Folk Remedies

Folk Remedies

Did your grandma ever whip up a plaster made of stuff from her garden and around the kitchen? Did anyone ever tell you to eat chicken soup when you have the flu?

There's a whole body of information -- sometimes called "common" knowledge -- that has been passed down generation-to-generation. For centuries in the West, university-certified doctors were a luxury of the upper classes; the rest of us just had to make do with what we had. The lower and middle classes set their own bones, bled their own veins, and pulled their own teeth. An essential tool in these homespun doctors' tool kits was herbs and other vegetation reputed to have healing powers.

Now, it's the 21st-century, and those of us blessed enough to have health insurance can see legitimate, university-certified doctors regularly, at a relatively low cost. Indeed, we have witnessed the victory of a certain kind of medicine, allopathic (what your usual internist likely prescribes to), over another kind, homeopathic (what we've been doing for centuries). And this is a very good thing: life expectancy is up, infant mortality is down, and no-one has to stick a live frog in their mouth when they have sore throat. Laboratory-manufactured medicines and advanced medical equipment have improved the standard of life for the great mass of people. However, it would be foolish to ignore the centuries of success our ancestors saw using homeopathic solutions to medical problems.

Increasingly, allopathic doctors are looking to homeopathic knowledge -- that "common knowledge" our ancestors had to rely on -- for solutions to common medical problems. They understand that you can't "throw out the baby with the bathwater," that potentially valuable cures could be lost if we ignore centuries of trial-and-error experiments with various herbs, roots, and fungii.

Take the case of Alexander Fleming, the man who discovered Penicillin. Dr. Fleming didn't reveal the therapeutic benefits of Penicillium fungi by randomly licking toadstools and seeing which one made him feel better. Instead, he recognized that peasants had, for centuries, been brewing a broth from mouldy fruits and breads that was successfully applied to open wounds to stop infection. Alexander Fleming explained why what the peasants were doing worked, in allopathic terms -- but it would have continued working whether he explained it that way or not.

Ganoderma lucidum, the "Miraculous King of Herbs" that enriches Gano Excel's beverages and dietary supplements, has also been used by common folk to deal with ailments for centuries. Western medical research has only scratched the surface of this powerful herb's therapeutic benefits; we invite further objective, academic investigation and research, because we want widespread verification of what we already know to be true. Gano Excel is the world's leading manufacturer of organic Ganoderma lucidum, and each and every one of us truly believe in the beneficial powers of our product.

Where Does YOUR Gano Come From?

"Where Does YOUR Gano Come From?"

A lot of people are jumping on the enriched coffee bandwagon nowadays, both inside and outside the network marketing worlds. With so many competing “healthier coffee” brands out there, how can you, as a product evangelist for Café 2.0, convince people that ours really is the “world’s first choice”?

1. We grow it, we process it! Competing brands may sell Ganoderma capsules or throw it into their coffees and teas, but where does it come from? As you know, Gano Excel owns the world’s largest 100% organic Ganoderma Lucidum plantation, and has over 4 Million Sq. Ft. of Research & Development, Manufacturing, and Processing facilities.

2. The World’s First, Still the World’s Favorite! After years of research, our founder, Leow Soon Seng, invented the proprietary method for enriching delicious beverages with Ganoderma Lucidum. We were the world’s first company to successfully achieve a harmonious blend of coffee and Ganoderma, and our methods are unlike any of our competitors’.

3. Sterile growth environment. Some Ganoderma grows on palm trees, some of it grows in the middle of the woods, and some of it even grows on outhouses (yuck!). Unlike some brands, Gano Excel’s Ganoderma is grown on our own plantation under strict supervision and exacting health and manufacturing standards.

4. Over fifteen years of documented results! Unlike some Johnny-come-Lately “healthy coffee” peddlers, Gano Excel has over fifteen years of documented results. Can our competitors say they’ve been changing lives for that long? If they can, where’s their documentation?

