SO WE ARE THINKING GREEN THIS MORNING, AS IN THE BEAUTIFUL AND VERSATILE ALOE VERA PLANT.
ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR PLANTS.
AND WHAT COMES TO MIND WHEN YOU SEE AN ALOE VERA PLANT?
I BET YOU'RE THINKING, IT'S GREAT FOR MINOR BURNS, RIGHT?
AND YES, IT IS, BUT IT ALSO HAS SO MANY OTHER AMAZING BENEFITS AND USES, ALL AIMED AT HELPING
YOUR INNER HEALTH AND YOUR OUTER BEAUTY.
AND THAT'S THE TOPIC IN THIS HEALTH MATTERS SEGMENT THIS MORNING.
OUR GUESTS THIS MORNING ARE ALLISON KUSENBERGER AND ERV TERWILLIGER.
BOTH OF THE ALOE SOURCE.
WELCOME TO THE SHOW, GUYS!
AND THEY WERE SMILING WHEN I WAS SAYING THE NAMES...
(LAUGHTER) BECAUSE THEY WERE HOPING I WOULD GET THEM RIGHT!
SO I'M GLAD I DID.
YOU KNOW, I HAVE TO TELL YOU, BEFORE WE GET STARTED, WE ARE AMONG ROYALTY HERE.
WE'RE LOOKING A BEAUTY PAGEANT NOT JUST CONTESTANT BUT WINNER.
YES.
TELL OUR VIEWERS ABOUT THAT.
WELL, I STARTED COMPETING IN PAGEANT WHEN I WAS SEVENTEEN, AND SO I ACTUALLY HELD THE
TITLE OF MISS ARKANSAS TEEN USA 2009.
WONDERFUL.
CONGRATULATIONS ON THAT.
BEAUTIFUL LADY.
BEAUTIFUL SKIN.
I'M SURE ALOE VERA HAS PLAYED A ROLE IN THAT.
AND I DO WANT TO MOVE ON TO THE ALOE VERA PLANT BECAUSE IT REALLY DOES SEEM TO BE A
FAN FAVORITE.
I KNOW AS A KID MY MOM AND MY GRANDMOM USED IT A LOT IN MY HOUSE.
IT'S ALMOST AS COMMON I GUESS AS THE HERBS YOU MIGHT FIND IN YOUR KITCHEN.
TELL US ABOUT THE MANY USES OF ALOE.
YES.
WELL ALOE VERA HAS BEEN AROUND FOREVER, AND IT'S BEEN USED MEDICINALLY FOR THOUSANDS OF
YEARS.
AND I STARTED USING ALOE VERA PRODUCTS PROBABLY IN ABOUT MIDDLE SCHOOL BECAUSE I REALLY NEEDED
SOMETHING TO HELP WITH MY ACNE.
AH...
THEN, WHEN I WAS SEVENTEEN, I STARTED COMPETING IN PAGEANTS AND NEEDED SOMETHING NOT ONLY
FOR EVERY DAY, BUT JUST TO MAKE SURE MY SKIN WAS LOOKING GREAT ON STAGE AND I FRONT OF
CAMERAS.
AND SO NOW THAT I'M IN MY EARLY TWENTIES, I REALLY WANT TO HELP PREVENT THE EARLY SIGNS
OF AGING AND OF ALL THE PRODUCTS I'VE USED, I'VE FOUND THAT REALLY THE ONLY PRODUCTS WITH
STABILIZED ALOE VERA SEEMED TO HELP WITH WHATEVER MY SKIN FACED.
I THINK THAT'S SO INTERESTING.
YOU'RE IN YOUR EARLY TWENTIES.
I'M A LITTLE BIT OLDER...
AHHH...
THAN THAT.
BUT FOR WHATEVER AGE, ALOE VERA REALLY CAN WORK WONDERS, BUT I KNOW THAT NOT ALL ALOE
VERA IS CREATED EQUALLY.
CLEAR UP SOME OF THE CONFUSION ABOUT ALOE VERA, ERV.
SURE, DANIELLE.
GO THROUGH ANY STORE, AND I'M SURE EVERYONE'S HAD THIS EXPERIENCE, WHERE YOU SEE HUNDREDS
OF PRODUCTS.
YOU'LL FIND ALOE ON THE LABEL, IN THE INGREDIENTS, IN THE TITLE.
HERE'S A LITTLE-KNOWN SECRET.
IF THE ALOE WASN'T PROCESSED PROPERLY, IT BASICALLY RENDERS IT INEFFECTIVE.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS SOMETHING CALLED STABILIZED ALOE.
WHICH MEANS ALL THE ACTIVE INGREDIENTS WERE PRESERVED THROUGH THE PROCESSING.
THAT'S THE GOOD STUFF AND THAT'S WHAT YOU NEED TO FIND.
THAT SOUNDS GOOD.
NOW HERE'S THE THING THAT I UNDERSTAND, THAT ALOE'S ALSO VERY NUTRIENT-DENSE.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
YES, WELL IT HAS LOTS OF VITAMINS, LIKE VITAMIN C, VITAMIN E, VITAMIN B3 B6 AND B12.
IT ALSO HAS A LOT OF MINERALS, AMINO ACIDS, AND ENZYMES IN IT.
