have to ask you, I mean, how many companies approached you, you know, to take a look at their product prior to Isagenix? I mean, were you just completely inundated with people wanting you to take a look?

>> No, I wasn’t’ inundated. I wouldn’t say that. There’s so many people wanting me to take a look and when I experienced Isagenix there wasn’t somebody wanting me to take a look. I was just looking around for it and a friend had been using it and said, “You know, how much they had enjoyed it?” I said, “Let me look at that and I said, “Okay, enzyme active amino acid that sounds just what I’m looking for.” And now I tell you, since I’ve endorsed Isagenix a lot of people come along [laughter] looking for endorsements. But I’m very faithful to this company. They provided great product line and I like the quality of their products.

>> Why I can’t for you to get in and talk about the Mars Venus products that we have exclusively with Isagenix and of course the advancements on our whey protein. I know we’ll get into that in just a little bit. But talk to us a little bit about, you know, the differences between Mars and Venus. And by the way, I mean, I just absolutely love watching you present, I know you presented many times at our Isagenix events. You’re completely entertaining and full of knowledge. And so for those on the line that haven’t heard you yet, you know, what would you like to share with them as far as the differences between men and women?

>> Well first of all, to know, I’ll be speaking at the next conference in the summer. So that’s gonna be a lot of fun and [inaudible].

>> In August, right?

>> Yeah, that’s gonna be great. And you know my website they do talk about my wellness retreats, why I do take people through cleanse, together with me, 40 people at a time. I like doing that. I keep putting on the calendar. It forces me to make sure I create the time to do a cleanse every month. I think a cleanse every month is what keeps me young and healthy and it’s a wonderful experience and I’d like to teach people in greater depth about relationship and sexuality and health and wellness.

The bottom line of what’s really important for us to understand today is in our relationships as well as in just our friendships in our life, is that women today are actually experiencing twice the stress reaction than men are. Our body is a really designed differently. Women’s are designed ideally to cope with the nurturing environment. And men are designed ideally to cope with the risk and danger environment. And this is kind of a shocking statement at first until you start understanding how our brains are different, how our hormones are different.

But a–when woman in a situation where she doesn’t feel rushed, she doesn’t feel a sense of urgency, she doesn’t feel a sense of threat, but she is experiencing friendship, cooperation, communication, empathy, commiseration all these kind of friendly terms. All those activities tend to stimulate the production of serotonin in our brain. And that’s very important because serotonin is necessary to lower stress levels. And when women are under stress, even moderate stress, they run out of this serotonin very, very quickly. And so they need a lot of these activities that are cooperative and safe and secure and so forth in order to stimulate serotonin as well as another hormone called “oxytocin.” And when their hormone oxytocin is stimulated, because she feels she’s safe to give up herself freely, her stress level, as measured by cortisol, begins to drop. And that’s the very significant thing which is that we need to understand that women today are not feeling like they’re in a safe place or there’s no emergencies or the urgencies. It’s like our fast pace of life has become an urgency emergency.

Women today are quite commonly feeling overwhelmed. And to cope with this, we need to help their brain to stimulate more serotonin and that the adrenal gland needs to relax so it can produce more–the hormones necessary to make oxytocin. The men, this is not so important. Oxytocin really doesn’t do much for men. What does it for men is testosterone. And when men’s testosterone levels go up, his stress levels actually go down, his stress reaction is reduced. That gives men more energy. And the brain chemical that helps men to produce more testosterone is dopamine. But the actual behaviors and activities that stimulate the production of dopamine and testosterone are situations that have to do with what’s dominant in all of our lives today which is situations of urgency, emergency, sacrifice, this a competition, these types of activities, you know, they’re all, you know, part of life.

But when you’re engaged most of the hours of the day in competitive goal oriented, risk oriented, urgency oriented, money oriented activities, your levels of testosterone go up and this is great for men as long as they’re successful of that, their testosterone goes up. And if women are successful with that, their testosterone goes up. But when women have testosterone going up, it doesn’t lower a women stress levels. And that’s the amazing thing as successful women today are feeling overwhelmed, they’re not sleeping well, and a big portion of them are gaining weight even.

Because for many women, for most of the population, not all, but when you’re under stress, your body actually starts storing extra fat and you start gaining weight. When men are under stress and they’re not coping well with it then their body also starts storing fat and they can’t burn it for fuel, but we end up with less energy and more weight around the bellies. But this is like an epidemic today of low hormone levels and, you know, you hear about people getting extra hormones or whatever, well this is only because their stress levels are so hot. But if we can lower stress and the body makes plenty of hormones. The body generates the right kind of hormones so that we can burn fat very efficiently. It stimulates the right kind of brain chemicals that we still good and we start digesting our food better and we can digest our food better then we get the access to those amino acids to make more good brain chemicals and then we feel better. The stress levels go down even more and then we can digest our food even better [laughter].

So it becomes a cycle where we just getting better and better and better as long as we’re getting the right nutrition and we’re doing things to lower stress in our lives, or particularly to lower stress reaction. But this is all significant information particularly for women to know about themselves and for men to understand about their wives if their married, is you have to give an extra support to women. And women need to take time to get themselves some extra support. And some of those ways of getting that extra support are creating time for the romance in your life, creating time for a better communication in your life, making sure you learn how to ask for support and you get it, so you don’t in that feeling alone.

That feeling of being alone stimulates testosterone but it doesn’t stimulate oxytocin. Creating a partnerships, and friendships and community activities, and friendship activities all stimulates a sense of that you’re not alone and that stimulates oxytocin to lower your stress levels. I wrote this book, “Why Mars and Venus Collide,” because we don’t understand how our different stress reactions are, you know, and men don’t realize how important is for women to feel that connection. And women don’t realize how important it is for men cope with stress that sometimes feel like he’s all in his own, he’s in charge, or he’s just, you know, relaxing on his own which is when he’s rebuilding his testosterone levels.

It is a lot of information that most people are unaware of. Nobody even knew this information until a few years ago when the research has been verified in Andy University since quite, quite dramatic in terms of its practical effectiveness in relationships. So that just focusing, Kjersti on the behavioral side of it but what I also know to be true, is that you can do all the right behaviors but if you’re not providing the right nutrition, then you’re not gonna get the benefit of that good behavior. Because good behaviors, nurturing behaviors, activities that stimulate serotonin and oxytocin for women, behaviors and activities that stimulate dopamine and testosterone for men.

They only stimulate the production of this brain chemicals and hormones, if you have the right nutrition in your body. If you don’t have the right nutrition then nothing works. I mean it’s the foundation of the body. It’s the house of the spirit. And so we have to feed it so that we can then stimulate the right, you know, healthy function in the body. And that’s where Isagenix comes. It’s such a holistic program to provide, you know, the whole range of nutrition in such a simple way. So when people do behave in a way that’s, you know, supportive of their nature, the right hormones do get produced and, you know, they feel so much better, they sleep better, they have more energy, they have more, you know, sense of generosity of spirit, and their happiness levels go up.

>> I remember actually when you share that for the very first time on one of our conference calls or maybe even in one of our events is a the difference that all of the counseling and the relationship advice that you would give some of your patients prior to getting the whole nutritional aspect figured out and, you know, for good brain chemistry, you know, how it was almost as though they were coming back, you know. And coming back and it really wasn’t working until you started putting them on a nutritional regime that was feeding their bodies and the differences that it made and it just makes total sense makes whole sense.

>> Oh, yes. Oh, and so, it just real practical and the amazing thing is when I came out with this idea about, you know, 8 years ago. It does, you know, seem the benefits of Isagenix. I guess that’s about 7 years ago.

>> The–you know, because what’s the relationship between food and relationships and romance and good communication and I just said, “Have you ever overeaten and build–felt tired?” Or clearly when you’re feeling tired, you’re not gonna be in the mood for romance. Or have you ever–most people I know of but had eat the wrong foods and then they become irritable and they get moody, whatever. They don’t get the link with the foods that they eat, but there’s a clear link. And oh my gosh, when I started, you know, having all my clients, they’re doing this nutrition, they just got–they got to able sustain the results they wish they’re getting in my workshops and in my counseling and my coaching, that all could be sustained, but much easier. It’s very practical to see that, you know, to see how everything interrelates and find that balance of body and mind.

