Friday, April 24, 2009

Reliv Causes Stupidity

Since I began this blog I have been SHOCKED at the stupidity of some of the Reliv Distributors and Users that write to me trying to convince me that I am angry or that I have an agenda. It does not matter how many times I tell them that the purpose of this blog is to give people a chance to see both sides of the coin, that there is no such things as a universal cure. Just because something worked for "Joe" does not mean it will work for "Mary".

Many try to convince me that Reliv is a cure all and that Reliv has many scientists working on their products and therefore they "must be" good for us. But I wonder if they have ever stopped to think about the fact that these same scientists are making millions from the sell of Reliv. I kind of doubt they are going to directly disagree.

If we would just pull our heads out of the sand, stop looking at the info that we have seen about the benefits of soy for so many years and look at the new research it is clear that Reliv can't be healthy. Sadly it takes humanity years to undo thoughts and false learning from the past. I mean just look at the millions who died during the early days of our medical system with many of it's false concepts that finally were discovered to be wrong.

Reliv is not healthy, it is high in soy and the body was not designed to ingest these high dosage vitamins. Please if you read this blog, take some time to study soy for yourself. Do so with an open mind and let go of everything you have heard in the past. If you study with a bias, you will lean towards and get stuck on that bias. When I was first shown the dangers of soy myself, I spent weeks trying to disprove what I shown, but sadly I realized that what I had been raised to believe was wrong.

Here is a short summary of the dangers of soy,

Have you ever wondered about soy? It's promoted as the miracle food that will feed the world while at the same time prevent and cure all manner of diseases.

But what if all you've read about soy is nothing but a multi-million dollar marketing strategy based on scanty facts, half-truths and lies?

Most people remain unaware that soy is known to contain an array of potent chemical toxins. The modern manufacturing processes of high-profit industries make no effort to remove these potent toxins. High levels of phytic acid, trypsin inhibitors, toxic lysinoalanine and highly carcinogenic nitrosamines are all present in soy products.

Phytoestrogens that disrupt endocrine function and are potent antithyroid agents are present in vast quantities in soy, including the potentially devastating isoflavone Genistein. Infants exclusively fed soy-based formula have 13,000 to 22,000 times more estrogen compounds in their blood than babies fed milk-based formula, the estrogenic equivalent of at least five birth control pills per day. Premature development of girls has been linked to the use of soy formula, as has the underdevelopment of males. Infant soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.

Soy is linked to infertility, breast cancer, hypothyroidism, thyroid cancer, and many other disorders.

"Imagine drugs that are known, by years of scientific documentation, to be both carcinogenic and to also cause DNA and chromosome damage being prescribed and administered through the food supply to populations of many countries around the world without the knowledge or consent of the individuals consuming these foods ... with no way to track dosage, individual reactions, or harmful side-effects ... and without any concern for some people’s increased vulnerability to these drugs, such as cancer patients. It sounds crazy, but that is exactly what is happening around the world when Soy is added to our food supply. Soy contains the scientifically documented carcinogenic and DNA damaging and chromosome damaging natural chemicals genistein and daidzein." - True Health, the magazine of Carotec Inc., Naples, Florida. May/June 2004.

"(Soyfoods) are not nutrients. They are drugs."
Dr. L. White, Honolulu Aging Study.

How could anyone get away with this?

The answer is simple, given the soy industry is one of the world's most wealthy and powerful multi-billion dollar industries.

"Despite an impressive array of scientific evidence that soy is not a fit food for man nor beast, the soy marketing mastodon has marched through the American market like Sherman through Georgia - and likely doing about as much damage as Sherman's Union Army did. In our opinion the widespread use of non-fermented soy is part of the chronic disease problem since soy is known to wreak havoc with the human thyroid and other hormone systems." - True Health, the magazine of Carotec Inc., Naples, Florida. May/June 2004.

The result is an industry that will systematically steamroll anybody that dares suggest there may be problems with the darling soy. When we first questioned the safety of soy, a representative of Protein Technologies told us that they had:

"...teams of lawyers to crush dissenters, could buy scientists to give evidence, owned television channels and newspapers, could divert medical schools and could even influence governments..."

This boast has proven all too true, and you'll be shocked to learn that much of what you've read about soy is nothing but a con.

