CritiCalorie's Top Diet Pill Pick
Do we ever rate a diet pill positively?. Yes (rarely). Why aren't we recommending Zantrex? We're looking for clinically-researched ingredients, at the right (that means clinical) dosage. There are a few diet pills that have chosen this better route, and our favorite is Apidexin. You can read our review or go to the official site.
Zantrex-3 Review
Zantrex-3 is marketed by Zoller Laboratories, LLC. They use an ADD-type of ad showing athletic people in their thirties or so. If you want to subject yourself to the obnoxious ad, go ahead and give the Zantrex-3 ad a listen. At first pass, they’re nothing more than a $30 diet pill in a blue bottle. When you dig a bit deeper, it gets a whole lot worse.
Who is Zoller Laboratories, Zantrex-3’s distributor?
Just another name for the same company that pushes Leptopril and Leptoprin. A quick whois search on zantrex3.com reveals that the registrant is Western Holdings, LLC (the same LLC that is the Registrant for Leptopril and Leptoprin). The administrative contact is Pam Hiett, reachable at pamhiett@basicresearch.org. While the address given is in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the phone number’s area code is 801 – which belongs to the Great State of Utah.
Alas, we’re dealing with Basic Research out of Salt Lake City all over again.
Why am I sounding so downtrodden? Because Basic Research does underhanded things to take money away from consumers. Let’s just say they’re not a friend of the Federal Trade Commission.
Other information that I could dig up on Zoller Laboratories was the denial of an appeal for Zoller’s request for a preliminary injunction against Nature’s Bounty, Inc. Zoller had filed a trademark infringement and false advertising complaint against NBTY (NBTY was marketing a product called Xtreme Lean ZN-3 and had used the words “Compare to the Ingredients of Zantrex-3″ on their label. This denial was from October of 2004.1
(Another) “Comprehensive Analysis” for Zantrex-3
If you took a look at the Leptoprin review, you may have seen a Comprehensive Analysis for Product Claims Concerning Leptoprin-SD. Well, Zantrex-3’s (not available in PDF format) is, eh, very similar.
So similar in fact, that the abstract reads word for word the same with the following pargraph being omitted from the Zantrex-3 “Comprehensive” garbage:
In addition, Leptoprin-SD contains the specific amount of the amino acid L-tyrosine shown in research and patented documentation to be instrumental in enhancing sympathomimetic-induced appetite suppression. Leptoprin-SD also exerts an action on inflammatory cytokines, linked to obesity and cardio-vascular disease, through the inhibition of pro-inflammatory prostaglandins. Finally, Leptoprin-SD contains calcium for added weight management benefits.
Oh wait. I just googled a large paragraph from the analysis and did find a PDF version for Zantrex-3 (thank you Google). Zantrex-3 “Research Study” linked here so you can see for yourself. We won’t spend time pouring through the differences, but it’s painfully obvious that the article is used to trick consumers into thinking that there’s been a lot of research that’s gone into Zantrex-3. They probably spent a good amount of time when they originally wrote this “analysis”, so why not use it on multiple products and just do a simple Find and Replace, swapping out the word Leptoprin with Zantrex-3? Sure, they dropped a few paragraphs, but the vast majority of it is exactly the same. What garbage.
This just reinforces my feelings for Basic Research. They should call themselves Basic Deceit. No wonder they had to cough up that $3M to the FTC for, among other things, representing the author of “both” of those analyses (his name is Dr. Daniel B. Mowrey, PhD) as a medical doctor when he is, in fact, not.
I’ll reiterate — garbage.
What Ingredients does Zantrex-3 Contain?
This is really an exercise in futility, since it’s obvious from what’s been discovered above that purchasing anything from these scumbags is a very bad idea. As is customary with Basic Research, i.e. Zoller Laboratories, they don’t put the supplement facts out there for you to see. A quick look at wikipedia gives us an idea of what’s in Zantrex-3, though honestly, if you don’t know the amounts, it’s pretty useless anyway. Pretending their were effective amounts in there, the ingredients aren’t too exciting anyway.
Is $30 a good deal for Zantrex-3? And a Conclusion
Well, if you compare it with their ripoff Leptoprin ($160) and their fake generic Leptopril ($74), then $30 looks like a steal — for them. I wouldn’t give these guys a buck.
Avoid all things Basic Research. Avoid Zantrex-3.
- http://ca10.washburnlaw.edu/cases/2004/10/03-4252.htm [↩]