>> So now, let’s get into the actual products because I’m really excited about this line. I know that for men, Mars, it consists of three products and is of course same for Venus, three products for her as well. And if you don’t mind, I would love for you to start off with the shake. Because this is like the biggest question that I get asked all the time is, “Okay, well, there’s Mars, there’s Venus shakes and then there’s Isalean Shake. You know, when–what’s the difference is and, you know, should I use them? Should I not use them?” And so maybe you can share the details on the amazing benefits of the Mars Venus Shake.

>> Okay. Well first of all, people should know they’re interchangeable. You’ve got the main ingredients or you’re getting this really high quality weight protein. What’s different in the Mars and Venus Shakes is you’re getting some extra added nutrition particularly for the brain. There’s something called phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylcholine that are particularly good for memory and for focus and brain function. Also, one of the benefits of–one of the nutrients helpful for making brain chemicals is Omega 3 fats. And I have the Omega 3s already in the shake in the form of flax seeds. And also, there’s a different sweetener in the Mars Venus which for some people, is particularly helpful. It’s certainly helpful for everybody, but it’s particularly designed to make sure the brain is getting the fuel that it needs.

There’s a fructose which is in the Isalean and I just used glucose in the Mars Venus. And that’s because glucose will go straight to the brain and whereas fructose part of it goes to the brain, part of it goes to the liver. And so, you know, what I’ve done is added some extra nutrients to ensure extra dopamine and serotonin is produced in the brain. However, I wanna point out, that the Isalean shake, right from the beginning, was producing great results. And I thought, “Well, how could I, you know, talk with Johnny Anderson then let’s tweak this for people that really wanna optimize brain function.” And so, we took all the basic ingredients of the Isalean Shake and we added some more.

Another one of my favorites is goji berries. We took concentrated goji berry and put it in the Mars and Venus Shakes. We do have goji berry in the Ionic Supreme drink as well. So you’re getting it there. We do have Omega 3s in the little capsules. What I did is put just all–put it all in the shake. So what you get is a shake that cost about the same price as the Isalean Shake but the scooper is much smaller. So to get as, you know, to get a complete meal, you might wanna–two scoops will do it for most people as long as they’re doing the Super Minerals.

But if you wanna get more brain nutrition, you can always put two and a half scoops to three scoops in there, and you’ll get a real good extra nutrition there. It’s just that when you add all these extra nutrients in, it’s a little more expensive. So those are some of the distinctions. And then what’s different about the men and women is they actually have all the same ingredients. It’s just the proportion of the ingredients is different.

If you look at women’s fat to muscle ratio, you’ll see that women have a much higher fat to muscle ratio. Men have a higher muscle to fat ratio relative to each other. Meaning that men have about 30 percent more muscle mass than women, and women have about 25 percent more fat cells than men. And fat cells require more good fats. So the women’s, relative to the men’s, has more good fats. The men’s, relative to the women’s, has more good proteins.

And that’s another distinction which is men definitely need more protein than women. And too much protein for women can actually inhibit the transfer of tryptophan into that brain to produce serotonin. So I made sure that there’s a much lower to fat ratio in the women’s shake just to give a little extra advantage in terms of trying to get more serotonin and made in the brain for women. So those are some of the major distinctions between the Mars and Venus Shakes.

Then another of course is flavor and the amount of chocolate. Chocolate is a really important brain nutrient. So there’s a lot more chocolate in the Mars and Venus Shakes and it’s–some people like it because of the flavor, some people like it because of the effect. And if you don’t like the flavor so much, you can always mix it. My wife does this with the Isalean vanilla. She puts a scoop to the Isalean vanilla and two scoops of the Mars Venus–Venus Shake. So you know, that’s like an example of how you can intertwine them, use them. You can certainly add the green drink, you can add the fruits, all those things you can add to the Mars Venus Shake and it’s not anyway gonna dilute its effectiveness. It’s very compatible with everything in the line of products.

