Health, Wellness & Dr Nugent - Manapol & Superfood - 6th Sept 25

Well, good morning Chenade and it's always a pleasure for me to see you and talk with all the folks in Australasia. Lots of friends and hopefully lots of new friends that we haven't been able to meet with yet. Lots of stuff today to talk about. So everybody get ready. Get your notetaking stuff ready. Because there's a lot of information here this morning. And I'm going to do the share screen thing right now, Chenade. Okay. Hopefully do this correctly. And I'll disappear. And there is the right thing. And hopefully you can see a picture of my slides at this moment. I hope. Excellent. Okay. I want to make a very brief apology to everyone. I am in the first couple of days in a brand new house in a brand new state and I don't have everything unpacked yet. I apologize for the hollowness of the sound. We're going to fix that for future. Usually we have much better sound and of course we don't have our lighting set up the way I normally like to set it up either because it is evening here. I am coming to you from central Florida in the United States right now. So a little dark outside, not quite dark, but the sun's going down. And just wanted you to know I have the lighting adjusted as best as I can in this particular case. So having said all that, let's get into the topics for tonight. I say topics because we have more than one topic. But they all culminate back to the beginning and that is to support your health in the best possible ways. So tonight we'll be talking about Ambrotose. That'll be the main part of our presentation. But we will also have a little bit of time on superfoods or also known as superfood greens and reds. A very popular supplement in countries all over the world. Ambrotose is our first focus for tonight. So I would say to you if you are a guest, you're brand new here, you might think of a few questions for yourself. Do you want a safe and natural way to support your immune system year round? So, not to stimulate your system as some people talk about doing during a particular time of the year, but rather have optimal immune function all year long, every day of the year. Why? Well, any of you who are international travelers or who have been exposed to those who travel internationally, you know what, there are various agents that are moving around the globe every hour of every day. It doesn't take long. If you have somebody who's in the wrong season of the year, let's say in New York, and they get on a plane and they fly to Australia or New Zealand or Singapore, and they bring you gifts that you didn't want. So you may want your immune system to be at its optimal function all year long, every day of the year, not just during the cold and flu season. Okay. Would you like to have better gastrointestinal health? Well, I do an entire presentation which I think is a very, very important one about digestion and how digestion changes with age and how that change in digestion then affects your total health and people don't usually connect those dots. I love doing that presentation. Perhaps we will in the future for Australasia. But in the meantime, you can at the same time that you are supporting optimal immune health with Ambrotose, improving your gastrointestinal health and absorption of key nutrients. If those ideas sound good to you, well then you want to stay tuned as we move forward. Well, of course, everybody's heard of aloe. It's a plant that's been around for thousands and thousands of years in the written record. And I'm sure it's been used tens of thousands of years before that. But in the written record, we go back almost 5,000 years with information about aloe being used to help people with their health. Now, there's an aspect of aloe which is not a good thing, and I'll cover that later on in this presentation. But the one thing you all need to know is that Mannatech is the science company. We understand things that are potentially bad and potentially good. And we want to make sure that we eliminate all those things that are potentially bad before we make a product. And I can tell you as our chief science officer, but also as the formulator of many of our products. So, we're going to talk about the real power in aloe, not just the standard stuff that you hear about. And there's so many aloe products on the market today. I mean, thousands and thousands and thousands of them. And they're all almost identical in function because they're all made the same way and they're all made with the same specifications. We at Mannatech are the only company on planet earth that does it the way we do it and that makes a big difference. In fact, Mannatech really is the leading expert in glycan technology and I think it's very safe to say the leading expert in aloe technologies. So we have spent a lot of money and a lot of people don't know this and for the guests on the call today just to let you know that the majority of companies in the nutrition industry do no original science on their products at all. None. Zero. Now they have very good marketing and that's how they make their money through really, really good