Amazingly, I keep discovering more reasons to love aloe vera, and more specifically, Catherine’s Choice Aloe Vera. As I started to write this I accidentally opened the file of the Catherine’s choice Blog Update for April, 2009. It was so close to what I had in mind to write this time that I first decided to write a new intro and repeat the rest. But then I found the first draft of a television commercial which explained why Catherine’s Choice is superior to most competitors’ products. I then realized that all blogs remain on the site, which means you can re-read the one for last April. I urge you to do so, because it explains to some degree how aloe vera is so helpful in so many serious ailments. Mostly the blog is understated, and I keep learning more reasons to keep using Catherine’s Choice!
Just today a friend told me he had come across a picture of himself that was taken at about age 35. Shortly after it was taken, he began to take Catherine’s Choice Aloe Vera. Now, about 11 years later, his face looks much younger than it did in the photograph. Also, his younger brothers, who do not take our products, look older than he does. Furthermore, my friend’s CRP test, which measures inflammation in the blood vessels, is extremely low, as is mine. This test can predict propensity for heart attack or stroke. The lower the score is the better.
I have for some time violated many health habits I have been urging you to observe, such as getting enough exercise and enough sleep. I have been diagnosed as one with sleep deprivation for several years, because I always seem to have more to do than time to do it in. I have been sitting at a computer hour after hour that I should have been exercising or sleeping. Yet, I have been able to do so with pretty good results on physical examinations, at least until last week when I was diagnosed with diabetes (blood sugar just over the defining figure). In other words, until last week’s exam, I have seemed to myself and others to be much younger than my almost 86 years. Could this be because I have been taking Catherine’s Choice for over 29 years?
I am not making any medical claims. I can not answer that question with certainty and know of no research tests to support the idea that aloe vera can increase longevity and reverse aging. There is no incentive to conduct such tests for a natural product that can not be patented. But I do believe the answer would be positive if the tests were done. I certainly do not intend to stop taking Catherine’s Choice – not while I am alive. Let me tell you some reasons I love Catherine’s Choice Aloe Vera over other brands, although I would take another brand if I could no longer obtain Catherine’s Choice.
Catherine’s Choice Aloe Vera is grown in the Juave Valley in Mexico very near the Tropic of Cancer, or about 500 miles south of the United States border. The soil in this region has never been treated by pesticides or even by chemically treated drinking water for that matter. The fields are naturally irrigated by pure mountain rainwater. Rain soaks slowly through the mountain’s rocky soil, losing any impurities and gaining elements that are beneficial to the body.
Catherine’s Choice is certified organic. When our aloe is harvested, it is rushed into strict proprietary processing procedures that preserve the delicate healing properties. With Catherine’s Choice you are paying for perfect growing conditions, strict quality control and proprietary processing standards that insure you are obtaining the best aloe available anywhere.
High altitude pure rain water is filtered through mountain soil into underground streams that manifest as springs. This rare, health-enhancing spring water provides the source of irrigation that nourishes the plants that are to become Catherine’s Choice Aloe Vera. This mountain-spring water is so rich in important minerals, co-enzymes and trace elements that no fertilizer is needed or used. Some manure is provided by sheep or goats which amazingly do not eat or harm the aloe vera plants while eating any weeds that spring up amongst them.
This entirely natural cycle results in the highest quality aloe vera we have ever found. Catherine’s Choice Aloe Vera, whether liquid or encapsulated powder, is certified organic by an international agency whose representatives actually visit the fields annually to ensure the continuity of the high quality we have.
All of this would be in vain, however, if the harvest were not properly processed. The first step is very important and easy to understand. It is that the leaves when cut from the plants must be processed immediately. (The cutting is done in a skillful manner that keeps the plant producing for about seven years.) The leaves heal themselves so as to lose not more than a few drops of the valuable juice, but quality soon begins to deteriorate.
I have seen aloe vera leaves loaded onto a truck or trailer and left for hours in the hot sun, but this never happens with the leaves destined to become Catherine’s Choice. Our leaves are quickly transported to the all new, high-tech processing facility that has been constructed right in or adjacent to the fields of growing plants.
From this point on the advanced processing procedures are the secret assets of our suppliers. I can not report on them except to state that I have seen all that can be shown without endangering confidentiality, and that pertains to both juice and capsules. I can say that while I do not know their secrets I do know the people and am confident of their integrity and dedication. They are some of the most respected men in the entire industry. We have been with them almost since they started several years ago.
I hope this information has been of interest to you. I plan to show methods to treat specific ailments in future blogs, and not necessarily with aloe vera. We really are interested in helping people have better health, reducing the need for “health care,” which really is sickness care, if indeed it is any kind of care after the politicians and special interests get through with it.
Your Young Octogenarian