EvolvHealth reboots as Alovea, but why?
A few weeks back a reader review request came in for EvolvHealth.
I began researching the corporate side of the company earlier this week. Today I planned on finishing the review, so I started with EvolvHealth’s products.
Confusion arose because when I clicked EvolvHealth’s products I was being redirected to a different website, Alovea.
Alovea had mostly the same products EvolvHealth did but branded under their own name.
I didn’t know what Alovea was so I looked into and, wouldn’t you know, literally hours before I began looking into the products the company launched its new website.
Turns out as I was putting together my review on EvolvHealth, the company rebooted itself as Alovea.
Comparing products offered by both EvolvHealth and Alovea, at a glance nothing’s changed.
Looking at EvolvHealth’s Facebook page, it seems they started hyping “the biggest announcement in (the) company’s history” around early April.
That announcement was the Alovea name-change, but I haven’t been able to pin down why.
I see Sam Caster is still running the show, so off-hand the only explanation I can come up with is a buyout (as far as I know Caster didn’t have an ownership stake in EvolvHealth).
Alovea’s website cites EvolvHealth as a “collaborating partner”.
EvolvHealth LLC, a health and wellness company founded in 2009, provided the unique product technologies, investment, back office support and social business platform to launch Alovéa Global into the marketplace.
Seeing a single-level affiliate opportunity on Alovea’s website I thought they might have departed from MLM. Poking around a bit though revealed they’re calling distributors “social business partners”.
As I write this Alovea don’t provide a copy of their compensation plan on their website. Nobody else has made it available yet so I can’t verify if there’s any changes from EvolvHealth.
With respect to publishing an EvolvHealth review, clearly there’s no point.
The corporate history I’ve put together can be modified to accommodate Alovea but beyond that I’m sort of stuck. For now.
There was a launch webinar held a few hours ago but I don’t have access. And I don’t know if the name-change was explained on it.
Pending further information being made available I’ll be able to add why EvolvHealth changed its name as an update.
As for an Alovea review, I’ve saved the work-in-progress and re-queued Alovea.
Hopefully when it comes up again compensation info will be out in the wild. Failing which if someone wants to send a copy in that’d be appreciated.
Also an explanation wouldn’t go astray if anyone wants to chime in.
Seems odd a ten-year old established MLM company would just change its name. Even more so now given the current global climate.
Update 10th July 2021 – BehindMLM published a complete Alovea review on July 10th, 2021.
“Alovea.” I wonder how it’s pronounced. Read a certain way, it could sound like “I love ya.” But there’s an accent over the “e”.
Not that it matters. Most likely they’re yet another MLM selling cheap vitamins as “proprietary” supplements that do, you know, good stuff. Like “detox.” That’s a fun word. And “cleanse.” “Support your immune system.” Ooooh!
And oh, yes, they’ll have a complex commission structure that stacks the odds against any but a select few making any money. Prove me wrong, someone.
Aloe-vey-ah (no breaks in hyphens) from the marketing videos I saw.
Alovea’s compensation plan is still not provided on their website.
Nor does it appear to be publicly available from an external source.
Not good enough.
I became a Social Business Partner with Evolv Health a few years ago. I don’t sell to others, I don’t look for new partners….
I buy the product for our daughter who was diagnosed with disorders that made it impossible for her to keep as job because she could remember how to do her job… part of her disorder.
I started her on Evolv’s Immun & Limitless and it TURNED HER LIFE AROUND. She applied for a job at a large banking institution, which I didn’t give much hope.
She interviewed, took a test and when she got home she was ecstatic! She said “mom, I remembered everything during the test….I have never been able to remember like that!”.
She got the job… has been employee of the month twice…..two raises and a promotion! Her supervisor knows she can count on her!!
I was worried for my daughter’s future, but now I am not! Because I can’t afford for the both of us, my daughter is my priority.
Feel free to provide peer-reviewed studies showing EvolvHealth’s products have any effect on your daughter’s disorder.
Failing which anecdotal stories = meaningless. Not withstanding unsubstantiated medical claims are illegal.
I could be wrong but I believe the name change has to do with the incoming of the immune product and something that’s later to come out called cell-a-brate.
now that may not have anything to do with the name change. If you want to send me an email, I will provide the link to the show that I watched about those two products and how they came to get involved with what is now alovea.
Trey White sold the company…
Alovéa is a Public Benefit Corporation (social business) (Ozedit: marketing spam removed)
@Andrea can’t you just provide the link here?