marketing. And the way you word a sentence can change the meaning subtly enough where it is still legal but not quite accurate. You know what I'm talking about. So we've got lots of claims out there where people say, well, you know, aloe has been studied. Yep, it has been. But was their product studied? Oh, well, probably not. In our case, we're the science company. In fact, we have done more than $50 million US. In fact, I personally quit keeping track of that. As a science officer, I don't have to keep track of money. Thank goodness. But I've quit keeping track of that around 50 million. I just thought it's tens of millions. And we keep spending more money on our research. We have a state-of-the-art applied science and chemistry lab. Now, if you go around to all of the companies in this industry and you ask to see their lab, well, most of them will just put you off. Some of them will tell you, 'Well, we don't have a lab, but we've got these great scientists that we use that help us. And where do they work?' Well, I think you know where I'm going with this. So we have our own lab, we do our own research and we are the leaders in research in fact in glycan technology and I'll explain to you in some detail what that means for those of you who are guests as far as nutritional biochemistry is concerned. We are the pioneers. In fact, there is no company in the industry that can make that claim that they've pioneered a field of science as we have at Mannatech. Nutritional biochemistry. This, I'm sorry, nutritional glycobiology is the field that we pioneer. Science, safety, efficacy. These are the three things that I tell people to look for in any company. And those are the three most important things for us at Mannatech. Science, safety, efficacy. And as the pioneers in nutritional glycobiology, and that's different than glycobiology, that's a different field. We really are the ones to give you the best information in this area. In fact, we've achieved 150 patents, probably more than that now. That's the last time I checked. And we currently still hold 96 active patents. Now patents automatically expire in 20 years. Not everyone knows that. So just you there you're doing the math in your own head and you're thinking what's the difference here. A patent will stay for 20 years and when it expires it expires. Now you still have earned that patent. You've still gone through all of the steps to convince the scientists in that particular country that your technology does what you say it does. And that's how you get the patents. 150 patents. Pretty impressive. And we have new patents that are currently underway. So, we're going to keep getting patents for you and keep those numbers up on our technologies. So, science. Okay. That's my favorite thing. I'll try not to get too sciency on you, but I do want to remind you once again that we, Mannatech, pioneered the field of nutritional glycobiology. No other company can claim that they pioneered any field of science. The first studies on glycans were done back in 1857. Wow. But now there are more than 300,000 papers and articles with the keyword glycoprotein or glycans. These have all been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. There's a lot of data out there now. Didn't know much about it in 1857, but a lot more now. And in fact the way science has moved there was almost no movement in glycan research until the early 60s. There was a little bit of movement, a little bit in the 70s. A pretty big change that happened in the early 80s but the majority of the science has been from the 1990s forward. And of course that's where we've been here at Mannatech. The human glycome study. Now you've heard of the genome study. You may have heard of the human proteome. Prote is the total of proteins in the human body. But the human glycome began to be studied by some scientists in Japan back in 2011. And that study is just going to go on and on and on. So you've got three areas. The genome, the proteome, and the glycome. Mannatech is the company to go for with the glycome in mind and Ambrotose was our first glycan product. Now in the old days we used to say glyconutrient and that was a commercial term and you'll still find that on the internet here and there because once something's printed on the internet it never goes away. It's there for eternity. So you're still going to find the word glyconutrient but the correct scientific term is glycan and that's the term I'm going to use during this presentation. So Ambrotose is an extract from the aloe vera leaf and what depends on which country it is because every country has different rules and this is why you may have an identical Mannatech product in one country in two different countries and find that the labels read differently even though they're the same. And that has to do with country regulations and the way that they tell us that a label must be printed, the words we have to use. Okay. So, what we're looking at here is the active component from aloe inner leaf gel. We're not looking at aloe. We're looking at the functional component, the active functional component of the gel that is scraped by hand