5. We’re more than “healthy coffee”! Much more than just products or a business opportunity, our Café 2.0 philosophy is a whole new way of life. New friendships, more confidence, whole-person wellness, and a higher standard of life: that’s what Café 2.0 can provide that our competitors simply can’t.

Myths about Network Marketing

There's an old joke that's pretty popular with seasoned veterans of our industry. It goes, "If you want something to grow, put fertilizer on it or tell a network marketer."

We all know what that means, right? Suddenly, within a week of signing up, everybody's a leader, or the product has made them grow six inches and led to their winning a major Triathalon with no training. The joke works (and stings!) because so much of American business culture -- both in network marketing and outside of it -- is based on exaggeration and unfounded claims. (Enron, anyone?)

This isn't something unique to our industry; change the joke to, "If you want something to grow, put fertilizer on it or tell a stock broker," and it still packs its punch. Of course it's not true across the board -- there are more honest stock brokers than there are crooked ones, just as there are more honest networkers -- but it "sticks" because of our misconceptions of what business people do.

Gano independent affiliate Robert Hollis, a network marketing legend who has earned over $26 million in the industry, was the first person to tell us that joke -- but we've heard it many times since. When Robert told us about it, he followed immediately by saying, "We know that's how it is. But why not just tell the truth?"

It's a discussion that's been raging in network marketing circles for decades. Networker and author John Milton Fogg jumped into the fray with a powerful little article, "Four Lies of MLM." Here's what Fogg has to say about the "myths of network marketing":

The lies that limit the future of network marketing began as so many untruths do. They were told initially to bolster up our insecurity -- in this case, our industry's perceived lack of self-esteem. The lies were harmless "little white" (i.e. "okay") ones, meant to make us seem bigger and better than we really thought we were.

He goes on to talk about the 4 biggie myths we hear told again and again: stuff about The Wall Street Journal making wild claims about future prosperity for networkers, or that our methods are taught at Harvard and Standford. With just a teensy bit of research, all these things go away -- but in the heat of the moment, when you're enthusiastically sharing the news about Café 2.0, who has time for research?

If you've made $250 for a commissions period, why say you've made $300? That little inflation won't improve your case, and if the person you're sharing with finds out about that phantom $50, you can kiss your reputation goodbye! As Robert puts it again and again, "Always ask, 'How do you know that?'" -- even of yourself!

There are real facts -- not myths -- about our industry and products that are compelling enough that you don't need the myths. OK, so this isn't "the industry that has created the most millionaires in America" -- that'd be real estate, incidentally -- but it is an industry that has touched countless lives, enriched so many with its promise of time and financial freedom. Show people what it's done for you and for people you know -- don't repeat the old myths, don't go spouting off that fertilizer!

What is Gano Excel?

What is Gano Excel?

Gano Excel: A Study in Global Momentum

In a part of the world where herbal wellness formulations are a normal part of an educated life and Network Marketing is not only understood but ingrained in the economic climate of every progressive nation, it has been a paragon of excellence since 1995. Today, Gano Excel is already a global wellness colossus. As part of its global expansion plan to be in 100 countries in 10 years, Gano Excel is already present in more than 40 countries throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and North America.

It has done so with a kind of compelling integrity that quickly becomes the stuff of industry legend.

Right now the numbers add up for what is certain to be the "next big thing" in the health and wellness industry. A successful track record, a very solid debt-free financial substructure, management that offers the perfect synergy of business acumen and product expertise, a product line that is both original and professionally respected, and a dynamic growth curve that spells WINNER in capital letters in all markets where it now exists - Gano Excel has, according to most industry experts, assembled all the right ingredients to become the next global direct sales juggernaut.

Gano Excel - The Back Story.

This journey of more than two decades has been one of commitment, dedication, tireless research and uncompromised integrity. And the results have been measured in geometric progressions both for Gano Excel and for professional recognition of its remarkable product line. Gano Excel, an innovative nutraceutical firm based in Malaysia, is taking the coffee industry by storm. Using coffee to deliver the health benefits of Ganoderma Lucidum, Gano Excel has created a whole new market category: health-promoting coffee!

