I'm a health care educator, and pharmacology is one of my subspecialties. You would be amazed at the crap that is coming out of these supplement MLM's these days. And you would be equally mortified of the junk they use as fillers. You hit the nail on the head - they aren't regulated by the FDA!! They aren't because they know they cannot pass their strict guidelines and standards. Think about it - why would you buy something from an MLM (in the first place!) when it's available as a formulation approved by the FDA in a pharmacy, or in the produce aisle? Whole foods are a gazillion percent better for your body than the garbage from the juice pushers! And - would you rather buy your tylenol from a drug store, or would you buy it from the guy standing on the street who made it at home? Same principle.
All these supplement MLM companies make me ill.
(And actually being ill with MS and diabetes makes me a s**t magnet for all of them. They come out of the woodwork when I come by!!)
Any company that has to sell their products in the MLM model is suspect. It means #1. the products are highly overpriced, #2. they usually make wild health claims because nutritional supplements aren't regulated by the FDA, and #3. everyone selling the stuff has a vested interest in exaggerating the claims for sales & recruits.
It's like those stupid juice MLMs. They claim to be curing cancer and all kinds of bullsh*t, when in reality it's like bottling orange juice and selling it for $50/gallon.
BOGUS. all of it.