from the leaf. But one of the reasons we do that is because the reasons we do it by hand is because there is a coating of something called aloin latex which is between the hard leaf on the outside and the soft gel on the inside. That latex is not nutritional and it's pretty tough on the gastrointestinal tract. Companies that separate their aloe with machines tend to very frequently end up with aloin latex in their products. Well, we don't because we do every leaf by hand. That sounds tedious and it is but that's the way we do it. There is also something in aloe called anthraquinone. Now that is the component of aloe that causes so-called allergic reactions or you may have reactions like irritable bowel syndrome, that sort of thing, kinds of symptoms and that's because anthraquinone really irritates the bowel and we're aware of that and we're the science company and we do everything to the absolute ultimate of science in this area. So there's no anthraquinone in the products. So if you had that worry, well, you don't have that worry anymore. Okay. Now, some people say, well, why Ambrotose? What does it mean? Mana was a word used in the Jewish and Christian Bibles as well as the Quran. And it is said in those holy books that what the Israelites ate on their long journey to the promised land was mana provided from heaven. And when you are talking about chemistry, if you add the letters O to the end of a word, that denotes a sugar. And the functional sugar in aloe gel is mannose. Mannose, mana. And that's why we named it what we named it. So hopefully that is an explanation for everybody that you can handle. Now we're going to talk a little bit more about glycans. Now monosaccharides, single sugars. Oligosaccharides. These are medium-chain saccharides and they may be from 3 to 10 monosaccharides which are all connected and strung together. And then polysaccharides are typically 11 or longer although there are some polies that are a little bit shorter and they're all monos that are all strung together. So oligos and polies in most of the literature will be called glycans and monos will typically in most of the literature be called monosaccharides. Now this is the definition that I like to use. Not all the literature agrees and the science is still fairly young and so the one I like to use is from a textbook called Essentials of Glycobiology second edition. And as you see it refers to any sugar that's one, a mono or assembly of sugars in free form or attached to other molecules. So I'm going to use the word glycan even when I'm describing mannose by itself. And by the way it's almost impossible to have mannose by itself anyway. Because when you extract the mannose from the gel unless you use chemicals, you can't separate several other glycans, healthy glycans, very important glycans that are naturally attached or naturally strung onto like a spine, like a backbone of that. So even when I talk about, when I'm talking about Ambrotose, I'm actually not talking about just mannose. I'm talking about other glycans which are attached to it and they're all beneficial for your health. So we're also talking about, you'll see some literature says biologically active carbohydrates. Now there are bad carbohydrates, there are good carbohydrates. Your body actually needs a certain number of carbohydrates per day. But some carbohydrates are just plain bad for you. Obviously, we're not going to use any of the ones that are bad for you. And when I use the term sugar, that confuses a lot of people, which is another reason why I like to use the term glycan all the time, because it's a clean start. Because when you say sugar, people think about the sugar that you use to sweeten your food, sweeten your drinks. That sugar is bad for you. That's not the sugar we want you to have. But just like with acids, so I think that's probably the best example for us. You all of you know that there are acids that are so caustic that a single drop if you put a single drop on the hood of your car, it would burn right through the hood of your car. You all know that. And most of you probably know that there are amino acids which are essential to your health that you can't live without. Now, they're both acids. They both fall under the acid umbrella, but one's very bad and one's very good. Same thing here with sugars. There are sugars that are very bad for you. We don't use those. Okay? Why would we? That would be foolish. We're only using the ones that science shows us are safe and healthy. And we know that they do things such as cell regulation, signaling, immune function, immune modulation particularly. And we know from very recent science that as we age, once we hit around the age of 40 and go up, we begin to lose our glycan balance. The modern diet is not, according to the studies, is not replacing those glycans. This according to the newest latest studies tells us is a massive contributing factor to the aging process. In fact, some of these studies are showing us now that by reglycosylating, glycosylation simply means to take one of those healthy sugars and put it back on the cell. Okay? So, by reglycosylating these cells who have lost their saccharides or their glycans by replacing that and it's called glycan replacement therapy or GRT. At Mannatech, we call our program glycan replenishment therapy, but still GRT. And it's still the same thing. And what we are doing is using our glycan products to replace glycans that are being lost from insufficient diet, poor digestion, and age, as well as external factors like environmental pollutants and immune stress. And the list goes on. So you need these glycans. They're essential for every function in your body, every function. So the bad sugars like the high fructose corn syrup, those cause inflammation whereas healthy glycans reduce inflammation. So again just to show you the difference between the two. And those of you who are Mannatech associates on this call and you are doing business, if you do business in the United States, you cannot use the word inflammation in the United States, but you can use it in every other country on the planet. It's just one of those things, folks. Well, you can certainly use it in Australasia. It's true. It's science and you can do that. So, where do glycans actually work? Well, your immune system for sure. In fact, your antibodies require certain glycans, hormones, and things like having normal insulin sensitivity. Normal. Normal folks, insulin sensitivity. Glycans are required for that. And at first, if you don't understand glycans, you say, 'Oh, it's a sugar. Isn't that bad?' No, not these. Because these sugars actually support normal insulin sensitivity and normal blood sugar. Structural support. If you want to have healthy cartilage and connective tissue and healthy skin, this is all about glycan health. Your microbiome, that's your gut, your world in your gut. All those living probiotics in your gut, that's the microbiome. Your microbiome requires glycans to stay healthy and to multiply. So what's GRT? And why does it matter? Well, as I began to tell you, certain cells of the body have to be glycosylated. And this means so if everyone can see my hand on the camera. So let's say that the surface of my hand is the surface of a cell. It for whatever reasons, many of the ones I've just spoke of. So diet and environmental stress and aging. Aging is a really big one to lose your glycans. When you replace those glycans, that's called glycosylation. Okay, IgG is the most important of what are called your immunoglobulins. So you have different immunoglobulins, IgG, IgA, and the list goes on. Okay, the most important one is IgG, and that's the one that's found all over the body. Anywhere you have fluid in your body, you should have IgG. IgG. When IgG loses its glycans, this not only increases the aging process, but it increases your vulnerability to infection and other illness. So, what we want to do is we want to replace them continuously. I've had associates who will say to me, 'Well, you know, I feel pretty good and I don't know if I need to continue taking my glycan product.' My response is, 'Yes, you need to continue because you need to be replacing your glycans daily. They're being lost daily. You need to replace them daily.' So, just like you, you need to have protein every day. You need to have, believe it or not, good fats every day. You need to have good carbohydrates every day. You need to have glycans every day. And if you don't, this really puts you at increased risk and according to the studies shows an increase in the aging process. Now there is something now which is being referred to as, and once again on inflammation. You can say it in every country in the world but not the United States. That's just the way it is. All right. As your glycan profile shifts, you will have more inflammation. Again, this is solid, solid science. We know this from the latest science. And your immune system will be less robust and it will be harder for your immune system to repair itself if you are losing your glycans and you will lose them with age. It really begins to become obvious when you get to early 40s. You begin to see some changes. Mid-50s, very significant. Mid to late 60s, very significant with an underlined very. And then from 70s and on, well, it's just something you live with every day unless you're taking the right steps to fight this. So you will see this more and more as you age. And the majority of people who buy dietary supplements worldwide are between the ages of 40 and 75. So these are just some, that was a list of glycan studies. This is another way to look at glycans and aging. So we're still focused on GRT, okay, or glycan replenishment therapy. So as you can see you start to see some issues that are occurring around the 40 mark, early 40s, progressing through the 60s but you really feel these things starting at 61 plus years. Still don't wait until you're really feeling awful. Start doing the right thing for your body because we're talking about the aging process here folks. We're talking about having normal healthy aging. I want you to live as long as you can. I personally have decided I'm going to be 147 before I throw in the towel. And I may change my mind when I'm 147. Now, you might be laughing right