Re: A*****ose --- "Where's the Beef???"

Your post is a repeat so, so will mine:

M*******h spends lots of time, energy and money ensuring that the ingredients they use contain what we know is needed, and in all the optimum proportions. Grow my own aloe vera garden? And cut it each meal, and somehow find a way, like M*******h scientists have done, to get the mannose without the other things that are in aloe vera that ISN'T ok to take internally??? And this is just one of the 8. The rest, I'm sure, have other processing steps that we don't fully know about.

No thanks, I don't care to take a chance on my health, nor do I have the time to do this kind of thing every day, nor do I care to. I suspect once you buy all the raw ingredients, and all that it takes to ensure you're using proper ones and processing them correctly to keep the glyconutrients vital (which would require expensive assays), you've spent more than we pay M*******h for A*****ose, and we've used up a good part of our day, every day!

From a price standpoint, here are the facts: For the $100 mentioned, a M*******h Associate gets approx. 228 servings of A*****ose, each serving being 440 mg. This serving size is equivalent to about 3 capsules of Manapol.

Thus, the equivalent of the $100 jar of A*****ose is 684 Manapol capsules (228 x 3), just considering this one ingredient.

The two ingredients considered from non-M*******h sources don't achieve the result of getting all the essential Glyconutrients into the diet - one must still consider the pricing and availability of the remaining ones. As is often said, the most important ingredient for you is the one you're missing! They are ALL called essential because they are.

M*******h provides a GREAT deal of value-added with A*****ose that, to my mind, is worth a LOT of money. For example, they perform extensive quality-control, using internal and independent 3rd-party verification, of both the ingredients and the finished product, to ensure every single product sold is what they claim it is, and without impurities. That's worth money to me, and I'm willing to pay more to ensure I'm really getting what I think I am! If it isn't worth it to someone else, they might want to take a look at some of the hundreds of actions taken recently by the FDA/FTC against other supplement manufacturers who's integrity isn't quite as high as M*******h's.

And M*******h also perform a huge amount of research and development, which is vital to ensure we are really getting all the essential nutrients our bodies need (history shows there have always been more yet to be discovered), and that the form we are getting it in is the most efficacious for us. Their efforts also work towards ensuring we, as consumers, can continue getting these essential nutrients, in spite of periodic efforts by other organizations to stop our ability to purchase anything except toxic pharmaceuticals (there are bills currently on the floor of Congress to do just this). And their efforts fund valuable research to validate, or invalidate, the safety and efficacy of nutrient products, which personally is hugely valuable to me also!

I personally believe M*******h is entitled to fair compensation for all this. and since they are a public company, one simply needs to examine their published accounting records to see that an exorbitant profit is not being made at the expense of consumers.

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