Is Xango simply Hype Juice?
…Combine the discovery of possibly cancer-fighting antioxidants occurring in fruits and vegetables, with the detection of relatively large amount of xanthones (a type of antioxidant) in the mangosteen pericarp (husk), then throw into the mix a couple of former employees of a successful multi-level marketing company. You now have the recipe for XanGo, the first group to exploit this budding research for fast profits. The Utah-based network marketing company has created an awfully expensive fruit juice—forgive me, dietary supplement—that is made from the mangosteen fruit and its bitter rind, along with nine other more pedestrian juices and purees, like apple and pear. After failing in what could be too easily described as a juicy patent dispute, XanGo is now challenged in the marketplace by other mangosteen supplements.
Salesmanship aside, when you look at the less than two dozen research papers that have been published on extracts of this fruit in the last 15 years, you’ll find that nearly all are of the petri dish/test tube type and not one is a clinical human trial—I’d take even a badly designed trial. That is not to say that xanthones and other antioxidants don’t have value; but it is a long stretch to promise loaves and fishes based on what amounts to a single Japanese rat study. A great number of other fruits and vegetables, not to mention vitamins and supplements, have significantly more data demonstrating clinical effectiveness. Unfortunately, no one becomes financially independent by network marketing 89-cent boxes of frozen spinach.
Doug Leedy on December 2nd, 2005 at 5:33 pm
I have to disagree with your post. There are literally hundreds of independent scientific and medical studies done over the past thirty years concerning xanthones. A doctor friend of mine says that xanthones may be the most studied phytoceutical ever. In addition, there are centuries of folklore usage of the mangosteen fruit for medicinal purposes. The major pharmaceutical companies are all studying xanthones (in fact, Pfizer has hired one of the Japanese researchers to conduct xanthone studies for them).
In this country, we are finally becoming aware of the importance of preventative medicine as opposed to the treatment of existing conditions. There is a reason that our life expectancy is #24 in the world (World Health Organization figures), despite the fact that we spend far more than any other country in the world on health care.
My wife and I have been steadily taking Xango for the past year and have seen wonderful results. More importantly, I have heard from hundreds of people who have had dramatic, and in some cases miraculous, results. This is not a joke, nor is it miracle potion. I also know of some peoplr who have taken the juice with no apparent results. They, however, are in the distinct minority. Most people who are using the juice do see positive results.
It is important to note that so far 43 Xanthones have been found in the mangosteen fruit. Of those, only 8 have been studied. I can only imagine what will be discovered when the other 35 are studied. It seems impossible to believe that this fruit has never been brought to market before, but it is true. The future is bright for those who are open-minded enough to look at the Xango opportunity objectively.
xango juice on January 20th, 2006 at 7:59 am
I like the business as well as the juice. thankyou.
Qing Mei on February 20th, 2006 at 8:01 am
I would say that the juice does taste good but it is not much more than an expensive natural fruit juice.
“Fruit drinks are often healthful beverages. But the only reason I can see that the promoters of mangosteen can get away with charging $37 for this product is that they are playing on patients’ hopes and fears in a cynical way. Without the health claims, open or implied, the product could only be sold for at most $5 or $6 (which, for example, is the cost of antioxidant-rich pomegranate juice).”
–http://chetday.com/mangosteen.htm
There are more beneficial products out there that contain more than a mix of natural fruits. The fruits are good for you but insufficient by themselves to warrant paying so much for the product.
Rex Baker on June 19th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
>I have to disagree with your post. There are literally hundreds of independent scientific and medical studies done over the past thirty years concerning xanthones.
Prove this, please at least provide a link. Myteamextreme (a Xango sales group) actually took a report from Slaon-Kettering and edited out the negative parts that concerned your beloved Xango. Then they promoted the edited warning as a ‘proof’! LOL
>A doctor friend of mine says that xanthones may be the most studied phytoceutical ever.
Is he a research scientist? What are his credentials? I’ll bet he is one of the MLM paid doctors….
>In addition, there are centuries of folklore usage of the mangosteen fruit for medicinal purposes.
They most often use it for external medicine and internally only for gastric problems and even this is not confirmed. You had better check with Xango corporate and see if your own claims line up with theirs.
