A Winning Team

Champion Athletes Spread the News about Glyconutrients

Ever wonder, on hearing that an athlete has snagged a multimillion-dollar endorsement deal, whether the chosen star really believes in the product or even uses it?

At Mannatech, the Coppell-based manufacturer of innovative nutritional supplements, that’s never in doubt. “Our athletes are not paid for their endorsements,” says Butch Johnson, the former Cowboys wide receiver who is now “head coach” of Team Mannatech, a group of successful sports figures enlisted to spread the good news about the company’s supplements. “The only compensation they receive is a free supply of the supplements. Plus we require that they use the products for at least three months so they can determine for themselves how well the products work.”

The result? A chorus of rave reviews from the dozens of athletes involved. “These products have made a great change in my life,” says track champ Delloreen London, whose international
competitions include the 2004 Athens Olympics. “Glyconutrients make me feel better, my recovery time is faster, and I have a lot of energy throughout the day. Not only has my performance improved, but I have peace of mind taking supplements that are healthy and nontoxic.”

Many consumers already know that Mannatech is a pioneer in the study of glyconutrients, plant-based compounds that support wellness at the cellular level, and have stocked up on a range of Mannatech supplements that provide for the basic nutrition and maintenance of the body. What may not be so wellknown is that Mannatech’s supplements contain no ingredients banned by sports officials, and two of its products are created especially for the fitness-conscious: EmPact and Sport.

Taking EmPact before physical activity leads to maximum energy production while reducing lactic acid buildup, which can impair performance and lead to muscle soreness, team members say. After a workout, taking Sport will help the body bounce back, they testify. To hear Team Mannatech members describe them, the supplements are a must-have. “I always take EmPact 20 to 30 minutes before practice or a tournament match, since it ensures that I will perform at my physical best,” says wrestler Joe Betterman, who in recent years has blazed a trail of victories amid grueling workouts in his quest to join the 2008 Olympic team. “Taking Sport afterward helps me greatly with muscle recovery, and is the most effective product of its kind I’ve ever encountered. I also drink GlycoSlim chocolate shakes to help manage my weight, which is critical in wrestling.”

According to Abilene-based martialarts champ Chip Townsend, “Glyconutrients have been instrumental in the success of my extreme training regimen. I have noticed great improvements in my endurance, and recovery time has improved tremendously. With the help of glyconutrients, I was able to compete and win the ISKA World Ultimate Breaking Championship!”

Mannatech’s list of stellar achievers goes on to include world-renowned, elite figures in 70 different sports. Many of them become Mannatech associates based on firsthand knowledge of the benefits they receive from the company’s products. “These renowned athletes have joined Team Mannatech to promote the benefits of top performance through advanced nutrition,” Mr. Johnson says. “Not only is this a timely message for the young athlete looking for the ‘healthiest’ competitive edge, but it is also a message of hope to an aging population trying its best to maintain a high quality of life.”

To use a phrase familiar in sports, Mannatech may well be the best game in town.

Performance Nutrition Products

Not Just Athletes Benefit from Mannatech
Performance Nutrition Products
By Reg McDaniel, MD

If minimal demand is placed on the body, one cannot demonstrate the small but important increment of benefit supplied by these dietary supplements. However, the indications are that there rests in our genes latent capacitie to repair and operate the tissues of our bodies that can be best demonstrated in athletes. This is because seriously competitive athletes operate at the limit of human performance and endurance. It is in this zone of maximal emotional and physical demand that optimal or maximal biochemical support of body tissues through nutrition can be detected. Daily, the body defends, repairs, remodels and regulates itself using only the resources we provide through what we eat, drink and breathe. Only recently have science and medicine recognized the importance of proper nutrition and the vital role it plays in achieving optimal body function, maintaining long-ter good health and maximizing physical performance. The dietary supplements in Mannatech’s products are an excellent source of nutrients that could fortify the natural mechanisms of body maintenance and function. Mannatech’s Performance Nutrition products therefore provide a proprietary blend of ingredients that may help even the non-athlete cope and recover from the emotional and physical stress caused by today’s stressful lifestyle.

Breakfast Refuels Us and Sets Us Up for the Day

Mannatech’s Breakfast With the Heros

Busy people – no matter what their age – need quality food to fuel their day. A great daily breakfast should include wholegrain carbohydrates for energy and protein for bulk. It must be low in fat for optimum health. A great breakfast must refuel your body after your night’s fast and help prepare you for your day of activity. People who skip breakfast are more likely to eat higher calorie food when hunger pangs strike. Quite often, breakfast dodgers have poorer concentration and higher body weight than people who begin the day well by eating a balanced, healthy, low fat breakfast. Breakfast does not have to be a three-hour cook-up. Quick, easy and nutritious breakfast options can be as simple as a glass of milk, liquid breakfast drink - like Mannatech’s GlycoLEAN® - or even a piece of fruit or two. Read on for some brilliant breakfast ideas from some true Australian and New Zealand Team Mannatech sports heroes.

Tatiana Grigorieva
World pole vault hero, Olympic silver and Commonwealth gold medallist, Tatiana was in training for the 2006 Commonwealth Games as this brochure went to press. In 2004, she won the last International women’s pole vaulting competition of the year in Japan in a countback from USA’s Jillian Schwarz. The big win means that Tatiana retained her ‘All Comers’ record for the event set in 2001. More recently, she jumped 4.30m – her second Commonwealth Games A qualifier – during the major comp in Italy. After this, Tatiana headed to the first ever Grand Prix Athletics in Shanghai where she again jumped 4.30m.

"I always start the day with a healthy breakfast because it gives me the energy I need to get through my busy schedule. In summer, I have freshly squeezed fruit juice and a fruit salad with
natural yoghurt. In winter, I enjoy oats with nuts, raisins and milk with fresh fruit."

Destined to Rise Above

Mannatech had the right product at the right time

In 1994, after years of controversy among lawmakers, nutrition experts, manufacturers and consumers, Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act, a wide-ranging piece of legislation that for the first time gave “dietary supplement” a legal definition.

For manufacturers in general, this meant official validation of the public’s surging interest in supplements. For Mannatech, a company that had just been launched in suburban Dallas, the act meant a green light just as its revolutionary discovery of glyconutrients came to fruition.

“Prior to 1994, if you wanted to associate a health claim with a product, you had to develop it as a drug,” says Stephen Boyd, M.D., Ph.D., Mannatech’s senior medical director. “The new law instead allowed companies to use their science as educational material in support of a nutritional supplement.”

In Mannatech’s case, the science in question was glycobiology, at the time an obscure field devoted to the study of carbohydrates. At several companies, researchers who later joined Mannatech had been studying the function of these sugar molecules inside the body with a growing focus on the aloe vera plant.

Mannose sugar (acemannan) had been pinpointed as a primary factor in aloe’s beneficial properties. “Our researchers hypothesized that certain sugars represented a new category of nutrients, just like vitamins, minerals and amino acids,” says Sam Caster, chairman, founder and CEO of Mannatech. “We were the first to recognize that, while these sugars are essential to the proper structure and function of every human cell, they are deficient or missing in modern diets.” In 1994, Mr. Caster secured a license to distribute Manapol, a compound derived from aloe vera. The patented process for stabilizing this beneficial molecule was the key technology that he used to launch Mannatech.

Other advances quickly followed, culminating in the introduction of Ambrotose, a unique, patented complex of multiple glyconutrients. Since then, Mannatech’s success has been nothing less than astounding. “I would say 90 percent of it was due to the effectiveness of this new product,” Mr. Caster says. “We knew very early on that we were going to be successful, because we saw such an incredible response from our customers.”

Mannatech is today a worldwide hit, with nearly 30 products aimed at health, nutrition, weight management, sports performance and skin care sold in numerous countries. Hundreds of thousands of independent associates are glad to share the benefits of Mannatech’s products with others, and many of them find even greater satisfaction in the company’s extensive charitable efforts to help medically fragile children in more than 75 countries.

Though much has been accomplished, the best may be yet to come, Mannatech’s leaders say, as glycobiology moves from the footnotes of science textbooks to the front pages of prestigious journals. More than 20,000 peer-reviewed articles have now been published on the biological functions of these sugars, a great vindication in light of the skepticism that once greeted the topic.

