MELALEUCA vitamins?

When I need to do something like this, I take the bottle with the vitamins and % compare to generics in the store and go with that one. Good luck!

Supplements are not really regulated. I feel like the claims by the manufacturers are just marketing hype. I buy Centrum. Who knows if they are good or bad. I figure at least it's a huge company so the ingredients are probably fairly fresh. But I could be totally wrong. :laugh:

Off topic but my mom totally used to work for them.

I need to do this for sure. But there is also something the Mel vitamins supposedly has that makes them absorb better in your body. Maybe it's just big hokey.

It's not a big hokey. It has been scientifically proven.

The statement isn't proof, but the studies are. No sense arguing -- truth will win out.

Here is one: http://www.nutritionj.com/content/pdf/1475-2891-9-61.pdf

The Oligo process received a patent in September 2012, so there is likely info that can be looked up there that you might be interested in.

If anyone here is a customer or marketing executive or is curious about the company, please contact me. There's a lot of information to the company and its research that get lost within the site.

So, proof is in the 'pudding' which i hope if you are all challenging yourselves to loose weight, arent eating -_-

This is a Journal which can be found within the website.

http://www.nutritionj.com/content/pdf/1475-2891-9-61.pdf

bumps a year old thread with his first post, encourages people to "contact him" about the magical properties of the over-priced MLM Maleleuca Vitamins.

Right.

Here is a thread from today coincidentally that has links to four studies in The Annals, a peer reviewed journal, that show no efficacy for vitamin supplements for healthy people.
Most people are wasting their money.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1153345-vitamins-overrated

I'm assuming that this is the post in which you were relating to...

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1789253

" They conclude that most mineral and vitamin supplements have no clear benefit, might even be harmful in well-nourished adults, and should not be used for chronic disease prevention."

A very simple statement with a complicated situation.

1) MOST Vitamins and minerals had no CLEAR benefit. Which seems to imply there are those that are or may be beneficial. (and Melaleuca is the only company i know to have such claims on their vitamins and a journal to back it up i.e. my previous post.)

2) Might even be harmful in well-Nourished adults. First, an intake than what is necessary from water can be lethal ( http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-drinking-too-much-water-can-kill ). Thus, we can conclude to any obvious point that anything in overabundance may be harmful. Second, being well-nourished isn't as simple as it sounds, nor is available for all. My personal diet consists of a lot protein and few carbs and varied greens and fruits. Taking vitamins is necessary for me (assuming that they work) because of the lack of actual nutrition i consume, unfortunately. But i feel healthier, more energetic, and cognitively functional than the people i surround myself with, well nourished or otherwise. Or maybe that's the meditation and energy work that I practice....(There are those that claim that they do not eat anything whatsoever, that they are just as healthy as those of us who still need to consume physical objects to be nourished.)

3) Should not be used for chronic disease prevention. I completely agree. The point of consuming nutrients in a regular patter is to maintain homeostasis of the body. In fact, there is much evidence to create the contrary, that fasting (opposite to consuming nutrition) is a way for the body to help detox itself.

So, are vitamins necessary? Not necessarily, and neither is food apparently. MOST seem to have no benefit on those who are already properly nourished. Now, I wonder how that would translate to those lacking a proper diet by choice or by chance. Maybe it's even possible to nourish poverty stricken individuals. Now that's a research subject I would love to see (and after this post am going to look for.)

bumps a year old thread with his first post, encourages people to "contact him" about the magical properties of the over-priced MLM Maleleuca Vitamins.

Right.

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i'm pretty sure i didnt say anything about them being "magical". And i was expressing my openness to potential customers, already customers, and possible marketing execs who might not have known where to get information from (which im assuming since some people claim to use them here).

So, as my third post, I'd like to take that pudding away from you since that "bad fat" seems to be getting into you head causing cognitive dysfunction. I do sincerely hope that your 18,460th post will be something that adds to the conversation with a sense of growth rather than some sort of ignorance.

p.s. Whats JSF?? >:o

awesome third post.

:huh:

I encourage everyone to look at the facts, instead of just throwing out conjecture and misstatements. Obviously some science is better than others, and for some companies none is ok, and they are proud of it. That has not been my experience with Melaleuca. Melaleuca has received two patents on their vitamin technology from the US Patent Office: #8,273,393 B2 and #8,697,258 B2, that does not happen without science. The patent must show uniqueness and originality. Melaleuca also had world leading scientists, Dr Gary Beuttner leading free radical scientist at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, and Andrei Kamarov research professor at George Washington University Medical School on the research team that developed the Amino Acid Oligo Fructose technology, and they are listed in the whitepaper that was submitted in the patent process. After all it is not what we take that is as important as what our body can absorb and use. Common sense tells us that we can eat rock that is full of minerals, but our bodies can't use it. That is essentially what many manufacturers do. That whitepaper is available at the following link: http://www.oligofructosecomplex.com/documents/oligo_whitepaper.html.
As for me, I have had much personal success in the relief of my allergies, reduced blood pressure, and reduced cholesterol thru the use of their products. I have tried many supplements in the past from GNC and local health food stores and spent many times the money I do with Melaleuca's supplements, and I never had any improvements in my true health. My experience with other companies is that they claim to have science, but you rarely ever see it. Melaleuca on the other hand This is probably more than you wanted to know, but if you want to go deeper this will give you a starting point.

Oy... another stay at home mom MLM business. It's the same husband's $50 bill being passed around the block - just don't be the sucker at the end of the gravy train lol

I read Metallica vitamins at first glance. LOL

Me too haha. And just saw that it's >1yr old :grumble: