A Lawrence resident is climbing the ranks of independent distributors working on behalf of XanGo LLC, a Utah-based company that markets beverages made from mangosteen fruit.

Kevin Arnold has distributed the product – a dietary supplement that uses the nutritional attributes of the entire mangosteen fruit – for nearly three years, forming a network of nearly 400 members throughout the United States. He joined about 9,000 distributors at the company’s national meeting in November in Salt Lake City.

Arnold, who started taking XanGo to ease his own arthritis pain, said that the product was intended to help people address a variety of health problems.

For more information, click on www.yourgotime.com, e-mail yourgotime@yahoo.com or call (785) 200-3338. For more about the company, click on www.xango.com.