now. And you can have a laugh on that. The human body has the potential, according to the latest science, to live to be at least 141 years old. We have that genetic potential. How come we're not making it? We've got great sanitation. We have low predation. Those were the two biggest causes of early death in past centuries. But for some reason, we're not making it to 141. Well, I want you to make it and I want you to feel great. I don't want you to be in a wheelchair and on oxygen support. I want you to feel great when you get to that point and you're going to have to take the right steps if you want to make that. So, glycans support your immune system to an optimal level, metabolic control, skin resilience, and glycans also support healthy aging. So our original Ambrotose product was grown in Mexico and we have some people who will say oh well it has to be grown here or it's no good or it has to be grown there or it's no good. No it has to be grown in a particular way with a particular temperature, humidity, soil conditions and rainfall. Then it has to be extracted in a particular way and processed in a particular way. Now, if you do all that, it doesn't matter if it's raised in Mexico or Costa Rica or a place with a similar climate and similar soil and so on. That's what counts. And our process is proprietary. So, our current farm in Costa Rica that we've been using for a number of years, they're 100% dedicated to production of Ambrotose. Their special growing program yields very strong plants. They have a small genetics lab there and they have been crossbreeding aloe plants for a long time to try and get sturdier plants. So this is a Mannatech exclusive Ambrotose and this is something that we have worked on with our technology for quite a number of years and we have been testing this with third-party labs so that people won't say oh well that's just your test at your lab so maybe you fudged it. No we've had third-party testing. Tell me how many other companies can tell you that and the answer is zero as far as I know. So this is important too and almost nobody ever talks about this. Our active component in Ambrotose which of course is mannose and some other glycans attached to it also has alopectin attached to it. Now, if you do any research on your own on pectin, you're going to find that the heavier the pectin molecule is, the better it detoxifies human blood. So, we want the heaviest pectin molecules from aloe. Who has that? Well, let me see. Company's called Mannatech. In fact, our alopectin exceeds 2 million daltons in weight, whereas most products are somewhere between the upper 200,000s to maybe 400,000 in their dalton count or dalton weight. And Dalton is simply named after an English scientist who actually set up that weight process. So that's why they're called daltons. Okay, so cellular communication is something all of our associates know about and that's key. I don't care what it is you want to do for your health. Without complete and accurate cellular communication, you cannot be healthy. End of story or full stop as you say there in Australasia. This is scientifically linked to improved immune response and cellular metabolism. And of course digestion. In fact, we know that Ambrotose can increase the absorption of key nutrients such as vitamin C and vitamin E. And of course, it's very, very helpful for your microbiome. It actually nourishes as a prebiotic. A prebiotic is the food for a probiotic. And of course, everyone's been hearing about probiotics now for some time. So, we look at dalton counts or weights. Our original Ambrotose was just over 1 million daltons. We keep improving the process. We're always trying to do our science better. We're now over 2 million daltons. And D-mannose. And I get this question quite a bit where people will, they'll go on to Amazon or something and they'll say, 'Oh, well, there's these D-mannose products that are cheaper than yours and they say they do this and they say they do that.' Well, D-mannose is good for its purpose. D-mannose are very much lighter molecules. These go into fluid faster and they get utilized by the urinary tract faster which is why you see with virtually all the D-mannose products and they'll say you know from aloe etc. But virtually all the D-mannose products they're sold for urinary tract infections. That's what they're sold for because the molecules go into fluids so fast that most of them never make it to the gastrointestinal tract. So, they don't help your probiotics. They don't act as a prebiotic. And when mannose gets into your gut, into your gastrointestinal tract, it actually interacts with something called butyrate or butyric acid that breaks it up into other glycans. Those glycans then pass through your intestinal wall and into your bloodstream, which is what they're supposed to do under the best of conditions. And that can help all kinds of functions in your body, not just UTI. Okay, so now you know the difference there. I bring all these up because every time I do a presentation, I'll get questions afterwards. What about this and what about that company said this? And so I keep trying to include these in my lectures. And hopefully this is helpful to most of you. So, you've heard me say, all of you who've been listening to my lectures for years, I keep saying structure is key to function. Well, it is. If the structure is different, the function's different. I don't care what the marketing says as a scientist. I care what the structure says. So let's look at the structure for these folks who will say I recently did a talk for some doctors in Europe who have been told that oh D-mannose is the same as our stuff well it's not I want you to look at the formula for each. Our acemannan, our Ambrotose, you see its structure, its molecular structure starting with C66 is very different than the structure for D-mannose which starts with C12. So you can see that they are different structures. So they have different functions and it's important for people to know that this is no ordinary stuff. Now most of the companies that are selling aloe products they use machines to clear that beautiful aloe gel that you're looking at on the inside. And you'll see that very sort of very dark line on the inside of the leaf. That's called latex. That's aloin latex. It's not digestible by humans and it really does irritate the gut. That's why we don't use machines. That's why we do it gently by hand to make sure we're only removing gel and we're not removing any of the aloin latex. Then it goes to its next processing steps. But the point is the way we process, there is so much of the gel that we discard. Now, by the way, the gel that we discard, we use it for fertilizer, okay? And it helps to grow the plants healthier out in the fields. So, nothing's really totally discarded. But once we have discarded the non-functional components from that aloe gel, there is so little that's left that it takes 415 kgs of aloe leaf to make one kg of Ambrotose. So just think about how much we have separated from that gel. A whole bunch of stuff which is not functional for human health. That's all separated out. And I've kind of been through this already, so I'll just move to the next one here. Let's now get to superfoods. Superfood, greens and reds. Why do we have it? Well, because your body requires nutrients that come from various fruits and various vegetables. Now, different cultures around the world during different time periods have been using different fruits and vegetables, but there are crossovers in what are known as phytochemicals. Phyto originates from an ancient Greek word which means plant. So, plant chemicals. The phytochemicals are not vitamins. They're not minerals. They're not amino acids. They're not glycans. They're a whole different set of things. And this is what we are giving you in superfood. And I'll tell you what a great combination to have. Ambrotose and superfood together. Wow. And superfood tastes pretty good. I've spoken with very few people. Everyone's taste buds are different. I know. But I've spoken with very few people who told me they didn't like the taste of superfood. It tastes, most green drinks don't taste so good. This green drink, by the way, it's green, I say in air quotes, only when we use the definition of a green drink. So, fruit and vegetable powders. Okay. But it's not really green. It's actually sort of reddish crimson. So the idea here with a superfood product is to give your body what you may not be getting from your diet, which would be from eating sufficient amounts of vegetables and fruits. And almost nobody eats enough vegetables and fruits according to global analysis. In the United States, it's abysmal. In Australia, this is what you're looking at right now. You see that 51% of Australian adults are not eating the recommended intake of fruit. And fruit's way more fun than vegetables, right? And 66% are not eating enough vegetables. Then you have to ask the question, what is enough? Because the more environmental stress and the more oxidative stress, the more psychological stress, the more of those stresses that you have on your body, the more of these phytochemicals you require. So when a government agency says, well, it should be this number of servings or that number of servings. These tests have been done in the United States at very great expense. We're talking millions and millions of dollars. And every time they do the test, they find out that the requirement for fruits and vegetables is higher on that test than it was on the previous test. Every single time they do it, in fact, by the year 2012, they just stopped doing the tests. They said, you know what, every year it's worse. Every year we have to raise the number. Now in the US, they are currently saying a minimum of 13 servings a day. Nobody's going to do that. That's crazy. Now, if you're a cow, you can spend all day long, you know, chewing your cud. But if you're an active person, you have a life to live and you have to have a fast, convenient, and tasty way to do this. Okay? So, you've had this up long enough to see the numbers, and you can see that and I wish I had the numbers for every country, but not every country provides those numbers. So I can't give you that across the board, but you should get