Living Well – September 2020 by The AIM Companies

LIVING WELL SEPTEMBER 2020

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Partners for Life Message

Tips to Help You GROW!

Protect Your Headspace

You have to be aware of what you feed your mind on a daily basis. Turning on your TV, computer or other devices connected to the internet can open the floodgates of negativity, which can greatly impact your thoughts and bring you down. The same thing can happen with negative people, so be mindful of who and what you allow into your daily life.

Share Your Vision

It is important to share your vision with those who support you through the good and bad times. With the AIM family, you have ample support from many people that want you to succeed. Share your goals with a mentor, a friend, your upline, your significant other. It’s crucial to have support from people who will help to light up your vision even on the darkest days.

Learn from the Best

In today’s technological age, we have access to unlimited information. There are so many people who have spent their entire lives trying to figure out how to do network marketing the best way in as little time as possible. 2

They have failed for you. In other words, learn from successful leaders who have already made mistakes. Stay connected with your upline and Chrysalis Networx.

Manage Expectations

Be Prepared for Failure

Our culture fosters instant gratification. Overall, the network marketing industry has pushed this quick success ideal without enough emphasis on managing expectations. Accom plishing your goals is a bit like mining for diamonds. It takes time. You have to sift through countless contacts to find the gems that will grow your business. Make it a fun and rewarding process by treating contacts as prospective friends, not potential sales.

Failure teaches you things that you do not learn from success. Any uncomfortable feelings that result can actually help you to grow, so view the experience as an opportunity for selfexamination. Failure is not proof that you cannot do something; it’s a chance to do better. It is very important to struggle and learn from difficult life lessons. So, embrace any failures that may come your way and grow from the experience.

Health Feature

LYCOPENE and Reproductive Health Supplements that support the reproductive health of men are focused more often than not on older males. Then along comes a recent study that determined younger men can benefit from the plant nutrient that gives tomatoes their red color: lycopene, one of the most potent dietary antioxidants.1 The study was undertaken to examÂ ine the possible benefits lycopene may provide for couples dealing with infertility due to poor sperm quality. Fifty-six healthy male volunteers between the ages of 18 and 30 took part in the double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial. The results published in the March 2020 issue of European Journal of Nutrition revealed that supplementing daily with 14 milligrams of lycopene extract for 12 weeks improved the shape and speed of spermâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;factors in male fertility.2

AIM Sources of Supplemental Lycopene

ReAssure SP delivers effective, natural ingredients that support prostate health. The main function of the prostate is to secrete a fluid that provides essential enzymes and ensures sperm motility and function.3 Along with saw palmetto berry

oil, pumpkin seed oil and zinc, each serving of ReAssure provides 5 mg of supplemental lycopene, which helps to support male fertility.

Proancynol 2000 reduces free radical damage and supports the immune system by delivering a diverse variety of antioxidants. One of its seven antioxidant ingredients is lycopene, and each serving of Proancynol 2000 provides 2 mg of this nutrient that supports reproductive health.

Further studies have shown that minerals such as zinc and various antioxidants, including selenium and N-acetyl-cysteine, are beneficial as well,4 making Proancynol 2000 and ReAssure SP reproductively supportive choices for guys. References: 1 bit.ly/Lycopene_RH 2 bit.ly/Lycopene_RH2

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bit.ly/Prostate_Function bit.ly/SupplementRH 3

Health Feature

Aging Well with To support good health, AIM provides a wide variety of plant-based, wholefood powders and dietary supplements, offering many choices that enhance wholesome nutrition. The following AIM assortment fits finely into a plan for aging well.

Whole-Food Powder Concentrates

If there is one secret to aging well, it is the sources of nutrition that you feed your body as the years go by.1 Consuming the right kinds of food adds up to “inner housekeeping” that makes for a healthy body environment. It’s a “nourishing your cells equals a healthy you” situation that is so fittingly incorporated into the AIM Healthy Cell Concept™. Over the past 38 years, AIM has promoted the vital value of eating whole foods from the plant kingdom. Even though you may have heard a lot about the benefits of a plant-based diet, it bears repeating, especially when the Physicians Committee exclaims, “A plant-based diet, rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and le gumes, is a great way to achieve good health!”2

Given that eating at least five servings of fruit and vegetables daily is also a dietary recommendation from the Physicians Committee2, you simply can’t go wrong by taking one or more AIM whole-food powders that deliver concentrated plant-based nutrients.