I totally read that wrong the first time. Interesting naming choice.
@Joe
Sold to who?
And Aloevea is an MLM company. This is not the place for copypasta marketing spam.
In Texas, a for-profit corporation can elect to be a public benefit corporation.
Per the TX SOS website,
Alovea is the assumed name of Nations Changer Group PBC. They filed the assumed name certificate in April 2020. Nations changer was formed in Jan 2020.
Nations Changer Movement Network and MannaRelief are listed as co-founding NPOs of Alovea.
You’re correct that Alovea is operating under a MLM model, just recycling the canned social entrepreneur language from EM2D (Sam Caster’s first venture post Mannatech) and Evolv.
I reason the PBC designation helps create the facade that he isn’t in it for the money.
Alovea was purchased by Nations Changers, a non profit and MannaRelief, also a non profit, for the purpose of becoming a Social Business, utilizing a buy one, give one model to nourish the world’s most medically fragile children. In less than 5 years, we’ve reached more than 31 million servings of whole food nutrition to malnourished children.
We are a public benefits corporation which means the profits go back into the company to do good. To me that means no corporate greed!
We’ve partnered with Operation Underground Railroad to nourish the children rescued from the sex slave trade, in their after care program.
We partner with Dream for the Cure Cancer Foundation who’s CEO uses our products on her patients in her clinical trial for brain cancer at Mayo Clinic.
Mayo Clinic in Rochester is currently studying our acemannan technology to update the studies from the 90s.
We partner with Brain and Body Foundation in Nigeria where Dr. David Ajibade works with children who have Sickle Cell Disease. Until he began giving our acemannan technology to these kids, nothing else was helping them with their discomfort.
Their symptoms and discomfort were relieved using this technology and as a result, Dr. Ajibade has been granted permission by the Nigerian Government to do a study on these kids using the acemannan technology.
We are constantly working to help children worldwide. That is the mission of the company.
I don’t know how to post the comp plan here, but it is available. Feel free to email me.
Cut the crap. MannaRelief = Sam Caster and Nations Changers is some finance religious mash up from Korea:
kukmindaily.co.kr/article/view.asp?page=&gCode=7111&arcid=0008484512
Caster didn’t buy Alovea (EvolvHealth) from himself so all he’s done is bring on a new partner.
MLM = for profit. You’re affiliates working an income opportunity. Using “the children” and charity as a marketing pitch is disgusting.
Ditto using cancer research as a marketing pitch. Feel free to provide peer-reviewed documentation that Alovea’s products have any effect on cancer and Sickle Cell disease.
Failing which you are making illegal medical claims (implying Alovea’s products can be used to treat and cure diseases), which is a violation of the FTC act.
Alovea’s compensation plan is still not available on the company’s website. Another potential FTC Act violation.
I’d appreciate you making a copy available to me, contact button is on the top right of every page.
Not liking what I’m seeing so far though. Religion + charity + for profit MLM = terrible business idea.
(Ozedit: derails removed)
We don’t make medical claims. In fact, we’re VERY careful about making medical claims. I make sure anyone I’m talking to understands we don’t treat, cure or mitigate anything.
What we do is help support the body’s physiology so it can do what is meant to do.
It’s not religion. It’s faith, major difference. It’s not about someone’s religion. It’s about a mission to feed the world’s most vulnerable children.
You don’t have to believe what I believe. You only need to believe in the mission. If your don’t, then don’t do this. I only want people who can get behind or mission and champion our cause.
I’ll send you the comp plan but my guess is won’t satisfy you. You’re just negative towards any direct sales type of business.
Maybe you should talk to our partner in Mexico, the former President of Mexico, Vincente Fox and his wife Marta and see how disgusted they are that we’re helping nourish the children in orphanages in Mexico.
Maybe you should talk to Tim Ballard of Operation Underground Railroad and see how disgusted he is for our help.
Sad that you find feeding children disgusting.
Thank you for confirming EvolvHealth’s products have no effect on medical conditions, despite your previous *winkwink, nudgenudge* representations.
My balanced diet supports my body’s physiology. Hell of a lot cheaper too.
I’m not interested in arguing semantics. Religion + charity + MLM remains a terrible manipulative business model.
No need. Legitimacy via association isn’t a thing.
If you want to donate to charities that help children, do so. Using it as a marketing pitch for an MLM opp is disgusting.
