![]() Plant-based sources can include pumpkin seeds, soybeans, lentils, and chickpeas. People also get additional L-arginine as part of their regular diet.įood sources, such as red meat, fish, dairy, and eggs, contain low amounts of L-arginine that can help the body replenish its necessary resources. The substance also stimulates the release of insulin into the body.Ī person’s body naturally produces L-arginine under typical circumstances. Nitric oxide acts to widen blood vessels in the bloodstream, which may help certain circulatory conditions, according to a 2016 review. It also releases nitric oxide into the blood. ![]() L-arginine is an amino acid that helps the body build protein. The host got 20% of all sales, but–and this may have been the flaw that kept Plants Alive from IPOing–they had to spend that money on plants.Share on Pinterest Ivan Andrianov/Stocksy ![]() She’d grow plants in our basement, persuade people to invite their friends to host a party for their friends and then drive over in a station wagon filled with plants to tell them about how much better their lives would be if they transformed their house into a fun maze where they were always ducking around plants hanging from the ceiling in crochet nets. Then I remembered that in the 1970s, my mom started a company called Plants Alive. The reason this keeps happening to my mom is that she has this horrible habit of listening to people when they talk. Also, a neighbor had tried to sell her Amway, and another friend tried to sell her Longaberger baskets. Apparently, a friend of hers had gotten to her before I did and focused on the making-money part instead of the minty-goodness part. Most of the distributors I met started off by selling to their parents, so I called my mom and casually mentioned that I was drinking a delicious mint-chocolate-chip Herbalife shake. If there were a pyramid, she would definitely be at the bottom. At one, I saw a toddler sucking a shake from a bottle. And I worried that I was joining a company where most buyers aren’t like the people I met on the beach but instead are low-income people who pay $5 a day for their drinks at storefront nutrition centers. My lovely wife Cassandra has 50 kinds of herbal tea from Whole Foods with similar names. There were also a lot of dubious-sounding Herbalife supplements I could sell, such as Relax Now, Sleep Now and Tang Kuei Plus for PMS. It was only when I went home that I realized what they were selling me.įor $59.25, I could become a distributor and get 25% off my $39.10 monthly canister of shake powder, which I could then sell at full price. Instead, I had to get my own results and share my experience. “You know how hard it is to convince someone to lose weight? It’s miserable,” he said. So I told Mark to sign me up as a tea and shake salesman so I could start calling people. So I decided to try not only using/eating/drinking/smoking/driving/watching Herbalife, depending on what it is, but also selling it. Then again, I’ve never met anyone who bets $1 billion on companies. ![]() I too have never bought anything, or met anyone who bought anything, from Herbalife. ![]() To put that in terms non–Wall Street people can understand, it means that whatever Herbalife is, there is more than $1 billion of it.Īckman, after lobbying Congress, persuaded the FTC to investigate the company and has posed one question to audiences that I find very convincing: Have you ever bought a product from Herbalife? Almost all of them say no. So I got very interested when hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman bet $1 billion that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme and Carl Icahn, who hates him, argued that it so totally isn’t and set out to prove it by buying $1 billion worth of the company. I love when billionaires fight, because they do it with money, which is the third best way to fight, after Jell-O wrestling and dating your ex’s best friend. ![]()
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