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post Jun 29 2008, 12:38 PM
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GeneWize Life Sciences Inc Introduces DNA Personalized Nutrition, A MONUMENTAL LEAP FORWARD In Genetically Guided Natural Nutrition.
No More Guessing About Which Vitamin or Nutritional Supplement Will Work For You or Me.
Are You tired of falling for the Advertizing of one nutritional supplement after another, in hopes of finding something that will make you feel better and improve your quality of life?
Are You Tired Like Many of Us, of spending HUNDREDS of DOLLARS a month on vitamins and nutritional supplements, hoping to find something to improve our quality of Life. Never really knowing if they are working or not.
The Time Has Come for Revolutionary Change in the delivery of high quality, natural nutritional supplements. With The GREAT Advances in Genetics and Nutritional Science made by GeneLink Inc(parent company to GeneWize), NOW make it possible to not only determine exactly what our bodies need, but give us the ability to formulate and deliver personalized natural nutritional supplements, based on our own individual DNA genetic make up.
NO MORE Universal standard minimum daily vitamin requirements for everyone, this NEW Cutting-Edge SCIENCE now tells us we all have different needs!
The Public Response to this will be Overwhelming, when we go public on August 1st and 2nd. Up until then we are only seeking commited dynamic leaders. Individuals focused on helping to build the foundation of this company that we know, will drastically change the entire health and wellness industry. We must find leaders with both character and integrity that will support such bold aspirations. And In becoming part of such an elite group of high-achievers, we will work together to create something much bigger, than our individual efforts could have ever hoped to achieve.
The Monetary rewards, incentives , and opportunities available now, for this early participation will never be offered again. This includes direct access to corporate executives and accelerated compensation, just for being one of the selected few who get early placement in the pay plan.
Can You Really PICTURE YOURSELF as one of the few who have the vision and courage to say 'yes' NOW, to help in building the foundation of this GREAT company, before everything has been finalized and is all in place?
Can You Really Imagine Yourself having the satisfaction of knowing that you were not only there, at the birth of DNA personalized nutrition. But that you helped change the standard from universal human nutritional health to individualized genetically guided nutrition?
If YOU CAN, To LEARN MORE Check Out MyGeneWize.com/health GeneWizeHealth or Sign Up Now

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post Jun 29 2008, 07:26 PM
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I've seen this company alot over the last 2 weeks.After looking at the plan and product it looks like a strong opportunity.

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post Jul 2 2008, 05:35 AM
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QUOTE (mikelikesmlm @ Jun 29 2008, 11:26 PM) *
I've seen this company alot over the last 2 weeks.After looking at the plan and product it looks like a strong opportunity.

Mike

Thanks Mike, The excitement is growing! Our Event in Orlando is going to be Huge, Maybe, we'll see you there!


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post Jul 20 2008, 08:09 PM
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I did a video review regarding genewize and what leaders likely have not told you.

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post Jul 21 2008, 03:48 PM
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QUOTE (Ronniebranch @ Jul 21 2008, 12:09 AM) *
I did a video review regarding genewize and what leaders likely have not told you.

Ronnie Branch
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Hello Ronnie Branch,
I reviewed your video, but I am less than impressed.
No slick marketers here, just Cutting-Edge SCIENCE. DEVELOPED by a WORLD CLASS TEAM!!!
It's EASY to CHECK OUT, Visit the [b]edited: LINK REMOVED (ONLY ALLOWED IN FIRST POST) link, then click on SCIENCE[/b] to get the facts.
This NEW CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE has taken YEARS in DEVELOPMENT.
Any representative of a 50 year old vitamin or health supplement company has to be very concerned, they like the government have told us for years, we are all the same, that standard minimum daily vitamin dosages are good for everyone.
RESEARCH and SCIENCE have determined this is not true.
I am certainly not an expert in DNA SCIENCE and NUTRITION, But the people who developed GeneWize are.
PLEASE Don't Just Take My Word On It, Investigate For Yourself!
It Can Be A Life Improving Experience!!!
Tom


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post Jul 21 2008, 04:04 PM
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Just a few words of wisdom for folks whenever the Bee's fly turn away and believe if the opportunity is grand it will stand the test of time anyways...

