Living Well – July 2020

LIVING WELL JULY 2020

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Two Million Dollar Club

A Servant’s Heart As a little girl growing up in Louisiana’s deep south, Charlotte Thompson learned one of life’s most valuable lessons: helping others gives you immeasurable wealth.

Charlotte and her brother were raised by their mother, a single parent who had been forced out of the workplace to look after her invalid father. Having to live on welfare sparked an entrepreneurial mindset in the siblings, who did a variety of odd jobs to bring in extra money.

“Most importantly, I grew up in a home that cared for people,” Charlotte explained, “I helped my mother to take care of my loving grandfather, who had become like a father figure to me.”

Fast forward to present day, Charlotte and her husband, Keith, live on a farm in an Amish community, where helping out people in need is a way of life. When they moved to Ohio in 1971, they were immediately accepted into this caring society.

In April 1997, Charlotte was introduced to AIM’s barley grass powder by her brother, David Rawls, AIM Star Sapphire Director. “Keith and I were headed down a bad road of disarray for our health,” Charlotte stated. “This ‘green stuff’ reversed that direction, so we will be forever grateful to God for The AIM Companies™.”

Charlotte’s passion for the barley grass powder and its benefits was irresistible, and soon her Amish neighbors were placing orders.

Going to her first meeting only increased Charlotte’s enthusiasm for the AIM products and the company that provided them. “I felt electricity in the room,” she exclaimed. “AIM was all about helping people.” Having a servant’s heart and genuinely caring about others is how Charlotte grew her business.

Working hard to share AIM’s health and income benefits with others has led Charlotte and Keith to a number of honorable milestones along the way, including becoming AIM Chairman’s Club Directors in 2011 and reaching the 2 Million Dollar Club in 2020.

“The Million Dollar Club doesn’t mean that AIM hands you a check for a million dollars,” Charlotte emphasized. “It means AIM business builders reach those total earnings over long periods of time, in our case, 23 years. Besides, I genuinely believe that success is not defined by the money you make but by the lives you change.”

The AIM Family congratulates Keith and Charlotte Thompson on changing so many lives for the better.

Testimonials should not be construed as representing results that everyone can achieve.

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Testimonials

Benefits from GinkgoSense and AIMega I wanted to share how excited I am to see that the new GinkgoSense contains ashwagandha, as this is a huge stress fighter. And the curcumin helps with inflammation.

By taking this reformulation, I noticed that I no longer have morning brain fog anymore. I feel calmer, and this helps me to explain things better to our five girls. I sleep like a baby as well.

GinkgoSense is a very good product that I would encourage anyone to try.

AIM also has a product that is good for minds of all ages. My seven-year-old was doing her homework and said, "Mom, my thinker doesn't work today." I asked her, "Did you take your AIMega?" She replied, "Oh! Ahh, no, mom." An hour after taking AIMega, she was doing her homework and not complaining.

Thank you to AIM for making such high-quality products. We are so happy to share our testimonials.

Anna Borntrager, AIM Star Sapphire Director Arpin, Wisconsin

BarleyLife Lambs In January 2020, a fantastic event took place here at Alpenblick Farm.

Two of our lambs had very weak joints. One of them could not stand up by itself. After speaking with the vet, I decided to take this little lamb inside so that I could watch over it. I fed it often and gave it antibiotics but remained puzzled by its continued weakness. Thinking about vitamins and extra food is when BarleyLife came to mind. With nothing to lose, I used a syringe filled with barley grass juice to feed both lambs. After the second BarleyLife feeding, I could see a difference.

Given that both animals reacted so positively and quickly to BarleyLife, I continued the feedings for a few weeks. The lambs are well now.

Petra Stevenson, AIM Director Ashton, Ontario Testimonials should not be construed as representing results that everyone can achieve.

Contributors who submit a published testimonial in AIM’s Living Well magazine receive a nutritional gift valued at $8.00 US. 3

Testimonial

Exercise Recovery in a Shake!

Shared by Eric Vollmers, AIM Preferred Member in Chicago, Illinois In February 2002, I was introduced to BarleyLife, Herbal Fiberblend and the rest of the AIM products by an acquaintance. I have my staples, such as the Garden Trio, ProPeas, Peak Endurance and GinkgoSense, and rotate most of the rest. I loved them from the very beginning and wouldn't do without them.

It was around 2002 that my passion for running developed into a full-blown obsession. I ran 5k and 10k distances, half marathons and 3 marathons during the following 5 to 10 years. The AIM products helped me to run stronger and longer and to recover faster from my races.

In recent years, I have stepped back from doing those long runs to shorter ones early in the morning. Afterward, I make a special AIM drink that really rejuvenates me for the rest of the day and gives me lots of energy. And the taste is outstanding. I share the recipe with anyone who asks, and I would like to share it here.

Exercise Recovery Shake The ingredients I use are: • Unsweetened vanilla almond milk • Strawberries • ProPeas • Banana • RediBeets • Peak Endurance I mix them all in a blender for about 40 seconds to make a great drink.

By the way, I also make beverages using only Peak Endurance and drink them two to three times a week as snacks between meals.

I really like the energy I get from the ATP. 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. 4

Health Feature

4 Plant-Based Benefits

Immune System Support

Plants naturally produce a wealth of essential nutrients that are not present in other foods. The antioxidants, phytonutrients, vitamins and minerals in plants are vital for keeping your cells healthy, your body in balance and your immune system functioning optimally. A primarily plant-based diet maintains a strong immune system.

High-Fiber Intake

Making up the natural structure of fruit and vegetables, fiber becomes an undigested nutrient that your body uses to clean intestinal walls, remove body waste and maintain gut health, which supports your immune system. Regulating sugar usage by the body, fiber helps you to keep both your blood glucose and hunger under control.

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Weight Management

Eating a mostly plant-based diet eliminates most of the foods that make you gain weight. Excess body weight is a major factor in both chronic inflammation and hormonal imbalance.

Being overweight or obese increases your risk of having serious health problems.

Plant-based foods and regular exercise are a perfect combination for successful weight loss and maintaining your ideal weight.

Inflammation Control

The plant antioxidants and phytonutrients that support your immune system also help with chronic inflammation. Over time, inflammation can lead to tissue death and the scarring and thickening of the body’s connective tissue. A steady diet of plant-based foods helps you to maintain your well-being and avoid an inflammatory state of health.

One of the healthiest lifestyle choices you can make is a mainly plant-based diet. The AIM products go hand in hand with this choice, providing a selection of whole-food powders, fiber and other plant-based supplements.

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New Product

Introducing

GarlicAIM™

It’s always a super exciting time when AIM creates a new natural health product for Members. And that time has come with the introduction of GarlicAIM, which will replace Bear Paw Garlic.

GarlicAIM provides a unique com­ bination of garlic bulb extract, fermented black garlic bulb and alpine wild garlic leaf. There is nothing else like GarlicAIM in the world of supplements.

Garlic Past

Humankind has enjoyed the health benefits of garlic for thousands of years.

In ancient times, this herb was revered for its medicinal properties in countries such as China, India, Egypt and Greece.

Hippocrates prescribed garlic as a remedy for various health issues. This would have been good advice coming from the man who came to be known as the father of medicine. In fact, during Hippocrates’ time, garlic was considered to be an irreplaceable nutritional supplement.1

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GarlicAIM Present

The launch of GarlicAIM adds an irreplaceable nutritional supplement to the AIM lineup. The high concentrations of allicin, gamma-glutamyl peptides and adenosine from its three garlic ingredients greatly contribute to the maintenance of cardiovascular health.

Alpine Wild Garlic: Allium ursinum

Of course, Members will be quite familiar with one of the three ingredients—the alpine wild garlic leaf that made Bear Paw Garlic such an effective dietary supplement. GarlicAIM delivers 492 mg of this wild ingredient in the recommended serving: three capsules a day.

Fermented Black Garlic: Allium sativum

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The benefits of food fermentation are no­ ta­­bly focused on bene­ficial probiotics:

Alpine Wild Garlic good gut bacteria that sup­port overall health. It just so happens that when garlic bulb is fermented, it not only produces a source of probiotics, the antioxidant levels increase.

one of the most beneficial compounds in garlic. The garlic bulb extract in GarlicAIM is standardized to 1% allicin.

Allicin

Garlic Bulb Extract: Allium sativum

When you chew on garlic or when the cloves are chopped or crushed, the interaction between the amino acid alliin and the enzyme alliinase produces allicin,

GarlicAIM delivers 3 sources of garlic that help: Maintain cardiovascular health Maintain immune health Provide antioxidant properties

Garlic Bulb Extract

Allicin

Garlic’s pun­gent scent comes from allicin. Known particularly for its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities, allicin is easily metabolized by the body, breaking down into fat-soluble, organosulfur compounds.

GarlicAIM provides 5.1 mg of this beneficial compound per serving.

GarlicAIM COMING SOON TO THE USA AND AUSTRALIA.