So is twisting my words. I said what I said.
What twisting my words does do though is provide a great example of why MLM + charity as a business model is manipulative.
You don’t want to join my MLM opp? OMG why are you against helping children?
Dis-gus-ting.
Thanks. I’ve queued EvolvHealth for a review update.
No matter how wonderful a company and their mission or accomplishments, if it’s wrapped in an MLM bow, haters want to hate. And obviously, Oz is one of those haters.
Must have had his own bad experience with one so can’t be open-minded to the good. Don’t waste any more breath. I know I won’t.
Any time you see a grown ass adult crap on about hAtErZ, run. Ditto when someone invents a narrative to justify whatever it is they’re being called out on.
Typically I see haterz nonsense and just hit spam. Wanted to leave this one up though as another example of using charity to market an MLM opp.
If you want to donate to charity do it. You’re in an MLM opp to make money. Stop being deceitful about it.
Shame, hard to profit off of snake-oil “opportunities” when you get called out?
I tried really hard to find accomplishments but i’m yet to find anything noteworthy.
As for the mission – profit? I guess that’s what qualifies for Wonderful in home “executives” eyes.
On a related note, how many MLM failures does it take before you learn your lesson Joni?
Your twitter feed looks worse than my trashcan: twitter.com/joniathome
My friend sent me info on this company so I did some research. No one will provide the double blind independent studies.
What is more concerning is that many people involved in this “social business” AKA MLM marketed as helping the needy, had prior FTC court cases.
Caster had many with prior companies/products and at least two other couples with regard to Advocare. And here they all are again.
It’s simple to google the names, Advocare and FTC or court cases. Cannot speak to the specific outcomes but seems like bad business with this lot.
So don’t you think that maybe he might have learned something in that other company?
Yes he did go through a lot of nasty stuff with that company, but he’s learned from those and we have a lawyer on staff and we train on how to stay compliant.
Many companies, not just network marketing companies, go through issues. It’s those that don’t learn from their mistakes where the problems lie.
What studies would you like to see? If you Google Carrington Labs and acemannan, you can find lots of information.
I can send your the study on the Limitless. The current study at Mayo Clinic hasn’t been completed but I’ll be happy to get that to you when it does.
If you want to email me, I’d be happy to send you the information.
How to be better at selling shit? How to do MLM better?
Cut the Bossbabe Business Owner vibe, it’s stale rhetoric with the same stories and excuses always.
If you can’t convey information efficiently without resorting to copy/pasting emails you shouldn’t try convincing people.
Not the first time we’ve heard that tune, Shelly. What else you got?
Oh, how original. A lawyer on staff to keep you compliant. Just like Vemma. And OneCoin. And Enron. Getting bored, here.
Yawn. Honestly, y’all need to buy a new songbook.
If you have studies to share, do so. Otherwise… by parroting the same tired lines used by everyone running a scam, you’re frankly just making yourself look like you’re running a scam of your own. Not saying you are, but it doesn’t look good. Not at all.
Trying to be nice, here, but… damn.
Well unless you’ve actually been a part of this company or tried the product, you really have nothing to contribute but the today rhetoric of a failed business owner.
As someone who was diagnosed by the Mayo Clinic in March 2015 with Stage 3b Melanoma Cancer (Ozedit: snip, see below)
Feel free to provide peer-reviewed studies proving EvolvHealth’s products have any effect on cancer.
Unsubstantiated medical claims based on feels are not only illegal, they’re dishonest.
Yeah see,there’s more of that bossbabe rhetoric mentioned.
Not any peer-reviewed independent proven results.
Just “wheeee it worked for meeeee”.
Congrats on the cancer if that’s not just another scummy salespitch – which your kind are not too shy to try either,
Inaccurate,you’re trying very very very hard to sell the same shit everybody else does,and you seem to be taking it hard that the usual salespitch isn’t working.
Think we’ve been asking for a Journal review link for a while,you seem hesitant to provide though – not suspicious at all.
Selling hope of a cure with a quack rememdy is evil.
Scamming money and giving a nonsense coin, plagiarised “education”, overpriced whatever, etc, is bad enough, but preying on medical desperation instead of greed is evil.
““today rhetoric”? What’s that supposed to mean?
For the record, I am the owner of a successful business, and it has nothing to do with MLM. I’m just here for the popcorn.
Still waiting for those peer-reviewed double-blind medical studies.
