I am back from ILC2010!!!!!
Tahitian Noni International has given us a brand new beginning with a brand new logo and new products!
We are going to revolutionize the World again!!!!
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Dr. Ralph Heinicke
I was reading Blog.TNI and I come across a blog post of Dr. John Wardsworth announcing the death of Dr. Ralph Heinicke.
He was the Father of Noni and how it have affected many people's life in the world.
His discovery had also indirectly given me an asthma-free life.
I will remember him.
Rest in peace, Dr. Ralph.
We will miss you.
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To read the full announcement article, please click on the link below:
Dr. Ralph Heinicke
He was the Father of Noni and how it have affected many people's life in the world.
His discovery had also indirectly given me an asthma-free life.
I will remember him.
Rest in peace, Dr. Ralph.
We will miss you.
:(
To read the full announcement article, please click on the link below:
Dr. Ralph Heinicke
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The Origins of Tahitian Noni Juice
In 1994, john wadsworth received a package from a friend in Tahiti containing a sample of a fruit called Noni.
At the time, John—a food scientist by trade—was searching for natural foods or ingredients around which he could develop a new health supplement. With his curiosity aroused, he began researching the Noni fruit. His initial findings yielded exciting information from Dr. Ralph Heinicke, a scientist working in Hawaii who had made several meaningful discoveries regarding the Noni plant. John knew he was on to something.
A Modern Discovery
John traveled to Tahiti, where he searched for and gathered any type of information he could find regarding noni. He spoke with native Tahitians on the street and in their homes, and he listened to dozens of accounts and stories about the uses and health benefits of Noni.John also sought out traditional Tahitian health practitioners who had firsthand knowledge of generations-old traditions, and who had preserved the Noni fruit's ancient health secrets.
But John quickly realized that there simply weren't enough noni trees in Tahiti to support a large commercial operation. So he set out to discover a more abundant supply.
Eventually, John leveraged everything he had in order to travel to the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, where he'd been told there was a limitless supply of noni. His search yielded only discouragement—until the day before he was to leave.
During an inner-island search by jeep, John and his guide crested a ridge on one side of yet another beautiful valley. The sun was just setting, and its rays were now falling on the broad, green leaves of tens of thousands of noni trees.
In a transcendent moment, John realized he had finally located the noni.source he'd been searching for.
A New Industry Emerges
In the months that followed, much effort, faith, and trial and error went into determining how to transport the noni fruit from Tahiti to America, while preserving its vital nutrients. John also worked to finalize a product formulation and iron out the operational logistics of an overwhelming undertaking. Two years later, with the product and processes now finalized, John teamed with four superstars of the network marketing industry to start a new company: Tahitian Noni International. The end result of John's efforts and subsequent leadership was something never before seen in the network marketing world. TAHITIAN NONI® Juice—the original super fruit beverage—was born.
Traditional Benefits of Noni
The success of TAHITIAN NONI® Juice has its roots in ancient tradition. Going back thousands of years, ancient Tahitians began utilizing the nutritional prowess contained in the noni fruit. They employed noni as both a food staple and medicinal agent. Honored traditions passed on for generations describe how noni could provide energy and vigor and relieve a man from suffering and pain. Anecdotal and historical sources depict how virtually all island cultures used noni in a variety of ways, including eating the raw fruit and utilizing the skin, seeds, leaves and fruit to make teas, poultices, powders, and more. The noni fruit was also held in high esteem by Tahuas, Kahunas and other native island healers.
When Europeans began exploring the islands of the South Pacific in the late 1700s, they made note of the use of noni among the native people. Captain James Cook's own journals make mention of his observation of the island natives using noni.
During World War II, U.S. soldiers based on Polynesian islands were instructed in their field manuals that noni was recognized as a safe food staple to eat to sustain their strength.
Today, millions the world over are discovering the health balancing properties of this once hidden island secret.
This article is extracted from tahitiannoni.com
Article contents are all copyrighted of Tahitian Noni International.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Do You Know Noni?