Ganoderma Lucidum is thought by many to be the most revered herb in Chinese medicine and has been since it was first used over 4,000 years ago by apothecaries in the Yan Dynasty where it was crowned the "King of Herbs."

Thought of as an herb, Ganoderma is technically a fungus - or what are popularly referred to as a therapeutic mushroom whose beneficial effects have been so highly regarded that it helped trigger an entire field of scientific research nearly 100 years ago, called mycology (the scientific study of mushrooms).

Why Ganoderma?

In Nature's pharmacy where all true healing originates, there are a few super stars. Among the thousands of different mushrooms that exist, only a handful qualify as completely beneficial - the Maitake, the Shiitake, the Cordyceps and the Ganoderma Lucidum. Among them, only the Ganoderma Lucidum offers a unique blend of more than 200 beneficial nutrients, including an entire complement of vitamins, trace minerals, enzymes, immunomodulators, adaptogens, anti-allergens, polysaccharides and organic germanium. What that suggests to us is a therapeutic potential that is without equal in the world of natural foods, herbal remedies and traditional over-the-counter drugs. With the proprietary cultivation methods developed by Gano Excel, Ganoderma Lucidum is now available for mass consumption.

From Nature to the World Market.

The challenge with the Reishi mushroom has always been the matter of its perishability. And one of the most profound influences Gano Excel has exerted over the globalization and international marketing of Ganoderma Lucidum has been its perfection of the planting, growing and harvesting of the delicate Reishi mushroom.

To assure that this is properly accomplished, Gano Excel emphasizes bringing all its product formulations through one of the most scrupulous manufacturing processes available anywhere. All Gano Excel operations receive the GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) certification.

In this process, no detail is missed, and no issue is unresolved. From product development to customer relations, Gano Excel's management has dedicated itself to one philosophy: the pursuit of excellence no matter the cost. It's a part of their mission statement and more than a major component in their game plan to be one of the largest and most influential wellness products companies in the world.

Gano Excel - A New Kind of Marketing Concept.

The Gano Excel Mission Statement is simple but loaded with intention: "To bring health and prosperity to every family!"

It is a message taken very seriously. Beginning with its very original product formulations, continuing with its superb state-of-the-art processing and manufacturing techniques, Gano Excel has found what they are convinced is one of the international network market's most effective success-builder programs for income generation, duplication and financial independence - one that is set in place to empower everyone who aligns their business goals with Gano Excel's to enjoy the most dynamic income opportunity anywhere, and to achieve their dreams: all of them!

It's a challenge that is met with a great sense of responsibility and an awareness that not all companies that set out to accomplish these objectives in the field of wellness succeed.

The Gano Global Network.

Gano Excel has a very reasonable goal for international growth and expansion that includes growing to 100 nations in 10 years!

And thus far, they seem well on track to accomplish just that. Currently Gano Excel has an international presence in more than 40 countries, including Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Australia, Canada, the United States of America, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Brunei, Nepal, Bangladesh, Romania and Uzbekistan to name a few.

Part of the reason Gano Excel has been able to grow with such intelligent force has been its sophisticated skills in networking their business, one that combines the best of both worlds of personal contact and the proliferating power of e-commerce.

If Gano Excel surpasses all other companies, it is in its ability to put all its network affiliates first with superior service, training and hands-on success mentoring, training and networking success seminars. Its immediate advantage comes in having one of the best, and most highly consumable wellness product lines in the health industry today. And it follows through with some of the most imaginative and informative success coaching in the world. It is a system of duplication and income generation that it is enhanced geometrically by its understanding of the global marketplace and how to farm it through e-commerce technology.

Further reason why it has already grown to $500 million in annual retail sales!