BarleyLife • BarleyLife Xtra • CoCoa LeafGreens • Just Carrots • LeafGreens • ProPeas • RediBeets Easy to digest and absorb, each concentrate contributes a wealth of plant nutrition to foster healthy cells that are instrumental in doing well at the aging game.

CranVerry +

A cranberry a day … okay, it takes more than one of those scarlet balls of nutrition to make a beneficial difference. Each capsule

September is Healthy Aging Month

AIM Nutrition of CranVerry+ is packed with 500 mg of cranberry extract. This equals a cup of cooked cranberries or almost 10 sizeable servings of cranberry juice. CranVerry + supports your body’s urinary system and bacterial balance as you age.

Frame Essentials

enhance memory.”5 Additionally, maculasupporting lutein and zeaxanthin are two plant nutrients that are essential for aging eyes. With ginkgo’s positive effect on blood circulation, you get improved delivery of all the beneficial nutrients in GinkgoSense where needed the most.

Joint problems do not have to be a part of the aging process when your body begins to produce reduced amounts of the nutrients that keep bone connections in good shape. To support joint health, Frame Essentials supple ments the glucosamine (a building block of cartilage) and methylsulfonylmethane (natural sulfur compound) required for healthy connective tissue and adds antiinflammatory boswellia extract.

Proancynol 2000

GinkgoSense

Age well with the help of supplemental nutrition from AIM!

The botanical in gredient that gives GinkgoSense its name is Ginkgo biloba, which has been shown to improve cognitive function.3, 4 The formulation also in cludes curcumin and ashwagandha, two ingredients historically used in India, “to slow down brain aging and

One of the leading factors in advanced aging is the damage to cells, tissue, organs and DNA caused by unstable molecules known as free radicals. Consuming antioxidant-rich nutrition counteracts their harmful effects. The diversity of antioxidants in Proancynol 2000 delivers supplemental defense against the aging effects of free radical damage.

References: 1

bit.ly/AgingWellAIM

bit.ly/Plant_Based_AIM

bit.ly/CognitiveGBE

bit.ly/GBE_Cognition

bit.ly/Ayurvedic_AIM

Testimonial

AIM-Powered Cycling in the Time of COVID-19 Shared by Darlene and Kees Vandermey, AIM Directors, Elmira, Ontario, Canada

Due to the coronavirus, the cycling club that my husband, Kees, and I belong to canceled every ride planned for 2020, but we were encouraged to stay active and cycle on our own. On average, we cycle two to three times per week, riding on trails close to home. We have also taken the time to stop and smell the roses by taking pictures of the countryside, interesting signs and lots of animals—horses being my favorite. Kees and I have used the AIM products for many years. These days, RediBeets, Peak Endurance and ProPeas are instrumental in helping me with stamina, energy and muscle relaxation on the days that I cycle. As part of the Garden Trio, I take four tea spoons of RediBeets two hours before riding. This amount is critical in helping with cir culation and reducing oxygen uptake, making distance cycling less tiring. Drinking Peak Endurance from my water bottle helps to replace electrolytes and assists with muscle recovery after riding. Adding ProPeas to the nutritional shakes that we both

have at breakfast helps us to build and maintain healthy muscles with vegetable protein. Recently, we packed a lunch and set off to spend a day exploring trails, cycling 51.6 kilometers. We normally average between 30 to 40 km. AIM products played a huge role in the success of that ride. Afterward, we were not exhausted and did not have sore muscles. Thanks, AIM, for products that nourish at the cellular level and praise to God for natural, wholesome nutrition.