What’s all the fuss about a plant used by the Polynesians?
By Sophia V. Schweitzer
Wow! A potion that might cure arthritis, cancer and diabetes, reduce stress and high blood pressure, foil germs, and baffle fleas? A natural remedy that could transform your life? Absolutely, promise testimonials on Web sites and in brochures.
All the excitement is about noni, a plant used in Polynesia for thousands of years as a remedy for various ailments. Now, from Tahiti to Hawai'i, noni trees are being stripped naked of fruit, bark and leaves to make teas, tonics, pills and juices. These products are sold in health food stores and through multilevel marketing pyramids for as much as $50 for a 32-ounce bottle that lasts less than a month.
Yet, there is no conclusive evidence to support the medicinal benefits attributed to noni. So what's going on? A lot. Savvy marketers are building their empires on some surprising and promising facts.
The Voyaging Plant
Noni, also known as Indian mulberry or morinda citrifolia, is an evergreen tree, 9 to 18 feet tall. It came to the Hawaiian Islands with the first Polynesian voyagers, and was one of 24 plants intended to provide basic needs such as food, medicine and tools. You may have seen it in drier lowlands or at the edge of forests, with its shiny, dark-green leaves and its warty, pallid yellow fruit that, when ripe, smells positively foul.
The Hawaiian people used every part of the noni tree. The inner bark of the roots and trunk rendered red and yellow dyes for kapa cloth. The fruit, leaves and bark also served as food in times of famine. Made into a poultice, noni was used for healing deep cuts, broken bones, blemishes and boils, according to Beatrice Krauss, the late renowned Hawai'i ethnobotanist. Extracts were used to treat a variety of ailments, including urinary disorders, diabetes and arthritis. A tea brewed from noni leaves served as a tonic. Today, many local people still use noni to make teas, salves and saps.
Enter Modern Science
Native cultures observe, sometimes for generations, to learn the medicinal properties of plants. Noni was and is useful in Polynesian cultures, and modern scientists have noticed. If it works for them, it can work for us, they reason. They've been discovering that plants such as noni can yield essential bioactive chemicals that can lead to better medicine. The leaves of foxglove plants, for example, are used in drugs to treat heart failure. Little periwinkle held secrets that, unveiled, led to new anti-cancer drugs. Breakthroughs like these have contributed to the development of 25 percent to 50 percent of the prescription drugs in our country. It's no wonder that scientists in Hawai'i have been interested in the Islands' own noni.
In the mid-1990s, a team led by Annie Hirazumi, in research for her Ph.D. thesis at the University of Hawai'i, found that noni extract benefited mice that became sick after being injected with a specific type of lung cancer cells. Inflicted mice usually die within six weeks of receiving the transplanted cells. But 40 percent of the mice given noni extract recovered, and the rest died at a much slower pace.
So is noni a cure for cancer? We don't know yet, says Dr. Yoshitsugi Hokama, a pathology professor at the University of Hawai'i and a researcher in the mice experiments. Though Hirazumi isolated a chemical in noni that activated the immune system, the experiment was performed in a controlled environment, Hokama explains. "The only conclusion you can possibly draw from what we did is that it appeared that noni may stimulate the immune system in mice, and this may have helped them, indirectly, in fighting a particular type of cancer."
Hokama was careful not to overstate the findings. Unfortunately, marketers were not: They picked up the news and ran. They found ways to make noni palatable and touted it for its health-promoting effects.
Sold as a food supplement, noni isn't regulated like drugs are. According to the American Cancer Society, some alternative therapies are pushing noni as a treatment for cancer, and Americans are listening. We tend to trust all things whole and natural. But natural doesn't mean it's always good for you. Gobble the pretty purple flowers of foxglove and you could poison yourself. Noni, as far as we know, isn't harmful. But as noni's popularity grows, one small question has become a giant concern: If noni acts as a medicine, is it possible that it can become toxic like any other medicine? Is too much dangerous?
