I Saw Ads for the Scams "Lipozene" and "Enzyte" Last Night (Comedycentral), Can Either of These Drugs Do What-

Question

-they Claim?

It Appears Comedycentral has Decided to Take the Money Rather than Practice Due Diligence.

Answer 1

Yes, they can do what they claim, but if you actually watched the ads, at the bottom it says the effects last only as long as you CONTINUE to take the product. It's not permanant.

Answer 2

As OTK said, they do a very careful dance around the wording.  If you listen carefully, they never actually claim to do much, but there is an awful lot IMPLIED.    Enzyte just recently paid a huge fine because they went over the line and made some false claims.

An advertising attorney told me recently that the cable channels are very lax and will not scrutinize the ads nearly as much as the major networks.  There are many ads that you see on cable that never appear on NBC, CBS or ABC.  It's all about the litigation.

Edit: Unfortunately, the cable channels do not see it as their obligation to act as watchdogs.  Their viewpoint is that if you have a problem with these things, take it up with the manufacturer and leave them out of it.

Answer 3

After a little light background reasearch, the whole thing looks horrendously dodgy.

Enzyte is standard pseudoscientific junk for those too afraid to seek medical assistance for ED or are worried that their libido may be decreasing. It contains a mishmash of various herbal remedies and complex organics. The CEO of the company, and his mother, it have been convicted of fraud and money laundering. It would also seem the FDA and FTC are interested in their advertising.

Lipozene contains glucomannan, a mannose-glucose starch. It is water soluble and is supposed to increase feelings of satiety (I love wikipedia) but the FDA has never approved it as a therapy for any of its supposed applications (weight loss, cholesterol reduction etc.etc.). So basically, the ads are mostly lies; I imagine that the '78% of ever pound lost is body fat' is standard weightloss pattern, as you don't usually shed other tissue types unless you're starving.

Ho hum.

It's a shame how science has become pseudoscience, almost a new religion, allowing those devious enough to con those gullible enough out of large sums of money. And they're aided by the news media.

Answer 4

It's kind of a yes/no thing. Their advertising is vague enough that the FDA lets them continue (because their actual claims are true, but their implied results are not). They aren't completely scams because they are based on herbs that have been proven to help sexual health (mostly increasing circulation to the genitals), but the implied results of a bigger/longer ding-dong or lasting longer or shooting harder is not true. Basically, they can get away with the "campy" implications because they never actually say any of those things.

I've read through the ingredients for Enzyte, and it looks like a standard herbal passion product... it has Tribulus, L-Arginine, Maca, Avena Sativa, and several others I can't remember off the top of my head. Each of them has been used for centuries to increase libido, increase circulation to the genitals, and/or support testosterone, plus they've been proven in tests over the past 10-50 years.