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Juice Plus Scam or the Real Deal
The Juice Plus Scam. is Juice Plus a scam or is Juice Plus the real deal. In all honesty, I looked at Juice Plus in the Spring of 2010 and decided to try it. But I only used the product for one short month.
Then I jumped ship and went with Protandim because of the "scientific research" behind the product. But after looking at the ingredients of the product:
* Milk thistle extract (Silybum marianum) (seed)
* Bacopa extract (Bacopa monnieri) (aerial part)
* Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) (root)
* Green tea extract (Camellia sinensis) (leaf)
* Turmeric extract (Curcuma longa) (rhizome)
I wondered about the actual amount of phytonutrients in the product. Also, the clinical research was mainly on mice and only a few studies on humans.
I looked into Shaklee and Usana which are excellent products and companies, but again found that the vitamins and minerals are mostly synthetic and lacking the abundance of phytonutrients found in the fruits and vegetables God has provided.
So now I am back to Juice Plus and want to settle the issue of the Juice Plus Scam.
Allow me to share an article written by Dr. Smokey Santillo a number of years ago.
Juice Plus Scam? Look at the Research.
Juice Plus+® - The Real Thing
The health industry has literally thousands of nutritional formulations with written material explaining their use. But the question always remains, "Why don't some if not most of their products work like the written material claims?" How many of us have been disappointed from the results after using specific nutrients over a long period of time?
There are two terms that I'd like you to remember which will help explain the above questions. These terms are: Borrowed Science and Primary Research.
Borrowed Science
Borrowed Science is pieced together research, information from other nutritional substances or formulas that companies use to promote their own products. For example, vitamin E has its individual research dictating its usage.
Vitamins B1 and B6 have their individual research. Putting these three substances together into one formula brings up the question; How is this formula going to effect the body?
Primary Science
The second term is Primary Research. It is specific research on the very product that is being marketed, scientific validation and independent studies that show that both the company and the products are safe, trustworthy, and effective. The distinction between these two terms is critical, often demonstrating why a nutritional product works or not.
The distributors of Juice Plus+® understand how nature provides synergistic elements in all whole foods that depend on each other to produce functional foods, foods that produce specific effects in the body's metabolism.
How can nutritional products be expected to work when a hodge-podge of nutrients and herbs are literally thrown together into one capsule? Claims on each specific nutrient may be valid, but together do they produce a known, healthy biological effect or are too many assumptions being made (borrowed science)?
Who knows? A product's effectiveness and safety are determined only if there is scientific validation on the whole product.
Is Juice Plus a Scam
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