Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

EDIT: I had to update my review towards the negative because I didn't like being slandered, called a liar, ridiculed, and having comment and review-stuffing of what sounds like PR company written propaganda doing ad hominem attacks against me. I got mad at being attacked and now am responding to save other users the trouble. Since I posted my review, there are a bunch of "positive reviews" that sound like they were written by a PR company, or attacks on me calling me a liar when the label itself tells you everything. I am doubting the positive reviews are legit. Do a general search of the internet yourself and read about the doubts people have had about this product. This has been discussed in forums multiple times. I don't want to link offsite but you can use google. I have revised my 2 star down to 1 star after learning of health DANGERS. Another user (as well as forum discussions elsewhere on the internet - use google) pointed out that "plant mineral powder" contains cadmium, thorium, and strontium. I've also been attacked as "not being able to do math" (i'm about 300lbs due to type 2 insulin resistance yet I eat very healthy 85% of the time, the directions say 1-2 scoops per 100lbs bodyweight, the radio host clearly pushed best weight loss benefits at the higher 2 scoops level, and under that math one canister lasts about 5 days) and attacked for claiming its' not organic yet there is no organic certification on the label, it is not advertised as organic anywhere, etc. I cannot for a moment believe that a "true customer" (as opposed to say, the apparent Multi Level Marketing manufacturer of this product sockpuppeting a response??) would spread lies talking you into buying it for things provably untrue on the label, which you can't even see here on amazon until you actually order the product and read it yourself. If there are multiple, personal responses all attacking me for telling the truth that is right on the label, there must be multiple, fraudulent positive reviews as well for this junk. I wasted hundreds of dollars to find out it wouldn't help at all. A product with ingredients seeming to be this cheap only needs to scam you into trying it once though. There are truly dumb positive reviews saying how much cheaper this is than buying vitamins to match the doses yourself, I don't know what planet they are coming from, probably manufacturer PR again (who writes reviews like that??), the powder form vitamins used in megadoses here like C and B complexes are available in large bulk versions from anywhere, so is bulk E and A in high doses, and you can compare the costs to the cheapest made in china vitamin powders because there is no organic certification and no statements about the origin or forms of the vitamins to differentiate them in any way from the cheapest, which means they are almost definately the cheapest or they'd be trumpeting it from the rooftops. There are much healthier forms of vitamin C (rose hips for instance) which don't seem to be those used here because they are more expensive yet more bioavailable. The only thing "special" about this product differentiating it from a general vitamin megadosing plan is the "plant mineral powder", which my experience shows it has no magic weight loss at lower or high doses. If you are ultra deficient in vitamins you'll probably have benefit, but you can get those benefits for alot lower cost. This product has so much sugar in it it will prevent you from doing Atkins or Protein Power type diets and could even be a risk for diabetics or require alot more insulin. What other health products do you know that are more than half corn sugar and fructose? The energy boost is probably from the sugar alone like those energy drinks, one scoop made 12oz water taste like Kool Aid yet my recommended dose for 300lbs was six scoops twice per day according to the label itself. ====== My full original review, even though I no longer stand behind it being a 'good product', where i ranked it 2 stars, titled: 5 day supply phenomenally overpriced ------- I'm not sure if i'm supposed to compare something to a different product, especially if the other product is praised more. I have no affiliation with either company, financial incentive, reward or anything else from them to give a positive or negative review for anyone. Does this seem to be a good product? Yes for the most part. Is it worth the money? Only if it brings you ongoing miracles not obtainable elsewhere. I heard about this on a popular alternative news radio show which used to really push a different product for years (Enerfood) which as far as I know used to be sold here as well although maybe they stopped being an advertiser and so stopped being pushed on the radio show. Said radio host has a solid reputation for news but a possible conflict of interest pushing otherwise good quality but often substantially overpriced (from double to far worse like $12 solar panels for $80) products. For that previous product I tried it, based upon the hosts recommendations and DID have what I could almost call a miracle - an undeniable boost of energy, alertness, clarity, and reduced hunger because my body something it needed that I assume I wasn't getting before. I had tried other algae supplements and nothing