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Hi. My name is Whitney Smith, and I'm eleven years old. Now I'm going to tell you my experience with Ritalin. I had been taking Ritalin for at least three years. I took it because I have ADD and I'd take it every morning when I went to school, then after lunch, and again at three o'clock in the afternoon. At a certain point of the day, and that certain point of the day would be when we were doing math, (and it's not because I don't like math, it's because that's when it kicked in), I would start getting migraine headaches and just feel ridiculously awful. I also didn't understand what was going on at this point, and since I had been taking Ritalin for so long, I couldn't really tell if it was working. I'd come from school with one study link that should only take a second to do, but it would take me more than an hour to finish it. I would get very frustrated and confused, and then ask my Mom if she would help me. Being the wonderful, outstanding person that she is, she would say "yes." But I always just thought she was wrong and so I'd cry and cry until nobody could stand it any more, (and that, by the way would give me an even bigger headache). This would make my mom just feel rejected, and dreadfully awful, until it came to the point where she just couldn't stand it, and wouldn't help me anymore. And, feeling the way I did on Ritalin, I assumed she didn't love me anymore so I started crying even more! Also, when she'd ask me how the teacher explained things in school I could never remember.

Then, on parent/teacher conference night, my teacher said she noticed I was tired a lot and had bags under my eyes. The only thing I noticed was the two awful looking D's on my report card, (nicely written ... hard to miss!). After that I wasn't too confident anymore ... especially with all the C's loaded up behind those D's! I also had a problem with talking too much in class, which didn't surprise me at all. If you know or are now realizing, I am a very wild, and talkative person.

Now we're going to talk about my "Life Saver." At home, my parents had all these bottles of Herbalife. I asked in a very loving, sweet voice, "What the heck is all this stuff, and what's it for?" So, my mom gave me some stuff called N.R.G. She said it would help me concentrate. My mom and dad started noticing a difference right away!

(Excuse me, I forgot to introduce my parents. This is my dad, Mike, "Hi," and my mom Lisa, "Hi." So now that you've met my parents, Mike and Lisa Johnson, we can go on.)

My mom asked our doctor if he would sign the school authorization papers so that I could get off the Ritalin and get the NRG in school. He said he would do anything to get me off a controlled substance. So, I started taking the NRG at the times that I used to take the Ritalin, and when I got to school I was ready to go to work! I didn't know why I was so ready, but at least I felt ready. I wasn't nervous for tests or anything! And, when I got my test back, instead of getting a 50%, I got a 95% ... and boy was I happy! I was concentrating really good, too. I told my mom and she was really happy that it worked, and also that we were not having any more awful, crying times trying to get my homework done).

When it came to the end of 5th grade, and it was time for conferences again, we sat down and my teacher handed me the report card. I got eleven A's, ten B's, and 2 C's. So, I was extremely happy, and my teacher said that I didn't look so tired lately or have so much trouble talking too much in class. I was also happy to see the note on the bottom of the report card that said, "Have a nice time in 6th grade!" That's how NRG tabs have helped me!!

Whitney also wanted us to know that she also takes Formula 1, Dinomins, Formula 3, Schizandra and Xtra-Cal on a daily basis.

Our daughter, Whitney, will soon be 14. She has been Ritalin free and using Herbalife’s NRG for about 3 years and she’s doing – GREAT on the NRG! She has made amazing strides. She made the honor roll for 3 semesters in a row, and thanks to the good nutrition from Herbalife’s Formula 1 Shakes has not missed a day of school in 3 years!

Also, one of the most outstanding things in my opinion is her time management. She use to spend all night doing homework and now she has most of it done before she even gets home from school.

She is very, very active in sports - swimming, volleyball, cross country....and her latest testimony is for the Herbalife Joint Support!!! In the past she has had a lot of trouble with her back. It would get sore to the point where she would ask me to help her get her shoes on at times because she couldn't bend over. We had her checked and found out that she has slight scoliosis. Her doctor said this can happen when kids go through growth spurts (she's already 5' 8"!). After being on the Herbalife Joint Support for a few months she very rarely complained of any back pain. When the Joint Support was on back order, we ran out : (A couple of weeks later she was having trouble again! I kept assuring her that the Joint Support would be back on our shelves again shortly. She finally turned to me and said, "Mom, please don't mention Joint Support again until you have it in your hands!!" Needless to say the Joint Support has now been shipped and we are back on track again.