>> Yeah. I love the taste of the Mars Venus Shake. I think that they’re delicious. And I love the fact that they’re exclusively through Isagenix. Now, before we get in to the exact protein because I know the protein is a real big deal and with all of those amazing amino acids, and I just wanna get your feedback on the advancements with our way that we’re gonna be saying here in the next couple of months, actually by the end of next month. But why don’t you just take people back for a few minutes and share with them why we have Mars Venus products. We kind of forgot about that question in regards to these three or actually six, you know, products, three for men, three for women, and how they came about. Because I know that you had some special needs and of course, you know, you called my dad and where did it go from there?

>> Well I told him, I said, “You know, what I’ve been doing is testing out the Isalean, adding a lot of ingredients and getting great results in terms of helping stabilize people’s moods, helping them sleep better, and my whole focus was helping men feel more motivated in their relationships in their life, and helping women feel more relaxed and optimistic and happy.” And so we put together some formulas. He likes the ideas. We put them together. We’re just putting some add-ons into the basic Isalean Shake, exchanging a few things. We changed the fat into sweetener, you know, we had the same protein which is a high quality protein, the same enzymes, the same minerals, the same vitamins. But those are the–and we just added some more extra–the phosphatidylcholine and serine for the brain. And he liked it very much and I said, “Okay, well we’ll have a Mars Venus line for people who are interested enhance brain function and better relationships.”

It also helps people loss weight just like the other. And what I believe, this is good sometimes to mix things up as the body habituates when you do the same thing over and over. So if you create a little variety, the body goes, “Oh okay, I like that,” and tends to, you know, function better with a little variety doesn’t for huge. And then we also put together the–there were these minerals. One of the minerals I told John about which is–I’ve been using for many years. It was amazing for people who, you know, have feelings of anxiety.

And that is a mineral that you really can’t buy in health food stores. You can only get online. It’s called “lithium orotate.” It’s widely confused with lithium glutamate, which is prescribed by doctors. But lithium orotate has is over the counter. It’s not prescribed, has no negative side effects and we put a dose of lithium orotate in our Super Minerals along with some other minerals which is called “calcium orotate” and thus magnesium orotate, potassium orotate. These are called “orotates.” An orotate is a B vitamin. It’s very high in mothers’ milk and this B vitamin when it’s bonded with these minerals, becomes a mineral transport to bring the minerals in to the brain. And that’s the whole thing about, you know, for optimal brain function. We wanna get those minerals across the blood vein barrier and when you bond minerals with orotic acid, it does that. So these Super Minerals, which I put together, are all the different macrominerals and the trace minerals, in a form that would easily get in to the brain. And nobody sells this. You can get some of them separate, but nobody sells it altogether.

And John and I put together in a formula. One for men, one for women, with the different balance of minerals, the women has more magnesium in it for example. The men basically have more calcium and chromium. Chromium is really important for balanced blood sugar and muscle growth. And women also have the chromium, but just not in high doses that the men have it. So there’s a little variation in the mineral that we found, and there’s more of the lithium orotate in the women’s. Because women tend to run out of serotonin much faster, so we want to give them an extra boost. But that’s the super minerals which is a whole ray of minerals that you really can’t get anywhere in that–

>> Right.

>> kind of a package. And then there’s the Super Cleanse.

>> And I talked to John back then, you know, we had the Cleanse for Life. We’ve made some adjustments to it now so people can do it everyday. But back then, you couldn’t do this Cleanse for Life everyday. And I’ve been since I’ve been my 20’s, most of the time doing a little cleanse everyday which is one of the old fashion remedies which is putting lemon and water together and drinking it first thing in the morning. And lemon water, what it does, it helps to alkalize the system. It helps to stimulate bile production in the liver. So the liver–it helps the liver to cleanse itself everyday. And that means it’s bile that carries the toxins out of the liver. And the liver is like a water filter. It’s the filter. One of the things it does, it does many, many things, but it filters out all the toxins in the body and lemon stimulates the release of that. So lemon is one of nature’s wonderful cleansers.