Testimonials should not be construed as representing results that everyone can achieve. Contributors who submit a published testimonial in Living Well magazine receive a nutritional gift valued at $8.00 US. 6

AIMing Beyond Industry Standards One of the many reasons you can count on AIM products as high-quality sources of nutrition is the standards that The AIM Companies™ adheres to above and beyond industry expectations. And you don’t have to look very far to find examples of how other companies miss the mark.

The Oily Truth

Even though avocado oil is popular, AIM does not use it in any of its products for a number of reasons. A recent example is that the scientific journal, Food Control, published an alarming study on the poor quality and impurity of avocado oil. The results of the study revealed that 82 percent of the samples tested were either rancid or mixed with other oils. In fact, some samples were not avocado oil at all and actually contained cheaper substitutes such as soybean oil instead of what was printed on the label. Since avocado oil is relatively new in the marketplace, the

Research

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to apply basic food standards that help to protect consumers from poor quality avocado oil or false labeling on products.

The AIM Standard

The oils that AIM uses in AIMega, CellSparc 360, Proancynol 2000 and ReAssure SP are tested to ensure freshness and ingredient identity. To measure the oxidative deterioration of oils, the peroxide value test is utilized before and after product manufacturing. This confirms that none of the oils used in AIM products have oxidized and turned rancid. To guarantee that what you see on product labels is what you get, AIM runs identity testing for each ingredient before manufacturing to ensure there are no adulterations or substitutions. AIM’s testing standards are an essential ingredient in providing the highest quality of nutrition that works.

Product Feature

Maintaining Muscle Mass One of the many effects that time has on the human body is a decline in muscle mass, a natural part of aging that begins after the age of 30. Anywhere from 3 to 5 percent of musculature is lost with each passing decade.

You Don’t Have to Lose

A major health concern for older adults is that a decline in muscle mass increases the risks of falls and broken bones. Age-related muscle loss can be avoided or reversed with resistance training and sufficient nutrition. Whether you use weight-lifting equipment or your own body weight, resistance training makes your muscles work against a force or weight, which increases your strength, endurance and lean muscle mass. Increasing your protein intake gives your body the building blocks of muscle tissue: amino acids. AIM provides supplemental protein with ProPeas. This vegetable source of protein includes the three branched-chain amino acids—leucine, isoleucine and valine—that are essential for avoiding age-related muscle loss. For further muscle-building help, AIM offers Peak Endurance, a dietary supplement containing PEAK ATP®. This oral source of adenosine triphosphate increases lean body mass and muscle thickness. Research published in Nutrition & Metabolism showed that resistance-trained men who took 400 mg of PEAK ATP daily during a 12-week study built twice as much muscle compared to training alone.1 Nevertheless, you don’t have to be an athlete to receive muscular benefits by replenishing your ATP levels with Peak Endurance’s 400 mg per daily serving. Decreased ATP production is an aging factor in muscle loss.2

References: 1 2

bit.ly/ATP_Muscle bit.ly/Aging_ATP

Product Feature

Probiotics, Prebiotics and Sleep The community of gut bacteria in the microbiota continues to be studied extensively due to its vital connection to “many aspects of human health, including immune, metabolic and neurobehavioral traits.”1 It is essential to maintain this community with probiotic food and supplements. Probiotics are good bacteria that add to the population in your body. Research is also showing the positive impact of properly feeding this population of beneficial microorganisms. Their food of preference is prebiotic fiber, which is fermented and feasted upon by good bacteria in the colon. Undertaken by the University of Colorado Boulder, a 2020 study revealed that feeding prebiotic fiber to gut bacteria can help to reduce the effects of stress and promote healthy sleep patterns.2 Stress management and sufficient sleep are key factors in staying healthy, and now science is proving that well-fed, gut bacteria play a role in helping you to cope with stress and enjoy restorative sleep.

