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goyin-yogaI’ve talked to a lot of people about GoYin. People are asking what seperates GoYin from the rest of the health juices out there. I always tell them that GoYin is all about balance.

If you are to follow traditional asian medicine closely, you must take into account balance. Many are familiar with the yin and yang. They represent opposites. They represent good/bad, right/wrong, hot/cold, and all of the other opposites that make up our lives. Traditional Asian Medicine recognizes this balance, and identifies many ingredients as ‘hot and cold.’

It is important to get a balance of these ingredients, and this has finally been integrated into a recipe that will allow you to balance your homeopathic needs all into one: GoYin.

The Goyin challenge is for every person to try a case a month. It is part of their 1 case, 1 person, 1 month challenge. You will experience better moods, more energy, and better sleep patterns.

Of all the people I’ve discussed the new traditional Asian blend Goyin with, I guess the most common thing I’ve heard is: “Goyin, does it work?”

I could sit here and say that Goyin makes me feel great, that it improves my mood, that it improves my sleep patterns, and brings more balance to my general sense of well-being, but its more convincing to talk about Goyin’s ingredients rather than my personal experiences with Goyin.

goyin-Sea-buckthornMany of Goyin’s ingredients, including Sea-buckthorn Berries, have been used over the centuries by multiple civilizations for a variety of ailments. In China, Seabuckthorn Berries have been used to alleviate stubborn coughs, help with digestion, and even help with blood flow. Since the circulatory system how the body distributes nutrients and removes toxins from all the different parts of the body, an improved blood flow can help in any number of applications to help your body, including a healthier immune system in general.

Sea-buckthorn Berries, also called Chharma in native languages, has a long history of being used to remedy stomach ulcers and other disorders related to inflamation, including peptic ulcers and gastritis, eczema, and canker sores.

Goyin’s ingredient Sea-buckthorn Berries wasn’t just used in China, although about 90 percent of the world’s supply can be found there. The superfruit has been found and used in places as far from China as India, Great Britain, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Finland, Sweden and Norway. Its finally found its way into the Americas via the blend of superherbs and superfruits: Goyin.

Among GoYin Juice’s many functional herbs and fruits, ginger is one of the most powerful and long beloved functional roots of Asia. Growing up in an Asian home myself, ginger was constantly used in pretty much every dish. Sometimes as a kid I would joke with my mom that her Korean cooking was really just the weeds that she would pick from the backyard, but little did I know that these gamey tasting vegetables would actually have so many healthy consequences.

gingerGoYin’s healthy supply of ginger can help treat nausea. Ginger has been traditionally used for seasickness, morning sickness, and even chemotherapy.

The Goyin drink is not the only recipe that uses ginger functionally. Ginger Ale and ginger beer have been used as stomach settlers right here in the US. In India, it is used from cold related headaches, in Myanmar (formerly Bhurma) it is used as a flu preventative measure, in China (where the recipe for the goyin juice recipe was inspired) it is also used as a natural sweetener and also used as for the common cold.

Historically, the common cold and nausea aren’t the only applications for ginger, but in Indonesia, Jahe, a type of ginger, is known to cure rheumatism and to reduce fatigue. In the Congo, a ginger mixture is even considered as a universal panacea. Goyin by far is not the first to employ the health benefits in their juice. It is really just following centuries of TAM tradition.

If you’re already going to the Goyin launch party, you’ve already received this sneak peak agenda, but I’ll just go ahead and post it here so that everyone can feel a little more excitement for things to come. Goyin launches in two weeks!

The seminars will cover new ways to sell goyin, without having to bug your friends and family. They really want IBOs to succeed, because if the IBOs succeed and sell goyin, then everyone is happy, especially the goyin drinkers!

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Sell Goyin , Buy Goyin

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So, if you’re driving south on I-15 in Utah approaching the point of the mountain, you will notice the above billboard, minus the question mark. What is Xango trying to say? That they were first in the Traditional Asian Medicine game? Are they implying that since they started providing TAM first, that they are better at it than goyin? Well, according to me, the billboard should read:

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It seems more like a response to the couple of goyin billboards that have popped up semi recently. Is Xango already scared of GoYin before Goyin even leaves the starting gates? GoYin launches in a couple weeks, which I am really excited for.

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This just in, there is some talk that goyin is going to be spear-heading a reality show based on mlm marketing, the winner winning $20K and a hot tub. Anyone who has information on this, please comment here! The rumor mills are churning… lets see what comes out.

