Isagenix?

highervibes
highervibes Posts: 2,219 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I use ON Gold Standard protein shake after workouts and from time to time when I have a ****ty breakfast. There is this lady that is pressuring me to try Isagenix instead of ON shake. I know ON isn't the BEST I could do, so I'm open to something else but I just get this weird Body by Vi vibe LOL. I have no intention of replacing meals, only as a post workout thing or as I said, in the case of a crappy breaky. What do you all think of this? Is is an appropriate post workout shake?

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  • SusanB148
    SusanB148 Posts: 72 Member
    A coach at the gym where I go to boot camp sells it, and she really seems to think it's a good product. I have not been on the shakes, but from what I've heard, at least they won't do you any harm.
  • highervibes
    highervibes Posts: 2,219 Member
    anyone?
  • RobynLB83
    RobynLB83 Posts: 626 Member
    And the cows are milked by magic elves! Their little magic hands balance the ions in the milk. So you absorb the protein better, and it gives you magic powers.
  • highervibes
    highervibes Posts: 2,219 Member
    Laura, I appreciate your thorough reply but I'm looking for unbiased opinions on whether or not this would be an appropriate post workout shake. I have all the sales information already :)

    Any people NOT AFFILIATED with Isagenix have an opinion on the shakes?
  • bpmartyr
    bpmartyr Posts: 141
    Overpriced gimmicky product making absurd claims. Stick with ON.
  • cjcmrn
    cjcmrn Posts: 134 Member
    totally neutral....
    they are pretty much the same as Bodyby Vi, yes I know people that have lost weight on this however they were doing the whole program.
    If I was you go to Popeyes or GNC and talk to one of their consultants regarding shakes. Just make sure you watch your sugar.
    This way you are actually getting a product meant and designed for post-workout to help your muscles rebuild
  • Terree_G
    Terree_G Posts: 69 Member
    I've used the products since 2009 and appreciate the fact that they contain none of the chemical crap and sweeteners of most store brands.

    I still use the Isagenix bars and shakes (IsaLean Pro) for pre- and post-workout fuel, but less often than before, due to the cost and also to the fact that I found a protein shake elsewhere that has big protein and virtually no carbs. It is sweetened with something I usually avoid (sucralose or whatever) but it's the compromise I've made just to get the protein I need. The Isagenix is carb-heavy, and my macro just isn't high enough to permit those products PLUS whatever other carbs I eat in one day.

    Edited to add: I went to Popeyes for the protein shake. ;-)
  • highervibes
    highervibes Posts: 2,219 Member
    I've used the products since 2009 and appreciate the fact that they contain none of the chemical crap and sweeteners of most store brands.

    I still use the Isagenix bars and shakes (IsaLean Pro) for pre- and post-workout fuel, but less often than before, due to the cost and also to the fact that I found a protein shake elsewhere that has big protein and virtually no carbs. It is sweetened with something I usually avoid (sucralose or whatever) but it's the compromise I've made just to get the protein I need. The Isagenix is carb-heavy, and my macro just isn't high enough to permit those products PLUS whatever other carbs I eat in one day.

    Edited to add: I went to Popeyes for the protein shake. ;-)

    Thanks. I follow a low carb plan (I eat about 100/day, sometimes more sometimes less) and I can NOT afford to have extra carbs from something as boring as a protein shake LOL. What brand did you choose?
  • Wetcoaster
    Wetcoaster Posts: 1,788 Member
    Stay far away from this product......


    http://www.realscam.com/f9/isagenix-cleanse-your-body-your-wallet-promoted-scammer-tim-darnell-his-mentor-jay-bennett-119/

    http://www.csicop.org/si/show/defending_isagenix_a_case_study_in_flawed_thinking

    http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/isagenix-study-is-not-convincing/
  • scottrattray
    scottrattray Posts: 5
    ON? LOL
  • scottrattray
    scottrattray Posts: 5
    Whatever shake you do, just make sure it has no artificial sweeteners, no soy, and the whey is as such:

    and if you are a fitness pro and dont know who wrote this, you arent a pro..... just sayin' :D

    http://colganprograms.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/whey-proteinchoose-the-best/
  • bpmartyr
    bpmartyr Posts: 141
    Whatever shake you do, just make sure it has no artificial sweeteners, no soy, and the whey is as such:

    and if you are a fitness pro and dont know who wrote this, you arent a pro..... just sayin' :D

    http://colganprograms.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/whey-proteinchoose-the-best/

    So much garbage in that article.
  • Joreanasaurous
    Joreanasaurous Posts: 1,384 Member
    Whatever shake you do, just make sure it has no artificial sweeteners, no soy, and the whey is as such:

    and if you are a fitness pro and dont know who wrote this, you arent a pro..... just sayin' :D

    http://colganprograms.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/whey-proteinchoose-the-best/

    So much garbage in that article.

