100 years young with AIM BarleyLife®

When asked what keeps her going, 100-year-old AIM Member Edna Ree from Roswell, New Mexico, points to three main things:

• God • Church family • BarleyLife

Those three elements have sustained Edna through a century of living, and thanks to those three, Edna shows no signs of stopping.

“Don’t park in the handicap spot,” Edna will tell friend Mary Hale as she drives her around town. “Leave that for someone who really needs it.”

For the past 25 years, Edna has not needed it, and her remarkable story stands out as an example for others to hope for. Edna goes to the doctor only twice a year for routine checkups. She has been out and about two to three times each week for the past 25 years. She is an active member of her local church where she always wins the award for “oldest member” and has received dozens of standing ovations every time she reaches another birthday. And she takes BarleyLife every morning straight from the jar. She likes the taste.

“Take BarleyLife and you will get standing ovations when you turn 90 and 100,” Edna says.

During the 1970s, Edna suffered from severe arthritis, and her doctor advised her to travel around the country to different states to see if a new location would reduce her discomfort. She was told to wake up in the morning and see if she could walk without pain; if she could, the doctor recommended that she move to that state.

Edna tried several different places, but when she arrived at Roswell, the difference was immediate. She woke up in the morning at Roswell and thought, “I could run!”

She moved to Roswell in 1977 from her home in Iowa, and nine years later, in 1986, Edna got her start with The AIM Companies. A friend took Edna to a home meeting, featuring two doctors speaking about nutrition. Edna was interested in attending because she had a daughter who was suffering from cancer, and she wanted to see if this nutrition information could help. The meeting was sponsored by Members Pat Copple, now a Director in Roswell, and Opal Wright, Royal Emerald Director and wife of AIM co-owner and CEO Ron Wright. Neither Pat nor Opal remember Edna signing up at that first meeting, which is why it came as quite a surprise to Pat this year when she discovered that Edna, who attends the same church as Pat, was in her downline.

Edna believes that the barley product she learned about at the first meeting is responsible for adding two years to her daughter’s life. Edna would eventually lose both of her daughters to cancer, but the gift of two extra years with one of them, thanks to BarleyLife, was priceless.

BarleyLife has added so much to Edna’s life over the years, and she is giving back by setting a great example in her church and in her community of how nutrition and lifestyle play a big part in longevity and health. Many of her close friends take BarleyLife, and her friend, Mary, the pastor’s wife, is interested in getting started on AIM products to help with arthritis. Mary has plans to introduce the whole church choir to AIM products.

At 100 years old, Edna Ree is proof of AIM’s power to extend lives and improve health. When people ask Edna how she has managed to live so long, her answer is simple: “Take BarleyLife.” As Edna has proven for the past two decades, it is hard to argue with the results.

{This testimonial cannot be construed as representing results everybody can achieve.}

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