There has been tons of buzz around the net about the new weight loss pill called Akavar 20/50. I don’t know much about it, except that they claim you can eat all you want and still lose weight.

I wonder if this pill is an upper, because usually you don’t really want to eat much anything at all when on them. Anyway, I’ve just been hoping to lose the extra 35 pounds that are keeping me from being on the wrestling team under the lightest division.

Anyway, if anyone has had a lot of experience with this drug, or know more about it, let us know!

Update: Goyin Forum

Since I was young, I knew I was goyin to be someone important and rich. That’s why I’m goyin to join this MLM. If I want a rich life, I am going (going?) to have to start thinking on my toes. That’s why Goyin will be my life’s focus for the next couple hours.

Update: Goyin Related Articles

If you’re an average homeboy like me, you probably BBQ a lot and probably use a charcoal chimney to get your coals ready. But for all of you from the streets, or those of you signing million dollar checks (in other words, you non-average homeboys), I will show you how to evenly light all of your coals perfectly, without match starter coals, and without lighter fluid.

This memorial day caught me alone with a nice thick 16 oz.+ ribeye. It was still a bit lonely. :(

Charcoal chimneys are very handy and save you money. They allow you to buy the cheapest charcoal and you’ll never have to spend money on ‘girl scout water’ (which Bob my roomate calls it).

charcoalchimney11. Simply stuff a couple leaves of newspaper in the bottom compartment of the chimney.

2. Fill the top compartment (the largest one) with charcoal.

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3. Light the newspaper through the air holes.

charcoalchimney34. Wait about 20 minutes.

You will see smoke rising from the chimney for about 10 minutes before you actually start seeing any red charcoals. This is normal. It is amazing that this even works, I still don’t understand it.

charcoalchimeny4This is what you will begin to see when the coals are well on their way. You’ll know that the coals are ready when the coals on the very top have 3-5 inch flames coming off them.

5. Once the coals are ready, use a glove and dump the coals evenly and replace the grill.

ribeyeYou will see that every individual coal will be perfectly and individually on fire. Perfectly and evenly lit coals means perfectly and evenly cooked meat. The coals will also be hotter initially than you can get them with lighter fluid, which is good news for all of you who eat your steaks rare.

So, living in Utah, most people I know are conservative by default without really knowing much about what that means. I think people around here for the most part understand the difference between social issues, like that its more conservative to be against gay marriage.

However, in my experience in Utah people usually either disagree or are surprised that economic conservatism means minimal government participation, or a “smaller federal government,” even though its a commonly understood principle. In other words, the further right you go on the scale, the less you believe the government should impose rules and regulations, and the more you believe that the government should tax less and eliminate more social programs, allowing private parties to provide these services. Theoretically, anarchy (or pure capitalism amongst private parties without any government involvement) is the most “right” one can go.

These days solutions to issues can fall on both the left or right side of the spectrum. Its possible to be economically conservative but still be interested in solutions to improve the environment for instance. I think we will see that market driven solutions by privateers will make a much more efficient change to the environment than slow capital hill tax fund eating bureaucrats.

As an example, Utah companies are some of the country’s leaders in developing renewable energy sources like bio-diesel. A norweigan company called Havgul is making plans to build the world’s largest wind farm. In my opinion the best thing government can do to help in these situations is to regulate as little as possible.

Anyway, there is an interesting and really short test you can take online that tells you how conservative or liberal you are in all of the different aspects government plays in our lives. Here is my breakdown. You can click on the link at the bottom to take the test yourself.

 

Your Political Profile:

Overall: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal

Social Issues: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

Ethics: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

premiumgasI was going to talk about this in yesterday’s post about Costco gas economics, but I held back just because I knew some people would object, but I’ve done a little research, so to Sam’s comment, this is just my humble opinion.

A couple weeks back I was enjoying Click and Clack’s weekly Saturday Morning show ‘Car Talk’ (which you can find on your local public radio probably) and they addressed the question on whether or not premium gas is really essential for cars that supposedly require it.

Octane ratings in gasoline measure its ‘knock resistance.’ Knocking occurs when fuel in a combustion chamber ignites before it should.

Apparently according to Click and Clack, cars until about the early 90s required the correct octane gasoline, or suffer extreme knocking and vibrating under the hood. It wasn’t until the early 90s that car manufacturers installed ‘knock sensors’ to prevent this from happening if you are using the wrong octane.

The knock sensors basically slow the speed of the cylinders to match that of a regularly tuned car that doesn’t require the special octane ratio.

