Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Herbalife -- 30 Years and Counting!

Well, hello out there once again!  There are so very many things I want to write about Herbalife that I find myself literally overwhelmed; so I've decided to simply plunge in and speak about what's on my mind.

Herbalife is celebrating its THIRTIETH YEAR in business!  Does anyone out there have ANY idea what that means for a Direct Marketing (ooooh, the dreaded MLM) Company?  Herbalife has literally survived the premature death of its charismatic founder, Mark Hughes, and soldiered on.  No other Direct Marketing Company that I am aware of is publicly traded on the NYSE.  This MEANS something.  It means that Herbalife has had to pass muster -- all those inspections and book-checkings and everything that goes with certifying that a business has what it takes to compete on those levels.

Any business like Herbalife has to have its proverbial nose clean.  When I look at the international success story this company represents, I am floored.  We are now in 72 -- 72 countries -- the latest being Vietnam and Paraguay.  This means that our standards must be above reproach.  We must meet the various and complex regulations of all those countries in order to import/make our goods there.  Now that's really something.

Anyone have any idea how crazy that is??  Well, if you have any knowledge of the complexities of the import/export business, you'll know that every country has its own set of regulations and they are all mostly different.  What a headache!  You won't find every single product in every country, but you'll find the basics -- the Core Products for which we are rightfully famous!


What I am most impressed by (as the daughter of one of the first female chemistry students at the University of California at Berkeley back in the forties when they thought women were too stupid to be chemists!) is the science of Herbalife.  For THIRTY YEARS in laboratories around the world men and women have labored to find the best combination of proteins, carbohydrates, probiotics, vitamins, minerals -- the list is endless -- for optimal nutrition down to the molecules, the very molecular structures of our bodies.


That struck me, and it struck me hard.  Anyone who knows me from this blog or from life knows that my body "betrayed" me when I was 17 -- undiagnosed hypothyroidism & bipolar disorder.  Even when I was properly diagnosed and on decent if imperfect medication, I still never felt well.


Until I met up with Herbalife, which changed my life in six short months.  That's science at its best, folks.  When you can speak with all your integrity intact about what a product has done for you and yours, you've got something. 

There's a reason Herbalife has lasted so long and KEEPS GROWING!  Because it works!  It is pure, utter nourishment at the cellular level.  Because it's not "dead food" like the costly pre-made meals advertised everywhere.  In my opinion you might as well eat the cardboard those things come with as the food.  But I'm biased.


Where's that bias coming from?  Well, there's something about losing 30 pounds without effort in 6 months, and having 60% of the gray in my hair disappear.  Only my hairdresser knows for sure, and guess what she bought from me that day?  The Quick Start pack, that's what -- she's no fool, and once she saw how tiny I'd gotten and that my hair color had changed, she didn't need any more convincing.


I suggest any of my readers check out the link I posted above.  It will take you right to the page on www.herbalife.com that speaks about their peerless scientific findings.  Fascinating.  Check it out!!