isagenix

Hi everyone. My goal is 100 lbs.  I just started the Isagenix cleanse and fat burning system.  I feel great.  Does anyone have experience w/ this system? Advice? Thanks!

Hi Eden,

I too just started Isagenix.  I honestly think it's a great system.  A few years ago I got on the program and lost a good amount of weight and felt great.  Unfortunately due to other issues I got off the diet.  I started again a few days ago.  I wish you great success!  If you need someone to talk to that will be going through the same program; feel free to contact me.

Good luck!

Jon

Hello Eden,

My husband and I  have been doing the Isaagenix cleanse every 4 to 6 months for about a year now. It is an amzing product with huge benefits. I lost the pounds that I  need to get to my weight goal and my husband quit smoking plus lost 15 pounds. Also the amount of energy that we both  gained  every time we cleanse and after is unbelievable also the motivation to work out and keep moving forward.

keep up the great work and you will love the bennefits!

shannon

www.isagenix.synthasite.com

It's hard to find any websites about this product that are not trying to market to you.

I found this in an unbiased forum. Sheesh people, remember not to believe EVERYTHING someone is trying to tell you when they are selling you something.

This product is overpriced. This is no different than any other cleansing product you can buy for $10.

http://www.clutchfitness.com/forums/showthrea d.php?t=6117

1. I tend to not like products that take the "throw everything in but the kitchen sink" approach. I see that all the time in bodybuilding supplements. They grab a couple ingredietns that are proven to do "something", then toss in a ton more to make their product look more impressive. They also hide the specific amounts of each so you don't know what you are getting, which can potentially be harmful.

2. They are "individual distributor / marketing" focused. Their real goal is to get you to sign up to buy cases to sell your friends. (Remember Thigh Cream?) Solid products typically don't require this approach. Too many scam companies use this approach. Does it mean their product is a scam? Not necessarily - but it's always a huge red flag to me.

3. I don't see anything magical in their product that you can't get from increasing your multivitamin, taking extra Vitamin C and B12, and drinking the same amount of grapefruit juice. It's basically diuretic, vitamins, a bunch of herbs that may not do anythign, and a strict diet.

I tried to find some information on the net that is NOT marketing hype (or a bunch of resellers promoting it) because I don't have time to pick it apart. But I ran across this one Medical Doctor that basically hit the points i was thinking:

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They engage in scare-mongering about toxins, but provide no data to show that the tiny amounts we ingest lead to any significant adverse health effects. They also provide no evidence that their treatment actually removes any toxins from the body. Or that doing so would have any significant impact on health. There have been no properly controlled scientific studies of their "cleansing" treatments, only testimonials of the sort that abound on the Internet for hundreds of other ineffective products.

There is absolutely no rationale for the particular combination of ingredients in their products. They have LOTS of different products, and have included just about every nutrient and herbal remedy in existence: 242 of them! Some of these we know to be useless, some are potentially harmful, and we have no idea how the particular ingredients in the mixtures might interact for better or for worse.

They offer "ionic" minerals from "ancient plant deposits." Minerals are the same thing wherever they come from, and all "ionic" means is that it is in a form that can be absorbed - i.e . magnesium as milk of magnesia rather than as a lump of elemental magnesium metal.

They advertise "no caffeine added" for a product that contains green tea; green tea contains caffeine. They repeat the tired old myth that our food isn't as nutritious as in the "good old days." They put digestive enzymes in their products to help you assimilate them, not realizing that orally ingested digestive enzymes are themselves digested in the stomach before they can do anything. They say that their electrolytes "ignite the body's electrical system" - I have no idea what this means, and it certainly is not scientific terminology.

Their antioxidant mixture contains 15,000 IU of vitamin A as beta carotene plus 5000 IU as palmitate. The Medical Letter recently reviewed vitamin A and warned that no one should take high-dose beta carotene supplements, and that women should not take vitamin A supplements at all during pregnancy or after menopause. Among other things, they said: Vitamin A may also have pro-oxidant effects in vivo. A high intake of vitamin A from supplements and food has been associated with an increased risk of hip fracture in postmenopausal women and with teratogenicity when taken during early pregnancy. A placebo-controlled intervention trial in Finnish smokers found that 20 mg/day of a beta carotene supplement increased the incidence of lung cancer by 18%, which was statistically significant. Another large double blind intervention trial in smokers and asbestos exposed workers, terminated early because no benefit was demonstrated, found that combined therapy with 30 mg of beta carotene and 25,000 IU of vitamin A daily was associated with an increase in the incidence of lung cancer, cardiovascular mortality and total mortality.

The Medical Letter concluded: "A balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables may be safer than taking vitamin supplements. No biologically active substance taken for a long term can be assumed to be free of risk."

Isagenix claims to promote weight loss. All treatments for weight loss work the same way: they get people to ingest fewer calories than they expend. There is no reason to think that a person who restricts calorie intake and exercises will lose any more weight if they add Isagenix products. Diuretic and laxative effects, psychological factors, and enthusiasm for a new method may initially fool people into thinking they have benefited.

Their medical advisor, Becky Natrajan, MD, tells us on a video presentation that she is "excited about results" but she does not say what those results are or why she thinks the results are due to the product rather than to diet, exercise and other factors. Perhaps her funniest argument is that the $5 a day Isagenix costs you is less expensive than open heart surgery. As if it were a simple choice between the two!

She tells you to contact the person who told you about Isagenix. And one of the headings on the website is "Wealth." There you will find out how you can sell products from your home and become an associate, a consultant or an executive with increasing levels of financial return. This sounds like a typical multilevel marketing scheme, typical of products that can't be marketed effectively based purely on their merits.

In short, Isagenix is a slick marketing enterprise that lines the promoters' pockets by selling baseless hope. There is a disclaimer on the website that should be taken very seriously: "These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease."

Harriet Hall, M.D.

I love living in a Country where my family and I can decide what works for us and what doesn't. Doing research on everything that affects my life and welfare helps me make decisions best for me. If someone asks me about what I like and what I'm doing I will speak up. I can't talk and won't talk about something I don't know or understand.  By the way I just loved the new Star Trek movie, but I didn't care for The Terminator. Oh.....excuse me....I just marketed the Star Trek movie....