Philip Reed of Edmunds.com said that the only advantage now to higher octane gasoline for your luxury/sports cars is that you can make it to 60 mph in half a second less time.

Here are some more sources:

NPR’s Car Talk - Click and Clack on “Car Talk” diss Premium Gas.

USAToday - Experts say that these days there isn’t much difference at all between premium and regular, and even challenges you to go back and forth to test it.

Edmunds.com - Modern sensors have made engine knocking a thing of the past.

ConsumerEnergyCenter.com - Knock sensors have made high octane obsolete. Using premium to clean your engine is also a myth.

CBS2.com - A mechanic of 25 years says that high octane is much less important these days with sophisticated on-board computers and knock sensors.

straightdope.com - this article warns against using regular in a car that requires premium if you do not have knock sensors (if your car is more than 15 years old).

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This is a view from the Costco gas pumps this morning at around 8:15. Notice how there is not one car in line.

This is just a follow-up of the previous post about the economics of getting gas at Costco. Go on a weekday morning. It is amazing how much time and money I can save by planning a time to get gas instead of getting gas when I happen to be driving around which is always during prime gas hours.

Another interesting thing about Costco gas is their supply chain. I’ve been trying to find something online that explains their supply chain and I found this CNN article, although it is about 8 years old. It explains the “hypermarket” strategy to discount gasoline. Costco and other big retailers or supermartkets these days have opened up gas pumps on their property and are able to offer gas at a discount by avoiding rent and other overhead costs, while staying aloof of contracts with big fuel distributors by buying from local suppliers.

It is interesting to see the disadvantage of this approach. This morning I saw this sign over the premium octane selector:

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Because the model of “hypermarkets” restrict themselves to only buy from local distributors in order to avoid contracts and fees with national distributors, they also run the risk of shortages by buying from a smaller market. Evidence of this is their shortage today of Premium Octane.

This shortage doesn’t effect me personally, since I don’t drive a car that supposedly requires this.

There is a really good dark park in Salt Lake sort of near Sugar House that is located in Parley’s Way. It is ideal for larger dogs that need a good amount of time off the leash every day, and this park is no leash required. All dogs that are of the sporting dog variety (like labradors, or any retriever, or like my vizsla/lab mix) require a minimum of 30 minutes of off leash activity a day; not only for the bodily exercise, but for a requirement their brain has from centuries of genetic engineering to improve their sense of smell. Page goes crazy if she misses her daily smell buffet. This dog park, situated next door to Tanner Park, is ideal in that there are acres upon acres of running room complete with a river (water is a great way to tire your dog out since there is obviously more resistance) and plenty of healthy smellage. Among other healthy things, this dog park is full of friendly people with friendly dogs for a good environment for learning healthy social behavior. Obviously if your dog is less than friendly, it is required to stay on a leash.

How to Get There

As you can see on the map, take the 2300 E exit and then just take heritage way going east until it runs into Kenton Dr. The dog park begins in between Tanner Park and Parley’s way. You have to actually leash your dog for about 100 feet until you get to the sign that says you can unleash. To get down into the park, there is about a 100 yard walk down a dirt trail, but you can unleash your dog at the top of that trail

There is a convenient bag dispenser at the beginning of that trail so you can clean up after your dog without having to plan ahead with your own bag. If you thought it couldn’t get any more convenient, along the trail are tubes provided to leave your poop bags.

There are miles of trails that I haven’t even seen all of, even though I’ve been to the park half a dozen times going in different directions each time. There is a clean river that runs at various speeds throughout the park. (The picture below doesn’t make it look that clean, but its just some sand stirred up by other dogs).

There was one thing that happened on my latest trip there that was a little alarming. A hamster appeared out of the bushes, and I knew that page would eventually see it and chase after it. Eventually she spotted it and started running after it. It unexpectedly ran up to page bearing its teeth. This to me was a sign of possible rabbies so I grabbed page by the collar and pulled her back, but the hamster kept advancing. Pretty soon I was running with page by the collar away from this hamster that was chasing us around for like 10 seconds. Anyway, we finally outran the hamster (they aren’t known for great running speeds). The hamster proceeded to attack another dog, at which point the owner punted the hamster off a 50 foot ledge.

Page at the edge of the off leash area, that’s I-80 down below

Page socializing with a pug at a river bank. Water is cleaner than it appears.

Along one of the many trails.

The area also is a historical site. Page checks out an old wine cellar door.

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