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**homonunculus** · 08-18-2012, 10:41 PM

I think it's a good product and generally favor food-based vitamins. I was contacted literally dozens of times by local reps and finally one provided me with the research studies (all of them available at the time - a few years ago).

I looked through them all, read many in depth and the bottom line (and this wasn't countered by the local rep, and R.D., from whom I had received the reprints), was the studies were lacking in design to conclude that JuicePlus+ was superior to a regular old OTC multi-vitamin. The general them of the experimental design was to take an aged or known / suspected nutrient deficient study sample and then demonstrate an improvement in nutrient status after giving JP.

So, it's a sound multi-vitamin, for sure, but I couldn't help but wonder why they didn't do the REAL nitty gritty work to demonstrate superiority of their product over a run of the mill generic multi. (Perhaps they did and just didn't publish whatever results they came up with.)

FYI, I did take the product for at least 6 mo (this has been years ago) and noticed nothing subjectively, but had no reason to believe I was nutrient deficient. I was hoping the additional phytonutrients would have a noticeable health benefit (recovery from training, sleep, sense of well being, digestion, skin tone, what have you), but nothing became noticeable to me. Granted, I wasn't attempting specifically to document any such possible benefits, so I wasn't being the most "scientific" about it myself, I'll admit. (And I do think that subtle benefits can be had without them being known to us unless documented in some sort of objective fashion, be it a personal log or even the opinion of someone else.)

-S

**liftweights** · 08-18-2012, 10:50 PM

Thanks Scott, your posts are always informative and I really appreciate your insight.

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