Living Nourished Lives

Even if you aren’t to the point of chronic joint pain, thinning hair, weak bones, or increasing wrinkles in your skin, Shaklee’s newest product can help keep these things at bay, preventatively. The Shaklee Basics are the core of Shaklee’s legacy of providing pure, quality nutrients to allow your body to build healthy cells, which with time and consistency, allows your body to build a healthy you. So, Shaklee’s VitaLea, Protein, Alfalfa, Probiotics, and Omegas provide much needed raw materials in a world where food is lacking nutrients since food today is typically produced more for appearance and taste than for actual nutrition. Shaklee shines in providing toxin free nutritional support.

However, Shaklee just released a new product, Liquid BioCell Life+, that has built upon and added more ingredients to the key ingredients that have a track record of providing many people with much needed relief to joint pain. In Canada where the laws are different than in the United States, the core key ingredients in this new product allow it to be promoted as a treatment for arthritis. However, a relief to joint pain is not the only benefit that could be expected with Shaklee’s Life+. Life+ combines the original award-winning Collagen/HA Matrix from the Liquid BioCell products sold by Modere before Shaklee bought Modere, and it actually upgrades it with further Shaklee science, so that Shaklee’s Liquid BioCell Life+ is now additionally powered by a patent-pending TriPlex Technology and a combination of key targeted bioactives. The end result is that Shaklee’s Life+ is designed to support the full lifecycle of Collagen. What exactly are the components of the full lifecycle of Collagen that Life+ supports? Well, basically, it is designed to: Protect, Stimulate, and Build Collagen in your body.

So, let’s take a look at these 3 components of the full lifecycle of Collagen that Life+ supports. First, as for Protection, Life+ helps to protect Collagen from breaking down and shields new Collagen from oxidative stress. Second, as for Stimulation, Life+ Stimulates and signals your body’s natural renewal process for Collagen. Third, as for Building, Life+ builds the environment where Collagen forms so that a more youthful Collagen can be produced. This three dimensional support from the bioactive ingredients in Life+ are combined to help support: healthy joints (cartilage integrity, connective tissue health, joint mobility) hair, skin (wrinkle reduction), nails, as well as bone density. This may sound like something that older adults would need. And while this is true, they do, it doesn’t mean that younger adults can’t benefit. Collagen naturally declines with age. In fact, by your mid twenty’s, collagen production begins to decline by 1% each year. This natural loss can be accelerated by environmental stress, oxidative stress, inflammation from daily activities, and hormonal changes. So, over time, production slows down, at the same time, breakdown of existing collagen increases, and on top of that, the structural support for collagen weakens too.

Many may have heard of collagen, but what exactly is Collagen and why is it so important? Well let me tell you, Collagen is the most abundant protein in your body. Collagen supports skin firmness and elasticity, supports joint cartilage, supports tendons and ligaments, supports bone framework, and supports connective tissue. When Collagen weakens, your skin loses firmness, your hair and nails weaken, your joints feel stiff, your recovery slows down. Essentially, Collagen shapes how you look, feel, and move and as your Collagen life declines, you experience structural aging. The precision targeted bioactives and antioxidants in Life+ help inhibit not only the breakdown of Collagen but also inhibit the breakdown of hyaluronic acid, protecting existing Collagen from oxidative stress, supporting stronger and more youthful Collagen as well improved bone density. Therefore, Life+ can be used in addition to Shaklee’s Collagen 9. Collagen 9 provides raw materials for Collagen production. There are 8 essential amino acids from which the body can produce Collagen, but the body’s ability to put those raw materials to optimal use, especially as your body ages, is the superpower of Life+. I must add that Shaklee’s Collagen 9 has an additional benefit over other Collagen products, that is, Collagen 9 has the missing 9th essential amino acid not found in Collagen and it is sourced from pea protein. Using Collagen 9 actually allows the body to not only make Collagen, but any other protein that the body needs to make. In other words, Collagen 9 provides raw materials for not just Collagen Synthesis, but also Protein Synthesis.

So, the bottom line is that Collagen plays a big role in your structural integrity. Pure quality nutrion is essential, but if your body is experiencing pain, the liquid matrix of Life+ may be the thing that your body is lacking (in other words…. craving.) From all that I have been learning about this powerhouse product, for myself, I am hoping that it can help make up for my poor habits in caring (externally) for my skin and I hope that it can keep me from the aches and pains that I’ve heard so many say comes with life as you progress through your 50’s. Since nothing heals naturally in less than 90 days, it makes sense when I have read that people that have used it, recommend giving Life+ 3 months for results. However, after reading a comment on a group that I am in, it really does seem like Life+ is a worthwhile key product to add into your basic health regimen if you can fit it into your budget. The comment was from an 80 year old woman who explained that she had lived with almost constant back pain from scoliosis and degenerative disc disease and had tried cortisone shots, ablation, physical therapy, acupuncture, etc. before she tried Shaklee’s Liquid BioCell Life+. She said, “This product works! I am virtually pain free and take no pain meds for the first time in years and years!” So to that comment, someone else asked how long it took for her. She then explained further, “It was surprisingly quick. Roughly 10 days after starting Biocell Life+ I had no sharp excruciating pain in my spine. At first I thought I was imagining it but it is real.” She reiterated that she had “tried everything; Chiropractic $$$$$$$, Back surgeons, Physical therapy, Acupuncture, Ablation, And on and on, I am so thankful.” There were multiple other comments that gave other positive experiences (the post asked if the Liquid Biocell Life+ could potentially help scoliosis), but that one from the 80 year old woman really struck me the most. Pain isn’t something that you can see, so that comment really helped put that potential benefit into perspective for me, but some things that the Liquid BioCell Life+ also helps, can be seen. Therefore, at the bottom of this post, I am going to share some of the pictorial results that I have seen from people using the Liquid BioCell products that Shaklee has. If you are younger or not having any symptoms yet, you might take less than the recommended 1 T, twice a day (am and pm) that these results would be based on, but especially if you are getting slowed down because of pain, I would definitely recommend giving Life+ the 90 days at the recommended twice a day dose (2 bottles provides a month’s worth supply when taking 1 T, twice a day).

To finish off, I want to mention that the May Special is either a $10 Shaklee Youth Eye Restoring Treatment or a $10 Modere Sculpt with any $175 order. If you want to give the Liquid BioCell Life+ a try for a month, just add in one bottle of any VitaLea that works best for you…. and your order will meet the $175 order amount that would qualify for the May Special. I can only vouch for the Youth Eye Restoring Treatment. I really like it with its cooling tip, so refreshing and really helps the delicate skin around your eyes. I haven’t tried the Sculpt since it is a product that has only been available since Shaklee acquired Modere. I haven’t heard any feedback either from others that have tried it, so I just can’t say. If you would like to take a look at any of these products, here I have put together a cart with all of them. That way, you can just delete out the items that you don’t want, but before you decide which you want, you can click on any of the items in the cart to read more about them on our Shaklee Store Site. In the cart, I also included the Seasonal Life Shake flavor that is back for the Summer while supplies last: Pina Colada.