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by FredParietti 3587 days ago
I am sorry, but your post is inaccurate. You are literally claiming that we said or wrote things that never appeared on our website (nor in our minds, for that matter). Here are our actual positions, explained in more detail. In order: 1) Our position is that the privileged source of nutrients should be a healthy diet, whenever possible. In many cases, though, customers who have a healthy diet still want to integrate their nutrition with supplements (for example, getting all of the daily recommended omega 3 from fish is sometimes impractical). For this reason, we offer customers the possibility to personalize their supplements, so that they will add to their Multiply Pill exactly what they need, and nothing more! This approach is completely different from the standard multivitamins, that just overload their products with high quantities of supplements in the “one-size-fits’all” approach. 2) The number of people with some sort of vitamin deficiency is surprisingly high, even in the US (one example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271531710... ). In these cases, once more, our approach can provide these customers with exactly what they need, without unnecessary additions. 3) We do not claim that vitamins or omega 3 boost brain function. Please review our website. You are confusing us with other products/companies, that are less careful about their sources. 4) The supplement that we include for productivity is caffeine. As with all of the other supplements, rather than suggesting a pre-fixed dosage, we let customers pick exactly the quantity they want. And we can also add our unique control of the release time of the caffeine (the release performance of our functional containers is backed by our peer-reviewed, award-winning publications: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1773224715... and http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378517316... ). If you can’t access these publications because your institution is not subscribed to ScienceDirect, we’ll be happy to send you the pdf’s!