    Colgan is partnered with that protein brand... So anything he says is going to be to make him money.
  • Wetcoaster
    Wetcoaster Posts: 1,788 Member
    The pathetic state of Dr. Michael Colgan


    http://forums.lylemcdonald.com/showthread.php?t=12982

    "Oh man, this is sad. Anyone who worked out in the early 90's remembers a few things: The big, dog-food sized bags of Weider Weight Gainer, Hot Stuff and Dr. Michael Colgan's book, Optimum Sports Nutrition. Everyone had a copy of that and he wrote a pretty decent column in MD back then.

    Dr. Colgan had a rep for being witty in prose and for calling a spade a spade in an industry that, even then, was full of crap. I even remembering him talking smack on some TwinLab products (when they were bigger than EAS, and somewhat decent) despite TwinLab owning MD magazine. Yeah, he was a maverick, if even an effete one by today's standards, with a good clinical background on physiology and supplementation. I drank his kool-aide and asked for seconds. I bought all of his books and followed his programs. I had a subscription to his personal newsletter The Colgan Chronicles. You could even call his "Colgan Institute" up and talk to him for free. And he was very generous with his time too. However, even then I noticed the early underpinnings of insanity.

    For one he had this odd, unhealthy vendetta against vanadyl sulfate. I mean he hated that stuff with a passion. Weird.

    Secondly he dedicated an entire article in MD once about how he developed and perfected an uncoupling formula with a bunch of dietary supplements including acetyl-l-carnitine, hydroxycitric acid, chromium picolinate and others. He even claimed that he was sweating while wearing short sleeves in Canada in the dead of winter. Nobody believed him and there is no reason to think that he ever developed an efficacious formula.

    Then there was his HIV is harmless rant. Then he though chromium picolinate was a cure for type 2 diabetes. Then he told everyone, ad nauseam, that if you exercise without antioxidant protection that your immune system will fall to the level of an aids patient and your performance will go in the toilette. Then he faded from the mainstream and I never heard from him again.

    So I decided to google him to see what old Doc Colgan was up to now a days. I wish I hadn't.

    Now "The Colgan Institute" operates in Canada and he now sells over priced vitamin packets. He still uses the chelated forms of his minerals (don't ask him about magnesium or zinc oxide or he'll get his hackles up) and he still foolishly used mega doses of vitamin C and E. He also thinks that you MUST take mega doses of antioxidants during your workout even though we now have data that taking antioxidants may actually SLOW recovery and muscle growth and a majority of the interventional trials has failed to show supplemental antioxidants to do jack for most anything, ye the refuses to change his opinion with the emerging science.

    This would be understandable and excusable, to a degree, since it isn't uncommon for a scientist to get married to a nutritional worldview, but he used to constantly admonish stuffy researchers and physicians for doing that very thing! With this, he was sticking his toe in the waters of hypocrisy and when I read further, I could see that he decided to dive-in head first. I was saddened to see what he's in to now.

    He now sells a (crappy and over-priced) multi level marketing supplement line. Like all MLM products, they have cheaper and better retail counterparts but what really broke my heart is that there is a video on their site where he is talking about the health benefits of...wait for it...their whole body cleansing product (insert sound of a long whistling bomb with explosion).

    Yeah, Dr. Colgan went from intellectually restrained, yet prospective minded fringe to the bat crap crazy fringe. He's seriously lecturing on the value of detoxes. Holy crap. He even went as far as to say that you cant take their other awesome products unless you take their cleansing product first because, you know, you can't build a house on a broken foundation or whatever other retarded analogy you want to use to sell snake oil.

    I was going to post a link to the video, but I don't want to break the forum rules, but you've got to see it. He looks like a mix of crazy Dr. Brown from Back to the Future and a used car salesman. Pathetic. I'm not sure if he is desperate for cash or if he really has lost all his objectivity, or if he even had it to begin with. Either way a small part of me twinged because, as a teen, I idolized this guy."

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