"Ron Amos" is one of about 150,000 Kaire International multilevel marketing franchisees who, having far too much time on their hands, appear to spend most of it creating Pycnogenol testimonials. (Pycnogenol is an antioxidant found in the bark of a pine tree that grows in France)=20 These guys are worse than a room full of Amway converts on Ritalin. And although you can buy Pycnogenol (and for that matter, a number of free radical scavenger/anti oxidants) from any health food store, those wonderful people at Kaire International *insist* that only their brand of Pycnogenol has "optimum bioavailability" -- and, therefore they offer, you should be only too willing to pay about $80 for a small bottle of this tree bark derivative.=20 CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIAL by another Kaire distributor. Does it sound vaguely familiar? Regards and Caveat Emptor, Martin Bayne 46/3 Art's friends were concerned for his health. Over time they saw him go from a strong, energetic, always on the go, Internationally known master artist in many mediums, to an excessively overweight, unenthusiastic shell of a man. He was told by the doctors that he would lose his legs if the phlebitis he had, progressed to his knees . He was also an insulin dependent diabetic and was having severe problems with his prostate. His friends cared. They didn't want to see Art exit this world prematurely. But over time, Art progressively got worse. He wouldn't listen to anyone concerning his health. His marriage was strained to the limit. His financial problems were extreme. Art was losing his desire to live.=20 Art was so lethargic and apathetic about day to day life that he would spend days at a time in his recliner. On many occasions, he wouldn't even take the time or effort to get up and go to the bathroom. These were his darkest days. This was when he didn't care about staying alive. It was during this time in his life that he thought about ending it. "I was having a lot of mental problems and I kind of sat back in my recliner and I decided that well, you know, I could just sit here and kind of will myself to die."=20 Art just told himself that he would just quit taking insulin. He had been in an insulin coma before and he knew it wasn't painful and everybody would have just said, poor old Art, he just didn't get up to get insulin. "Nobody would have known that I did it on purpose." "That was my fullest intention to do that." "Can you imagine a man weighing 402 pounds without no legs." "Who would you put that (burden) on." Here was a man laying in bed a lot all the time. Here was a man who was actually a celebrity of a whole city, met movie stars who collected his work. People could only dream about this type of success in their life. Now he was on his back, sick and even his mind not working right. One friend tried to get him interested in Pycnogenol but Art wouldn't have anything to do with it.=20 Art was finally given this tape on Pycnogenol by long time friend, Michael Kukhahn "Every doctor I've been to has told me that my condition was irreversible and there wasn't any chance that what was on that little tape was going to help me." By now Art had gangrene in his feet. It was only a matter of time before he would lose them. "My feet was just black and every time I would take off my shoes, someone would say that the dye was coming off his shoes on to my feet but that was the color of them. I had this gangrene in the bottom of my feet and a couple of places was draining." At that time the doctors were telling Art that they had to take two of his toes off and part of his foot. They wanted him to go to Medford, Oregon just to confirm their diagnosis. It was then that Art was told that they would have to take both of his legs off. They would amputate one, fit him with a prostheses, then ten months later they would amputate the other leg. Nothing was working in Art's life anymore.=20 "I listened to the tape. The first thing I heard that doctor (Rosquist) say was that this tape helps people with phlebitis and that was the first time I had heard anybody say that they ever got any help from anything (concerning phlebitis). So I got on the phone and called my friend and asked him how do I get this stuff, boy I need to get some of it. We didn't talk anything about business because if he would of started a business deal with me, I would have hung up on him right then. The last thing, I was thinking about dying, not doing another business. We talked about the health benefits of it and what it might do, so I got the pills and the guy on the tape said that I had to take one pill for ever twenty pounds that you weigh. Because I weighed 400 I started taking 20 of those pills a day and within 2 1/2 weeks, I had this bad problem of getting up and going to the bathroom 15 to 20 times a night and just get back in bed and have to get back up again, the first thing Pycnogenol addressed was that problem. All of a sudden it was gone, I couldn't believe that anything would make that big of a change in a guys life and I was real happy about that."=20 "Then about 2 1/2 weeks after that or 3, I kept taking the pills, starting to see some results and I was getting a little bit excited about it and then all of a sudden I started having these insulin reactions. I haven't had an insulin reaction in so many years I even forgot what they were, scared me in the beginning but come to find out I was taking to much insulin. At that time I started my day with 150 units of insulin, I'd take 100 of MPH and 50 of the regular then throughout the coarse of the day I'd add another 5 or 10 units of the R, so some days I'd take as much as 180 units. I started having these reaction so I started cutting back on it and taking less and less. I kept checking my blood sugar and I kept taking less and then I started losing some weight." "All of a sudden I started getting feeling back in my feet and I hadn't had any feeling in my feet for about eight years. I could step on tacks and not know. I would have tacks, staples and stuff like that stuck in the bottom of my feet and wouldn't know it until I would walk across the floor and I could hear the clicking on the linoleum. When I walked on them, it was like walking on a couple of 2 X 4 studs and the pain was excruciating. It felt like walking on a couple of toothaches all the time, all the way through your body." "After taking this Pycnogenol for about 2 1/2 months, I started getting this feeling back in my feet. I'll tell you, when that happened, a big transition took place in my life as I realized that God answered a prayer because I had been praying that my feet be healed. I had forgotten to mentioned the diabetes, the prostrate problem and all the other things that this stuff was healing on me but God started healing my feet through these pills. I kept taking them and taking them and I went to my doctor and said "Hey, look what this stuff has done for me."=20 Art had to cancel his cable subscription, sell his television set and VCR to get money to buy Pycnogenol. He sold his prized sculpturing tools in order to get this wondrous product. He started going into town and the many people who knew him were amazed as to his health. They noticed his change in attitude, his glowing face and his over all good nature. He couldn't talk enough about the benefits of this amazing little pill called Pycnogenol.=20 "I never thought about making this into a business. I was thinking about getting my health back and getting back into my sculpture work and all of a sudden, a little business started evolving there, I started getting checks, checks started coming, and I started losing weight." "After 10 months of taking Pycnogenol, =91I have been a total insulin dependent diabetic for twenty years, =91the doctors just took me completely off the insulin and put me back on that pill that they start you out with when you first become a diabetic." "I'm 60 years old and I feel like I'm 35 or 40. God certainly has answered my prayers. He has healed my body, my marriage and He is in the process of healing my finances so I have a lot to be thankful for." Art did not have to have his legs amputated and the natural color has returned along with the feeling. He has lost over 130 pounds and continues to lose. His prostrate problem is gone. His complexion is that of a young man. Art has his life back and a bonus. His miraculous healing, vitality, enthusiasm and remarkable testimony on what Pycnogenol has done for him and continues to do for his health has been the frame work for his tremendous business success with Kaire International Inc.=20 Art Stone's testimony is just one of thousands telling of the many benefits of this super antioxidant called Pycnogenol . For more information on Art Stone and his miraculous story and the products that changed his life, contact: Linda S. Williams:Independent Associate: Kaire International Inc. at: (916) 474-1384 or:=20 Art Stone at 1-800-218-6529: