Regurgitated Flawed "Scientific Studies"

New study published last week entitled: "Liver Injury Caused by Herbals, Dietary Supplements Rises in Study Population" and then in the last paragraph, states... "we cannot conclude that liver injury due to herbals and dietary supplements is on the rise in the U.S." has been reposted, or more appropriately, regurgitated so much that it is disturbing.

I sell a fantastic nutritional product and it is the blind acceptance of flawed studies like this that, in the long-term, cause true damage to the individuals who follow the information and avoid nutritional supplements for decades on end.

Click here to read the original press realease article posted on Wiley.com by Dr. Victor Navarro and Damien Woods with Einstein Healthcare Network.

Below is a powerful rebuttal using common sense by Tim Sales. I was going to write my own article, and then decided that Tim gets it dead ON and I will proudly post his words here in their entirety:

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Don’t Be Fooled by Media Reports of "Scientific Studies" (click title to read on Tim's blog)

Hello Network Marketing Professionals,

Just today I received an email from one of our subscribers. He was concerned about a recent article he came across that boldly made this claim in the headline:

"Liver injury caused by herbals, dietary supplements rises in study population"

So before I tell you what I told him, I want to say this. Don’t pay attention to headlines. It’s a waste of your time. More important than the headline would be truly understanding a Public Relations Campaign (there are many types, this type is really meant to start giving something a bad reputation).

When you read the article you will see something very alarming: "Liver injury cases included 45 caused by bodybuilding supplements, 85 attributed to non-bodybuilding supplements, and 709 due to medications."

What do you see there?

Do you see that 709 people suffered liver damage on "medications" while only 85 were brought on by "non-body building supplements"? Now the article goes on to say that the "body building supplements" are typically taken by young men, whereas the "non body-building supplements" are typically taken by women 40 and above. And notice, too, that the headline calls this "dietary" supplements, not "non-body building" supplements. Young men in their 20's is certainly no comparison to women in their 40's. Plus, no information is provided to any other medications that those women may have taken in those extra 20 years!

Crazier still, the article concludes with this: " . . . therefore we cannot conclude that liver injury due to herbals and dietary supplements is on the rise in the U.S."

I could go on and pick apart each and every line of the article, but the point I’m trying to make is that there is no sense is worrying over a headline, its designed to create an effect on you, in this case a negative one. It’s designed to instill some fear, uncertainty and doubt.

Now here is what I told our subscriber:

If you notice, articles like this are typically produced by the traditional medical professionals who will not make as much money if people stay healthy. I have seen many such articles like these over the years and always the powers that be who are behind them are the big pharmaceutical companies and the medical profession.

Alternative medicine and traditional medicine do not see eye to eye still. In fact in the 70s the MDs were actively trying to run the chiropractors out of business at every turn. Yet the chiropractors survived and became stronger, bigger and better simply because they knew their technology worked and they stood by it.

No matter what you choose in life, you will always find people who disagree and publicly try to dredge up "proof" to go against you. They do this for many different reasons, and that is why I always try to arm people with real education because it is knowledge that makes you confident. When somebody comes along and says something negative, it can’t affect you if you happen to already know that they are wrong and you don’t doubt your own knowledge.

I strongly urge you to do the following so that you are not shaken in your own beliefs about the products you provide.

First, study the information on your products and know them cold. You have to know and understand your products. You should be a shining, walking example of how good they are because you also use them successfully and get good results from them. But also, stay within the guidelines of your company, don’t put yourself at risk by making false or unrealistic claims!

Second, please, for your own benefit, get the proven nutritional sales tool package at our shop.

Just the two brochures that I had produced, which completely educate people on nutrition and supplements should thoroughly handle any questions, but the other resources in there will be the complete tool kit for you and your prospects or downline. We spent $20,000 researching the information for these brochures. Again, the point is knowledge.

Then study our blog. We have lots of training on there, you’ll learn a lot more as to why some people want to discredit this industry and its products (I’ll give you a hint here: It usually comes from the fact that they failed at it themselves - including people in the medical profession).

Don’t buy into the negativity of those who failed, and you will learn why they failed when you read this blog!

Finally, remember this: There was a time when those who failed used to broadly attack our industry. So now all these people can do is try to attack the people and the products, since they failed to bring down the industry, just like they failed to succeed in network marketing.

I hope that helps all of you.

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That's it for Tim's response. I found it very informative and hope it makes you think, as it did me, when reading headlines in the mainstream media!