shakeology

[renee_]

I may not be spelling it correctly, I saw it on the beach body web site. I was wondering: has anyone tried this shake, and does it help with energy?

[TockyB]

It looks like a glorified protein shake? You can get meal replacers and protein shakes waaay cheaper than that with a lot more protein in them .

[redhed1968]

Its very overpriced and I tried it when I got a sample, its gross. It has a funny metallic aftertaste and upset stomach. Down the drain after a few gulps. opinion anyways.

[PandorasVise]

I was curious about the nutrion value of the shake, carbs, protien, BCAA's and the like. I havn't tried it though. I do understand that it comes with a workout plan and diet.

Just checked out the site. Darn shake boasts that it is $4 a day!! OMG $4 a day is a lot of money and they enroll you in auto shipping so you never run out.

[Boss Man]

It''s the economics though of such supplements. You buy any supplement with a zillion ingredients in, you can't expect to pay reasonable rates on them, unless they have something like 5% or less content per ingredient.

Plus the price makes them look desirable, because if the price was cheap, people might think they were bulking up the shakes with lots of low quality ingredients, or substitutes, synthetic alternatives etc.

Exactly the same with Protein powders, that boast herbs, vitamins, minerals, proprietry blends, specific formulations, trademarked formulations etc, they all cost much more than a basic concentrate or isolate with some or few Carbs, because to them, adding another £10, or $10 worth of supplemental ingredients to the main few, isn't worth it to them, if they make about £2 or $2 return on the added ingredients, as the ingredients would then significantly reduce the potential profitability and supplement companies are pretty much always ALL about the profit, as opposed to some companies that obviously need to make profit, but don't go to any legitimate and sometimes slightly illegitimate lengths to make profit

[Boss Man]

Pyramid schemes are not the same as Multi-level marketing Allison, which is what you seem to be describing.

Pyramid schemes involve financial invetstment, based on ficticious returns that never happen and never were going to happen.

The practice was outlawed in Britain in 1973, but I can't say what the legalities in North America are as I just don't know.

[feelin-great]

Actually the products that are sold through direct sales companies (multi-level marketing) are able to sell at a reasonable price for the value because they don't have to pay for marketing, which is one of the largest expenses for most companies. It's really no different than any other company, but the direct sales companies market through word-of-mouth so the money that would have been spent there goes to the people selling the product instead. It's really no differnt than the mark-up in any product, it's just that the money is going to different places.

[feelin-great]

I am sure there are companies out there that are a rip-off. I personally have had great experiences. sister's do direct sales and when you compare the ingredients in their products to "top-of-the-line" products sold in the high end department stores, their products FAR outweigh the expensive stuff and it is sold for drastically less than those products. Another thing that keeps prices down is that they don't have store-fronts and the products go straight to the consumers.

Anyway, I do know that there are companies out there that just aren't worth the money, so I guess it all depends on the individual companies.