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  1. this is how mannatech tests their products BounceBack™ capsules for reduction of DOMS after eccentric exercise: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover pilot study · The fact that it is randomized, double-blind and placebo controlled sounds impressive, but it is unimportant. · Study only contained 10 participants. The confidence intervals (which were not given) would most likely make the P-values meaningless Brain-Specific Effects of Ambrotose® Products: A Preliminary Animal Study to Investigate Cognitive Benefits Found in Humans · Looks like a Meta-analysis, but is a collection of studies on healthy people, (each with its own major limitations (small sample sizes, lack of third-party involvement) and, most importantly, the use of healthy subjects precludes any possibility of generalizing to a diseased population. · The study itself is done on mice. No health claims can be made from this. Human Colonic Bacteria Can Utilize Stabilized Aloe Vera Gel Polysaccharides and a Mixed Saccharide-Based Glyconutritional Dietary Supplement, Advanced Ambrotose · This study doesn’t show anything. · It shows that a bacteria can metabolize a polysaccharide. Anyone could show the same with a petri dish, their own stool, and some agar gel. Effect of a combination dietary supplement product (BounceBackTM) on the signs and symptoms of delayed onset muscle soreness after eccentric exercise: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover pilot study · This study is the same one as the first one. · Only ten people participated. · The results (which would only be applicable to post exercise muscle soreness) are meaningless. Effects of a Glyconutritional Supplement on Brain Potentials Associated with Language Processing · This study’s results are reported as “not statistically significant”. · If you were to make generalizations from its findings, (which you shouldn’t), it would only be useful in refuting claims that Ambrotose works at all. · The most concerning is that this poster is happily cited as proof in the second article. Immunomodulatory dietary polysaccharides: a systematic review of the literature · Nothing to do with Mannatech · Literally every English study ever conducted on polysaccharides and the immune system. · Applicability: o “Taken as a whole, the oral polysaccharide literature is highly heterogenous and is not sufficient to support broad produce structure/function generalizations.” Chemical characterization of polysaccharide-rich ingredients from Aloe vera, Larix laricina, Larix occidentalis, and Undaria pinnatifid · Nothing to do with Mannatech · Just a description of polysaccharides in terms of molecular weights and sugar contents. Immunomodulatory activity of polysaccharides isolated from Clerodendrum splendens: Beneficial effects in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis · This study was conducted on a special type of mutant mice. · No generalizations can be made unless you are treating these mutant mice. Intestinal microbiota’s naturally occurring enzymes and their effects on plant polysaccharide digestion · This poster only showed that certain bacteria can digest polysaccharides. A sensitive in vitro method for evaluation of immunostimulatory properties of natural products · This poster does not provide any proof for Mannatech at all and merely describes chemical analysis method and the effects of these chemicals when added to petri dishes of cells. The Effect of Dietary Supplements on the Quality of Life of Retired Professional Football Players · Sample size was fifteen · Many, many different substances were used. · Self-reporting was the measurement. · No evidence for Mannatech’s efficacy. An open-label dosing study to evaluate the safety and effects of a dietary plant-derived polysaccharide supplement on the N-glycosylation status of serum glycoproteins in healthy subjects · Sample size was 18 · No confidence intervals given. · Limited information on samples. · Not clear how this relates to Mannatech products. Effect of Ambrotose AO® on resting and exercise-induced antioxidant capacity and oxidative stress in healthy adults · Sample size is 25. · “No statistically detected difference is observed in resting or exercise-induced oxidative stress biomarkers, in quality of life, or in GXT time to exhaustion.” · Study shows no statistically significant change. Best, T. Bryan J, Burns N. An investigation of saccharide effects on memory performance. Abstracts of the 12th Annual Australian Psychiatry Conference, 2005. · “There were no statistically significant effects of the treatments on the performance on any of the outcome measures” The influence of a pre-exercise sports drink (PRX) on factors related to maximal aerobic performance · Sample size is 29 · No confidence intervals given · Not generalizable
  2. mannatech is a load of rubbish...knew a few people selling it and living the mannatech dream, he was quite serious into the products....he even believed he had a friend who survived cancer due to mannatech, unfortunately my friend who used his mannatech religiously died of cancer himself....mannatech do not do valid testing. the only way you make money in mannatech is by getting people to buy in...its not about the product...its about the getting people to join.stay away....eat real food.
  3. item arrived two weeks after using crc free postage and took two weeks using crc paid postage, whenever i ordered anything via DHL it took 2-3 days....
  4. will probably stuck at our "efficient" post office....contact them
  5. Recently changed from Continental x-king to Onza canis and got my first sidewall cut after only 50km....replacing it again with onza canis...give it one more chance.
  6. have a mate running cheap Chaoyang Hornets and he loves them.
  7. These firefighters deserve awards for their hard work and bravery!
  8. Holiday season...people get busy and lose their way diet wise, im busy banting again now....not for weight loss but seriously helps with sinus & hayfever problems....many skeptics out there and i believe if you racing then its not the diet for you but cant keep loading my body with all these hayfever pills every day....wheat is my problem, cut out bread for three days and i can stop using hayfever tabs...good luck
  9. Hi all, happy 2017 to all.....looking for some mtb shoes, preferably mavic or northwave...where in ct can i find these? import them maybe but how much will the duties be so might not be worth it....any suggestions????
  10. Carbon saddles from Aliexpress, anyone tried them??? and carbon seatpost clamps???anywhere i can find carbon seatpost clamps in SA?
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