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The AIM Pop-Up Kit Is Now Available Are you planning to participate in or hold an event that promotes the health benefits of AIM products? Members can now rent a kit that provides professional support for their AIM occasions.

The AIM Pop-Up Kit will be shipped to you in time for your event. And here’s what you can expect to find inside the shipping box:

Banners Easy-to-set-up banners add a professional look and communication tool to your event.

The Pop-Up Kit banners feature 3 topics: ❶ Your Journey Starts Here ❷ Digestive Health ❸ Whole-Body Health 8

Flash Drive PowerPoint To tie in with 2 of the banners, a Whole-Body and Digestive Health PowerPoint presentation is included in the kit on a flash drive that can easily be played as a loop on a monitor of your choice.

8-Foot-Long Tablecloth Having an attractive tablecloth adds another professional touch to your display area. Of course, you can easily fold the material to fit the tablecloth on a smaller table.

The 3 banners, flash drive and tablecloth need to be returned to AIM following your event.

Business Opportunity / AIM Member Pop-Up Kit

The remaining contents of the kit are yours to keep.

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20 Price List Order Forms

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20 Living Well Magazines (Current Issue)

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20 Fresh Focus (2020 Edition)

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20 Product Catalogs (2020 Edition)

US New Member Kit that includes: ❶ Fresh Focus 2020 Edition ❷ 2020 Product Catalog ❸ Welcome Letter with coupon code ❹ AMR Information Sheet ❺ Business Opportunity Flyer ❻ How to Use the AIM Products Guide ❼ Price List Order Form ❽ Member Agreement Everything in the kit is easy to pop up for your event to quickly provide you with effective tools that help you communicate your message.

Once the show is over, it’s easy to return the banners, flash drive and tablecloth in the same To rent the container you received them in, by simply Pop-Up Kit calling AIM toll-free. Arrangements will be for your event, made to have the container picked up at contact AIM at your address. Overall, it’s pop-in, pop-up 1-800-456-2462 and pop-out event support for the benefit of business-building AIM Members.

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Testimonials

Care to

Comment

The AIM Companies™ Facebook page is the perfect place to verbalize how you feel about the AIM products you take and enjoy. Regular postings are open invitations to people worldwide for sharing their thoughts.

AIM is pleased to share a selection of heartfelt comments.

About AIM Products . . .

AIM products are a beautiful way to ensure that we are getting increased amounts of vegetable nutrients in our bodies. And they’re great-tasting!

Lizabeth McDougall I’ve used AIM products for a year and love how I feel. I started to sell them to spread that feeling around to others.

Lora Wishart

About BarleyLife . . .

It’s so green and full of life! I love my BarleyLife!

Tina Wilkerson My daily food . . . easy to mix and drink.

Helga Coetzee Love my BarleyLife. I take 1 teaspoon first thing in the morning to start my day.

Waseela Kolia Such awesome, fresh greens!

Janine Leigh Durrant

♥♥♥♥♥ About CellSparc 360 . . .

In just two to three days, CellSparc 360 always takes away any tooth or gum area soreness I have. My dad, Arnie, was a fan of its effectiveness too. Thank you, AIM. Libby Espeseth

Iryna Lampika

About RediBeets and Peak Endurance . . .

Love RediBeets with Peak Endurance.

Similar to taking Red Rush, but I like it much better!

Ruth Yoder

Testimonials should not be construed as representing results that everyone can achieve.

Contributors who submit a published testimonial in AIM’s Living Well magazine receive a nutritional gift valued at $8.00 US. 10

AIM Grow Cash Contest

It’s Time to Grow CASH! AIM Members with home-based businesses can always use an infusion of inspirational cash. That’s why AIM focused on “green” prizes in this year’s North American contest that leads to the 2021 AIM Celebration in Branson, Missouri, from June 3-6, 2021.

Due to the unforeseeable cir­cum­ stances that unfolded earlier in the year, Members willingly accepted AIM’s decision to cancel June’s 2020 Celebration in Branson to ensure the safety of the AIM Family.

Now is the time to AIM for the future: 2021. And the contest that will help Members get to the Celebration in Branson is cash-driven this year because AIM is honoring Celebration Packages earned by Members in last year’s contest.

With four ways to earn contest points and $64,500 in cash prizes to be divvied out among 60 Members with the highest point totals, this year’s contest is nothing less than a businessbuilding extravaganza of inspiration to AIM independent distributors.

