Reliv International is another one of these questionable pyramid schemes in disguise that simultaneously tries to sell a miracle health product and an amazing money-making business opportunity. Reliv seem to take it a step further when it comes to swindling the ill and afflicted. Some of the claims made by Reliv distributors I met were nothing short of miracle cures.
Reliv have flooded the Internet with misleading information. They’ve set up crude websites that appear to enthusiastically promote a completely new yet-to-be researched branch of science called epigenetics and a miracle new biological protein found in soya called lunacin. It’s purely theoretical and unsubstantiated but Reliv claim to have the key to manipulating DNA!
Careful research of their products reveals that they are essentially selling nothing but soya protein powdered shakes, similar but inferior to products like Ensure or Complan. They’re genetically modified soya powders synthetically infused with cheap artificial ingredients, sweetened and flavoured with arguably dubious artificial chemical sweeteners and flavourings.
Soya (or soy as it’s known in the US) is a cheap mass produced grain – note than more than 90% of soya beans grown in the United States are genetically modified and that’s where the problem is.
For a time, there were a number of health claims about soya protein. Some of these claims stated that soya protein consumption helped lower bad cholesterol, prevented heart disease and even fought off some cancers. The marketing bandwagon touted soya as the perfect health food for decades but recent studies have proven that many of these health claims are not only false but that there are very serious concerns about high soya protein consumption; if you look at the actual science of genetically modified unfermented soya is in fact very different and potentially dangerous compared to naturally cultivated soya.
Genetically modified unfermented soya (found in most western products, including Reliv) interferes with protein digestion, and the soya estrogens are endocrine disruptors, (by binding with estrogen receptors) potentially creating fertility problems and breast or uterine cancer in women, and reducing testosterone in men. These soya phytoestrogens also are anti-thyroid agents, causing sluggish thyroids, possibly thyroid cancer, and weight gain.
Modified soya increases the body’s requirement for B12 and Vitamin D. Soya food processing results in the formation of MSG, which is a well known neurotoxin (nerve poison), and soya contains high levels of aluminium which is known to be toxic to the nervous system and the kidneys.
Also, here a comparison of the unbelievable amount of sugar in one of their products, Reliv Innergize:
330ml of Orange Fanta – 23g of sugar
2 scoops of Reliv Innergize – 28g of sugar
330ml of Coca-Cola – 35g of sugar
Reliv products do have a mixture of added vitamins but because of the high soya and sugar content, you are just simply peeing them down the toilet. Your body can only handle so many vitamins, and can only handle them in certain ratios – anything extra is just passed through your system and down the toilet.
All these facts aside, these cretins are selling a cheap artificial soya protein powder with some added synthetic vitamins at ridiculous prices making wild uncontrolled claims that it can relieve almost everything including psoriasis, migraines, hayfever or even schizophrenia within DAYS!!
The recommendations and claims of Reliv distributors are entirely inaccurate and deceptive. I guarantee you that almost every single review, recommendation and social media post you will see is from a Reliv distributor or affiliate.
If you insisted or were compelled to take a soya protein based product (possibly because of an intolerance to the safer whey protein), you could probably get something similar and safer for around ten pounds from any health store.
Some further reading:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/soy-health_b_1822466.html
http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/soys-negative-effects
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