was even close to what I experienced on Enerfood, which i'm GUESSING was because my body was utterly starved from whatever it happened to supply despite trying or taking various multivitamins and similar or the extra stuff they threw in really made a difference. FYI I try many health products including expensive ones, always looking for a "new edge". Some other health products pushed by the host actually turned out meeting their expectations so I was optimistic. This is a different type of product, basically a megadose vitamin powder instead of a superfood. It's ingredients are nonspectacular however, not much different than what you find in other good quality vitamins or if so no attempt has been made to document why they are better. They don't seem to be organic or any extraordinary source, it's mostly a vitamin powder with an adequate covering tangerine taste plus some other plant extracts and such added in along with recommended dosages that will probably put the typical american male using 5-6 containers per month costing $300(or over $400 "at retail") at which point it is extraordinarily expensive for a multivitamin. Now make no mistake I DID feel an energy boost taking it, not a mega one but an undeniably noticible one, one I did not get taking general multivitamins, mega-B vitamins and similar. But it was not life-altering extraordinary and it requires the "full recommended dose" to get at which point one container lasts me 5 days, and at which point its so far beyond any megavitamin levels i've ever even attempted (ie vitamin B12 being about 50,000% the US RDA at that level) it could be due to that alone. At more sedate levels (like half that) it just seems to be a solid mega multivitamin. There was no "reduction of food cravings" past about the 4 hours water soluable vitamins seem to last in your body. Now it's possible that because I already take Enerfood that i'm already getting a high quality of nutrition although it is not a megavitamin product. Other people report taking Enerfood and having no miracles yet I did, and i'm guessing this product is probably similar YMMV. Others taking this product have reported weight loss at levels I have to assume was at least $300+/month perhaps because their body has been vitamin starved or they have only had low quality vitamins. I was hoping it might fill some mineral hole or something due to not being totally sure what was in it, just going off word off mouth. For some it will be exactly what you are missing and for others it will be a boost but not a huge one. Since i'm not feeling a difference in say food desires past about 4 hours I don't see how it will have a weight loss benefit superior to "superfoods", although superfoods in general seem to have a benefit. Note it's not sold as a weight loss supplement just others report benefits like that and that seems to be the word of mouth reason pushed by the radio host in question to give it a try. I ordered 3 of them without reading more on the dosage, thinking a 1lb container might last around a month, as it is a full evaluation at recommended doses will equal my house payment. Until the price starts to approach something resembling reality or some explanation of what is so special about the ingredients that justifies a cost probably 10 times higher than other things i've seen (not to beat a dead horse but the Enerfood is organic, specially cold processed, its vitamin sources are from food sources which digest FAR better for bioavailability and I get the mental high from it at a fraction of the dose while it costs less than this.. What most bothers me is for this premium price it just seems to contain common forms of vitamin powders that are in every other vitamin, and the mysteriously named not even organic "fruit and vegetable powder" and "planet derived mineral powder" could mean absolutely anything and they refuse to divulge even a theory of why it should be so good, plus it contains things that don't usually appear in top tier health supplements like xanthan gum... is it because of this filler that a single container only lasts about 5 days?) So what do I think so far? It's getting 2 stars for the price alone, it would have originally gotten 3 stars until I realized one $50 container wont even last a week. It seems like a good product, of good quality. Not miraculous, just good. I say good instead of decent simply because of having the mental clarity spike after my first serving so i'm being optimistic it has something that at least is not in absolutely everything else. I would happily add it to my daily regimen at maybe $30/month, maybe even $40-45. But not when I need 6 of these to last a month. Not when it's not even organic, not food source vitamins, lacks documentation for other ingredients and similar and mostly is relying upon testimonials instead of even an attempt to document scientifically why it would contain anything more special than other multivitamins using exactly the same "ascorbic acid" for vitamin C (not the more readily absorbed Ester-C, not rose hips) for instance. If the product drops to 1/5 or less of it's current price i'll consider a longer trial than two weeks to get a better idea. Even then it will cost $60/month which is still a bit pricey, but is at least worth testing for several months to see how well it works.