One of the key aspects of this year’s contest is the available wealth of points for Director promotions. In the film business, directors are at the helm of making a movie. In the Income Plan, AIM Directors also reach the level of making it all happen. Those who promote to Director title and those who sponsor a first-line Director are positioned for a whole lot of point earnings. And the earlier in the contest the better!

The Grow Cash Contest started on June 1, so make your best moves to “Grow Cash” by earning contest points through December 31, 2020. Refer to the contest flyer for complete details at AIM’s website or call 1-800-456-2462 to request a contest flyer.

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Testimonial

AIM Support Through Good and Bad Times My husband, Pierre, and I fondly celebrate our 27 years of marriage along with AIM being a vital part of our foundation on a daily basis.

We are a family of six people, seven cats and four dogs, and all are benefiting from AIM nutrition. Our days start and end with the AIM products. And we take a wide variety, including the Garden Trio, Fit ’n Fiber, AIMega and ProPeas.

Writing this in April 2020, we are so unsure of what is happening in this world as a result of the spread of the coronavirus.

Pierre has gone for chemo twice during this time of lockdown. He has mantel cell lymphoma, which is a type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. One thing keeping him strong is the AIM products that feed his body with nutrition and give him a fighting chance.

We focus on all that is good, and that includes the AIM products. More than that, for me as a caregiver, being part of the AIM business and the AIM Family encourages and supports me in so many ways. I love being connected to something that impacts people’s lives in positive ways.

Ilze van Pletzen, AIM Director, Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa

Testimonials should not be construed as representing results that everyone can achieve.

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

Do YOU have what it takes?

Members to shine online!

AIM wants to hear from you if you are one or more of the following:

❑ fitness-oriented ❑ a dedicated volunteer ❑ active in your community ❑ keenly involved in sports or athletics ❑ enthusiastically participating in an inspirational activity that needs to be shared

Please send AIM your bio­graphical background along with photographs. If you have what it takes, you’ll be featured on the AIM website and receive some FREE products that have helped to make your story a reality. Email AIMOnline@aimintl.com or mail to: The AIM Companies, 3923 E. Flamingo, Nampa, ID 83687 12

Peak Endurance The Energizer

Cellular energy is created, utilized and regenerated through an energy-carrying molecule: adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Peak Endurance contains an oral source of ATP in a blueberry-açai flavored drink that delivers liquid energy.

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Adults of all ages can boost their energy levels by drinking Peak Endurance, from sedentary seniors to active fitness buffs.

Along with boosting ATP levels in the body, Peak Endurance provides vitamin C, six B vitamins (B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12) and six electrolytes (sodium, potassium, calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, chloride) for a well-balanced energy drink.

A 2017 study showed that recreational resistance-trained males increased their energy expenditure when doing weighted half-squats by taking 400 mg of ATP: the amount you get in two servings of Peak Endurance. bit.ly/400mgATP

Up to 5.5 gallons of Peak Endurance can be made from a single 300-gram canister.

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News / Member Meeting

Remember to Place Your Commission Qualifying Orders

For July, the cut­ off date for placing month-end commission qualifying or­ders received via phone, fax or mail is 5:00 p.m.

MT on Friday, July 31. Online orders count until 11:59 p.m. on Friday, July 31.

Holiday Closures

AIM USA will be closed on Friday, July 3 in honor of Independence Day. AIM Canada Vancouver office and Calgary warehouse will close on Wednesday, July 1 for Canada Day.

AIM CORPORATE TRAINING

Watch or listen when it fits your schedule!

Corporate training will be available on Thursday, July 16 and remain online and available to listen to via Information Express through August 31.

17th Annual Ohio AIM Member Meeting Where: Amish Door Banquet Center 1210 Winesburg Street Wilmot, Ohio 44689 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

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 14

To participate: • Visit www.youtube.com/user/aim­ users and click on the Clear 2020 Vision AIM Corporate Training image.

• Dial 1-800-456-2462, press option 2.

At the Information Express Menu enter your Member ID Number followed by the # sign, then enter your Pin Number followed by the # sign and listen in.

Agenda: Corporate Update – Dennis Itami, AIM President and CEO Keep Your Eyes on the Site! – Eric Henscheid, AIM Information Services Manager Keeping Watch on Testimonial and Regulatory Guidelines – Andrew Smith, AIM Call Center Manager View What’s New – Phillip Jermann, AIM Quality Assurance Manager What’s a Pop-Up Kit? – Frank Burke, AIM Member Services Manager Focus on Your Future – Nick van Rensburg, AIM Consultant

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AIM Corporate Online Training Thursday, July 16, 2020

Visit www.youtube.com/user/aimusers between July 16 and August 31 to view.