Well Shelly F you absolutely CANNOT produce any randomized controlled double blind studies because THEY DO NOT EXIST for these products!
Pseudo research is not what we want to see. That’s not what we are asking to see.
Secondly, Sam Caster hasn’t had FTC issues with one company…but THREE previous cases!!
The McDaniels and Donnelly’s both were named individually with Advocare. AND they are doing the EXACT same things!!
One guy claimed all products are gluten free. They are not! FRAUD!!
Get ready for another FTC investigation!
So great you are cured of cancer— Also stage 3b melanoma is highly curable.
But hey what do actual Drs know? Oh wait. We know not to get involved with a pyramid scheme!
I was sold a handful of these “cure all” Alovea Immun capsules by a snake oil sales woman. She went as far to say it had cured AIDS in Africa.
It was so ridiculous I started to do my research & could barely find any information. The very few positive reviews were obviously from people trying to sell this crap!
I don’t know how people sleep at night. Time to call block, good riddance.
If she told you they cured Aids in Africa, she would be wrong. Alovéa Immun doesn’t cure anything. It optimizes the immune system and gives the body the micronutrients it needs to help the body heal itself.
There is a doctor in Africa who uses acemannan (the active molecule in Immun) to help children with aids. There’s also a doctor in Nigeria, Dr. David Ajibade who uses acemannan with children with Sickle Cell.
I’ve spoken to him personally and he’s said it’s the only thing that’s helped alleviate these children’s symptoms and discomfort.
You don’t have to use it or believe it. I know it works as do thousands of others.
My doctor at Mayo literally just told me recently that I’m an unusual case. That most people diagnosed with Stage 3b Melanoma Cancer don’t make it 6 years without medical intervention.
I didn’t do drugs or radiation. Just surgery to remove an infected lymph node and have had no recurrence in over 6 years now.
It’s because my immune system is strong and my body is constantly fighting to keep it at bay.
Believe it. Don’t believe it. You’re not hurting anyone.
FYI, immun isn’t something you necessarily “feel.” It is something that used on a regular basis can optimize the immune system. You may find you have fewer cold. Or maybe some ailment you have is better. Maybe your blood work improves.
There are lots of things that can Halen but if you are looking for some miracle to happen in a month, nothing does that.
It’s about changing a lifestyle and implementing supplements that can help optimize that lifestyle.
Holy shit you just can’t help but waffle on can you
Your social media feed is actually a disgusting mix of MLM-scummery and antivaccination rhetoric,no wonder you appear unable to have a rational thought.
You invalidated every statement you’ve ever made with your antivaccination retardation.
Shelly F.: Because we all know we can trust everything Nigerian related right? Kind of like the fax I got from the Nigerian billionaire that didn’t have any heir to leave his fortune to but picked me!
You know it works and so does thousands of others?? WHO are these people & where are the reviews? On another planet that hasn’t been discovered?
I have searched & searched, can’t find anything positive except for people selling this snake oil such as yourself.
You’re 100% correct, I’m not hurting anybody by not being duped by this BS.
I sleep well at night because I have morals & don’t screw people out of their hard earned money!
I, too, have morals and don’t screw people out of their money. I have yet to have anyone come back to me and tell me they felt ripped off.
In fact, I’ve had more come to me thanking me for changing their life!
So you do you, and I’ll keep changing the world for the better!
“So you do you“ Really ? I rest my case.
Links for you to review if you truly want to learn the science.
(Ozedit: spam removed, see below)
None of those links pertain to Alovea’s products.
Actually they do. Acemannan is the basis for all of our products also a therapeutic supplement called Immun.
So, you really don’t want proof they work. You just want to bad mouth them.
(Ozedit: dummy spit removed)
Go back to living your “mobile home” lifestyle and preaching antivaccination and “healthy lifestyle” nonsense while trying to profit from others snake-oil salesman.
Actually they don’t. Neither Alovea or Immun was mentioned anywhere on those sites.
Links to articles on raw ingredient(s) have no relevance to claims surrounding a product purportedly containing said ingredient(s).
I know there aren’t any studies on Alovea’s products. You know there aren’t. Why? Do the math.
Due-diligence 101.
Wow ! That sounds like the sales pitch I was given. “ Science” was shoved down my throat.
Science this ….. Science that …. “ She blinded me with Science “ * she tried her best anyway lol.
Doesn’t exist. What a load of crap !
There are absolutely ZERO randomized controlled peer reviewed double blind reproducible result studies on Alovea specific products.