Gano Excel North America - The Saga of Healthy Coffee.

It is something of a tradition in Gano Excel's philosophy of international expansion that each division has the opportunity not only to bring new energy into the company dynamic, but also to introduce new product concepts to the Gano Excel family of fine products.

In the case of Gano Excel North America, its management has already shown a keen sense of the new network marketplace and what products would best work for it.

Although achieving a great deal of success and market share by selling its traditional line of Ganoderma-based natural products, the Gano Excel North America management team believed they had to go deeper into the core needs of the U.S. and Canadian public. To do so, they found a way to easily introduce the health benefits of Ganoderma Lucidum using a beverage that almost everyone drinks every day.

And what better carrying medium than the second most popular drink in the world? Coffee!

Coffee is the second most popular beverage in the world behind only water. Not only that, but coffee is considered the world’s favorite comfort food. Besides, it’s very easy to ask someone if they would like a cup of coffee. What a great way to not only open the North American market (the largest consumer of coffee) but the world market as well!"

All Gano Excel products are based on what may prove to be the best and "healthiest ingredient" of all – the Ganoderma Lucidum mushroom. If you'd like to learn more about Gano Excel North America, its wide variety of beverage, personal care and supplements, as well as its remarkable income opportunity, click here. Working with Gano-Excel headquarters R&D North America's executive marketing branch came up with the world's first molecularly adjusted "nutritious coffee" - with reduced acid, a better balance of caffeine, all the 200 nutrients that Ganoderma Lucidum is world renowned for.

Meanwhile, enjoy these interesting facts about this exceptional company.

Gano Excel...

• Has over 3 million satisfied consumers worldwide in over 40 countries...and growing!
• Has global retail sales now approaching $500 million.
• Is the world's largest grower and producer of organic Ganoderma Lucidum.
• Operations are completely vertically-integrated - from plantation to manufacturing.
• Is the “The World’s First Choice” with its unique blend of delicious coffee and Ganoderma Lucidum.

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Therapeutic Mushrooms 101

Therapeutic Mushrooms 101

"Muscle" Mushrooms

Everything that you've heard and read is probably true!

The Mystery of Mushrooms...The Good, the Bad and the Human Comedy

Poison, love potion, hallucinogenic, truth serum, demon seed, destroying angel, jack o' lantern, puffballs and miracle cure for everything from sagging libido to fading heartbeat - mushrooms in all their numerous identities and marquee nicknames have become the stuff of mythology. And the fact that these prolifically growing fungi have species that number in the thousands has provided us with the opportunity to gain an even clearer perspective on them - specifically which ones are worth considering for use as both food and healthy systemic supplements rich in fiber, protein, and vitamins C and E.

In fact there are approximately 3300 species of mushrooms in 38,000 varieties to be exact-more than two-dozen kinds of Red Mushroom alone-so it is little wonder that they have been both praised and vilified throughout recorded history.

Historically, the ride for mushrooms has become a series of slides and ladders that makes for a fascinating chronicle all its own. Although the Greek pharmacologist, Dioscordes, the Roman physician Pliny and an infinite number of Asian herbalists have always found varieties of mushrooms useful as therapeutic foods and herbal compounds, common people in the middle ages thought their very sudden and prolific appearance very often acted as warning signs for the presence of demons.

Since mushrooms, being naturally occurring crops that are born of their own spores, tend to spring up everywhere in moist climates, the denizens of the European countryside lived in a constant state of terror. And, in certain countries, anyone caught cooking with them or using them were suspected of being involved in the practice of black magic and were often persecuted and occasionally executed for witchcraft and demonism. (Of course, this would tend to discourage one's inclination to indulge in further culinary exploration or additional medicinal formulations that included mention of these tiny little flavor buds.)

In the last fifty years or so, much due to the passionate imagination of world famous French and Italian chefs and the rapid rise in popularity of Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese cuisine, mushrooms have become the darling of the beau mond and the rage of the international gourmet kitchen.

