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11 responses to “A Memory Boosting Pill? That News Story Is a Scam.”

1. Still happening. Television ads for NeuroQ (the main ingredient is phosphatidylserine) making credible claims about memory enhancement. Web search pulls up countless pages claiming to “debunk the scam,” but really leading you to affiliate marketing sales pages. Deceptive and underhanded in the extreme. Do not be taken in by any claims about any supplements, especially those being marketed on the internet by shady websites or on television by “world renowned neurologists” and other such nonsense.

   Reply to The Old Wolf

   1. I was told to buy many memory Rx all fraud! Do not buy anything! I can remember my entire life!! Ignore scam!!!!

      Reply to Carrie L Landolfi

2. They were doing this awhile back with another supplement called Accelleral. I almost bought it before I read this article that broke down the whole thing as a scam.

   Not sure if I’m allowed to post a link here, but here it is in case you’re interested: https://www.supplementcritique.com/accelleral-review/

   Reply to Rob

3. Great article; I work in computer / Internet [State of Arizona WIC office] and almost fell for one of these. I found this page while using GOOGLE to find more about brain pills used by Bill Gates FAKE WEBSITE and you were absolutely correct the ‘link’ took me directly to a page to buy.
   Keep putting out good information; I’ll be adding your home page to my favorites!

   Reply to James Allen

4. I was scammed Big Time trying to buy one bottle of CBD Oil and they charged my credit card $120.00 for five bottles and I only wanted one. Well they were like ghost’s in the Night!! could not find ANY INFO so I called my CC and filed a claim. When the product arrived I just left it alone waiting for my CC to give me feedback but I got pissed, opened the box and opened one of the bottles. To my dismay there was NO OIL in the bottle, it was all crystallized!!! Finally my CC company reimbursed me.

   Reply to Annabelle

5. i have arthritis all over my body and have purchased medical marijuana which I hoped would help more than the narcotics and surgery that the allopathic system keeps giving me. could you please do an article on marijuana for seniors. two products I already bought did not give me any help.

   Reply to yolanda bako

6. Now I’m concerned. I ordered a 6 month supply of MINAXIL based on the ad in the Miami Herald. Isn’t there anything that can be done about these companies that sell these fake pills. I’m a 77 year old widow and can’t afford to pay for fake pills I notice that provasil has this phosphatidylserine listed as an ingredient also.

   Reply to Marie Dahl

7. Thank you for warning not only me but everybody who might get offers for fake pills .
   I almost felt for it ,the add in the paper was quite convincing
   PLease keep up you so important and money saving work
   P.S. you are right ; you give those hucksters your Credit Card who knows what they do with it

   Reply to peter h oltersdorf

8. The article I read in the Miami Herald cited Stanford University doctors as discovering Minaxil. How can they use such reputable names?

   Reply to Beatrice Engel

   1. I asked the company, and they pointed me to a study published in 1991 that appears to have involved at least one researcher from Stanford. The study was testing a lipid called phosphatidylserine, that was extracted from cow brains. This preparation is now banned, and therefore should not be an ingredient in Minaxil. Apparently, you can extract phosphatidylserine from other sources, such as soy, but the data with the soy version are inconsistent and not nearly as promising as the studies using cow brain phosphatidylserine. What’s more, looking at their website, I noticed that the label doesn’t even name phosphatidylserine, just a bunch of herbs and nutrients! So I went back to the company, and their reply was that they forgot to include phosphatidylserine in their label. How can you “forget” to include the main active ingredient that you write a sensational advertisement about in your label?! Sounds highly suspicious to me.

      Reply to Helen

   2. I can personally assure you Albert Einstein also endorses those pills

      Reply to Paul Cotter