New Developments
More research is desperately needed to truly understand noni.
That is the goal behind the research team of Dr. Katalin Csiszar, associate professor of cell biology at the Pacific Biomedical Research Center at the University of Hawai'i. By researching noni's chemical composition and characteristics, they hope to define active compounds and biological activities that will guide its use.
Dr. Brian Issell, medical professor and director of the Clinical Sciences Program at the Cancer Research Center at UH, is part of the team. "So far, we have discovered that there really are chemicals in noni that slow down the growth of certain tumor cells in dishes, over and above noni's possible effect on the immune system," he says. "A lot of work still needs to be done, but this might really contribute to improving the treatment of cancer."
The National Institutes of Health agrees. Often hesitant to fund expensive botanical research, it awarded the team a $340,000 grant last July to start a noni study with cancer patients. The study is the first with human participants. And these participants, Issell adds, were not responding to standard treatments.
He and his colleagues will examine whether chemicals in noni indeed fight cancer cells. "In the trial, we'll establish the right dose of noni so the body absorbs an optimum level of noni's chemicals, and we want to find out if and when a dosage may become harmful. Then we look for evidence of shrinkage in the tumor."
The researchers use the whole fruit, which is freeze-dried and in capsule form. "If all goes well with the phase one study," Issell says, "we'll apply to do phase two studies, which will focus on noni's effect on particular cancers. We also hope that by then we have some idea about what the active chemicals might be."
What's Next?
The study may have far-reaching consequences. At best is a potential new medicine to fight cancer. At the very least, it will offer guidance in trips to the health food store. We'll know if noni is beneficial and in what quantities. Who knows? There may be a lot of power packed in this unpretentious little fruit.
The above article is taken from Island Scene Magazine Spring 2002.
It is available online at http://www.islandscene.com for browsing.
By Sophia V. Schweitzer
Wow! A potion that might cure arthritis, cancer and diabetes, reduce stress and high blood pressure, foil germs, and baffle fleas? A natural remedy that could transform your life? Absolutely, promise testimonials on Web sites and in brochures.
All the excitement is about noni, a plant used in Polynesia for thousands of years as a remedy for various ailments. Now, from Tahiti to Hawai'i, noni trees are being stripped naked of fruit, bark and leaves to make teas, tonics, pills and juices. These products are sold in health food stores and through multilevel marketing pyramids for as much as $50 for a 32-ounce bottle that lasts less than a month.
Yet, there is no conclusive evidence to support the medicinal benefits attributed to noni. So what's going on? A lot. Savvy marketers are building their empires on some surprising and promising facts.
The Voyaging Plant
Noni, also known as Indian mulberry or morinda citrifolia, is an evergreen tree, 9 to 18 feet tall. It came to the Hawaiian Islands with the first Polynesian voyagers, and was one of 24 plants intended to provide basic needs such as food, medicine and tools. You may have seen it in drier lowlands or at the edge of forests, with its shiny, dark-green leaves and its warty, pallid yellow fruit that, when ripe, smells positively foul.
The Hawaiian people used every part of the noni tree. The inner bark of the roots and trunk rendered red and yellow dyes for kapa cloth. The fruit, leaves and bark also served as food in times of famine. Made into a poultice, noni was used for healing deep cuts, broken bones, blemishes and boils, according to Beatrice Krauss, the late renowned Hawai'i ethnobotanist. Extracts were used to treat a variety of ailments, including urinary disorders, diabetes and arthritis. A tea brewed from noni leaves served as a tonic. Today, many local people still use noni to make teas, salves and saps.