SO THAT'S WHY IT'S SO GREAT FOR A VARIETY OF THINGS, BECAUSE IT CAN HELP WITH ANTI-AGING,
ACNE, DEHYDRATED SKIN, BUT YOU CAN ALSO DRINK IT TO HELP WITH YOUR INNER HEALTH AND DIGESTION.
MMM HMMM, THAT'S TRUE.
LET'S GO OVER THOSE BENEFITS AGAIN BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF OUR
VIEWERS WOULD REALLY WANT TO UNDERSTAND, BECAUSE A LOT OF US HEAR ABOUT ALOE VERA, AND WE THINK
ABOUT MAYBE INGESTING IT OR PUTTING IT ON A MINOR BURN, BUT THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER
WAYS THAT WE CAN USE IT TO KIND OF STAVE OFF THE HANDS OF TIME.
YES.
WELL YOU CAN INGEST IT AND IT HELPS BOOST YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM, IT HELPS REDUCE INFLAMMATION,
AND ALSO WHEN YOU PUT IT ON YOUR SKIN, LIKE YOU SAID, IT HELPS WITH MINOR CUTS AND BURNS.
BUT IT ALSO HELPS HEAL THE SKIN AND SPEED UP THE HEALING PROCESS SO IT CAN FIGHT OFF
ACNE-CAUSING BACTERIA, IT CAN REDUCE ACNE SCARRING, AND REALLY HELP REDUCE INFLAMMATION
THAT CAN CAUSE AGING.
I LOVE THAT BECAUSE MY SON IS TWELVE, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS BEFORE, AND HE'S KINDA
GOING THROUGH A LITTLE BIT OF THAT PUBERTY THING, SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE GREAT FOR
HIM, BUT THE THING IS, WHEN I DO GO INTO THE STORE, ERV, I HAVE TO TELL YOU, AND WE TALKED
ABOUT THIS, THERE ARE SO MANY PRODUCTS...
(LAUGHS).
YEA.
ON THE SHELVES THAT HAVE ALOE VERA IN THEM.
HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE GETTING THE RIGHT ONE AND TELL US ABOUT ALOE SOURCE, THE ALOE
SOURCE, AND KIND OF WHAT MAKES THAT DIFFERENT?
SURE.
WELL, I LOVE THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE THE ALOE VERA PLANT HERE, BECAUSE THIS IS HOW MOST
PEOPLE ARE ACCUSTOMED TO USING ALOE.
YOU SEE IT ON LABELS BUT YOU DON'T QUITE GET IT.
EVERYBODY REMEMBERS HAVING A CUT OR A SCRAPE AND MOM OR GRANDMA BREAKING IT OFF AND SQUEEZING
SOME OF THAT JELLY OUT AND THEY TOLD YOU IT WOULD HEAL YOU UP AND IT DID.
IT SEEMED LIKE A MIRACLE.
THE REASON IS ALL OF THE GOOD ACTIVE STUFF COMES FRESH OUT OF THE PLANT.
IT'S HARD TO GET THAT ACTIVE INGREDIENT INTO A FINISHED PRODUCT, AND THAT'S THE STABILIZED
ALOE WE TALKED ABOUT.
SO WHAT WE LOOK FOR IS STABILIZED ALOE THAT HASN'T BEEN OVERPROCESSED, IT HAS THE BEST
EFFECT.
YOU KNOW, AS I'M HERE, LOOKING AT YOUR SKIN--WHICH IS GREAT BY THE WAY (LAUGHS)--IF WE CAN GET
A CLOSE UP OF ERV'S SKIN.
YOU HAVE GREAT SKIN!
AND I GUESS THE POINT IS, IT'S NOT JUST FOR WOMEN, I MEAN, I THINK MEN CAN BENEFIT FROM
THIS AS WELL, RIGHT?
YEAH, DON'T LET MY SECRET GET OUT THERE A LITTLE BIT.
BUT YEAH.
ALL RIGHT...
I TOLD ALL THE GUYS ON YOUR SOFTBALL TEAM.
THEY KNOW NOW!
(LAUGHTER).
YEAH, IT WORKS GREAT.
ANY GENDER CAN USE IT, AND IT DOES HELP.
WELL, I LOVE IT AND THANK YOU GUYS FOR COMING BY AND SHARING THIS INFORMATION WITH US THIS
MORNING.
AND HERE'S THE THING, THIS IS NOT THE ONLY TIME YOU'RE GONNA BE HERE.
THEY'RE GONNA BE BACK WITH US IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AS WE'LL GET INTO MORE DETAIL ABOUT
HOW THE ALOE VERA PLANT CAN HELP WITH THINGS LIKE ANTI-AGING, ACNE ISSUES, JOINT ISSUES,
PLUS WE'LL ALSO DISCUSS NOURISHING DRINKS, SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT, AND AGAIN,
THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH.
THANK YOU.
THANK YOU FOR HAVING US.
...FOR STOPPING BY.
THANK YOU.
AND FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ALOE VERA, ITS INCREDIBLE USES, AND THE ALOE SOURCE, VISIT
OUR WEBSITE.
WE'RE THEBALANCINGACT.COM.