Testimonials: Arthritis

Author: Dr. Hugo C.
I graduated as a medical surgeon in Colombia. I have 20 years of experience in the medical field, and in the last 10 years I have dedicated myself to natural medicine. A few months ago I became interested in Mangosteen juice. In my natural medicine clinic, we often create proprietary formulas from natural remedies. I first learned about Mangosteen through one of the labs that prepares these natural formulas for use in my clinic. After hearing about Mangosteen, I first read a lot of research about the fruit and the Mangosteen juice product before deciding to integrate a product into my clinic that I had not formulated myself. I started taking the juice myself to try it, and then decided to use it in my practice. Since then, I have used Mangosteen juice for various medical conditions. For example, I have elderly patients with degenerative arthritis who experienced pain relief within five days of using Mangosteen juice without using any other medications. These are patients who have tried other remedies in the past without seeing any results. When I researched this Mangosteen product, I liked the fact that before introducing it on the market the company conducted serious research efforts with doctors who used it clinically, comparing it to other medications. What I really like about this product is how quickly it produces results. There are people who call me within hours of taking Mangosteen juice to tell me they feel more energy and overall wellness. It is a product I can trust because it produces sound results quickly. Best of all, everyone likes it. Often, natural remedies have an unpleasant taste. But not Mangosteen juice! It is delicious. Truly, this juice is a marvelous product.

Author: Lauren N.
I have been in practice as a chiropractor and holistic healer for 14 years. Within 20 minutes of trying mangosteen juice for the first time, I felt noticeably happier. I knew mangosteen was something different. I am much more balanced emotionally. My little aches and pains are less significant now. One of my elderly patients has terrible degenerative arthritis. She has had two hip replacements. She started to drink mangosteen juice, and she now feels strong enough and has enough stability to walk without a cane. Her pain is gone. She also notices that she can walk for longer amounts of time.

Author: James Graham, M.D.
I reached a point in my life where I was going to have to give up my career as a cancer surgeon. I had developed severe arthritis primarily in my knee and ankle joints. After undergoing arthroscopic surgery I was told that I had lost most of the cartilage in my knee joints. I was walking “bone on bone.” I was in severe pain and began using a number of traditional medications, including COX-2 inhibitors. After three months, I developed a gastric ulcer and my hemoglobin dropped to a level of six, thus requiring admission to the Intensive Care Unit, endoscopic surgery and transfusion. It was at that time people began to tell me of different folk remedies that could help, as I could not use traditional medication for my arthritis. One of my patients with ovarian cancer was being treated with chemotherapy and was doing extremely well. She was also drinking Mangosteen juice, but I was not aware of it. She told me to take three ounces a day, and after three days of drinking the juice, I could honestly feel a difference. I was at a point that pain would wake me up as I rolled over in bed at night. Now I sleep through the night and rather than waking up in the morning with stiff joints, I get out of bed and feel great. I have since cancelled my disability application and now look forward to many more years of treating cancer patients. I have spent time researching numerous articles in the medical literature around the world about Mangosteen, and I am convinced enough to recommend it to you. Try it!

Author: June G.
I would like to share my story of how I overcame the pain from fibromyalgia and arthritis. I’ve had chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia since 1988. In 2004 I read an article in the newspaper about mangosteen fruit juice and what it could do for diabetes, fibromyalgia, arthritis and migraines. I have had ten major surgeries, and with fibromyalgia and arthritis in my shoulders and hips, I was in pain all the time. It was keeping me awake a lot at night and I would take additional pills to sleep. I took many prescription drugs for allergies, asthma, pain and more. After two months and eleven days of taking mangosteen fruit juice I felt no more pain. You can’t even believe what that feels like after all these years! After four days I had more energy and no longer had to take a daily nap. My pain level kept dropping, and I stopped taking most of the prescription medications. I am getting out of the house more often and hope to get back into golf this year.

Author: Jody S.
When I was first introduced to mangosteen juice, I just had a gut feeling that this product was going to change many lives. I started taking the juice in November of 2002, and within a few days, I noticed benefits! I have suffered from arthritis in my hands for about the last eight years. It is a hereditary condition that my mother and sister have also suffered from. In fact, my mother's hands have become so bad that they are constantly swollen and sore. I was worried about ending up this way myself. Whevever the weather would turn cold or when I was getting sick, I could tell immediately in my hands. They would ache and swell to the point that I could no longer wear my rings. After only a few weeks of taking mangosteen, I noticed that I no longer had this discomfort at all! I am so thrilled that I have found something that offers me relief.

My 13-year-old son has also benefited from taking mangosteen. He has suffered from some anxiety and depression for about a year and was prescribed the drug Celexa®, but it has not really worked that well. I decided to have him try mangosteen, and ever since, he is a new kid! He seems happier and more sociable than before. I am going to work toward taking him off of his medications and just keep him on the mangosteen. I also have my other two children on mangosteen and know that they are experiencing many benefits. I believe in this product because it has worked wonders in my own family.