The Cleanse for Life has a lot of specialties and so forth to help cleanse. Particularly another ingredient in the Cleanse for Life is aloe vera, which is again, the news for centuries to help cleanse the body. We also put in the super cleanse, we put the lemon, and we put the aloe vera, and then we put enzymes ’cause I wanted more enzymes. And we couldn’t put it, you know, a whole lot of enzymes in the shake. We can certainly put some but I wanted to put even more. Couldn’t put them in the shake or the shake would start digesting itself. So we went ahead and put a whole lot of enzymes right in the Super Cleanse which people drink before the shake. So all those extra enzymes are in the body, not only to help digest the shake, but also to–what people don’t realize is enzymes actually digest toxins.

So the enzymes are in there and also something I’ve been taking for years is probiotics, like acidosis and various things like that. Well we put that in the Super Cleanse as well and that helps to create the good bacteria in the gut to improve digestion. But really becomes a digestive drink as well as a delicious drink, and as well as a cleansing drink that people can take everyday, and that was our goal. And it kind of enhances the ability of the body to utilize the shake when they drink the shake after doing the lemon cleanse. So, Super Cleanse is really what we call it. This lemon flavored organic lemon and it was wonderful. You know, your dad put–formulated that together to taste great.

>> And it does. It tastes so good. So you know, with the enzyme blend being and now I see there’s prebiotics, there’s probiotics, you know, there’s the aloe, and then there’s a bunch of [inaudible]. Of course our Isalite minerals, or ionic also but–but with the enzymes, as soon as that Super Cleanse gets wet in your glass should you drink it within, you know, 10 minutes or so?

>> Well, it really doesn’t matter with this drink because the reason with the Isalean Shake or the Mars Venus Shake you wanna drink it within 10 minutes as the water will activate the enzymes if there’s protein. [Simultaneous talking] But the enzymes–

>> I see.

>> start breaking down the protein and then it doesn’t smell very good and it’s not bad for you, it just doesn’t smell good, and whereas in the lemon drink, you could put it in your bottle and last all day. You just put it in there. ‘Cause those enzymes will be–they’re not basically digesting any protein. So it tastes fine all day long.

>> Now, my kids love this. I mean, they like the Tropical Berry Cleanse. They do an 8 ounce everyday, but this cleanse is almost, you know, like they don’t even realize that it’s so good and healthy for them ’cause it taste so, you know, delish [phonetic]. But one of our favorite little recipes there at the house is to do the Isalean Vanilla with the scoop of this Super Cleanse and the flavor, you know, the–get the lemony creamy flavor going on in that and it is so yummy. And–but I mean, obviously in and of itself, you said that this is a product that you should take about 20 minutes prior to having your shake to really help to prep the digestive system, help the alkalize the digestive system, and it’s funny because one of the questions that we get asked all the time, Dr. Gray, is well it’s citrus. It’s an–it’s like you know, citric acid with the lime and the lemon in there, how could that be possibly be alkalized?

>> Yeah, it seems like it doesn’t make sense but this is the–one of the unique properties of lemon is that it has an alkalizing effect. Okay. It itself is a mild acid. But then when it–the body reacts to it and produces alkaline and this is like people for centuries have put it on their salads, and they put it in water and lemonade’s, a favorite treat for everybody. It has this neutralizing of acids effect in the body. It’s a mild acid but it neutralizes more extreme acids. So that’s the way it’s working. So it’s that one kind of acid working on another acid and then body becomes more alkaline.

>> Right. Okay, so why don’t you take everybody through. I know that you do, when people come to your retreat, should go to a 9 Day program. And why don’t you give a breakdown of what a 9 Day Cleanse would be using the Mars Venus products using the Super Cleanse, the shakes and of course the minerals. What does that look like?

>> Well, it’s an alternative program. One can certainly do this and, you know, it’s important for people who are just starting the Isagenix program to go to the regular Isagenix program. But then when they’re looking for variety, and sometimes people hit a plateau or something, this can be very helpful. It’s another way of doing it. But it’s very simply done. You would just order instead of a month’s supply, actually one month’s supply would be equal to two 7 day cleanses. And basically, all you’re doing is you’re doing it for 7 days. You would do first couple days. You do two shakes a day and a meal, two shakes a day and a meal. And then that just prepares your body to go on a two day fast where you’re drinking water, liquid all day long, and you have this Super Cleanse 4 times that day, 4 hours apart. And the second day, the super cleanse 4 times that day, 4 hours apart. And each time you do the Super Cleanse, you take two of the Super Minerals. And the Super Minerals help to keep the hunger away. So it’s just another process, another way of doing it. And you’ll still have enough product left to then–to the next 3 days which I call the–you just did the fast, now you feast.