Enter Modern Science
Native cultures observe, sometimes for generations, to learn the medicinal properties of plants. Noni was and is useful in Polynesian cultures, and modern scientists have noticed. If it works for them, it can work for us, they reason. They've been discovering that plants such as noni can yield essential bioactive chemicals that can lead to better medicine. The leaves of foxglove plants, for example, are used in drugs to treat heart failure. Little periwinkle held secrets that, unveiled, led to new anti-cancer drugs. Breakthroughs like these have contributed to the development of 25 percent to 50 percent of the prescription drugs in our country. It's no wonder that scientists in Hawai'i have been interested in the Islands' own noni.
In the mid-1990s, a team led by Annie Hirazumi, in research for her Ph.D. thesis at the University of Hawai'i, found that noni extract benefited mice that became sick after being injected with a specific type of lung cancer cells. Inflicted mice usually die within six weeks of receiving the transplanted cells. But 40 percent of the mice given noni extract recovered, and the rest died at a much slower pace.
So is noni a cure for cancer? We don't know yet, says Dr. Yoshitsugi Hokama, a pathology professor at the University of Hawai'i and a researcher in the mice experiments. Though Hirazumi isolated a chemical in noni that activated the immune system, the experiment was performed in a controlled environment, Hokama explains. "The only conclusion you can possibly draw from what we did is that it appeared that noni may stimulate the immune system in mice, and this may have helped them, indirectly, in fighting a particular type of cancer."
Hokama was careful not to overstate the findings. Unfortunately, marketers were not: They picked up the news and ran. They found ways to make noni palatable and touted it for its health-promoting effects.
Sold as a food supplement, noni isn't regulated like drugs are. According to the American Cancer Society, some alternative therapies are pushing noni as a treatment for cancer, and Americans are listening. We tend to trust all things whole and natural. But natural doesn't mean it's always good for you. Gobble the pretty purple flowers of foxglove and you could poison yourself. Noni, as far as we know, isn't harmful. But as noni's popularity grows, one small question has become a giant concern: If noni acts as a medicine, is it possible that it can become toxic like any other medicine? Is too much dangerous?
New Developments
More research is desperately needed to truly understand noni.
That is the goal behind the research team of Dr. Katalin Csiszar, associate professor of cell biology at the Pacific Biomedical Research Center at the University of Hawai'i. By researching noni's chemical composition and characteristics, they hope to define active compounds and biological activities that will guide its use.
Dr. Brian Issell, medical professor and director of the Clinical Sciences Program at the Cancer Research Center at UH, is part of the team. "So far, we have discovered that there really are chemicals in noni that slow down the growth of certain tumor cells in dishes, over and above noni's possible effect on the immune system," he says. "A lot of work still needs to be done, but this might really contribute to improving the treatment of cancer."
The National Institutes of Health agrees. Often hesitant to fund expensive botanical research, it awarded the team a $340,000 grant last July to start a noni study with cancer patients. The study is the first with human participants. And these participants, Issell adds, were not responding to standard treatments.
He and his colleagues will examine whether chemicals in noni indeed fight cancer cells. "In the trial, we'll establish the right dose of noni so the body absorbs an optimum level of noni's chemicals, and we want to find out if and when a dosage may become harmful. Then we look for evidence of shrinkage in the tumor."
The researchers use the whole fruit, which is freeze-dried and in capsule form. "If all goes well with the phase one study," Issell says, "we'll apply to do phase two studies, which will focus on noni's effect on particular cancers. We also hope that by then we have some idea about what the active chemicals might be."
What's Next?
The study may have far-reaching consequences. At best is a potential new medicine to fight cancer. At the very least, it will offer guidance in trips to the health food store. We'll know if noni is beneficial and in what quantities. Who knows? There may be a lot of power packed in this unpretentious little fruit.
The above article is taken from Island Scene Magazine Spring 2002.
It is available online at http://www.islandscene.com for browsing.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
How to spot a fake Tahitian Noni Juice?
The easiest way to tell whether if the Tahitian Noni is real or fake?
I found this picture when I was searching for some interesting articles and the research papers on the net.
But besides this, the page (which is in either Espanol or Italian, which I can't make out of..) also pointed out several other points to verify the authentic noni juice.
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