USANA or Pharmanex - you decide.

I recently received an email from someone trying to get me to take USANA vitamins instead of Pharmanex supplements. The moral of this story is to research the network marketing companies you may wish to join to find out which ones offer the products you are most comfortable reccommending. I feel sorry for the guy who emailed me trying to get me (and God knows who else) to take what seem to be inferior supplements. Here's what he wrote me:

I will let you in on a secret. Although USANA vitamins are the best, and I take them everyday, if it weren't for energy replacement techniques and exercise therapies, I would not be alive today. Diet therapy needs to be tempered together to be effective.

Since you are starting out in the business, and probably haven't seen what I have seen to get what I have got, then I am willing to let you know about the 84 minerals, 12 vitamins, 3 amino acids and filtered water you need to be healthy. Sharks are swimming trying to get you to buy their products, but the worst enemies are what they don't tell you...

I have overcome many serious health problems, and continue to beat the odds. Stay healthy.

I was a bit taken aback by the condescending demeanor of the writer. He's going to let me in on a secret because I'm just starting out and don't know what he knows? I wrote my reply:

I've never heard of USANA vitamins but until I see the ingredients and
the scintific studies/clinical trials demonstrating their effectiveness I'll continue taking my own vitamins. I suggest that you examine Pharmanex LifePak and other supplements for the best vitamins.

Frankly there aren't any companies that have the clinical trials to back up their supplements the way Pharmanex does. Sure enough his reply ignored the issue of clinical trials entirely:

Often it is not health that gets you to ultimately take your vitamins. If you wish to get into a binary multilevel plan that has been proven by multilevel junkies to be effective and attractive, then you should look at the USANA.com website, do your research, and beg me to take you on as a pacesetter. Use my number xxxxxxx if it helps to get around the site.

Beg him? This had me getting angry, but I visited the website to see if I could find ingredients and clinical trials. The ingredients were easy to find although not overly impressive. There were no scientific studies. On the off chance that some with such a condescending manner would open his mind I wrote:

You haven't given me any reason to beg! The USANA web site doesn't either. No informationan about clinical trials makes this seem like psuedoscience at best. Again I suggest exploring the Pharmanex.com web site and reading some of the many clinical trials undertaken at top universities and research centers on the effectiveness of Pharmanex supplements.