CHARLES VAN KESSLER’S REASONS FOR BEING (PT. 1 OF 4)

Kamala Appel: Hello everyone. This is Kamala Appel and I’m here today with an incredible survivor who also has a huge inspirational story to share with us, Mar. Charles Van Kessler.
Charles please tells us a little bit about your background.

Charles Van Kessler: Okay. I’m a Dutchman. I’m American now but I was born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1941 during World War II. Because my family on my father side was Jewish most of the family was taken away by the Germans and transported in to concentration camps.
I ended up in a state run orphanage for 8 years. Eight years of brutally living a nightmare and lots of abuse, no food especially during the war years. We ate flower bulbs to survive.
So when I was 9 years old I ran away. At that young age I just drifted all over Holland and try to talk to anyone who’d want to listen to my story and tried to find a place to sleep and get some food to eat and trying to start a different kind of life. That went on for quite a while till, thank God, I ended up in the United States at the age of 23.

Kamala: And what happen to you when came to United States? Did you experience any kind of aha moment or pivotal point in your life that made you realize that you had to be a little bit healthier and make a commitment to living a healthier life?

Charles: Yeah, you know, my body was a disaster. My mind was a disaster. I had nightmares and headaches and emotionally, I was a nightmare. So after talking to some people when I arrived in the United States, I started to take a handful of vitamin pills trying to make a difference in my life and obviously starting to live healthier as well. But I came very quickly to find out that vitamin pills don’t do too much for you because of the absorption process.

You know 80% of most heart pills end up in the bathroom when people go to the toilet and many sewage plants throughout America can vouch for that. There are thousands of pounds of undigested pills fetched up out of the filters of the sewage plants nationwide. This is all documented.

So I started studying at an early age in between working two jobs to make ends meet. I started studying nutrition and supplements in the human body for several decades actually. I also was trying to find a liquid multi vitamin product that would probably be a lot better for me but I could never find them.

So the “Aha!” moment came when I decided after some time of studying nutrition to look into the possibility of creating a liquid multi vitamin product and mineral product that would be second to none, really to change my life. With all the knowledge I had gathered, with all the meetings with bio chemist and bio engineers and PhDs and researches. I thought in one moment that I could do that and that’s exactly what happened. I created a product for me and I decided that if it would work for me I would share it with the world. That’s exactly what happened.