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[pycnogenol]

iHerb is now stocking Thorne Research.

I'm thinking of ordering some of their products.

Who here takes this brand?

Any and all input is greatly appreciated.

— pycnogenol

Edited by pycnogenol, 29 August 2009 - 02:09 PM.

[pycnogenol]

Bump time.

Surely somebody here on Imminst has experience with the Thorne brand.

So step up and speak up, please

[FunkOdyssey]

At a glance on iherb they are far too expensive to compete with any traditional brands like Now or Jarrow. I don't see any compelling reason to buy anything from them.

Do they offer any unique products or formulas?

[nameless]

I recall reading somewhere that they are considered a reputable brand (although I forget where I read that). They seem to have good testing labs and such, at least.

As for unique products, one thing that caught my eye was their zinc sulfate solution. It's a lot cheaper than Zinc Status (appropriately used for testing, well... zinc status).

Their multis all seem to suffer from too much vitamin E, alpha-only. Except their children's multi, which actually looks okay except for the iron. It might be a good multi for women at a partial dose.

[pycnogenol]

At a glance on iherb they are far too expensive to compete with any traditional brands like Now or Jarrow. I don't see any compelling reason to buy anything from them. Do they offer any unique products or formulas?

That was the first thing I too noticed when I scanned the listings. Pricey stuff indeed. Not much of a discount.

They might. I'll get back to you on that.

[ppp]

At a glance on iherb they are far too expensive to compete with any traditional brands like Now or Jarrow. I don't see any compelling reason to buy anything from them. Do they offer any unique products or formulas?

That was the first thing I too noticed when I scanned the listings. Pricey stuff indeed. Not much of a discount.

They might. I'll get back to you on that.

Fractionated Pectin Powder - haven't seen that produced by anyone else (though I haven't looked especially hard). There's at least one research paper that used this as an anti-cancer agent.

[tunt01]

i've traded emails w/ thorne research from aways back, when i was looking at multivitamins. i didnt like how they handled Vitamin E (if i recall). i kind of liked their multivitamins (they had 5 versions) except for this vitamin E issue.

i think they had a ton of alpha tocopherol vitamin E in their multi-vitamins. i asked them why they didn't have all 8 types of vitamin E in their pill and they said, "well it's hard to do, hard to formulate that."

but I think they do sell a standalone Vitamin E pill with all 8 types of vitamin E (or at least one that is high in gamma-tocopherol). So why not exclude Vitamin E from your multi and tell your customers to take the standalone Vitamin E pill with a multi if they want vitamin E? "well.. we gotta have vitamin E in our pills!!!"


didnt make sense to me...

Edited by prophets, 04 September 2009 - 05:01 PM.

[Daniscience]

What do you think of their product ResveraCel? It combines NR and Trans-Resveratrol

https://www.thorne.c...t/dp/resveracel

 

I live in Spain and always purchase at iHerb, this brand looks like top-notch but who knows. This thingie is just too expensive to "hey just try it and see what happenz" and waste my money.