Today incarnations such as Portobello, porcini, oyster, button and (even) shiitake mushrooms roll trippingly off the tongue of even the average seeker of designer entrees, soups, sauces and salads at local bistros and in trendy restaurants. Among these, only Shiitake mushrooms enjoy a reputation for providing at least some therapeutic benefit. And they are usually too expensive to be embraced as a part of the average daily diet. And though few of the others offer any notable therapeutic reputation, several varieties of commonly consumed mushrooms do offer a reasonable spectrum of nutrients that have helped validate them as an acceptable part of the modern supplement world.

No doubt about it, all good things set aside, mushrooms - though they grow like plants and are often harvested in the same ways - are still a fungus. Some varieties can be factories for Candia albicans in the human system, or what is commonly referred to as "yeast infections," which are quickly identified with genitourinary and reproductive complications among modern women.

Since almost all processed foods are virtual "yeast factories," the bombardment the average American undergoes on any given day in this industrialized society is mind-boggling. And mushrooms of any kind only account for a minuscule portion of it. Nevertheless, although there are other presentations of high Candida foods, many varieties of mushroom should not be eaten in great quantities if you're experiencing respiratory problems such as colds or an outbreak of flu.

On the other hand, some varieties of mushrooms are found to be rich in selenium, antioxidants and synergistic blends of other trace minerals. And a particular family of Asian mushrooms has come to qualify as crossover foods that are actually proving to be good for you in a number of surprising ways. Not surprisingly, many of them are simply too expensive to use as a part of the daily diet and are either purchased as pricey food supplements, over-the-counter herbal formulas or (in some countries) concentrates that are sold by prescription.

Shiitake mushrooms (Lentinus edodes) are the best known among the so-called therapeutic mushrooms and are renown for their purported ability to fight free-radical formation in the human system. Easy to cultivate and harvest in local atmospheres in North America, they are - though expensive - the one "Muscle mushroom" that is both edible and affordable in massive quantities.

Maitake mushrooms. Related to Shiitake mushrooms, the Maitake is slightly less flavorful and contains slightly greater concentrations of antioxidants and synergistic blends of nutrients. It is also smaller, more delicate and more perishable when grown. For that reason, Maitake mushrooms are seldom used as a food outside the Pacific Rim and are more often than not used in herbal compounds, powders and capsules.

Hiratake (Pearl) Oyster Mushrooms. Hiratake mushrooms, commonly (and occasionally incorrectly) referred to as "Oyster" Mushrooms are best known medically for their reputed cardiovascular and cholesterol-controlling benefits. Recent studies have found that dried oyster mushrooms lowered cholesterol and triglyceride levels as well as serum very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) in blood plasma. Of course, there are 20 plus different varieties of "oyster" mushroom, and these Hiratake are more than likely not to be found in your grocery produce shelf. Even if they were, eating them in a cooked form would tend to "soup" the nutrients out of them. It seems, as well, that the Hiratake is at its most potent in a freeze-dried or dehydrated presentation - which, it turns out, is the case with most of the "therapeutic" mushrooms.

Cordyceps. (Cordyceps sinensis) When it comes to assessing healthful qualities and therapeutic value of certain mushrooms the Cordyceps mushroom has recently become the muscle mushroom flavor of the day. A very small club-shaped mushroom that grows apparently as a result of subterranean hibernations of native caterpillars in certain kinds of soil, the Cordyceps is now prized for its purported ability to restore vitality, increase sexual potency, clear the lungs and enhance endurance. To date, no conclusive clinical data has been established to validate these claims, but it has served to give this apparently magical fungus a new surge in both popularity and product development that show great promise for future benefit. And in terms of its broad spectrum of therapeutic and nutritional potential, Cordyceps an be ranked as a reasonably close second only to the venerable Red.