Author: Ford W.
For many years I have suffered with pain of several kinds. I am a 56-year-old male and for the last 20 years I have had approximtely 9 kidney stone episodes as well as 10 to 12 migraines that sent me to the hospital. For these I was given shots of Demorol and on one or two occassions I was even given morphine for the pain. Most recently I have had ongoing arthritus pain in my left hip. I have 2 pins there from a surgery about 10 years ago. This pain kept me from doing all the fun things in life that one would expect to be able to do.

In fall of 2006 a friend introduced me to mangosteen juice. By this time I had been on a variety of different pain relief medicines. I had also had facet blocks and ephidurals for low back pain caused by bulging disks at the L4 and L5 joints. Two weeks before I began to drink this juice I had asked my family doctor if I could increase my Celebrex. He told me not to because of possible harmful side effects on my liver and kidneys. By this point in time I had also been taking Darvocet off and on for the low back pain. In early December of 2006 I began drinking 1 oz of juice three times daily. Within three weeks I noticed I was sleeping much better at night and not getting up 5 or 6 times like I had been in the past. Then one day I realized I was not limping around the house or struggling to get out of my chair. I have had absolutely fantastic results with this juice. My arthritus pain is gone. My low back pain has been much better as well. I no longer need to visit the pain clinic and take Darvocet. I cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to spending this summer playing in the yard again with my grandkids as well as golfing. Life is fun again. The few times I have run out of juice, my arthritus pain is back in about three days. I now keep a very close eye on my supply.

Author: VanVechten C.
I am 58 years old. I have been shoeing horses for 35 years. I suffer with arthritis pain in my hands from numerous injuries. I also have lived with lower back pain and right hip pain for 30 some years. I inhaled aspirin and Ibuprofen for the pain for years. About 20 years ago my stomach became very upset. I controlled the heartburn with a handful of heartburn medication. About 6 years ago, I had a severe attack of pain. We thought I was having a heart attack—it was acid reflux and I was put on another medicine. In addition to that, my prostate was suffering from BPH and so I was started on another medication to help control that. In the spring of '04 my brother introduced me to Mangosteen and I started on 1 oz., 2 times a day.

Then two years ago (spring of '05) I had a huge subdural hematoma, it was 3/4 of an inch thick and 2 1/2 inches in diameter. My surgeon doesn't know how I survived, but with two burr holes, the Lord, and a great surgeon I did. I was put on high blood pressure meds to control any blood pressure spikes. I was also put on an anticonvulsant to ward off seizures. I felt like a walking drugstore and didn't like it a bit. I had been taking the Mangosteen for a year and a half and didn't see much of a result—the arthritis in my hands had subsided some, and I didn't die of the Subdural Hematoma (I think the Mangosteen kept the brain inflamation from causing irreversible brain damage, but who knows? The subdural was 8 weeks old when finally diagnosed), but I still had back pain and the acid reflux was still demanding 2 prilosec per day. Six months after the Subdural Surgery I was back shoeing horses and pretty much back to normal.

Then my faithful horse kicked me. Both back feet squarely in the chest, knocked me down and out. When I awoke, I could only lay there and wish for air and to die. I really thought he had killed me, but that I just wasn't dead yet!! I was gradually able to drag my sorry self out the corral and was thinking about how to deal with the pain. I was inches away from the Ibuprofen bottle. Then I remembered Dr. Templeman's words "Mangosteen has a half-life of 4 to six hours in the body" and "Mangosteen is as powerful an anti-inflammatory agent and pain killer as he could use." I decided to go for the Mangosteen instead. I upped the doseage to 2 oz., four times a day. When I awoke the next day I had no pain in my chest, hands, back, nor in my left hip. I was pain-free for the first time in years. Now after a year on the increased amount of Mangosteen I am off all of the medications, even the prilosec and the flomax!!

Thank God for that horse, and for the Mangosteen juice. I am no longer a walking drugstore.

Author: Harriette B.
The pain in my shoulder was so bad that I could not lift my arm above my chest. If I accidentally jerked my arm, the pain took my breath away. It is called bursitis.

I took aspirin constantly for the pain -- and they made a hole in my stomach lining... then medication to fix my stomach lining and on and on... You know the drill. I think my fear was the worst... I was afraid I would have to live like this for the rest of my life and I wanted to know how in the world I was going to manage that.

Then... I was told about this product and I began sipping daily a small amount of this great tasting juice. Yes, a juice, a fruit juice. I noticed immediately that I slept better. I sleep sounder and I am more restful in the morning. A few days later I notice that I feel lighter, not worried or concerned and I feel that all is well. I love this feeling! It is a million dollar feeling. My energy level is up. I also noticed that my shoulder is not as sore and the pain is subsiding and my range of motion is better.