My two cents God Bless

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post Jul 21 2008, 06:01 PM
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Wisdom is recognized by others, not professed by one's self. I don't know about bees, but for humans, DNA Personalized Nutrition has proven its effectiveness. But there is no rush to enjoy the benefits of this new science. By all means take all the time you need to investigate and determine for yourself, the improvement in your quality of life, this new technology can provide. Beginning in August our program opens to the public, no requirement to become an Affiliate. Customers are welcome, and once they feel the benefits for themselves, they can share their experience with just 4 of their friends and/or family who want to improve their quality of life and then start enjoying their own DNA Personalized Nutrition for free. Share with 4 and pay no more! Or Share with 1 save 25%, share with 2 save 50%, or share with 3 save 75%. The people they share the products with must become customers to begin to enjoy their savings. Or they can become an Affiliate and possibly profit further from sharing their experiences with more people. Our products also include a money-back guarantee. We are not seeking to deceive anyone, if you have concerns, do your own research and start as a customer without risk and see for yourself. Your own results will convince you where the wisdom resides.

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QUOTE (StartSavingFuel @ Jul 21 2008, 10:01 PM) *
Wisdom is recognized by others, not professed by one's self. I don't know about bees, but for humans, DNA Personalized Nutrition has proven its effectiveness. But there is no rush to enjoy the benefits of this new science. By all means take all the time you need to investigate and determine for yourself, the improvement in your quality of life, this new technology can provide. Beginning in August our program opens to the public, no requirement to become an Affiliate. Customers are welcome, and once they feel the benefits for themselves, they can share their experience with just 4 of their friends and/or family who want to improve their quality of life and then start enjoying their own DNA Personalized Nutrition for free. Share with 4 and pay no more! Or Share with 1 save 25%, share with 2 save 50%, or share with 3 save 75%. The people they share the products with must become customers to begin to enjoy their savings. Or they can become an Affiliate and possibly profit further from sharing their experiences with more people. Our products also include a money-back guarantee. We are not seeking to deceive anyone, if you have concerns, do your own research and start as a customer without risk and see for yourself. Your own results will convince you where the wisdom resides.

Sorry I misquoted the discounts. The correct discounts are enroll 4 and pay no more. Enroll 1 for a 10% savings, Enroll 2 for a 25% discount, Enroll 3 for a 50% savings. Again Sorry for any confusion.


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post Jul 28 2008, 07:42 AM
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Only a few days left before our big LAUNCH! Don't delay, why not check us out today?


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The LAUNCH TIME IS HERE,
NOW EVERYONE can Start Enjoying the BENEFITS of DNA PERSONALIZED NUTRITION,
GUARANTEED RESULTS! DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE! No Need to WAIT any longer!


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post Aug 2 2008, 07:53 PM
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Hi ...

We just finished day two of the launch.

OH... MY!

By far the most exciting news of the day was the new
Internet Marketing System that was announced. In the
next few days you'll be able to:

-- Send unlimited emails with a video link
-- Track who watched the videos and who didn't
-- Track how long each person watched the video
-- Track how many times each person watch the video
-- At the end of the video the person is sent to
your website.

The new video that was launched will be one of the
videos that you can send to your guests. There will
also be testimonials and other videos you can send.

The emails are sent through your mail server so you
can't spam. This protects everyone.

In addition the company will launch an online
marketing vault that you'll be able to use to do
your own online marketing, if you want.

However, I can't see a reason to use anything but
the new video tracking system. This is so powerful
that it's literally going to allow you to explode
your business all over the country very quickly.

Finally, the company announced that they are extending
the Two Star Affiliate offer for a few more days.
If you have someone who missed the deadline they
can enroll and get the benefit of enrolling early.

The customer program will launch in just a few
days and it will cost $188, plus $99 per month.
The first month of product is free.

The excitement here is unbelievable. This is one
of the biggest launches in the network marketing
industry and probably the biggest launch in the
consumer genetics industry.

The company will be sending updates soon.

Thanks for eveyone's participation and I'm looking
forward to meeting all of you personally some day.

With passion...
Tom


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post Aug 4 2008, 07:02 PM
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Special Conference Recap Email is Coming on Tuesday, Complete with Photos, PPT and Video Segments

Congratulations to all of you, we have launched!

