This topic is lockedTo Anthony Loera, You are violating our trademark for Biotivia and Transmax by running Google adverts such as the one below as well as others in which you use the names Transmax and Biotivia. You are also implying in some of your ads that your product passed the consumer lab tests. It did not. Furthermore by Using our name as the header for your advert you are implying that you manufacture our products or somehow substantively represent our company or are associated with Biotivia. You do not in any way represent Biotivia nor have we given you permission to us our trademarks in your advertising. You are sinking to a new low in your efforts to promote your product. Up to this point you have clearly copied major elements of our web site, placed false and misleading information on your site, and made false statements on this forum and others about our products. This is a notification that you must cease and desist this false advertising immediately. You have gone over the line and we will respond appropriately.
BIOTIVIA
Dr. Oz says Resveratrol
independently tested
www.RevGenetics.com
You are being sent this notice on this forum because it is known that you post and read messages on this forum. James Betz, Managing Director-Biotivia
Ya.
They tested 13 brands (not including NOW, RevGenetics, among others).
Found most complied with stated resveratrol content (and most of this ~98%, was
trans-resveratrol, apparently), including Jarrow, Biotiva Transmax, Swanson.
Life Extension Foundation 20 mg tabs and Young Again tabs failed- much less than stated amount of resveratrol.
LEF is a huge disappointment. Great idea to do actual supplement research and consumer education, but the actual supplements formulations
are not good.
This is very disappointing to me in that I hate LEF because of its pandering, actually having sent a telegram to the FDA thanking them for jailing Faloon and Kent because I don't think supplements should be sold like non-prescription drugs (though LEF used it's money to get the law changed) but I always took their, and the self-taught expert's in Canada (who used to work at LEF) assurances of quality as truthful.
Here is an exchange between myself and LEF about LEF's resveratrol product, with minor editing to leaving out some rather personal details. I responded back to LEF yesterday telling them that their resveratrol offering failed Consuer Lab assay. I'm interested to see how they respond. I am not plugging not dissing LEF, but now frankly I'm lost. I've been taking their supplements since LEF's very beginning in complete confidence that though they increasingly were operating in ways I didn't agree with, at least I was assured that their products were good and pharmaceutical grade.
From: "Dayna Dye" ddye@lifeextension.com
To: Me
Subject: RE: About your RESVERATROL
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 15:57:02 -0500
Hi Me,
Nice to hear from you.
Yes, Life Extension has conducted assays over time on the resveratrol product and shown that the amount per capsule meets the label claim.
Concerning the amount given to the mice, it is not always wise to assume that the same proportional amount is good for humans. Future clinical studies will determine the best human dosage.
For longer life,
Dayna Dye
Editor, Life Extension Update
ddye@lifeextension.com
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From: Me
To:
Subject: About your RESVERATROL
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 13:32:26 -0600
Dayna,
You and I go back a long time. We used to talk, you used to take my orders when LEF was much smaller and everything was done in house. You'd often just go into the store to get some of the things you need to fulfill my order.
The mouse study quoted in the LEF email I just received actually showed excellent results on a good, not Macdonald's diet, but for a man my size, it would require 500 mg a day. There's also the question of stability. The researchers received their resveratrol packed in dry ice and kept it away from light and between -80 C and -4 C. Longevinex manufactures the product under inert gas and not exposed to light. They encapsulate their product in lightproof, inert nitrogen capsules. They assert this is the only way to do it, other's assert this isn't even good enough and others assert the stuff's as stable as Titanium. There are conflicting studies on the stability and bioavailability of resveratrol. Where does LEF stand on this? Has LEF done any assays to verify that there still is 20 mg of resveratrol in those 20 mg capsules? Does LEF have any consensus on how stable this compound is, whether if it's not kept below freezing, in the dark and under nitrogen, what believed to have been placed in the capsule was already degraded and further degrades to something useless by the time a customer like me receives the capsules?
Kindest regards,
Me