And you do two shakes a day, and one and a half meals. You eat as much as you wanna eat, but of good healthy food. You wanna stay away from the refined carbohydrate foods, processed foods; starch is like potato, and just stick to your raw vegetables and cooked vegetables and meats. And eat as much as you want at lunch and dinner, but just make sure you get two shakes in that day as well. Lemon, Super Cleanse, minerals, and shake for breakfast. Then have lunch. Then in the afternoon, have another Super Cleanse, minerals, and shake and then have dinner. Or have the shake for desert after dinner whichever you please. But the idea there is you’re just–you’re sort of going with–on a liquid diet for 2 days and then you’re coming back and giving your body plenty of nutrition and food as much as you’re hungry for, ’cause that will pump your metabolism back up. So that becomes a little 7 day cleanse you can do with the product.

>> That’s very nice. I like that. And I love the alternative here. And I know that Isagenix, you know, that the Mars Venus Wellness Solution is exclusive through Isagenix which is a lot of fun for all of us. Now, I wanna move in to something a little different. I know that you’ve done a lot of work with children who have special needs and, you know, what kind of retreats are you providing for people? And I know that there are a lot of people on the line, and especially those that would be listening to this call in the future, what–where can they find out more about your retreats that you do for the family, for younger children, as well as for, you know, just for adults.

>> Well, I was doing some retreats for parents with their children who were just, you know, challenged children and learning challenged children, autistic kids, lots of kids like that and we stopped doing those. There were liability issues that were just too hard to overcome unfortunately [inaudible], you know, it’s just legalities and so forth. But we still continue to do retreats for adults. They can come and they spend the weekend with me. I limited just 40 people. We do them about once a month up at my ranch in Northern California, in a place called “Mendocino.” And there’s information on that at my website, marsvenus.com. If you just go to Health and Happiness section, there’ll be something on retreats, and you can always call my office to get more information. And what we do is we do a Mars Venus Cleanse there.

You know, we give the pre–you know, the instructions I just mentioned before. But while you’re there, we provide all the Supper Cleanse and the drinks and mineral supplements while you’re there and I spend the whole time talking about how the body is–remains healthy, how to keep the body healthy, the benefits of cleansing, different approaches to cleansing as well as I talk about relationship skills and sex. And, you know, the whole gamete of discussion goes on there as well as stress management skills. Various things that I’ve written books on, I cover over those 4 days. And it’s quite a nice journey. That people are certainly can attend and I encourage you to do so.

>> Nice. That would be great. And then of course, you can learn a little bit more about the Mars Venus Wellness Solution online. I’m sure that all of you have access to the internet and can check it out through the front page of the website, replicated websites. But also to, you know, if you’re going to be going to the annual event, we get to hear Dr. John Gray on the stage. It’s always fun listening to you.

>> Share with you know, audiences. I mean my husband, I–he–I don’t think he’s laughed as hard as he has when listening to you [laughter] a time.

>> Well, I do a whole show. I do a whole show [laughter]. Great fun.

>> That is–looks a lot of fun. Well wonderful. Is there anything else that you wanna share tonight before closing out?

>> Well, no. I just think that if people have questions about the Super Food Shake, that’s the Mars Venus, or the Super Cleanse, or the Super Minerals, they can always go to my website and get the number of my office, and they can ask questions about it there. There’s lots of information on the Isagenix website that people can look in to. But if you don’t have any further questions, I think we covered it quite simply. And [simultaneous talking]. Yeah. The three products are very compatible. You know, they’re just food products. Good to have there and you’re covered. And you don’t have–

>> Sure.