“Glycobiology has caught the eye of mainstream medicine and the pharmaceutical industry, and it has become a very hot area of research,” says Robert Sinnott, M.N.S., Ph.D., Mannatech’s chief science officer. “We were one of the first players in glyconutrients, and the first to do it right as a supplement.”

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"...a failure to communicate."

Research also tells us that most people consume insufficient levels of saccharides. Just as substantial data shows that our bodies have become progressively vitamin - and mineral - deficient, most people are lacking in some sugars. While we get more than enough table sugar (sucrose) and high-fructose corn syrup, we are far from consuming enough of the plant saccharides we need for optimal health.

Necessary sugars are high on our bodies' list of must-haves. Every cell in every system of every human organ requires them.

The fascinating process of cell-to-cell communication is often illustrated by comparing it to the few simple shapes we use to form the letters in our alphabet. We combine these letters into almost limitless variations to form words, which are then assembled into sentences in order to communicate messages.

Sugars are necessary to form the shapes that construct the letters, words and sentences that express the "language" of our cells. Each words (or glycoform) conveys a message of its own, and virtually every cell in our body is coated with these glycoforms.

A Company of Destiny (Naturally!)

Mannatech was one of the first companies in world to recognise the importance of natural, food-based sugars in the diet and to provide these sugars in the form of easy-to-take, cost-effective supplements. In addition, Mannatech was the first company to apply for international patents based on the results of glyconutritional research.

Mannatech plans to remain among the glcoycmics industry's perennial pathfinders and leaders. We will continue to bring Better Solutions to Global Health to people everywhere.

Smashing Her Way to Glory

Shelley Kitchen

Commonwealth Games Silver & Bronze Medalist Melbourne 2005

New Zealand squash sensation Shelley Kitchen is one of the newest Team Mannatech members, lucky for Mannatech. Kitchen is currently ranked 13 in the world, standing 5'10" this 27-year-old certainly strikes and imposing figure with her racket at the ready in one hand and a horde of sparking medals in the other, proof she's a force on the court.
"After winning bronze and silver at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne I have recently won the Womens' World Double Squash title - not bad for a girl from the far north of New Zealand," Shelley gushes when asked about her recent sporting achievements on the Team Mannatech DVD film set.
"Mannatech products are very beneficial in my performance both on and off the court, especially EMPACT sports drink during training and competition."
"For nine months of the year I'm travelling and competing worldwide on a monthly basis, that's when the real benefits of taking Mannatech products kicks in. The products sustain me when performing and travelling." Shelley says.
Shelley's short term goal is to break into the world's top 10. Shelley's medium term goal is to feature consistently in the world's top five. Shelley's long term goal is to be the world's number one women's squash player. Mannatech has no doubt that Shelley will smash her way to further glory, fulfill her dreams and make New Zealand and the rest of the world proud. Go Shelley!

The Real Thing

Mannatech was founded in November 1993 by current CEO and Chairman Sam Caster. During its first two years, the company focused on products that contained aloe vera extract. Mannatech announced its flagship product, Ambrotose, 1996 based on the discovery that the body’s immune system needs eight plant-based sugars – also known as glyconutrients – to function properly.

Medical research has shown that cells use these glyconutrients to communicate with each other so the immune system, when confronted, can mount a coordinated response to foreign invasion. These sugars are plucose, fucose, mannose, galactose, xylose, N-acetylglucosamine, N-acetylgalactosamine and N-acetylneuraminic acid.

According to Mannatech, six of these eight glyconutrients are deficient in the modern diet, largely because foods today are heavily processed and balanced meals have succumbed to fast food. Mannatech scoured the world to find new, rich sources of the missing nutrients. Its effort culminated in the Ambrotose formulation, which in August 2005 received a “composition of matter” patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent five Mannatech proprietary use of the formulation.

Lemme, who holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from Lawrence University, joined Mannatech as in independent associate after looking for alternative ways to improve the quality of life for his three-and-a-half-year-old son. Lemme said his son’s quality of life improved dramatically after consuming Mannatech’s glyconutritional supplements.

“While I was open to nutritional alternatives, I was very (demanding) in the level of scientific validation,” he said, remembering what initially attracted him to the company and its products. “Mannatech was one of the first, if not only companies that employed a high level of scientific substantiation of its products.”