I didn’t think too much of it because I didn’t want to jump to conclusions about the juice. As I continued to sip the juice my shoulder got better and better and I felt better and better. It was so gradual that one day I could lift my arm above my head without pain of any kind. I had not been able to do this for months. I can swim again and resume all of my activities.

I cannot tell you the joy I felt then and still feel. It has been over a year and the pain is gone totally and has not come back. I don’t have pain from sinus headaches, my big toe does not hurt anymore, and my degenerative disk in my neck is behaving (this is huge) and not bringing me down, totally down. Those of you who have neck and back pain understand this.

The discomfort I felt in my stomach went with the pain in my shoulder. One of the best things is that I lost the fear for my future!

Author: Lamar T.
All my life I've enjoyed sitting down with one leg tucked under me, you know when you sit down by bending your knee and sitting on your lower leg, although I would only do this when the seat was "soft" like when you were sitting in a booth at a restaurant rather than at a table with straight chairs.

However, as I got older, though I would still try it, it could get embarrasing because once I got down in that position I couldn't get back up and I HAD to get up because it hurt so bad. Sometimes at restaurants my wife would have to reach under the table and pull my leg out straight because I was hurting so bad and couldn't straighten my leg myself. The problem of course was arthritis.

I started drinking mangosteen juice in October of 2005 and drink 2 oz twice a day (with breakfast and with dinner). I have had a number of health improvements since then but the most dramatic is the complete elimination of arthritic pain in my knees. I can once again (as I did as a kid) sit with one leg tucked under me, but also when pulling weeds in the garden I can get up and down with no pain (beats scooting around on your bottom because you didn't want to face the pain of repeatedly getting up or down).

Author: Roger O.
When I was 17 I raced motocross on a corporate sponsored team. One race day while waiting for our last race, I was hunting for my teammates whom I had thought went up a farm road. As I charged after them as fast as the bike could go, I ran into a chain that was strung between two trees stopping my bike instantly. As my body continued forward, my hips slid into the handlebars and then started my body somersaulting thru the air. Next thing I recall I was in an ambulance going me to the hospital for x-rays and stitches.

It was a miracle that I had survived flying over 100 feet through the air head over heels at 70 mph and without even any broken bones.

But in my mid-thirties I started developing some pain in my left hip, and it got worse every year. Then in my late-forties (March 2006) I was on a ski trip in Colorado and my hip pain became unmanageable. I was taking three 800mg Ibuprofens a day but still couldn’t bear the pain.

When I got home I went to see an orthopedic surgeon with my x-rays. He took one look and said "son, you are way past due for a hip replacement". I was shocked. He told me by the x-rays it was obvious that I had some major trauma to my hip region at least 20 years ago - a pretty accurate assessment.

He then brought out the titanium hip replacement parts, which he said was my only option, and told me how the procedure is done. He said in 6 weeks I'd be pretty much pain free although I would probably have to give up my active lifestyle. I said thanks anyway and started to leave - he said "ok but when it gets to this stage the pain only gets worse and more continuous, you'll be begging to get back in here before you know it".

I managed to ignore the pain for eleven more months. Finally, in February of 2007 the hip pain was keeping me awake most of the night, I couldn't sit still, it hurt when I walked, it just always nagged at me. It was now controlling my life - I decided it was finally time for the surgery.

While on a layover down in Sydney, I began my preparation to get my hip replacement.

Then I got lucky. At dinner that night I was telling a fellow pilot of my plans for a hip replacement and he told me to try Mangosteen juice.

Being a typical skeptic, I doubted it’s ability to help my situation, but when he asked me if it wouldn’t be worth trying before I let some doctor start sawing on my bones I couldn’t argue and I went ahead and ordered a bottle. I started drinking 6 ounces a day.

A week later my son and I returned to Colorado to join the same friends from the ski trip the year before. But this year I was just going to put my son in ski school for 2 days and take pictures/videos of him and just enjoy the mountain get away. No skiing for me. I wasn’t willing to deal with the hip pain skiing caused the year before.

The entire first day of ski school they only took my son outside to ski for about an hour. At $140 a day for ski school I felt that was unacceptable so I got a $280 refund for the 2 days of his ski school l had planned.

On day two, I rented ski gear for him and me to take him on the bunny slope and try to teach him myself. After about 3 hours of playing on the bunny slope, my hip still felt good and so decided to try a couple short steeper runs and it still felt good.

So I located my ski friends and met up with them at the top of the hill and did 2 full runs and still didn't have any sign of hip pain. Then they retired to the lodge and I headed to the top and did two more solo runs. I had a good ski session and the pain never showed up.

As of this writing it’s been 6 months now and my hip pain still seems to be a thing of the past. I had been dealing with my hip pain for almost 20 years now; it had me to the point of going for hip replacement surgery and now it doesn’t even bug me!