>> You’re not limited to just the use that I have suggested. Like the Super Cleanse, it’s a lemonade. You could eat three of those drinks and three of those lemonades a day and it’s a wonderful drink to have. The Super Minerals, their recommended dose is two everyday in the morning. But let’s say you’re going to some extra stress. You can easily take four, you know, you could do two in the morning and two on the afternoon. Even, you know, occasionally, you might even, you know, if you’re having some particular, you know, hyperactivity or too much anxiety or not sleeping well at night, or you find that you’re having food cravings at night, and you keep going, “Gee, I’m having to use all these will power. What is it?”

Usually, I found it’s mineral depletion and you just have to–for a week or about a week just amp the dose up to 3 times a week. I mean 3 times a day, you take the two tablets and then you start reducing it back again. Sometimes stress just we–stress or poor diet for a while depletes us, and of minerals. And we can just pump up those mineral used. And again, with the shakes, you can mix some with the Isalean however you want. My recommendation with the shake is it–to really get a full benefit of it, you go with two and a half scoops rather than just two scoops and even up to three scoops and you get a full meal–effect for your brain and that’s another way of using the Mars and Venus Shakes.

>> And I almost forgot. There was one other thing that I wanted you to address, and that was the whey protein. I’m–I am so excited about the advancements in our whey. I mean, the best shakes in the world just got better in my opinion. And I mean, the whey protein being undenatured, free of steroids, hormones coming from grass fed cattle, just amazing amino acid profile. Now starting at the end of June will be in all of the Isalean Shakes and the Mars Venus Shakes with 20 percent more amino acids. I mean, this is really impressive.

>> It is so impressive. What people have to know is that–is whey protein is–what we have is so different from the cheap whey protein you see in the muscle stores and the health food stores and so forth. That other protein is so over processed and refined. There is no life force left in it and all the–it’s called “denatured.” It’s all of the amino acids have been denatured. So they don’t really easily get assimilated by the brain. A good quality amino acid whey protein supplements that we have are the best. It’s so incredible. You notice the shifts in your mood immediately, sort of stable mood, more energy from that. And a little bit of the history which is fun to hear if we’ve got a couple of minutes. Do we have a couple more minutes?

>> Oh yeah, definitely.

>> Okay. So just to understand the history of whey protein, 5000 years ago, one of the oldest health systems in the planet, an Ayurvedic system, and is still used to this day. The main ingredient in their wellness program, they got books and books of thousands of different herbal mixtures for people. But whenever anybody is doing any of those mixtures, they go on a diet, which is primarily of whey proteins as the major food in their diets. And this is what’s amazing. They didn’t call it whey protein. They called it buttermilk, the milk that’s left over after you pull the butter out of it. And once you take the butter out of milk, then it becomes incredibly easy to digest. Now about 300 years ago, the Germans, you know, they’re right next to India so they were observing all these ancient information, and the information is still used in India today. If someone gets sick, they have a diet primarily of buttermilk. And they processes for making it in their home right out their raw milk. But you know, it doesn’t work when it’s highly heated up or something. It has to be, you know, basically, the enzymes have to be still active and you can’t overheat the protein. Otherwise, it becomes denatured.

So the Swiss, the Germans all went to Switzerland for their health clinics. They started building health clinics in Switzerland 300 years ago because the best dairies were there, that the best cow is there, and they have these beautiful dairies, big dairies, and they built health resource next to the dairies. In the middle of the night, they milk the cows, they take the butter out of the milk, and what was left, they’d feed to the people as their main meal, which was the whey protein. The–but in its undenatured state. And this is what people would get well. They get fresh air and sunshine and have a diet mainly of undenatured whey protein, and they got better. And that is also why Switzerland became sort of the center of power of the world in terms of financial power because all the wealthy people went there and they had to bring their money with them and buried it in the mountains so that became–eventually became banks in Switzerland.