After studying the company, Lemme determined that it held benefits for the well-being of his family. He spent eight years as an independent associate and was then asked to join the company in 2003. The same year, he was promoted as its senior vice president of sales and marketing.

“I believe Mannatech has been entrusted with and has unlocked a group of technologies that is truly a better solution to global health,” he says. “It’s time our culture begins to focus more on promoting health and wellness than in treating illness.

“Our perspective is that everyone thinks that new technologies and the answers to a specific industry always come from the industries,” Lemme continues, adding that true innovation “that dramatically shifts the marketplace come from outside the marketplace.”

Lemme says that the company’s products will change the world of healthcare. “I believe that Mannatech is going to be a phenomenon,” he says. “It will make one of the most significant contributions to the health and well-being of mankind.”

Optimal Skin Care Frequently Asked Questions

What are the clinical results for Mannatech's Optimal Skin Care System?

The first generation (Japanese) skin care offered remarkable clinical results: 80% increase in skin hydration after just one use of the system. After 8 weeks of use, skin moisture improved by 100%, skin roughness was reduced by 96% and skin radiance improved by 73%. Because Mannatech have expanded clinical trials for the new North American product launch, they have not yet been completed, but will be provided as soon as possible.

What clinical tests have been performed on this skin care line?

All of Mannatech's Optimal Skin Care products, like most standard skin care systems, are HRIPT (allergy tested), and comedogenicity (acne-causing) tested. Mannatech's eye care products (Enriching Eye Cream and Makeup Remover) are ophthalmologist tested.

What is the size difference between the first generation Japanese formulas and the second generation U.S./Canada formulas?

Based upon Mannatech Associate request for more convenient packaging and the drier skin conditions in North America, the packaging was changed to better fit this market. Both of Mannatech's serum and moisturizing cream were increased in size and the cleansing cream and makeup remover (cleansing oil) were decreased in size. Only the serum is packaged in glass, in a unique rounded bottle, with both of the creams now available in convenient tubes for easier dispensing and less chance of breakage. This also offered a more economical offering for Mannatech's Associates.

New Skin Care Products

More Information on Mannatech's New Skin Care Products

Nourish and protect your skin with Mannatech's Optimal Skin Serum

4.Use step four of Mannatech's simple skincare system, Optimal Skin Serum, morning and night to revitalise dry skin. This original blend of healthful extracts, sweet almond seed and marine collagen increases moisture retention to keep skin supple, soft and smooth. By restoring elasticity, it protects and repairs, actually slowing the signs if aging.

Defy the signs of aging with Mannatech's Optimal Skin Cream.

5. Skin cells luxuriate in this lightweight moisturiser, our Optimal Skin Cream. The fifth step in our Optimal Skin Care System, it's the perfect foundation for makeup, and corrects daily environmental damage as it strengthens and stabilises the skin. Use as needed in the morning and right before bedtime to increase hydration for a fresh and healthy glow all day.

Take years off the way you look with Mannatech's Optimal Eye Cream.

6. Minimise fine lines, circles and eye puffiness with Optimal Eye Cream. Gently apply this hydrating cream twice a day to the especially delicate skin surrounding your eyes. The exclusive trehalose-and-collagen formula nourishes and moisturises, as well as gradually eliminates unsightly dark circles.

Restore freshly shaven skin with Mannatech's After Shave Milk.

7. Shaving can affect more than just unwanted hair: The razor can also destroy microscopic layers of skin cells and beneficial keratin, sometimes leaving your skin red and irritated. Waxing and depilatories can have similar effects. Optimal After Shave Milk is designed for both men and women to reverse these effects as it comforts and nourishes skin and quickly restores its silky smoothness.

Healthy skin is beautiful skin when you use the Mannatech's complete Optimal Skin Care System.

• Mannatech's Optimal Cleansing Oil - Moisturising Makeup Remover
• Mannatech's Face Cleansing Cream - Flawless Face Cleanser
• Mannatech's Skin Lotion - Luxurious Moisturising Balancer
• Mannatech's Skin Serum - Ultimate Moisturiser and Revitaliser
• Mannatech's Skin Cream - Moisture Maintenance Blend
• Mannatech's Eye Cream - Nourishing Brightening Formula
• Mannatech's After Shave Milk - Soothing, Creamy Balm

Introducing Mannatech's Optimal Skin Care System

Mannatech understands that health begins at the cellular level. We now extend our breakthrough optimal health technology to the cells of your skin...

Water, a basic component of all existence, soothes, invigorates, replenishes and revitalises. Essential to life, water delivers valuable nutrients throughout our systems. Water is also essential to youthful-looking, irresistible skin. Formulated in Japan, the world's leading skincare market, Mannatech's Optimal Skin Care System's essential ingredient is ultra-pure water.

"Firewashed" through volcanic stone, the legendary water of Asia's Hunza Valley has been celebrated over the centuries for its ability to help ensure health, vitality and long life. Haur Naito, world-renowned expert on water's properties, replicated the exotic Hunza land's amazing geological filtration process to produce inhanced, exceptionally pure water. This extraordinary water is free of bacteria, toxins and other potentially skin-damaging substances. With its natural preservative qualities, this remarkable water now serves as the basis for seven luxurious products that will keep your skin healthy, supple and radiant.

The best thing about Mannatech's Optimal Skin Care System is that each product is:
*Preservative-free
* Fragrance-free
* Colourant-free
* Non-comedogenic (will not cause or aggravate acne)
* Allergy-tested

Testing of Mannatech's Optimal Skin Care System products revealed incredible results. After just one use:
* 80% improvment in hydration

Skin Care

Skin Care

ARE YOU READY FOR THE DIFFERENCE?

Global Benefit to Humanity
Vibrant health is no longer a certainty. For many, it is intermittent at best. This realization has triggered a Wellness Revolution, and it’s changing the lives of people around the world. Mannatech is on the cutting edge of new technologies that provide what every body needs for optimal health.

The Opportunity to Hope
Even more than optimal health products, Mannatech offers you the opportunity for an optimal life. The chance to be part of something meaningful. Something driven by purpose and characterized by integrity. Something bigger than yourself.

Staying Focused on Wellness

For consumers looking to live healthier and nutritionally enriched lives, Mannatech Inc. offer hope. Based in Coppell, Texas, the company sells more than 24 proprietary and scientifically validated glyconutritional supplements and products for adults and children that address health and wellness issues, weight management and skin care. Steve Lemme, senior vice president of sales and marketing, says Mannatech has been entrusted with a divine technology.

“Paracelsus, who is known as the father of pharmacology, said more than 500 years ago: ‘All that mankind needs for good health is provided by God in nature and that the challenge to science is to find it,’” Lemme explains. “Mannatech has accepted that challenge and, using science, has produced glyconutritional products based on innovative and proprietary research and development.”

Instead of employing a conventional sales force, Mannatech sells its products through independent associates in a global network-marketing system throughout the United Sates, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Denmark. The company has filed for registration of its products in Germany.

Power of Purpose

The Power of Purpose is Mannatech’s own personal and leadership development program. Complementing Mannatech’s Mission and Values, the Power of Purpose spans the distance between who you are and who are see yourself becoming.

MannaSuccess

MannaSuccess provides a duplicatable system with all the tools you need to share hope, health and opportunity with others.

Cornerstone Training

Cornerstone covers the basics in five easy to understand modules: The Mission of Mannatech, Compensation, Mannatech’s Products, Getting Started and Compliance.

Available as Power Point slides for online viewing or downloading to share with your team.

Most importantly, have fun. Your enthusiasm and excitement will do wonders to inspire and excite your team.

Mannatech Training

Welcome to your Mannatech Online Training Resource Center. Just go to www.mannatech.com (you have to be a Mannatech member to login). Here you'll find a variety of information, materials and training programs available to you regardless of your level of achievement, including online courses, upcoming training meetings in your area and much more, all at the click of a button.

Get Started Now!

As you begin your Mannatech business and begin to build your team, you’ll be taking a leadership role in providing your new Associates with the training they need to get started. Mannatech’s training programs will provide you with the tools and information you need to help you along the way.

Just as you learned to walk before you learned to run, with Cornerstone you’ll train, learn and train others on the basics of Mannatech. As a team builder and leader you’ll also need advanced skills and techniques to expand your opportunities and be a true mentor to your team.