Terry Mercer

My unique experience with MD's Choice, and Arthrosamine, are WHY I'M HERE!

Despite having wrist, elbow, and knee surgery prior to meeting the doctors before the company was started in 1995. I was fast growing, 6 foot tall in grade school, six foot six and a half when I graduated. Tall, skinny, and a bit uncoordinated for many years, which didn’t work well for someone that was a bit of an adrenalin junky.

Consequently, from age 5 to about 45 I averaged at least one doctor treated broken bone per year, minimum (some years more, some accidents involved more that one broken bone, sprained joint, or twisted limb). Growing up in rural America in the 60's, The Lone Ranger, Evel Knievel and Zorro were my heroes. Thankfully, I've only had a few instances of broken bones since 2016, and most of my adrenalin junkie days are long since over.

I started my first 'business' at age 10 (lawn mowing, raking, roof sweeping, gutter cleaning, weeding, rolling cigarettes, feeding animals, cleaning up after animals, and just about anything else that could turn a buck). I'd hustle the 'jobs' and work them, but also included some of my friends, as 'employees' - when there was enough work to go around, or it was a project that required more than one person.

I started playing with cameras around that time, winning a blue ribbon at the County Fair back in 1974 with a photo my photography teacher entered on my behalf. It was a costly hobby back then, even learning to roll, develop, and print your own film; so my photography stuff waned until about 1992, when digital cameras were released. I LOVED IT! Despite it being 'small' (initial digital images were just 320x200, great for the web, but not practical for printing quality above a wallet size); the 1.3 megapixel 'professional' digital camera at that time was nearly $20,000! It was the Kodak DCS 100, and out of my budget at that time. In 1992, 93, and 94 our small custom computer company picked up a variety of digital camera options. The Casio QV-10, Kodak 810-Plus, Canon D30 in 2000, the Fuji's in 2001, on and on. My last 'new to me' camera models are a set of 50mp Canon, and a trio of 1000fps Sony Digital Video cameras. Computers, Cameras, Website's, and Quality NUTRITION have been my life for decades. Limited only by hard drive/storage space. Photography became a serious profession, nights and weekends,around 2001; shooting sporting events (equine, basket ball, track, swimming, and adrenaline sports) and starting around 2011 music concerts & more video.

By age 13, I was a service project away from Eagle Scout, with every single merit badge that existed at that time. I had an aptitude for computers, and was one of the only junior high 'kids' allowed to program on the 'main frame' at the local high school and community college. I was in the US Air Force at 17... leaving my home town just days after my graduation; then with an Honorable Medical Discharge, I became an assistant manager of my first corporate store before I turned 18.

I enjoyed exploring, challenging myself, learning, and doing a variety of things, like, skating, boarding, bicycling, skiing, kayaking, scuba diving, white water rafting, bungee jumping & zip lines, roller coasters & sling shots, climbing, as well as assorted sports activities.

I often pushed my limits, doing things many people wouldn't even try. I've had motorcycles jumping over me, horses stampeded directly at and past me. I've been on the line at football and basket ball games, with a camera in my face, focused on taking pictures of the players, as they crashed past the invisible line. I loved speed: having been nearly 100 mph on the water, nearly 170 on a motorcycle, nearly 200 in a car... even over 70 mph hanging on to a ski rope being dragged behind a boat. I loved pushing the limits, and have been around a wide variety of unique situations over the years. However, I occasionally over estimated my ability (or the situation), or miscalculated, and consequently got hurt.

My most painful break, ever, was BOTH HEELS... showing off on a trampoline, I did a forward flip landing in a pike position... but my heels slammed the 4" steel bar, with excruciating pain instantly shooting up my body. Over 40 years later, I still have sensitive 'bumps' on my heels, and physically can't wear certain types of shoes, because of how they impact my heels.

The nastiest looking break: my left leg, when I was about 12. I was on some old school cross country skis, at a scouting event, 23 miles from Mt. Ashland. It was a winter camp out with the Boyscouts: we were building igloos, cross country skiing, snow shoing (on what we built), and ice fishing. While I was going down a slight slope, after it had snowed the night before, the tip of my left ski went under a downed tree (the right leg kept going). When my body stopped, and the snow settled, my left leg was behind my back, with the foot coming out from under my right arm pit... with the cross country ski STILL ON. Yes, it was painful... especially getting the ski off, and then my dad and other adults loading me on to the sled my dad & I had built. Never expected it would be used to haul me out of the wilderness to the vehicle... then to the hospital. Before I finished grade school, I was very aware of the routine of x-ray techs, casts, learned to run on crutches, and could balance a wheel chair on two wheels (I could go down curbs and a couple steps without issue. Though I can still balance a wheel chair, I'm not sure I could jump curbs these days).

While computers, cameras, and business were things I enjoyed... I also finished a small degree in PHYSICAL SCIENCES. Basically anatomy, diseases, and general health.

I point out all that, because the study of 'nutrition' wasn't top on my list, it was because the doctors insisted I knew something about the stuff I was helping them market. They insisted that I have a basic understanding and intellectual grasp of what the different ingredients used in the products they created & formulated, especially for joint & digestive products, actually DO WITHIN THE BODY. They insisted that I wasn't just an 'order taker' - but someone that could ACTUALLY TRY TO HELP OTHERS SOLVE COMMON PROBLEMS, and help with common questions, to help save them time and reduce repetition of answering the same questions... with exactly the same set of answers.

My motivation: Over the years, I had a whole lot of fun and learned to do many things most people only watch on TV, but was having a great deal of aches, pains, and joint related difficulties long before age 35. I didn't liking to take pills (preferring the natural high - and believing the pains I had were justified, and warnings, because of my past pushing the line too hard). It took me nearly a year to start REGULARLY & RESPONSIBLY taking these "pills." Because of my size, around 6'5" and 300lbs at the time, and severity of my issues, I started at 3 capsules 3 times a day. But, I have to tell you, within 6 weeks, I physically noticed a difference everywhere except my where I broke my back the last time... that took 6 months. I was able to work my way down to 1 capsule three times a day by about the 6 month point, down to just 1 or 2 capsules a day by the 18th month, unless I had a new injury - at which point I'd jump the dose during the healing period, and work it back down as things improved.

I love that it makes all my joints feel and respond better (and faster), and I like that it helps my heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys (as they are all made out of connective tissue) which Arthrosamine strengthens and rebuilds. I loved that I could freehand still photography hold for fractions of a second without a jitter or shake. I loved I was able to be active with the kids, grand kids, and others.

Hey, you don't have to believe me... this product has a 100% RESULTS BASED GUARANTEE... you WILL either SEE RESULTS OR GET YOUR MONEY BACK! Wow... so what do YOU have to lose?

Get some - and start feeling better and moving easier within a few weeks!"

- Terry Mercer, a faithful, life time customer, and the reason I originally moved to Louisville, Tennessee to help the doctors get MD’s Choice going. Interests computers, cameras, web development, and now President of MD’s Choice, Inc.

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