I mean, it’s an amazing story but it all centers around whey protein because it’s such a–whenever the body needs to be healed, you gotta get the brain working first ’cause it’s sending out all the messages everywhere. And what feeds the brain, along with good fats, is good protein, easy to digest protein. And as I mentioned before, for stressed are–literally the first thing that shuts down when our stress levels go up is our ability to digest protein. So then we have less protein for the brain. And now the brain can’t lower the stress. And as stress gets higher, we have a less of ability to digest our proteins, and now the brain gets even less brain chemicals. So the feeding cycle. But once you start getting easy to digest proteins into your diet, you make lots of brain chemicals, your stress levels start going down then you can start more efficiently absorbing protein from all your proteins that you eat. You start getting the amino acids out of it. And so when you eat a meal, rather than getting tired, you have plenty of energy for the next 4 to 5 hours. That’s what a healthy diet looks like.

>> That is fascinating. I had no idea about history. I–and what I love about it is that the process of taking and separating that cream, that fat, that butter from they whey, and it’s such advanced technology. It’s really the latest most advanced technology. I am processing that but it’s exclusive to Isagenix. So, that the only whey, and no pun intended, that you’re gonna get this whey is through our amazing shakes. I just–I love that. I think that it’s definitely sending a strong message that we completely care about continued quality and obviously technological advancements on what we already have. So pretty exciting stuff.

>> And one other note on that, they have hormone free whey protein. It is so fantastic. Because when–certainly when you take the fat out of milk in order to make the whey protein, you take out a lot of those hormones. But they’re imbedded in the protein as well. And–but people have to know is that, well see, with cattle, they’re not hormone free cattle. They–the hormones they put in the cattle are estrogen. And estrogen is a fat storing hormone. So when people are, you know, taking products with–that are not hormone free, they’re literally gonna go right into your system and cause your own system to start storing fat just like it did for the cow. And we’re getting hormone free milk from hormone free cows which are making a huge difference in terms of our ability to benefit from the amino acids as well as shift from fat storing to fat burning.

>> Absolutely. And I would–another thing too, is do you ever get this Dr. Gray? As people saying, “I don’t feel bloaty. I don’t feel gassy after having your shakes.” I mean it’s amazing specially with the shakes that–like you said that you’re finding it at other health food stores and, you know, the muscle shakes so to speak.

>> Yeah, that calls in for me, you know, I have a huge dairy reaction. I’m allergic to dairy until I met Isagenix, because Isagenix was the non–undenatured dairy. See, what most people are experiencing is denatured dairy, which means it’s been cooked to high temperatures which makes it almost indigestible. So naturally, people overtime become allergic or resistant to dairy. They either have, you know, mucus–huge amounts of mucus, so they get bloated stomach, or irritable n bowel, and that’s all due to the wrong kind of dairy. What we need is healthy dairy which has not been overcooked and so it’s indigestible. And that’s what we have at the Isagenix products and with the Mars Venus Isalean–Mars Venus Shakes as well.

>> Yeah, very, very exciting. Wonderful! Well, thank you again for being with us tonight. It’s always fun and I can’t wait to see you here in just a couple of months. The time will fly by. And again, we appreciate your time and your willingness to be here with us tonight, and until next time. Are you still there?

>> Yes.

>> Okay, until next time. I look forward to it. So again, thank you, Dr. Gray. And for–

>> Well, thank you so much and thank you all for being part of the call.

>> Yeah, absolutely. And for those of you listening in, again, thank you for being with us too and we always love it when you can join us. And I do wanna make mention that our call has been recorded. It will be posted in your online library for those of you who all are–excuse me, who are already associates, you can access the call on your product, a section of your library underneath the conference call tab. And then also too, this is available for podcasting which is so much fun and how you’d access that is you can go to isagenixpodcast.com and of course, this call will be uploaded in there within the next 24 to 48 hours with the transcript. Don’t you love that? And you can actually take this call and download it onto your iPod or your mp3 players so that you can, you know, take this call as well as many, many others and educate yourself while you’re working out, you’re on your trampoline, you’re going on your leisurely walk, or you’re in the gym, or something like that. So have fun with [inaudible]. And also, take the podcast link and email it to people so that they can download it and listen to the call and enjoy that way as well. So if you wanna know a little bit more about it again, you can go to isagenixpodcast.com and have fun. Alright, again, thanks everybody for being with us tonight. Have a wonderful rest of the week. Bye-bye.

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