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Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. - announced that they will be releasing their first quarter 2008 financial results, early in the morning on May 1st, 2008. The company plans to release the results before the market opens for the day.

Later that same day, the company will hold a conference call with investors to discuss the results of the reports. Participants in the call, which will be hosted by Truman Hunt, president and CEO of Nu Skin, will hear from management about past financial results and discuss the company’s plans for the year as well as company business initiative. Participants in the call will have a chance to ask questions pertaining to the financial results as well as any other questions they have about the future of the company.

The call will begin at 11 am Eastern Time on Thursday May 1st and the webcast of the call; including the financial information will be available on the investor section of the Nu Skin website. The webcast will remain on the site until Friday May 16th 2008 if you miss it on Thursday.

We are eager to see how Nu Skin does considering the recent news by Herbalife and its success. These two companies along with Avon and USANA are the bell-weathers of the MLM industry so if Nu Skin can report some significant growth - especially overseas, it could represent increased encouragement on the health of industry.

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Two studies sponsored by the Pharmanex BJ Clinical Pharmacology Center in Beijing have found that the combination of the active ingredients in Reishi mushrooms and Green Tea inhibited the growth of tumors and prolonged the life of mice with sarcomas. Sarcomas are cancers of the bone, cartilage, muscle or other connective or supportive tissue.

In one study, the researchers gave mice with sarcoma cells either low, medium or high doses of Pharmanex Products, ReishiMax, containing high levels of components of the reishi mushroom, or a combination of ReishiMax and Tegreen which is made up of 99% green tea polyphenols. The study found that the mice with the combination of the two lived significantly longer than those who received nothing or just one of the ReishiMax.

In the second study, the mice were given a combination of the Reishi and Green Tea products for a course of 14 days. After 2 weeks, the mice were injected with sarcoma cells. The mice given the combination of the two extracts were half as likely to develop tumors than those who received only one extract or those who received nothing at all.

Reishi Mushrooms and Green Tea have been important ingredients in Chinese medicinal culture for centuries. Today, scientists are beginning to research just how significant their contribution could possibly be to modern science.

While these two studies probably won’t be published by medical journals or recognized by the FDA any time soon, hopefully it will garner some attention that will lead to further testing. The Pharmanex study was presented this past week at the Experimental Biology 2008 meeting in San Diego

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