History of
Company
Started in
April of 1997, American Longevity now Youngevity is the ONLY
nutritional company owned and operated by Dr. Joel Wallach providing
the products that he personally uses and recommends.
November 2,
2000, Youngevity formerly American Longevity expands to new
building.
Youngevity has the support network,
infrastructure, state of the art computer system, and inventory
necessary to sustain continued growth. In the first 18 months,
Youngevity added 50,000 distributors! By the end of 1999, Youngevity
acquired more than 80,000 distributors. By the end of 2000,
Youngevity has over 100,000 distributors. Youngevity is on the
cutting edge of a new frontier of merging with companies with
outstanding products and business ethics.
In addition to their
physical health, Joel Wallach understands that there are many people
in America who could improve their financial health. He founded
American Longevity, the ONLY nutritional company owned and operated
by Joel Wallach in the U.S. and now, Canada, Guam, Puerto Rico, New Zealand, and
Australia, not only to provide
people with the best nutritional products in the world, but to
provide a solid financial opportunity to those with the burning
desire to achieve more in life.
What
Makes Youngevity Different?
What makes Youngevity
different from ALL other companies? Joel Wallach’s passion for the
benefits of good nutrition! That’s easy to say, but how can we back
that up?
Joel Wallach has been involved in Bio-medical
research and treating animals and people for more than 40years. Joel
Wallach and Youngevity have filed several Health Claim petitions
with the FDA and obtained two Qualified Health Claims. This is an
important fact since no other Network Marketing company has obtained
even one Health Claim. There are only a handful of Authorized Health
Claims, which have been
fully vetted by the FDA
process.
This vision and passion begins with Joel
Wallach’s career path. He chose to become a Veterinarian and he
began doing research with animals early on in his career. He even
worked with Mutual of Omaha’s Marlin Perkins. Being trained as both
a Pathologist and an Exotic Animal Vet, afforded him many research
opportunities. He even made the monumental discovery of the First
case of Cystic Fibrosis in a non-human while doing research at the
Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta, Ga., in the fall of 1977. This set
Joel Wallach’s path in search of more research for the Trace Mineral
Selenium.
Joel Wallach began working on an extraordinary
book which took more than 20 years to complete. This book wound up
consisting of more than 1200 pages! “Diseases of Exotic Animals” was
a huge project that represents Dr. Wallach’s passion and vision. I
remember growing up as a small child and young boy, as we
moved
from Zoo to Zoo, and house to house, I would have to tip toe around
the house, being careful not to knock over any of the piles of
paperwork. This book was a huge project, just think back to the 60s
and 70s, there were no commercially available computers! He had to
type this thing by hand, and he can’t type! He
types with two
fingers! Just think, if you were going to work on such a big project
that would take more than20 years to complete! Could you stay
focused for that long? That takes Passion and
dedication!
Well Youngevity is just an extension of that
Passion and Vision. The Health Claim Petition process is just an
extension of that Vision and Passion as well!
What’s
involved in the Health Claim Petition Process and is it really a big
deal? Well let’s take a look. How many here have ever heard of Folic
Acid? Have you ever heard a PSA (Public Service Announcement) for
Folic Acid? You know, the March of Dimes now runs TV announcements
as to the importance of Folic Acid and that women of child bearing
age should be consuming Folic Acid to reduce their risks of having a
child with a Neural Tube Birth Defect. Well those claims had to be
litigated! Yes, that’s right, the FDA did not want these claims to
be freely disseminated! The FDA had to be SUED, and the courts
agreed that this information should be allowed to be given to the
public. Since these claims were allowed by the courts,
these
Birth Defects have declined by 50-70% in the US and parts of Canada!
Just think of the many thousands of children born healthy that would
not have been with out the dissemination of this information! Now
many industrialized nations are disseminating this information. We
believe that the public is better off by
getting more information
to better come to an educated decision regarding their own health.
The FDA believes the public’s access to health information should be
limited to what The FDA allows, which is quite
imited.
Why?
Well
the question to us is, why don’t other companies do this? There are
several answers I have been given,from it’s too expensive or “they
don’t want to rock the boat”. But is this information important? You
BET it is! Remember all those kids and families that are better off
because of simply getting Folic Acid information?
Joel
Wallach and Youngevity spent a ton of money to get the Omega-3
Essential Fatty Acid Claims authorized. Kraft Foods, a 30 Billion
Dollar a year global company, submitted a letter to the FDA stating
that an EFA claim would be a good thing. I don’t know how much that
letter cost, but I’m sure Joel Wallach and Youngevity spent much
more even though Kraft Foods is a MUCH larger company. Even the OMB
(Office of Management and Budget) from the White House was urging
the FDA to amend the Dietary Guidelines and to get the information
out about the importance of Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids, yet it
took the Youngevity Petition to get the claim
approved!
Well there are 100s of beneficial nutrients and
many of them have multiple beneficial effects for the human body,
that means there are many more of these claims that must be
filed.
The Claims we have gotten authorized so far have
to do with reducing the risk of certain Cancers by consuming the
Trace Mineral Selenium and reducing the risks of CHD or
Cardiovascular Heart Disease by consuming EPA and DHA which are
Essential Fatty Acids primarily found in Fish Oils. CHD is this
country’s leading cause of Death! More than 500,000 Americans Die
each year from it. Just think if we could reduce
the occurrence
of these deaths by 50-70% simply by educating the public! Durk
Pearson, an MIT, PHD. Says that we may be able to reduce the risk of
CHD by as much as 80% just with the proper Fish Oils and getting
this information out to the Public. Now that we have achieved this
Health Claim Petition for Omega-3
Essential Fatty acids and
reducing the risks of CHD, Europe may adopt this claim as well. What
if we onlysaved a small percentage of these Lives each year? Would
it be worth it? OF COURSE! We now have more Claims under
consideration as well and there will be more!
Joel
Wallach and Youngevity have not only Sued the FDA, they have
defended the FDA and the Health Claim Petition Process as well. The
FDA was sued by a group, the CSPI which was claiming that the Health
Claim Petition Process violated the FDA guidelines. Youngevity and
Joel Wallach wanted to help ensure this information continued to be
available to the public, so they asked the court to be
codefendants
with the FDA. By doing this, they could help to
protect the Health Claim Petition Process. Ultimately The FDA,
Youngevity, Joel Wallach and others were successful in defending The
Health Claim Petition Process, but we all know that we will have to
be diligent in always defending this process. We know there will
always be groups that want to limit your access to these nutrients
and this information.
When people think Joel Wallach or
Youngevity are in the Nutrition Business to only make money, I have
to disagree! It is to get this information to the public so they may
use it to make a better-informed decision regarding their own
health. As long as there are those that would want to limit your
access to these nutrients and this information, we will be there to
defend your rights to have access to them!
By the way,
that 1200 page book, “Diseases of Exotic Animals”, is now
recommended by the Smithsonian Institute for all Zoological Gardens
and Aquariums! In 2003, the FDA authorized a First Ever Health Claim
or Selenium, submitted by Dr. Wallach and Youngevity for the Trace
Minerals anti-carcinogenic effects in the
body!
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