Mannatech was featured in the Wall Street Journal last week, but it wasn’t because of it’s strong growth or product line, it was because of it’s continued medical claims related to their products. I didn’t read the article (it’s subscriber only) but I found a good summary at ScienceBlogs.com:
The practices of Mannatech distributors were the focus of a detailed article in this morning’s Wall Street Journal by Suzanne Sataline.
The Issue: Some consumers are using Mannatech nutritional supplements to seek relief from serious medical problems.
The Background: The company’s free-lance salespeople sometimes suggest
product uses that go well beyond recommendations on their labels.What’s Next: The Texas attorney general is scrutinizing the company, which also faces a class-action lawsuit from shareholders.
Dietary supplements like those sold by Mannatech are, in general,
short on science and heavy on hype, anecdote, and testimonial. (Recall my earlier post where Nobel Laureate, Gunter Blobel, felt that his science was being misrepresented by the company.).Some researchers says they doubt that [Mannatech’s]
Ambrotose offers any health benefits. Hudson Freeze, who studies
complex carbohydrates as a professor of glycobiology at the Burnham
Institute for Medical Research in La Jolla, Calif., contends the body
can’t digest Ambrotose because humans lack the enzymes necessary to
break down the plant fibers it contains into simple sugars.
Go to my website and read the first few paragraphs and
have your friend to. IN a nutshell, since Mannatech was
aired on NBC Date Line {or a similar show can't
remember} there was questioning by one of the guys who
always is on there, very well-known.
They had a lady who had cancer and the interviewer was
asking questions which made her dis-oriented, The
questions were meant to and they usually are meant to.
They ask questions to get certain answers. You know…
Then they had this "Dr. Freeze" a researcher in
carbohydrates {glyconutrients, saccharides,
polysaccharides, sugars….} who is an *expert.* I'm
not sure which research institute he's with. He was
excited about some of the carbohydrate stuff he was
studying and discovering. A patient was working with
him. Don't know what the patient had.
Then someone outside of his research, a family I think,
told the patient about Mannatech, and the patient
started taking Mannatech products {with all the sugars,
9 or 10. Some of there to protect others during
digestion}. It made Dr. Freeze very mad and he's been
saying Mannatech is a scam and there's no science
behind it. He's obviously not on the side of the
patient especially since mannatech's products have
saved so many lives!
All this got the attention of the Attorney General in
Texas, and he made a ruling that we can no longer say
'I used to have cancer but since taking Mannatech's
products I don't have it anymore." We can't name
disesase processes in any connection with any brand
name if from Manntaech! We can make general statements
like me: I used to have such back bad pain I couldn't
dress myself, but taking Mannatech's concentrated pure
nutrients my back was able to heal itself." No disease
or disease process is named.
so back to schleroderma: I've heard some testimonies of
people who had succes using Mannatech products with it,
but it's illegal to say that now.
What I can say and hope your friend understand {give
the first part of this email}, is this:
Our soil isn't what it was 50 years ago. It is now
sterilized {no friendly microorganisms which is vital
for health for the plants and those who eat them};
– minerals aren't put back unless they are synthetic
and only 1/30th of what the – – soil needs in minerals
is put back {synthetic again!}
– crops aren't turned under and/or rotated;
– the land isn't allowed to rest every 7 years;
– the minerals which are put back are 1/30th of what
should be there and THOSE are synthetic;
– crops are picked green. Only when plants are
vine-ripened are the most important nutrients developed
& released into the plants;
– we have produce which is grown in other states and
other countries, so what nutrition is there is
degraded – fresh is the most nutritious;
– irradiation causes cancer-causing chemicals to
develop in plants, like formaldehyde and other things!
Another reason so many people have such terrible and
more rare diseases showing up is because over the years
our immune systems are degenerating because of the
trillions of TONS of synthetic chemicals given to the
atmosphere, put into rivers and the oceans and lakes;
put into soils and the air carries them to the poles –
synthetic fertilizers from Wisconsin were found in the
fatty tissue of penguins in a pole;
they've found frogs who get some chemicals are now
acting gay;
rockets in the air drop cancer-causing and
hormone-disrupting chemicals to fall on us;./……
The short paragraph above says why the produce we eat
nowadays is missing some of the most vital nutrients
for healthy bodies, and the addition of all the toxic
stuff we can't get away from, put those two together
and we have what we have!
{It's a reason I joined Melaleuca. Their cleaners are
non-toxic, concentrated, costs less than name brands
per use, and they're SAFE for my house, and i'm not
hurting the environment}.
Those scent things to put into the walls and the other
scents? They're chemicals designed to smell natural.
They 're not & reports are coming out saying the
disease that are being developed.
Now if you give this information to your friend, let
him know there is a 180 day money back guarantee. If he
will talk or email with me and let me ask him questions
about his history, his eating, his environment {toxins,
chemicals, mold/mildew, cleaning products}, and family
history, then I would be thrilled to help him pick out
products I believe would greatly improved the general
building back the body's ability to fix things like it
should.
He can buy all the products he wants to and take them.
Keep the bottles and the shipping papers. If in 180
days or less he doesn't think the products have made a
good difference, then he'll get all his money back less
shipping.
Love you, Mary