AIM Probiotics and Prebiotics

It’s a safe assumption that if you are sleeping well without a care in the world, you are managing stress well. However, we live in particularly stressful times and need all the help we can get to stay balanced. And that includes maintaining equilibrium in your microbiota. AIM offers a pair of products that provide probiotics and prebiotics to support bacterial balance. By taking FloraFood probiotics, your good bacteria are repopulated with 3 billion live cells per capsule, providing three separate strains: Lactobacillus gasseri, Bifidobacterium bifidum and Bifidobacterium longum. To feed your population of good bacteria, the fiber sources in Fit ’n Fiber include acacia, guar gum and konjac, which provide 8 grams of prebiotic fiber per 10-gram serving. FloraFood and Fit ’n Fiber make an ideal twosome that support you in good or stressful times and help to take good care of your inner sleeping aids. References: 1 bit.ly/MicrobiotaHealth 2 bit.ly/PrebioticSleep

Health Feature

You and Your Cytokines

The immune system is the best defense against infection that a body could ever have. It responds to anything foreign that does not belong. Imagine a tiny splinter of wood entering your finger. Your immune system immediately responds to this painful invasion by creating warmth, redness and swelling around the wound. This is just one example of how the body creates inflammation to heal. Cytokines play a major role in this inflammatory response.

The Cytokine Link

Tiny protein molecules called cytokines are considered to be the messengers of the immune system, alerting the cells around them to unclear but present dangers. Cytokines are of many kinds, including leukocytes (white blood cells) that battle foreign invaders, lymphokines that enable communication between cells and interleukins that regulate the immune response. In a nutshell, cytokines are the controllers that oversee the immune and inflammatory response to anything that does not belong in the body. 10

Balancing Inflammation

Like everything else in life, cytokines require balance given their role in inflammation, which is believed to be at the core of most health issues. Chronic inflammation is terribly detrimental to the body. You may have even heard something about a cytokine storm, which is essentially an overproduction of proinflammatory cytokines that puts the body in a constant state of inflammation. Instead of going after body invaders, the immune system ends up attacking the body.

Immune Support

Lifestyle choices can affect the state of your cytokines and immune system. The AIM Healthy Cell Conceptâ&#x201E;˘ offers five avenues to make healthy choices that work for your defense system and its messengers, not against them. Supporting your immune system keeps you strong and healthy. Reference: bit.ly/CStorm

Celebration/Contest

How YOU Doin’? With three months into the GROW Cash Contest, it’s a good time to see where you stand in the competition and to plan your growth strategy from now until December 31, 2020—the last day of the contest. With $64,500 in cash prizes up for grabs by the top 60 entrants, you could win anywhere from $500 to the grand prize of $5,000 USD. The more you grow your AIM business, the more money you could be awarded in the New Year. That's just in time to make even more plans for the 2021 AIM GROW Celebration from June 3–6 at the splendid Chateau on the Lake Resort Spa & Convention Center in Branson, Missouri.

The Results Keep Coming In!

Periodically, AIM has sent out emails that show current standings in the contest, so check your inbox for the latest updates. You can also log in to your AIM membership to see your total contest points so far. Focusing on any or all of the four Member and business growth contest activities will increase your points substantially between now and December 31. That means there’s still a lot of time to GROW Cash!

Testimonial

Haven’t Got Time for the Pain My AIM journey started in the middle of February 2020, and it has been wonderful. I became a Member because I was very sick with a weak immune system. Knowing that well-formulated supplements are important for the body, I did my research before trying AIM. After taking Herbal Fiberblend and Composure for two weeks, I saw a huge improvement in my pain. I could finally sleep a good eight hours without waking up with pain and nausea. People in my sphere of influence knew how ill I had been, so it was not hard to get them to try AIM products. And being a nurturing mother, my hubby, children and grandchildren also benefit from nutrition that works. I was very surprised to receive a commission cheque in my first month by becoming a Preferred Member. That lit the fire for my business partnership with AIM. Every day my goal is to talk to one person about AIM. The excellent support and quick delivery make it even easier. The immediate feedback for my daily questions and advice from my amazing upline added to my successful start-up. Being a part of the Chrysalis Networx platform has been extremely helpful along with the WhatsApp group. The information and support is so valuable, and the people are inspirational, embracing me as part of the AIM Family. Thank you to The AIM Companies™, AIM Director Marna Dedekind—my sponsor—and her upline, as well as the other Chrysalis leaders for help in changing my life. The Lord heard my cry and sent this health and wealth opportunity along my path. Esme Pretorious, AIM Preferred Member Klerksdorp, South Africa Testimonials should not be construed as representing results that everyone can achieve.

Contributors who submit a published testimonial in Living Well magazine receive a nutritional gift valued at $8.00 US.

Business

The Grass is Always Greener on the AIM Member Side of the Street

The things that people consider to be important depend on the individual. But there is a deal breaker no matter who you are. And it harkens back to one of those quotable quotes from Virgil, the Roman poet who posited “The greatest wealth is health.” You can have all the material wealth in the world, but nothing is more important than good health when you are “knocking on heaven’s door” (to quote the modern poet, Bob Dylan). Good health is something that countless people have found on the AIM Member side of the street, where the barley grass is greener and healthier than pretty much everything else in the supplemental world outside of The AIM Companies™.

Health and Free Enterprise

By delivering wholesome, high-quality nutritional products since 1982, AIM’s partnership with Mem bers has been a mis sion to improve peo ple’s lives through health and free enterprise.

As an AIM Member, you have the opportunity to benefit by taking nutrition that works to keep you in good health and to have an independent distributorship of your own, allowing you to earn supplemental income by sharing AIM products with other people. When you join AIM and begin to build a home-based business, it is the time and effort you put into this endeavor that is proportional to the extent of benefits, including new friends, unique experiences and prospective income. Helping people to improve their health is usually the greatest reward of all. If you are think ing about mov ing to the AIM Member side of the street, it’s a fine time to make that move.

News / Member Meetings

pH Test Kits Available

Place Your Qualifying Orders

AIM recommends checking your personal and group volumes for regular commission qualification and potential bonuses. Login to your AIM account online at www.the aimcompanies.com or call us at 1-800-4562462. The call center is open Wednesday, September 30 until 5:00 p.m. MT (7:00 p.m. Eastern) to take your orders. Orders placed online through Wednesday, September 30 at 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time will count for September business.

Are you alkaline or acidic? The pH of blood is normally around 7.4, which is slightly alkaline, and you want to help maintain an alkaline body pH. Support your body with natural, alkaline foods such as BarleyLife. Monitor your pH levels with a pH Test Kit from AIM and see the difference! A pH Test Kit with 100 strips is available for only $12.50 (US 5488E/ CAN 4656E).

Holiday Closures 17th Annual Ohio AIM Member Meeting*

AIM USA and AIM Canada offices and warehouses will be closed Monday, September 7, for Labor Day.

When: Friday, October 30, 2020 5:00 pm Registration 6:15 – 9:00 pm General Session

Saturday, October 31, 2020 8:00 am Registration 8:30 – 3:00 pm General Session Lunch at Amish Door Restaurant

Where: Amish Door Banquet Center 1210 Winesburg Street Wilmot, Ohio 44689 Lodging: The Inn at Amish Door Tel: 330- 359-7996 Self-register at hotel by 9/12/20 Group rate reservation: #271312 LIMITED ROOMS AVAILABLE Reserve your room NOW! Meeting Questions: Nathan and Joy Thompson, 614-209-6324

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Indiana 11th Annual AIM Member Conference* When: Nov. 6-7, 2020 Where: Blue Gate Garden Inn, 800 S. Van Buren St., Shipshewana, Indiana. Phone: 260-768-4725. Pre-register for Saturday lunch by November 2. Organizers: Perry and Marilyn Lehman, AIM Blue Diamond Directors, 574-536-5365

*Due to Covid-19 and these uncertain times, please use this recorded line for OHIO AND INDIANA meeting updates. CALL TO CHECK FOR CHANGES BEFORE YOU COME! 888-332-9498

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There’s a New Garlic in Town! GarlicAIM™ delivers a unique combination of 3 types of garlic: 1) Alpine Wild Garlic (leaf) 2) Fermented Black Garlic 3) Garlic Extract (bulb)

(bulb)

The high concentrations of allicin, gamma-glutamyl peptides and adenosine from these three garlics greatly contribute to the maintenance of cardiovascular and immune health and provide antioxidant properties. GarlicAIM is currently available in the USA and Australia.