Are all Soy Beans bad?

Soybeans are widely known to contain a gamut of natural toxins - and it makes no difference whether they are organic, "Round-Up Ready", or in any number of modern products (see our GUIDANCE page).

The trouble with modern soy products is that fast industrial processing does not equate to historical methods of fermenting "for two summers" or boiling "for the length of an incense". The method of modern get-rich-quick corporations is simply to leave these well-known natural toxins in our products.

"Among the Hawaii "study's" conclusions: that tofu accelerates brain weight loss in aging users, that the more soy you use the more it impacts your mental abilities, that soy acts like a drug, not a food." - True Health, the magazine of Carotec Inc., Naples, Florida. May/June 2004.

The above info was copied from, http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for starting this site. I work at a hotel and as I type a Reliv meeting is going on in our conference room. Now I know what to say when they try to "recruit" me. Thank you Watchdog!

Theresa Campagna said...

while i just found you through a google search and i have only briefly scanned a few of your posts, i would like to know how it didn't work for YOU. you do agree that it has worked for many. don't you think if you have some followers it would be fair to encourage both sides to engage in dialogue? i feel compelled to do so. i personally lack the discipline to take a shake on a regular basis so no it hasn't worked for me. it does and it doesn't cos i'll take it for 6 weeks and then skip a week cos i am busy.

and yes i know about the dangers of soy. i only take innergize for allergy control. but my mother had her thyroid removed 13 years ago through radiation. as a result she developed a tumor in her stomach, ffing huge. the only reason she is alive today is because of reliv products.

i personally don't believe reliv will make you a billionaire and that needs to stop. but i do think it's nice as a hobby type job on the side.

The_Reliv_Watchdog said...

Hi Tessa,

Thank you for reading my blog and I encourage you to read a few more of the posts. Throughout this blog there are posts and comments to posts that have more of the personal side to them.

I do not allow too much discussion as there are 1000s of positive sites and so few that give the negative side. Therefore I want to keep this blog focused so that people can find the answers they are looking for. You could not even imagine the amount of posts I reject from the angry Reliv people trying to tell me I am wrong. But I sold Reliv for two years and I know that it does work for some but I also know that it DOES NOT work for others.

Therefore I try to give people the other side of the coin so that they can make an honest decision. Again Reliv does help some but I also firmly believe it has harmed or seriously harmed others.

And yes you are right, Reliv will not make you rich. In fact, more than 99% of people who join fail. Somewhere on here is a post that gives the odds for making money and the bottom line is, you are better off playing lotto or some other game of chance.

Lori Imel - Living4Him2 said...

I have been taking Reliv for over a year now - I know that my upline would say I am not taking enough of it - I am doing the recommended daily doses on the containers. But I have to say, I felt better when I first started taking it.... Well I just spent this week going to a Chiropracter for a migraine headache.... well he wants me to go on a plan that would cost $5000 that we just don't have.... One of the things they found was my PH levels were very toxic - acidic and that is on RELIV????? SO my question is, what is a similar type product that is better than Reliv - I want a really good vitamin that works!!!

The_Reliv_Watchdog said...

There are many multi vitamins out there that aren't high in soy and I would suggest that you look for one of these. But sadly I have not tried them myself and cannot say if they will help.

But with your health condition, it might be better to search out a good Natropathic(sp?) Doctor who could help you set a good diet that will get your ph balance back into check. Or you need to get a book that helps you eat for your blood type.

Anonymous said...

I too believed in reliv. Then I stopped using it because I thought the product had changed. My triglycerides went from 150 to 60...Hmmm. No other explanation.

Anonymous said...



RELIV INTERNATIONAL SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED

PEOPLE NEED TO CONTACT THE 20/20 TELEVISION SHOW AND THE "FRONTLINE" TELEVISION SHOW TO GET THE BALL ROLLING ON ALL THE BAD SIDE EFFECTS.

I PERSONALLY HAVE BEEN SUFFERING FROM SEVERE HEADACHES AND STOMACH CRAMPS WHICH STARTED ONLY AFTER TAKING THEIR PRODUCTS. I NEVER KNEW WHAT MIGRAINES WERE UNTIL I STARTED ON RELIV. GOD BLESS ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SUFFERING THE SAME WAY.