That brings us to the now legendary Red Mushroom - scientific name: Ganoderma Lucidum. Ganoderma Lucidum has been used in soups, broths and in healthy "herbal" brews virtually for thousands of years where it has come to be held in high regard as a kind of "longevity tonic." Known in China as Ling zhi (or "herb of spiritual potency"), the red mushroom has become a regular part of the normal Chinese regimen for such things as longevity, systemic balancing, and high level maintenance of the respiratory system as well as the ultimate tonic for prevention of just about everything that ails the human body.

However, even in various parts of China, Indonesia and Malaysia where they grow so prolifically in the wild, red mushrooms are highly delicate, infamously perishable, and fall easy prey to insects wherever they do grow. Red mushrooms are much better developed if carefully cultivated on environmentally controlled farms and allowed to flourish in ideal circumstances free of insect infestation and the vagaries of rough weather.

Although we've only covered the "A-List" of muscle mushrooms, there are several other varieties that have shown modern to dramatic nutritional and therapeutic potential. And if you'd like to examine them in chart form along with their alluded to beneficial properties, click here.

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Facts and Trends

Facts & Trends

Coffee Facts and Findings: Our "Cups" Runneth Over!

Coffee consumption in America and North America is such a daily ritual that it only strikes your attention when you don't see it taking place.

Lines at the local Starbucks^TM or Coffee Bean^TM on any given weekday morning are often longer than the voting lines in First Tuesdays in November. And if you don't think you and your friends are hooked on it, try getting through a morning without it, and just see just how that would set with everybody.

How many times have you tried to interact with a worker or friend only to be told something like, "Not now! I haven't had my coffee yet."

To say that coffee is a habit bordering on a national obsession would probably not be understating the case. It is certainly a "tradition" in most nations, and is generally thought of as a good one. In truth, coffee has, in the last 200 years, become such a staple in the Western hemisphere that no social event, public gathering, convention or meal for large masses of people are ever held without taking the "coffee factor" into account.

Such observations as the ones just made might be written off as "purely personal," until you start to take some statistics into account. So, perhaps it's time we did.

Coffee's Momentum Train

• Coffee is the number two beverage in the world - second only to water in total volume consumed.
• Coffee is nearly four times as popular as tea, the third most consumed beverage, and five times as popular as soda, which ranks fourth.
• In 2006 alone, the specialty coffee market racked up an estimated $12.2 billion in sales, up from $8.3 billion in 2001. (according to the Specialty Coffee Association of America, a trade group based in Long Beach, CA) Of that total, about $8.5 billion comes from "coffee cafes, or beverage retailers with seating."
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  The number of coffee retailers -- which includes chain and independent stores -- has risen from only 1,650 in 1991 to 23,900 by 2006.
• The annual coffee consumption worldwide in 2003 was estimated to be approximately 400 billion cups. That's over 1.4 billion every single day - with more than 400 million of them consumed in the U.S. alone!
• The large Venti Latte (or extra large latte) at Starbucks^TM now costs about $4 a cup. Some wealth and money mavens such as Finish Rich author David Bach offer a "cappuccino strategy" for start-up investors whereby people can save up to $1200 a year just by not getting their daily morning fix at Starbucks^TM.
• The average American consumes about 10.5 pounds of coffee per year with the average Swede, Dane or Norwegian consuming well over twice that much (nearly 22 pounds per year).

If these facts seem astonishing, they only scratch the surface and do not take into account the momentum that coffee is enjoying even as of this writing. One might argue that it is the blanket of aromas, the taste, the hot nutty-sweet bite of flavor as it teases our tongue or the lush familiar warmth of our kitchen hearth and the bouquet of our mother's cooking. Others might answer that it is that "pick me up" jolt of energizing power that the beverage possesses like none other.

Regardless of the reason, something is driving the masses to consume this beverage in large quantities. Like anything else consumed in more-than-moderate doses, the question of health is bound to arise. So really, is coffee bad for your health? That's a question you've got to answer on your own, but we've got some information that might help you understand that loaded question a little more clearly.

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