Over the years, I’ve been approached a bazillion times about promoting the aforementioned products, and many others. It’s always some kind hearted marketer doing his or her best to ensure I’m “in on the ground floor” of this “opportunity” (and nothing, I’m sure, to do with having me\u00a0under them in\u00a0the “commission\u00a0matrix”).<\/p>\n
Heaven forbid\u00a0I miss out on\u00a0the “wave” of “financial well being” and good health that will ultimately follow the heels of\u00a0the product.<\/p>\n
\u00a0It comes as no surprise to those who know me, that I steer WAY away from products such as these. Sure, the promotional materials look great; pictures of pristine, cascading waterfalls, untarnished, vibrant rain forest, a montage of happy, healthy indigenous people… you know what I’m talking about. And of course, there’s the\u00a0obligatory “stock” photo of the “average” users of the product; usually slim, attractive people, beaming with sheer delight as they frolic care-free in some idyllic natural setting with their absolutely perfect 2.5 children in tow.<\/p>\n
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And then, of course, comes the hype. It usually goes something like this…<\/p>\n
“… nestled in the rain-forest (or the Himalayas, or some remote tropical island, or wherever) lies a fruit so rich in natural benefits scientists and medical professionals the world over are singing its praises…” (of course, none of the professionals so “overwhelmed” by the product’s benefits ever seem to have a name).<\/p>\n
And so on. Yada, yada, yada.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After you’re sold on the health benefits of the product, you are then introduced to the opportunity. Not only can you reap the health benefits of this amazing product, but you can share them with your friends, family, colleagues — anyone you can think of — and get paid while you do so. And if you feel a slight twinge of guilt at the thought of turning friends and loved ones into a revenue stream for you, well… heck, you’re not “milking them for cash”… you’re changing their lives for the better.<\/p>\n
Yeah, OK. See…<\/p>\n
For most of these products, very little real evidence exists to validate any of the claims\u00a0of “health, wellness, and healing.”<\/p>\n
For instance, I tried to find some evidence to\u00a0validate the claims of one of the most recent products\u00a0I encountered — an Amalaki\u00a0product\u00a0called Zrii. Here’s what the web site had to say regarding existing clinical evidence…<\/p>\n
“Zrii is currently undergoing several studies, ranging from advanced nutritional and anti-oxidant testing to smaller-scale clinical studies. Currently, no clinical data is available.”<\/p>\n
Let me\u00a0see if I’ve got this right…<\/p>\n
Hype the product to death. Upsell its miraculous health benefits. Recruit legions of people to market it. Build an expensive, gorgeous web site, upsell the management team, post videos of execs with their new BMWs…<\/p>\n
All before there’s ANY proof Zrii does anything?<\/p>\n
Hello?<\/p>\n
Mike Adams, a consumer health advocate from NaturalNews.com, had this to say about Zrii juice…<\/a><\/p>\n “The Zrii company, it seems, has done a really clever job of hiding the truth about the actual ingredients in the Zrii product, leading people to believe it’s made primarily of medicinal herbs instead of the apple juice, pear juice and pomegranate juice that makes up the bulk of the product.”<\/p>\n It could be worse, I suppose.<\/p>\n You could simply make up the evidence, or report clinical data WAY out of context — as Wendy Mesley showed Dr. Earl Mindell and his cohorts to\u00a0be doing in her CBC MarketPlace\u00a0report about Goji juice<\/a>. But then again, what can you expect from a guy who apparently claims to have obtained degrees from schools that have never heard of him<\/a>?<\/p>\n Fact is, many of these miraculous juices are much less about delivering health benefits, and much more about making money.<\/p>\n Consider that next time you hear about some “miraculous” new product marketed through a pyramid scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the years, I’ve been approached a bazillion times about promoting the aforementioned products, and many others. It’s always some kind hearted marketer doing his or her best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,20,28],"tags":[765,814,1062,1120,1860,1187,1359,1815,1829],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7924,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}