During the last 24 hours of pre-launch, you enrolled more than 700 new affiliates. At the time of this newsletter, more than 1000 people have joined since Thursday last week! No doubt this will be the largest pay period in our short history. It is very important that you all make yourselves available to your new affiliates. They will need your support and their questions answered the next few days.

We have some more good news about this pay period!

We have extended the Two-Star Upranking offer until Monday, the 11th of August, 12-Midnight P.S.T.. We will begin our new customer programs next Tuesday, and we want to start them at the beginning of a NEW pay period. As a result, we are allowing you to continue to bring new Affiliates on for the next week and still have them Upranked to Two-Star pay status until September 30th.

New Customer Process Begins on August 12th

You will begin to receive product orders from customers. They will receive their own web site specifically for promoting the products- no opportunity will be discussed. They will be sent a DNA collection Kit, or you can hand them one. and then they will activate it via an 800 number, 24 hours-a-day to connect that Collection Kit to you. Please check the FAQs for new customer questions.

$188.00 for a NEW customer, 100BV.

First Order- You would receive a 25% direct Sales commission of $46.00
Next Order- Then, earn 25% of the monthly BV of 64 or $16.00 each month they stay on Autoship.

The 100 BV for the first sale and the 64 BV for the next sales (autoship) goes upline. This does not get calculated in your Pursuit or Lead leg as it rolls upline; you get the commission of $16.00 instead. If you received a bonus based on the sales team bonus, it would only be $6.40-$12.80, so it's better to receive the Direct Commission.

Make Sure Everyone is Activated in August!

By enrolling this week, you are upranked to Two-Star Affiliate status until September 30th, but it's still important to activate the bonus. What does activate mean? Activate means you have enrolled 2 affiliates, one on each side, to activate your Sales Team Bonus. When you enroll 2 affiliates on each side, that activates the Matching Income Bonus. This must happen by August 31st. We will pay you for the next 2 pay periods as if you have fully qualified, after that you need to ensure that you and your teams are qualified.

Current Product Packages Available

$99 Affiliate Kit Only- This has no product, no assessment, and no BV. It has only sales materials and the right to enroll others.

$499 Affiliate and Product- This is the same $499 offer you are used to. This offer will change in one week. You receive one DNA collection Kit, One Healthy Aging Assessment, 2 months product, and affiliate kit. This has 300BV.

$599 Affiliate Kit for Two Is No Longer Available!

This offer has been discontinued. For those currently under this offer, the second person will become your first customer, helping you when it comes to enrolling your four. This is a system issue that we are changing. This will be discussed further next week. In the meantime, if your NEW affiliate wants to have their spouse or partner get in, ask them to be patient for the next 7 days. Thank you!

Please Advise Your New Affiliates About Taxes and Shipping.

Taxes and Shipping are added to each order, approximately $50-60, depending on state and county.

Shipping runs $19.00 because we have 4 different mailing process.
1 We ship your Affiliate kit and DNA collection Kit
2 We pay for the return mailing envelope
3 We receive your DNA sample, split the envelope, and mail it to our lab
4 We ship your product, either a one month or two month supply.

5000 Affiliate Kits Have Been Sent!

This week, ALL Affiliates will receive their kits.
They include the following:
Training manual that we will refer to this week on conference calls
4 CD/DVD's, one includes the NEW Company Video that was launched this weekend!
Product Brochures
Compensation Brochures
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post Aug 9 2008, 11:56 AM
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How to Explain Our Science

I'm not a scientist and I don't know much about DNA, but I discovered "The Butterfly" -- a way to explain our science so that just about everyone understands it.

* A caterpillar that turns into a butterfly has the same DNA when it's a caterpillar and when it's a butterfly.

* If the caterpillar doesn't get the right amount of the right nutrients it will never turn into a butterfly -- it's genes won't express themselves as they should.

* If the caterpillar does get the right amount of the right nutrients its genes will express themselves fully and it will become a butterfly.

* Our DNA never changes but how our genes express themselves does. Nutrition absolutely affects gene expression and this is the difference between a caterpillar and a butterfly; between you and a better you.

GeneWize gives you the right amount of the right nutrients for your genes to fully express themselves -- so you can become the best you possible.