Thanks for asking about Whitney. It gives me the opportunity to talk about my two favorite subjects....my wonderful daughter and these incredible products!
Lisa Johnson
Grand Rapids, MI

This is our first experience with ADD & the Ritalin stuff. This past July, Barb was at Cub Scout Day Camp for a week. She observed an 8 to 10 year old boy just out of control. He was hitting everyone, cursing, and could not be calmed down. His Mother had to finally throw him on the ground, sit on him and wrap both her arms and legs around him to keep him calmed down until his Dad could bring him some horrible Ritalin. He was then able to calm down.

Barb had difficulty making contact with the Mother to try and get the youngster on NRG. She was finally able to meet with her and could only leave her some NRG samples. The Mother did not want to do anything to disrupt her son's treatment. The Mother kept her son on Ritalin and just gave him one NRG tablet at night and was not able to notice any difference.

This past week the boy was going to go to a soccer camp all week. Just prior to leaving he ran out of the Ritalin. He left for the soccer camp with the NRG. The Mother was going to take him some Ritalin later in the day. Previously when playing soccer he had a difficult time playing the game. When he took the NRG and played everything was very clear and he played very well. He was also able to accept negative comments from other players. Before noon he called his Mom and told her to forget the Ritalin that he was staying with the NRG. He told her that it calmed him more and he was to concentrate better and that it curbed his cravings for food whereas before he was hungry all the time.

The Mother called Barb this evening. She is coming over to purchase some NRG. We now have more of an appreciation for Mark's desire to take these products around the world. This really got to Barb after seeing the boy being so out of control and not able to help himself.

Hi ! Just want to pass along a testimonial on the NRG product that I heard from one of my local distributors this evening. She works at a daycare center and knew that several kids were on Ritalin for ADD/ADHD. She offered info on NRG to their parents and several of the kids have been able to function without Ritalin and the use of NRG. But, the neatest thing I heard this evening is about a 13 year old boy who was taking a very large dose of Ritalin for LED (learning and emotional disorder). He takes 2 NRG along with a calcium tablet and magnesium tablet in the morning and then in the evening he again takes 2 NRG and 2 alcium/magnesium tablets. He's functioning normally, sleeps well, and is able to concentrate in school. Isn't that neat? Evidently the symptoms of LED are pretty much the same as ADD/ADHD. In case you ever run across a child with this diagnosis, here's a product testimonial that proves NRG works for this, too.
Kind regards,
Carole Creech

Betty Hovel writes…
I want to tell you about my 14-year-old son. He's been what I guess you would call a difficult child even before he was born. He's a real intelligent boy but he's never done very well in school and he always seemed to be in trouble at school and at home. Last spring, he was officially diagnosed as having Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. His doctor prescribed Ritalin Ritalin didn't seem to do much and he has side effects from it. He couldn't sleep and he didn't have any appetite and he hadn't grown since he started taking it. He was only sleeping about three hours a night. I was reading through some of the stuff you sent me and read that for kids that are hyperactive that the NRG tablets have the opposite effect as they have on us. So l thought I'd give it a try and l just can't believe the difference in him. He's doing real well at school. He's not getting in trouble. He's sleeping at night and he's even pleasant to be around. I just give him one NRG tablet in the morning and then he takes another NRG tablet at lunchtime. Sometimes he takes an additional NRG tablet at night, if he feels like he needs it. And he says the NRG works a hundred times better than Ritalin!
I just can't believe the difference in him.

I give my son 9 year old son Herbalife’s NRG to help him calm down and control himself. We tried the NRG an experiment at first just to see what it would do for him. It calmed him down quite a bit. He's not ADD, Attention Deficit but he does get very emotional. My son is nine years old and I give him 1 NRG tablet in the morning and one NRG after school. In the morning, I also give him a Formula One shake. He takes a Formula 2 vitamin and Cell Activator twice a day. My son is doing great – he’s much calmer and able to focus better.

