It looks like a lot are just vitamins and caffeine. I hate the proprietary blend stuff because they don’t have to disclose the amounts of any of the ingredients. That’s really sketchy to me, and potentially dangerous.
The last one, which I’m assuming is Calm, has ingredients you can easily buy elsewhere. Ashwaganda capsules are pretty easy to find and almost certainly cheaper than this product. I take a calming Olly gummy with lemon balm and I’d be curious to compare the ingredients.
EDIT: the Olly gummy has GABA, L-theanine, and lemon balm. It’s $12.89 for a bottle of 42 at my local target.
Alright...I'm scared to comment this because I know people are gonna disagree and come for me 😬 I'm not trying to make anyone angry just sharing what I think!
To my understanding Citric Acid is made from black mold and really truly should be avoided at all costs. Not many people know that though. It's the first ingredient in most of these.
Guar gum is just nasty for your digestive system. I try to avoid that one in things as well!
Sunflower Lecithin, while good at times for specific things (like breastmilk supply!) actually can destroy the lining of the stomach if consumed everyday from what I've read. It's an emulsifier which if over consumed can cause digestive issues.
Edited to add: Anything labeled "natural flavor" is not natural flavor and is probably something really shitty to consume. You can look that one up yourself.
Again, I'm really not trying to make people angry with my comment. If you don't agree with what I said that's totally fine! OP just specifically asked if anything in the ingredients looked bad so I said what I think looks bad.
My friend is also doing the Make Wellness start up. It's really annoying to see...they're using the same wording as everyone else for everything. She just posted a story today trying the peptides.
LMAO all that pre-launch hype about "peptides sourced from nature" and it turns out to be Saccharomyces cerevisiae i.e. good old baker's yeast! They also can't even spell ginkgo correctly. Geez, their R&D lab must be staffed only with people who flunked high school science.
Thanks for this. I have been part of Beachbody for the past 17 years and their MLM model is being retired and replaced with a single level affiliate model. Have been able to make a couple 100K with BB and honestly felt in the early days that there was an honest attempt at making the MLM model fair and sustainable. Over the last 5 years of so especially when they went public it has gotten sketchy and felt more like a money grab with policies and allowed easy scalping of new recruits and consolidation of revenue into just a few very large controllable organizations. Sad to see it imploded like this. Anyway have been offeres to join MAKE but don’t like the lack of transparency. This data helps so thank you!
Another important factor is price-- how much are they charging and for how much product, how many days, etc.
How can they be posting about customer testimonials when the product isn’t out yet?
Do they have lab reports on these stupid peptides? In order for peptides to be legit, you would want to get them tested to prove the potency.
Where are the reports?
There are an insane amount of defending comments on this post what is happening
I need to know what percentage of Guarana is in the lean peptide? I have been having dizzy spells after taking my two capsule dose
I’ve been working in product marketing for nutritional supplements almost 10 years and work really close with product development teams....Couple things:
This packaging is already non compliant - unless this magically is an FDA approved product which I guarantee it’s not. Every claim they are making should have an asterisk or tombstone after it and the packaging needs the FDA disclaimer on it.
Proprietary Blends are sketchy. It’s a way they don’t have to share how much of each ingredient is in it. The ingredients in the blend should be listed out in the order of highest concentration, but who knows if they are.
Anxiety is a medical claim, that shouldn’t be made on a product like this. They’re asking to get sued.
I’m guessing the stats like 40% reduction in stress are based off a study on an ingredient in the product, not an actual study on the product. A lot of MLMs do that and may not even have the dose of the ingredient the study was conducted on in their product.
I can find you another product with each of these ingredients at GNC. There is nothing revolutionary about them.
And lastly of course this one is based in Utah 😒 land of the MLMs.
This stuff is always just snake oil.
Vitamins you can buy cheap from the store
I’m aware of another product called LEAN that’s known to keep you pretty CALM.
It usually comes in a double cup...
Some advice to add. This comes from someone who runs a fitness/wellness/supplement place. So I can speak on the ingredients, but not the sales structure. My only opinion on the sales structure is when a product is the focus of the company versus the sales structure, it will sell itself with success. Now for the facts of this stuff. A lot of these ingredients are legit, they do what they say, but they are only a part of the whole picture. One of the big red flags is the "proprietary blend" of the active ingredients. There is no amount of the "good stuff" listed so it's just a mishmash mix. They also split the ingredients up, probably for marketing purposes. What I mean is that there are BCAA (branch chained amino acid) mixes out there that sell all the ingredients listed in their 3-4 products combined.
The second factor is almost all these ingredients exist in protein and bcaa supplements. (and in low amounts to boot) So if you were trying to sell this to your fitness friends, most likely they already take it. This would only appeal to the client who is into the beauty side of staying healthy. When I say this, I mean...the ones who go to IV bars, and botox parties. The majority don't truly care too much what it is they are taking, but are willing to take it if it gives them the results they want. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, not everyone is into breaking down the specifics, or they could already be taking it, but just doubling up unknowingly.
Your family's challenge in selling this stuff is going to be the market they sell it to. If you have a lot of friends and fam who are in this interest group, don't really know much about supplements, and are not actively taking anything for the "labels" it lists, then they should have no issues, but do yourself a favor and if you have a friend that takes supplements and protein, ask them if they would take this, most likely they'll say no. (that's if they know what they are consuming because even protein powder and supplements are not made the same). Stay away from proprietary blends is the best advice. I'll include some links to where you can see what I mean by ingredients. (which btw I would suggest everyone take an EAA/BCAA as their daily drink for hydration and overall wellness) These two brands we respect because of it's transparent ingredient amounts. You'll see the matrix blend, but within it, the listed amounts.
Protein - https://www.vmisports.com/cdn/shop/files/www-vmisports-com-protein-protolyte-100-whey-isolate-protein-1-6lb-42983081574705.png?v=1709154554
EAA/BCAA - https://nutrabio.com/cdn/shop/files/26910_e351fcc0-a775-4f82-929c-943515c860e0.png?v=1707331471&width=4096
https://www.vmisports.com/cdn/shop/files/vmi-sports-muscle-building-recovery-aminogex-ultra-eaa-hydration-42983071088945.png?v=1697059223
I work with a 20 year old health and wellness technology company. Our products do the same things as each of the products Make offers, plus, our product naturally increases the amount of Glutathione, Copper Peptides-GHK-cu and AHK-cu, the body produces and the best part is- there’s nothing going into the body- no chemicals, drugs or injections. We’re backed by over 90 published independent scientific studies, in over 70 countries, used by 1000’s of medical providers and are doing $50 million in sales per MONTH and growing. We also have a patent from the US government stating that they verified that our product enhances the body and ACTIVATES dormant stem cells which is huge!
However, we can’t legally say any of the ways our product impacts the body, we can’t even say stem cells or pain because of the FDA’s increasing restrictions on us. The word Stem cells is in our patent from the US Patent office and we can’t even use the same language as our actual patent. That’s how strict the FDA is. It’s the same thing with the CBD industry and essential oils. The FDA is trying to shut companies down through essentially muzzling us.
I mention that because it’s interesting that this company hasn’t launched yet and their labeling is in violation of a lot of FDA regulations which tells me that maybe they aren’t as legit as they say?? If their product was going to launch soon I would think that their marketing and product labels would be FDA compliant and since they aren’t, are they even close to launching?
Ingredients are just so ridiculous. Like one of them is just Vit Bs and Vit D basically. I have a diagnosed deficiency in Vit B12 and Vit D and am prescribed supplements, at a whopping $10 per 90 day supply. And this is selling for close to $100 for 30 days I bet.