Since everyone has different genes (some butterflies have yellow wings and some have red wings) you will probably get different results than other people and you'll know that your DNA is getting what it needs for you to be healthy, vibrant, and full of energy.
With passion...
Tom Wood
Independent Affiliate
GeneWize Life Sciences, Inc.




FOR NEW MEMBERS
Visit the Training


Quick Start Training -- What to Do First

Welcome to GeneWize! If you've already enrolled there are three simple steps for you.
1. Login to your back office and get to know it -- check in to your back office on a regular basis as things are updates frequently -

2. Get trained -- we have a simple system to help you and your team expose the GeneWize opportunity. We keep it simple so everyone can do it and your business grows more quickly. Visit www.team-wize.com to learn this simple system.

3. Share with Others -- it's simple to share your website with others. Just say, "I have a new project I'm working on and I'm looking for successful people. It may or may not be for you. Visit my website and I'd appreciate any referrals of people who keep their business options open. Who do you know?" No pressure. No sales pitch. Just networking. "Who do you know?" -- it's network marketing, not sales marketing.






Copyright © 2008 Tom Wood and MasteryOne, Inc. Independent Affiliate with GeneWize Life Sciences


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Good News In Our DNA: Defects You Can Fix With Vitamins And Minerals
ScienceDaily (Jun. 3, 2008) — As the cost of sequencing a single human genome drops rapidly, with one company predicting a price of $100 per person in five years, soon the only reason not to look at your "personal genome" will be fear of what bad news lies in your genes. University of California, Berkeley, scientists, however, have found a welcome reason to delve into your genetic heritage: to find the slight genetic flaws that can be fixed with remedies as simple as vitamin or mineral supplements. "I'm looking for the good news in the human genome," said Jasper
Rine, UC Berkeley professor of molecular and cell biology. "Headlines for the last 20 years have really been about the triumph of biomedical research in finding disease genes, which is biologically interesting, genetically important and frightening to people who get this information," Rine said. "I became obsessed with trying to decide if there is some other class of information that will make people want to look at their genome sequence." What Rine and colleagues found and report in the online early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences (PNAS) is that there are many genetic differences that make people's enzymes less efficient than normal, and that simple supplementation with vitamins can often restore some of these deficient enzymes to full working order.
First author Nicholas Marini, a UC Berkeley research scientist, noted that physicians prescribe vitamins to "cure"
many rare and potentially fatal metabolic defects caused by mutations in critical enzymes. But those affected by these metabolic diseases are people with two bad copies, or alleles, of an essential enzyme. Many others may be walking around with only one bad gene, or two copies of slightly defective genes, throwing their enzyme levels off slightly and causing subtle effects that also could be eliminated with vitamin supplements.
"Our studies have convinced us that there is a lot of variation in the population in these enzymes, and a lot of it affects function, and a lot of it is responsive to vitamins," Marini said. "I wouldn't be surprised if everybody is going to
require a different optimal dose of vitamins based on their genetic makeup, based upon the kind of variance they are
harboring in vitamin-dependent enzymes."
Though this initial study tested the function of human gene variants by transplanting them into yeast cells, where the
function of the variants can be accurately assessed, Rine and Marini are confident the results will hold up in humans.
Their research, partially supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S.
Army, may enable them to employ U.S. soldiers to test the theory that vitamin supplementation can tune up defective
enzymes.
"Our soldiers, like top athletes, operate under extreme conditions that may well be limited by their physiology," Rine
said. "We're now working with the defense department to identify variants of enzymes that are remediable, and
ultimately hope to identify troops that have these variants and test whether performance can be enhanced by
appropriate supplementation."


