Pharmanex Food Supplements

Vas_Guy

Has anyone ever tried Pharmanex products www.pharmanex.com; their very pricy, I wonder how they match up to other cheaper products on the market.

They cannot be purchased in the shops you have to order online and have someone sign you on as a distribitor.

They also do Nu Skin products.

EileenG

The link didn't work for me.

How pricey are they? Why are they supposed to be better than other products?

Vas_Guy

Sorry www.pharmanex.com

they say the products are made from natural products about €90 for the basic vitamin supplement called life pak

taram

On the product info page (http://www.pharmanex.com/corp/library/pdf/pip/lifepak.pdf) it shows the amounts of vitamins, seems like a standard multivitamin in huge quantities with a few bits like grape seed extract thrown in, how much do you get for the 90e? Also, you're meant to take it twice a day, that's 300% of your RDA of fat soluble vitamins like vitamin A, high intake of which is linked to increased bone fractures amongst other things. Also can't seem to find where exactly all the natural parts come from, the B12 for example is cyanocobalamin which is only found in a synthetic form. Think give this one a skip for both your health and your wallet and get a seven seas multivitamin or something if you need a boost.

Tib

Hi Taram,

I do not know how did you get this false conclusion about the Pharmanex food supplement. What you wrote is simply just false.

Nu Skin is a huge and famous US based multi-national. Because it is a science based company it invests heavily in product research and development, and its skin care products are extremely popular. Pharmanex is a division of Nu Skin.
Because of the size of Pharmanex there is a lot of marketing hype surrounding Lifepak. Pharmanex certainly has the financial means to dazzle us with a tonne of scientific data and marketing literature.
Lifepak was even an "officially licensed product of the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC)" in Salt Lake in 2002 and through to the 2004 Olympics. It is backed by tremendous resources and uses a tonne of scientific studies to support the ingredients it contains.
http://www.nutritional-supplement-truths.com/lifepak.html

"Also can't seem to find where exactly all the natural parts come from, the B12 for example is cyanocobalamin which is only found in a synthetic form."

Vitamin B-12 can only be manufactured by bacteria and can only be found naturally in animal products, however, synthetic forms are widely available and added to many foods. is the largest and most structurally complicated vitamin and can be produced industrially only through bacterial fermentation-synthesis. Cyanocobalamin is an especially common vitamer of the vitamin B12 family. It is the most famous vitamer of the family, because it is, in chemical terms, the most air-stable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12
http://www.antioxidantsdetective.com/rda-for-vitamin-a.html

There is an enormous research behind Nu Skin products. They acquired LifeGen Technologies, the most significant genetic scientist company in the world. They are focusing on gene expression analysis as it relates to the aging process of humans and animals

taram wrote: »

On the product info page (http://www.pharmanex.com/corp/library/pdf/pip/lifepak.pdf) it shows the amounts of vitamins, seems like a standard multivitamin in huge quantities with a few bits like grape seed extract thrown in, how much do you get for the 90e? Also, you're meant to take it twice a day, that's 300% of your RDA of fat soluble vitamins like vitamin A, high intake of which is linked to increased bone fractures amongst other things. Also can't seem to find where exactly all the natural parts come from, the B12 for example is cyanocobalamin which is only found in a synthetic form. Think give this one a skip for both your health and your wallet and get a seven seas multivitamin or something if you need a boost.