I wanted to share with you some stories and some highlights - Olympic medalists and award winning athletes have chosen Shaklee!
Shaklee Corporation has pioneered the practice of studying the diets of elite athletes and testing products to help make landmark expeditions and record-breaking achievements possible.
This research has translated into dietary recommendations and high performance nutritional products for elite athletes and explorers as well as recreational athletes.
Shaklee powered athletes have taken home 31 Olympic Medals including 17 Gold Medals.
In fact, 8 of Time-Life’s “25 Great Adventures of All Time” were powered by Shaklee Products.
Notable Achievements by world explorers include:
Mount Everest Expeditions
Shaklee has helped a number of record-breaking Everest expeditions reach the top of the world, including the first American to scale the mountain without supplemental oxygen.
Steger International Polar Expedition & Trans Antarctica Expedition
Shaklee has been a part of Will Steger’s history-making expeditions for over a decade. The company provided nutritional products and expertise to the first team to reach the North Pole without resupply in 1986. Steger and his seven teammates supplemented the high-protein, high-fat rations of traditional Arctic exploration with Shaklee multivitamins and soup. The explorers used Shaklee Energy Bars to keep them going when they could not stop for a midday meal. Shaklee was the “Official Sponsor of High Energy Foods” for the TransAntarctica Expedition, the first unmechanized traverse of Antarctica.
International Arctic Project
In their three month, 1,000-mile traverse of the Canadian Arctic in the spring of 1995, members of the International Arctic Project, supported by Shaklee nutrition, kept detailed logs of their food and fluid intake as well as their activity and mood/energy states for the first official dietary study of Arctic explorers. Children around the world followed the team throughout their trek via daily e-mail updates from Will Steger.
Solo From The Pole
In 1997, Will Steger made a dramatic attempt to be the first individual ever to go solo from the North Pole. The trek was conducted without the benefit of resupply or sled dogs, with Steger hauling a canoe-sled by a specifically designed harness. Shaklee scientists and nutritionists created a diet and exercise program specifically tailored to this arduous excursion.
Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso & Alcyon expeditions
During both the Alcyon and Calypso Expeditions, Shaklee served as the nutritional advisor for Jacque Cousteau and all of his divers.
Voyager Non-Stop Around The World Flight
In 1986, Shaklee served as the Official Nutrition Consultant to Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan, pilots who powered the first nonstop airplane flight to circumnavigate the globe without refuelling. Shaklee designed easy-open packaging for its energy bars and special lightweight powdered foods to meet the pilots’ needs during the ten-day Voyager flight.
The Daedalus Project
In 1998, Kanellos Kanopoulos had only one fuel for his record-breaking seventy-two mile human-powered flight from Crete to Santorini – the maximum endurance sports drink developed by Shaklee with Ethan Nadel of Yale University. Later marketed as Performance(r), it is now a leading product of Shaklee’s sports nutritional line. The drink’s mix of electrolytes and carbohydrates provided easy-to-absorb muscle fuel and quickly replaced the pilot’s lost fluids.
Winter Games
As the U.S. Speed Skating Team’s official product, Shaklee gives the team members the nutritional edge that helped them capture the gold at the 1992 Winter Games. The U.S. Luge Team was also supported by Shaklee nutrition.
At the 1988 Winter Games, the U.S. Curling Team, Men’s Freestyle skier Mat Chojnacki, and Shelly Looney, Forward on the US Women’s Hockey team, all counted on Shaklee Sports Nutrition to help them reach their peak in Nagano.
U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team
Shaklee served as the Official Nutrition Consultant to the U.S. Ski Team from 1980 to 1988. Shaklee nutritionists worked with the U.S. Ski Team to devise an optimum diet, with three key recommendations: trim fat from 38% down to 25-30% of the diet; boost carbohydrates from 46% to 55-60%; and replace the “empty calorie” snacks with more nutrient-filled choices such as fresh fruit, bread, vegetables and energy bars. In 1984, the U.S. Ski Team achieved their best results at an Olympic competition, winning five medals in Sarajevo. Bill Johnson was the first American man to win a gold medal in the downhill, and finished by Debbie Armstrong in first place and Cristin Cooper in second in the giant slalom.
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Summer Games
“I’ve been using Shaklee products for nearly all my life. My mother has been a Shaklee distributor for years. My favorite product is Shaklee Enfuselle Sunblock. When I train, I’m in the sun every day, so my skin take a beating. It protects me from harmful rays and keeps my skin looking young!” -Carla Overbeck, 2000 Olympic silver medalist & member of the Carolina Courage of the WUSA Chapel Hill, North Carolina
“The off-season is when I train the hardest. I’m confident that Shaklee nutritional products and Enfuselle SPF 30 will help give me the ‘set-up’ I need to be successful next season.”-Elaine Youngs, Bronze Medalist USA Volleyball
“Although I was happy with my performance in the 2004 Games, I will expect even better results for the next time around. And the great nutritional foundation I get from Shaklee products will be there every step of the way.”- Nia Abdallah, Silver Medalist USA Teakwood
- LPGA & PGA Golfer -
“After 18 holes of fierce competition, a great-tasting Multi-Munch Energy Bar™ gives me the nutrition I need to re-energize for the next round. It’s my hole in one every time.”-Laura Diaz, LPGA Golfer