the idea of what I'm saying here. The world has changed. Our stresses have changed. Our environment unfortunately continues to change in the wrong direction, unfortunately. And we need to compensate. That's what supplements are all about. So here you see we've provided you, I love that picture. Talk about color. So beautiful. But we've provided you with a blend of phytonutrient powders from 17 different fruits and vegetables and we've added to it soursop, betaine, and AmbroGuard. Now this is important and I'll tell you why. Soursop, it's also called graviola, but soursop has been used for centuries by people, by natives in South America, Central America and the Caribbean islands and it's been used as a sort of all-in-one elixir for you know whatever ails you, you use soursop. And soursop is even common in drinks that you can buy in restaurants and you know when you're out shopping and so on. Because it is so common and safe and so healthy for your immune system. So here you have a superfood product, a superfood drink which is also giving you the benefit of soursop which by itself is really worth using the drink. And then betaine. Oh, betaine is one of my favorites. Betaine is something which is extracted from beet roots. And so when someone says eat your beets, well you should be eating your beets. But if you're not eating beets every day, maybe you should think about supplementing the betaine from the beets every day. And not only does this help to support a general feeling of well-being, betaine can really increase your energy and your performance. And in some countries, betaine is promoted for improving circulation. In the US, we promote it for that purpose. It also assists with the absorption of vitamin B12, calcium, iron, and various different proteins. Now, as we age, it becomes more and more difficult for us to absorb B12, calcium, and to break down our proteins. So, this is important to have these two in the product. And of course, some of the ones that you would expect to see, spinach powder for vitamin A and C and K and folic acid, iron, calcium, but also the known phytonutrients, which are antioxidant phytonutrients in it. And broccoli, carrot, alfalfa juice. Alfalfa is a star. It's just an absolute star of juicing to really help you with such a wide variety of areas of support. So our proprietary glyco blend which includes Ambrotose and AmbroGuard, I'll explain that to you in a moment, and the other glycans which are found in Ambrotose and those are provided from gum acacia. So that in this product you have the full spectrum of glycans that you would get from our Ambrotose product but at a much, much lower level of course than taking Ambrotose powder specifically. So it doesn't make this an Ambrotose replacement. Okay. So what about AmbroGuard? AmbroGuard is our patented form of arabinogalactan. Now that is our trade name, AmbroGuard. Arabinogalactan can be drawn from quite a number of food sources but it is very abundant and the source that we use comes from the larch tree in North America both the eastern and western larch tree, doesn't matter, from the larch tree. And this arabinogalactan has gone through very specific testing by our supplier to get them, that they earned a patent on it. We have, because we have the exclusive rights on it, we have trademarked it as AmbroGuard. It is a very effective immune modulating or immune balancing nutrient and of course Ambrotose we've been talking about. So here are all of the approved key features of the product. Some of you simply expect to see this. Some of you are guests on the call. We're hoping that you're going to see all of these. So no, we don't use any genetically modified material at all. Full stop anywhere in any country on any product. We don't buy genetically modified material. End of story. We don't buy irradiated material. So nobody has to worry about that. This product tastes good, but it's low glycemic. That means it won't raise your blood sugar. It's also free of gluten, soy, dairy, MSGs, all preservatives, and artificial colors or artificial sweeteners or artificial flavors. So, you've got a pretty great taste here. And in addition, you also have a powder from the fruit powder. We've got strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, tart cherry, elderberry. Lots of people know about the immune-supporting properties of elderberry and cranberry. So, you have all of these things going on with superfood and that's part of I understand a promotion going on for you this month and I think I'll probably let Chenade talk about that since I'm not familiar with what it is. So, we're talking this morning about this great combination of Ambrotose and there is nothing like Ambrotose anywhere in the world. It was our first product. It is unique and exclusive to Mannatech. It is processed in ways that well no one else does, no one else can do because it is our exclusive process. And I'll tell you what, all the benefits of Ambrotose, you don't want to pass that up. And all of you should have been enjoying superfood every day. Anyway, I mix my Ambrotose into it and I mix it all up. And anyway, Chenade, back to you.