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Stem Cell Research

On Saturday, I attended the annual meeting of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association in Naples, FL. Every year the University brings some of the brightest and best researchers to report on their technology. The keynote speaker was Dr. John Wagner, Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Division of Hematology-Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Co-Director of the Center for Translational Medicine, School of Medicine. As a pediatrician, Dr. Wagner has specialized in debilitating diseases of children. His work with adult stem cells has produced spectacular results in curing Leukemia and some other diseases that I can't pronounce. He then turned his efforts to diseases that are either incurable or existing treatments are inadequate. He showed pictures of children with these diseases that were revolting. Conventional treatment would call for strong chemotherapy, which would destroy the immune system, then bone marrow transplant to rebuild the immune system - ofte...

Weight Loss and the Mona Vie RVL Product Launch

Saturday (1/8/11), I attended the Mona Vie RVL (Reveal) launch meeting in Orlando. The conference was fun. Brig Hart, who is the poster boy for Mona Vie, preached for quite a while. He said what he knows he learned from Oral Roberts, so maybe he went to ORU. Brig and his wife have made millions from Mona Vie, so spend all of their time helping others to get started in home-based business. See http://www.brighart.com/. He said there has been 150 millionaires made by Mona Vie since the company started 6 years ago. The 4 patents they applied for were issued in September, so now anybody processing and selling Acai berry juice will have to pay Mona Vie a royalty. Acai fruit comes from Brazil, so they set up a charitable foundation in Brazil called the MORE Project. The head of it spoke for a while, and had a 16 year old girl with him who was saved from abject poverty through MORE. She has a great singing voice, and has received a recording contract through a Mona Vie Distributor who is a pr...