>The major pharmaceutical companies are all studying xanthones (in fact, Pfizer has hired one of the Japanese researchers to conduct xanthone studies for them).
Again, please provide some proof.
>In this country, we are finally becoming aware of the importance of preventative medicine as opposed to the treatment of existing conditions.
Really, that has always been the focus if you study medical history. What is not new is the greed of people who promote their various tonics and elixers as some sort of cure all.
>There is a reason that our life expectancy is #24 in the world (World Health Organization figures), despite the fact that we spend far more than any other country in the world on health care.
Where is Thailand ranked? Isn’t it the home of this great and wonderful cure all?
> My wife and I have been steadily taking Xango for the past year and have seen wonderful results.
Good, now tell us what else you do health wise that may be a factor. Have you ever heard of the ‘placebo effect’?
>More importantly, I have heard from hundreds of people who have had dramatic, and in some cases miraculous, results.
Can you provide actual names, addresses and documentation?
>This is not a joke, nor is it miracle potion. I also know of some peoplr who have taken the juice with no apparent results. They, however, are in the distinct minority. Most people who are using the juice do see positive results.
Can you tell us who you studied and how you took this survey? How can you say ‘most’? Are the results worth 45 bucks a bottle when grape and prune juice will do you equally as well?
>It is important to note that so far 43 Xanthones have been found in the mangosteen fruit. Of those, only 8 have been studied. I can only imagine what will be discovered when the other 35 are studied.
Me too! Did you know that the human body can only process so much of this a day and the rest goes out as waste? Have you ever seen a double-blind study of Xanthones?
>It seems impossible to believe that this fruit has never been brought to market before, but it is true. The future is bright for those who are open-minded enough to look at the Xango opportunity objectively.
98.5 per cent of the people who begin a MLM ‘business’ never see a profit. In fact, it takes a ‘downline’ of 350 people even to make a moderate income and each of those ‘businesses’ lose money to support the top. That’s why it is a thinly disguised pyramid. Oh and guess what? One of the best ways the top rank make money is on seminars, tool sales and leads for pay! I bet you are one of the people who has never made a dime of profit!
I hope you find your way out of this financial boondoggle!
Marie on April 8th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Please tell me if the people who claim that they can help you ad 5 to 10 people per day to help your MLM business is not crooks. Thanks!
Marie
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XanGo on May 17th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
>Salesmanship aside, when you look at the less than two dozen research papers that have been published on extracts of this fruit in the last 15 years, you’ll find that nearly all are of the petri dish/test tube type and not one is a clinical human trial—I’d take even a badly designed trial. That is not to say that xanthones and other antioxidants don’t have value;
Interesting. I’ve seen differently in other places. Harvard has done some interesting studies.
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Dane on June 5th, 2008 at 8:17 am
All I can say is too anyone who cares about good health should take responsibility for their own health care. Doctors in this century are business men. If you want to eat crappy food then its real simple you WILL pay the price sooner or later. Thats the bottom line! Personally I could care a less how something is marketed; if it works it works, period. You negative minded people will continue too trash talk something you have little or no understanding of and are probably what I would call cronic complainers. Just keep going to the doctor and keep paying for those high priced medications that are unnatural and full of side effects, I see you people everyday riding around in four wheel scooters and leaning on your grocery carts with baskets full of your boxed prepacked nutrient empty foods. And leave the good healthy products and real foods to the people that want to take responsibiltiy for the own health care instead of going to the doctor every two weeks. Bottom line is their are many good supplements out their but their are only a few with the “xanthone molecules” ; which for all you nay sayings who probably have never even tried the product, this is for you and soooo true; “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink it”. Another word to the wise! Do not take health advise from sick people, nor financial advise from negative people. There is always going to be these people that have something bad to say about everything. Xango is real, so keep spending money on your Coca Cola and beer and maybe I will visit you in the intensive care unit, that is if you get a second chance after your heart attack or stroke from not opening your mind to the possibility of “What if”………l
Mangosteen on July 28th, 2008 at 11:59 am
I think you have to find what works best for you when it comes to health drinks like XanGo. Not everyone is going to have the same results. It’s a good drink for many people.
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