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Complaint Review: Youngevity - Chula Vista California

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  • Youngevity 2400 Boswell Road Chula Vista, California USA

Youngevity Youngevity Buyer Beware: Youngevity Mighty 90 - Vitamins, Multivitamins and Health Products Chula Vista California

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Youngevity Buyer Beware: Youngevity Mighty 90 - Vitamins, Multivitamins and Health Products

Do yourself a favor and save money by buying Vitamin Code's multivitaminshttp://amzn.to/14NZGdR which are far healthier than Youngevity. Here is why below:

Youngevity's website does not fully disclose all of the ingredients in its "health" products, especially the harmful preservatives and petrochemicals.

In 2014, I bought Imortalium, Youngevity Ultimate Classic and Ultimate EFA.

The big print gives and the small (not disclosed on the Youngevity website) takes away.

Among the ingredients I deem questionable, harmful and unhealthy within Youngevity's Imortalium are:

- hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (read Dr. Hulda Clark's book "The Cure For All Diseases" and "Solvent Neurotoxicity" by Peter Arlien-Soborg to learn why this is unhealthy) 

- pharmaceutical glaze (Why does a natural vitamin need a pharmaceutical glaze?)

Many unhealthy vitamin formulations and "health" companies use toxic solvents that harm the body and cause neurotoxicity. - amzn.to/1hrlGNz 

The solvent propyl alcohol is harmful to organs and makes the body susceptible to parasitic infestation. The solvent benzene causes leukemia and cancer, hindering the functionality of the thymus, weakening immunity and making the body prey for parasites and susceptible to AIDS. Wood alcohol leads to pancreatic dysfunction and leads to diabetes. The solvents xylene (or toluene) adversely affect the brain. The solvents methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) or methyl butyl ketone (MBK) adversely affect the uterus of females and pave the way for endometriosis.

Among the ingredients I deem questionable, harmful and unhealthy within Youngevity's Ultimate Classic are:

- CitriSweet (Though contacted repeatedly and given several months to reply via phone calls and emails, Youngevity never revealed what is in this ingredient.)

- Sodium Erythorbate

- Malic Acid

- Xanthan Gum

- Sodium Benzoate (Coca Cola and Pierre Water removed from its drinks because when combined with ascorbic acid it can become benzene - a harmful cancer and leukemia causing petrochemical removed from gasoline in the 1970s).

The ingredient I deem questionable, harmful and unhealthy within Youngevity's Ultimate EFA (essential fatty acid) is fish oil from tuna, which is high in mercury and can cause damage to the brain and nervous system.

Youngevity's business model is such that whenever I phoned the company I was immediately asked for a rep number, as if I were a salesperson working for the company.

Whenever I asked nutritional and health information, the sales staff answering calls never could intelligently answer my questions. When I asked for Dr. Wallach's email to forward my questions, I was given an email for Richard Renton and Johnny Taylor.

Although I patiently and perseveringly emailed both Mr. Renton and Mr. Taylor, neither replied. Instead I received a generic reply from Rosary Martinez advising me to attempt to call Dr. Wallach on his radio program (not valuing my time, nor my health related questions related to Youngevity's products).

Cassandra Zambrano was copied in Ms. Martinez' email to me dated August 29, 2014. Yet neither of the ladies, nor anyone at Youngevity ever answered the following questions below:

1. What minerals are in the "mighty 90" Dr. Wallach refers to during his talks. List them all please.

2. What minerals (names and quantity) are in the plant based mineral liquid formula you sell under the name "Ultimate Classic" compared to what minerals (names and quantity within the formulation) are in the "mighty 90"?

3. Immortalium mentions a proprietary blend, what is in that? I have allergies to some environmental toxins and need to know before consuming.

4. EFA uses fish oil from tuna - what is the mercury content? Tuna is a larger fish with more mercury.

5. The Ultimate Classic contains - CitraSweet, sodium arithabate and natural flavors (please further elaborate on the ingredients within each).

Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD (Neurosurgeon and author of "Excitotoxins") reveals the many names MSG is under in the food industry, some being "natural flavors" and spices (among 12 or more others). MSG damages the brain and nervous system. Please elaborate and fully describe what is in your "CitraSweet" and "natural flavors." 

Youngevity's customer "service" staff does not know and could not answer my questions.

COO of Youngevity Michelle Wallach (@MGWallach - married to the CEO), has not answered any of these above questions yet either (as of January 19, 2015). Ms. Wallach is welcome to comment here below and tell the Youngevity customers what it is they are consuming and explain why such questions go unanswered for months until brought to the light via social media?

In December 2014 when I phoned Youngevity requesting a full refund of their "health" products (which other reputable vitamin companies readily provide to unsatisfied customers - Vitacost, Vitamin Shoppe, Amazon, etc.); I was told by the sales reps they could give me a credit toward future purchases with Youngevity. I declined as obviously I am not impressed with Youngevity's products, lack of knowledge, and customer service failures. 

Do yourself a favor and save money by buying Vitamin Code's multivitaminshttp://amzn.to/14NZGdR which are far healthier than what Youngevity is producing and selling. Saving money for the healthier option free of multilevel marketing sales reps is my preferred choice.

Paul F. Davis - author of "The Future of Food" (volumes 1 & 2) 

http://www.PaulFDavis.com

The Future of Food: Global Reform to Improve the Quality of Food & Public Health -http://amzn.to/1dIFnlI 

The Future of Food: GMOs, Bogus Science, Agroterrorism and Regulatory Reform -http://amzn.to/17TbqMZ

Paul F. Davis is a World Traveling Food Writer, Restaurant Consultant, Wellness Trainer, Motivational Speaker and Author of more than 20 Books who has touched 72 Countries serving the U.S. Military, Restaurants, Companies, Cruise Lines at Sea, Churches and Universities across the globe. Paul has earned 2 Master degrees in Global Food Law (Michigan State College of Law), Global Affairs (New York University) and is nearing completion of a 3rd Master degree online in Health (University of Alabama).

http://www.PaulFDavis.com

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene_in_soft_drinks

amzn.to/1hrlGNz Solvent Neurotoxicity

http://www.electroherbalism.com/Bioelectronics/HuldaClark/cure.pdf The Cure For All Diseases

amzn.to/1Bvl2es Semper Fi: Always Faithful - expose of benzene in the water at Camp Lejeune

amzn.to/1aum5v7 - Excitoxins - The Taste That Kills

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/7724387-youngevity-buyer-beware-youngevity-mighty-90---vitamins-multivitamins

Youngevity Buyer Beware: Youngevity Mighty 90 - Vitamins, Multivitamins and Health Products

 

 

 

Michelle WallachPaul....we have repeatedly responded to you. You started this on Twitter - we responded immediately on Twitter. Our CEO has further reached out to you several times - again no reply from you at all. At this point the ball is in your corner....your idea of responding is to call the BBB - why? We didn't do anything wrong. You state we "refused to give you a refund" and "we offered you a credit on account".....it is not even our policy to do that unless you were not able to return the unused portion of the products. In this case you called more than 4 months AFTER you placed the order - we have a strict written 30-day guarantee on all returns - no questions asked. You are wrong on your assurations of Youngevity products leading me to believe you don't know as much as you claim to know about nutrition .....Your questions are something our CEO would be more than happy to answer for you....if you had a true interest in getting the answers. Despite the challenges we have had in reaching you, please return the products you purchased with your receipt and I will STILL honor a full refund to you. Michelle Wallach, COO 

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Paul DavisI don't want a credit, but rather a full refund. I phoned several times over the course of the months AND was told by your "customer service" reps they would contact the experts to answer my questions and nobody ever returned my calls or emails about the product ingredients (which were not FULLY disclosed on your website at the time of purchase neither the container images on your site). The small microscropic "other ingredients" are only visible with the product in hand and I deem those ingredients to be harmful to health and hazardous, which your health "experts" never addressed, nor replied to my repeated inquiries.

So your assertion that I waited 4 months to contact you is entirely UNTRUE. 

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