Our eight year old daughter was diagnosed a year ago with ADD. She was put on medication and things went downhill from there! She went from about sixty pounds when it started down to about forty-nine pounds, had dark circles under her eyes, no energy, didn't even want to play with other kids. Her concentration was off She was always hanging out in front of the TV and no energy at all. -1 mean no energy. She dad outbursts that she would never in a million years dream of doing, you know, trying to kick car windows out when you put her in the car and just crazy, crazy behavior. We felt like "Where did this kid come from "? The only benefit was her grades went up in school, but everything else was falling apart for her. She was nasty to her other sisters and kind of aggressive.

We heard that NRG helps kids with ADD so my husband and I thought we'd definitely give that a try. I thought that sounded like the way to go. So we came home and put her on one NRG tablet in the morning and then one NRG tablet again lunch ( we put in her lunch box). The results were phenomenal; within a week she had gained about five pounds back. She's eating everything in the house. Dark circles under her eyes were gone. She was sound asleep by nine o'clock at night, which prior to that had been like one o'clock in the morning. You know, I'd be getting ready to go to bed and she's still there wide-eyed and bushy tailed.

And in addition to that, her grades are maintaining at school, she's doing great. HerbaLife has given me back my eight-year-old child. I mean, we have such a close relationship again because, you know, she's under control. Things are going well for her. And you know, that is just worth every penny in the world to me to see my child come around full circle like that. I'm so grateful to Herbalife! for that, you know. And like I said, the money's fun, the program's fun, you know, I’m still astounded, it's just great. But I’ll tell you to have Rachael back full force like she is, and doing great at eight years old is just the biggest blessing. If maybe another parent has a child with ADD, it's something to think about. It definitely works and we love it. It's super.

My son, Trevor, who is now l6 years old, has A.D.D. When he was younger he also had the hyperactivity along with it, but had the type that kids grow out of. He had such a hard time staying focused, organized, etc. I started him on 2 NRG and 2 CALCIUM two times a day. It has helped him so much I can't believe it. Unfortunately, because I found out about it so late in his school life the first few years have been a wash as far as learning how to organize, etc.... so I really have to work hard to help him get it together and set his goals, get work in, all stuff he should know how to do on his own by now. At least Herbalife came along before he was a total lost cause. He can actually stay on task and accomplish something now and I can't tell you what a blessing that is not only for me but he realizes that he isn't a stupid kid.

There was a gal at a meeting in Seattle once about 2 years ago who said her daughter was so hyper she had to slowly take her off of medication and it took 6 months, As she was taking her off of medication she -added 2 NRG, 6 CALCIUM, 2 or 3 times a day. A failing student who they were told, must be slightly retarded, is now an A student off all medication.
P. J. Gatto

One of the things that I overcame using the nutritional products from Herbalife was Attention Deficit Disorder. I wasn't diagnosed with ADD until very late in life and well into my forties. It’s a very complex condition to diagnose- I became part of a study from the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. They put me through six weeks of real interesting tests. I had what they call ADD/RF, which is a residual state for adults, and there's a lot of things that go on in the brain over the course of life for people who have this disorder. Essentially what happens is that you find ways of compensating for it, and that's what adults essentially do is they find ways of compensating for the deficit disorder...it's a condition that twenty percent of the population actually has to some degree or another. But nonetheless, I was in the midst of this study when I joined Herbalife back around August of '95. In September l started on the nutritional products and by October they were doing the quarterly testing that I'd been going through as part of this adult study. And they were absolutely shocked to find that the wiring disfiguration in the brain was gone. Somehow or another, with the cellular nutrition, I completely overcame the disorder, including the underlying cause. I don't know which of the products was responsible because I was on virtually everything. But the basic Cellular Nutrition concept certainly got a plus in my book. (Cellular Nutrition consists of Formulas 1, 2 & 3 plus Herbalife is recommended).
Bob Oechsler, Annapolis, MD

Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to pass along this personal testimonial about my son and myself as we are both diagnosed as having ADD. I am an adult that has suffered with ADD my whole life. When I was younger I was put on a large dose of Ritalin for my ADD and hyper activity. After taking Ritalin for many years I started having some side affects and one of them being a habitual and annoying tick. A tick is something that is uncontrollable. It is a twitching movement that I have in my shoulder. It can be embarrassing but I know that there really hasn't been anything that I could do for it. Memory was another major problem I had always had. I could sit down and read a paragraph three times and still have a tough time comprehending what I just read. Or I would walk from one end of the house to the other to get something and forget what I wanted. I was afraid to talk to anyone about the business because I was afraid that half way into my presentation I would lose my train of thought and just blow everything that I was working up to. It got to be very depressing at times because I wanted to do things but would just forget.

Knowing what I have learned from my own personal experience, my wife and I decided not to put my son on Ritalin even though he was doing horrible in school and forget about doing his homework at home. I would have to fight and work with him for about three hours just to finish up his homework every night. He would constantly forget to do things. He would get upset with himself and tell his mother that he felt dumb or stupid compared to the other kids in class. We were real worried about his self-esteem and knew sooner or later we were going to have to do something. In school I always did just enough to get by because of my comprehension level and we could see that was just what my son was going through. We would cry when he would tell us he was really trying hard and for him we knew he really was. To make a long story short, we were introduced to Herbalife by John & Marsha Flynn from Washington and decided to give the business a try. We knew that we should try all the products. I was intrigued by the NRG and what they claimed it would do. Well I will be the judge of that !!!!! Well I am writing to you all because the results my son and I have had on the product is just amazing. My son now does his own homework and is done in 45 minutes and his grades have ALL gone up. I am no longer afraid to talk to anybody because I can keep my train of thought and my comprehension is now great. We are now telling everyone about the NRG and what it has done for us and I highly recommend it for anyone.
KEEP YOUR KIDS OFF THAT RITALIN
THE SIDE AFFECTS ARE FOR LIFE
Thank you for listening and I hope this can help even one person, then it was well worth it
Chuck & Angela McClure

Here is our testimony on NRG. I hope as parents read it they realize that Ritalin doesn't always make a child feel better, It only makes them act better which makes us feel better.

I have an 11-year-old son. At age 8 he was diagnosed with ADD. He was placed on Ritalin for almost 4 years. My son had skinny arms and legs, a pale face with dark circles under his eyes. He didn't eat very much, he wasn't hungry. He recently became more emotionally upset and frustrated with himself. The doctor wanted to increase his dosage of 30 mg daily. I was already having concerns about the long-term use of Ritalin. I did not want my son to struggle, but did not want to pump any more Ritalin into him. I had tried other herbal alternatives. Nothing worked. Then an Herbalife consultant told me about Guarana (NRG). We were about to start school and wasn't sure if this was a good time. I started giving him 1 guarana (NRG) in the morning with his Ritalin. I told him it was a vitamin. I didn't want him to psychologically convince himself it made him feel better. The first day we saw a big difference in his moods. I slowly decreased the Ritalin in 5 mg increments. My son now takes 2 NRG daily and is completely off the Ritalin. I tried an off brand of guarana but it had several other things in with it. My son took 1 and didn't want to take it again. He asked if he could take the Herbalife brand of vitamin. I was convinced that Herbalife's NRG was some product. My son has been Ritalin free for 1 1/2 months now. He is so happy lately. His appetite has increased no more sleepless nights, which means no more dark circles and no more headaches every morning. The emotional outbursts are gone. I monitored him while I weaned him off the Ritalin. Fifteen minutes after taking a Ritalin, he had tingling in his legs and arms. His pupils were large and he could feel the medicine going through him. After an NRG, he did not feel funny in the head, as he put it. He did say he felt more focused. He asked me if he could take the vitamin instead of the Ritalin. I then told him that the vitamin was not a vitamin but an herb that stimulates the central nervous system in the same way Ritalin did, without the side effects. My son could not handle the stress of the achievement tests in school. He recently spent a week taking an achievement test in school without the outbursts and tears. My son has his life back. He is enjoying being a kid. Thank You Herbalife for NRG.

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