In the PNAS paper, Rine, Marini and their colleagues report on their initial analysis of variants of a human enzyme
called methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, or MTHFR. The enzyme, which requires the B vitamin folate to work
properly, plays a key role in synthesizing molecules that go into the nucleotide building blocks of DNA. Some cancer
drugs, such as methotrexate, target MTHFR to shut down DNA synthesis and prevent tumor growth.
Using DNA samples from 564 individuals of many races and ethnicities, colleagues at Applied Biosystems of Foster
City, Calif., sequenced for each person the two alleles that code for the MTHFR enzyme. Consistent with earlier
studies, they found three common variants of the enzyme, but also 11 uncommon variants, each of the latter
accounting for less than one percent of the sample.
They then synthesized the gene for each variant of the enzyme, and Marini, Rine and their UC Berkeley colleagues
inserted these genes into separate yeast cells in order to judge the activity of each variant. Yeast use many of the same enzymes and cofactor vitamins and minerals as humans and are an excellent model for human metabolism, Rine said.
The researchers found that four different mutations affected the functioning of the human enzyme in yeast. One of
these mutations is well known: Nearly 30 percent of the population has one copy, and nine percent has two copies.
The researchers were able to supplement the diet of the cultured yeast with folate, however, and restore full
functionality to the most common variant, and to all but one of the less common variants.
Since this experiment, the researchers have found 30 other variants of the MTHFR enzyme and tested about 15 of
them, "and more than half interfere with the function of the enzyme, producing a hundred-fold range of enzyme
activity. The majority of these can be either partially or completely restored to normal activity by adding more folate.
And that is a surprise," Rine said.
Most scientists think that harmful mutations are disfavored by evolution, but Rine pointed out that this applies only to
mutations that affect reproductive fitness. Mutations that affect our health in later years are not efficiently removed by evolution and may remain in our genome forever.
The health effects of tuning up this enzyme in humans are unclear, he said, but folate is already known to protect
against birth defects and seems to protect against heart disease and cancer. At least one defect in the MTHFR enzyme
produces elevated levels in the blood of the metabolite homocysteine, which is linked to an increased risk of heart
disease and stroke, conditions that typically affect people in their post-reproductive years.
"In those people, supplementation of folate in the diet can reduce levels of that metabolite and reduce disease risk,"
Marini said.
Marini and Rine estimate that the average person has five rare mutant enzymes, and perhaps other not-so-rare
variants, that could be improved with vitamin or mineral supplements.
"There are over 600 human enzymes that use vitamins or minerals as cofactors, and this study reports just what we
found by studying one of them," Rine said. "What this means is that, even if the odds of an individual having a defect
in one gene is low, with 600 genes, we are all likely to have some mutations that limit one or more of our enzymes."
The subtle effects of variation in enzyme activity may well account for conflicting results of some clinical trials,
including the confusing data on the effect of vitamin supplements, he noted. In the future, the enzyme profile of
research subjects will have to be taken into account in analyzing the outcome of clinical trials.
If one considers not just vitamin-dependent enzymes but all the 30,000 human proteins in the genome, "every
individual would harbor approximately 250 deleterious substitutions considering only the low-frequency variants.
These numbers suggest that the aggregate incidence of low-frequency variants could have a significant physiological
impact," the researchers wrote in their paper.
All the more reason to poke around in one's genome, Rine said.
"If you don't give people a reason to become interested in their genome and to become comfortable with their personal
genomic information, then the benefits of much of the biomedical research, which is indexed to particular genetic
states, won't be embraced in a time frame that most people can benefit from," Rine said. "So, my motivation is partly
scientific, partly an education project and, in some ways, a partly political project."
Marini and Rine credit Bruce Ames, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of molecular and cell biology now on the


research staff at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, with the research that motivated them to look at
enzyme variation. Ames found in the 1970s that many bacteria that could not produce a specific amino acid could do
so if given more vitamin B6, and in recent years he has continued exploring the link between micronutrients and
health.
"Looked at in one way, Bruce found that you can cure a genetic disease in bacteria by treating it with vitamins," Rine
said. Because the human genome contains about 6 billion DNA base pairs, each one subject to mutation, there could
be between 3 and 6 million DNA sequence differences between any two people. Given those numbers, he reasoned
that, as in bacteria, "there should be people who are genetically different in terms of the amount of vitamin needed for optimal performance of their enzymes."
This touches on what Rine considers one of the key biomedical questions today. "Now that we have the complete
genome sequences of all the common model organisms, including humans, it's obvious that the defining challenge of
biology in the 21st century is not what the genes are, but what the variation in the genes does," he said.
Rine, Marini and their colleagues are continuing to study variation in the human MTHFR gene as well as other folate
utilizing enzymes, particularly with respect to how defects in these enzymes may lead to birth defects. Rine also is
taking advantage of the 1,500 students in his Biology 1A lab course to investigate variants of a second vitamin
B6-dependent enzyme, cystathionine beta-synthase.
He also is i