Your personal experiences are not research. No worries everyone, FTC is already investigating them for fraud and cult activities.
There’s plenty of studies and peer reviews on our products. (Ozedit: snip, see #25, #38 & #41)
There are still no peer-reviewed studies pertaining to Alovea’s products.
You don’t pay attention, do you. Acemannan is one of our products. (Ozedit: snip, see below)
As previously explained to you, a study on a key ingredient != a study on a product containing said key ingredient.
I can’t bottle poison, eyedrop 1 ml of a studied key ingredient and claim my product has peer-reviewed studies.
That’s not how regulation works. There are still no peer-reviewed studies pertaining to Alovea’s products.
We’ve been down this road.
You spout nonsense.
It gets deleted.
You spout more nonsense.
Your little shit company doesn’t own the patent/compound for “Acemannan”. You’re just throwing it in a bottle and overcharging people for it.
Till your “products” in its entirety gets peer reviewed you have no claim or say. That’s how the majority of your marketing is already worded, so quiet down and enjoy your RV lifestyle elsewhere.
If you do not test the entire formulation, there is no assurance that one or more of the supposedly “inactive” ingredients is not damaging the main ingredient and denaturing the beneficial functions.
First, my apologies in advance for “necroing” this review, but the actions of a previous commenter really burned me.
Disclaimer, I am a research fellow at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. I also happen to be a former cancer patient, although former is probably a misnomer as it’s an ongoing fight.
Lying about clinical trials to gain prestige by association and to make a sale is below reprehensible. There is a special level of hell for people that do this.
I’ve searched Mayo’s archive for any trials or studies on Acemannan, and surprise of surprises – there are none. More smoke blown out of your arse.
For future reference and research, ANYONE can search Mayo’s clinical trials for proof of a study here:
NOLINK://www.mayo.edu/research/clinical-trials
What worked for my cancer? Arsenic Trioxide, traditional radiotherapy, proton therapy and LOTS of hope.
Stop giving people false hope to make a dollar.
Sorry to hear about your battle Sabriel. Such to the extent you can, I hope you pull through or at least get all the comfort and support you need along the way.
Thanks for providing perspective on shills that run around lying about their MLM products treating cancer. There is a human cost to this nonsense that we unfortunately, for the most part, don’t see.
First, to AntiMLM, you are correct. My bad, we don’t hold the patent. The patents were owned by Carrington Labs. The licensing rights were first through a company called Mannatech.
The scientist who discovered how to stabilize it created a new process of extraction which he patented and donated the licensing rights to Mannarelief, one of the nonprofits that owns Alovea. Sorry, my bad.
Second,to Sabriel, please reach out to Dr. Renee Hirte. She is a research scientist who used these products on patients in a research study on brain cancer.
I don’t have all the information as it’s my understanding the paper isn’t out yet but I’m sure she would be happy to answer your questions.
I forgot my third point. You can bash it all you want, but I’m here because of the education I got through Alovea (formerly Evolv) and these products. I’m a Stage 3b Melanoma Cancer survivor.
I don’t claim that they cured me, because I’ll never be cured, but my immune system is being optimized because of these products and 9 years later, my doctors at Mayo still tell me I shouldn’t be here without medical intervention.
Believe it or don’t believe it, you’re not hurting me. My faith in God and my faith in these products is unwaverable!
Anecdotal stories = meaningless.
Peer-reviewed studies or stop making illegal unsubstantiated medical claims targeting vulnerable people to promote a business.
Absolutely disgusting.
Here’s one. (Ozedit: snip, see comment #25)
To date there are no peer-reviewed studies pertaining to Alovea’s products.
First it’s not Evolv Health anymore. It’s Alovea and there are enough studies out there to prove what’s being said about the products. (Ozedit: snip, see comment #25)
Thanks for the rebranding update but otherwise stop lying. To date there are no peer-reviewed studies pertaining to Alovea’s products.
If you insist on blatantly lying I’m hitting spam-bin.
edit: my bad on the company name, was going off the article title at a glance. Will edit.
Look up the book The Science Behind Aloe by Dr. Bill McAnalley. There literally hundreds of peer reviewed documents linked in that book.
Studies on an aloevera are not studies on Alovea’s products.
To date there are no peer-reviewed studies pertaining to Alovea’s products.
The only ingredient in our Immun product IS acemannan!
Then you have to wonder why to date there are no peer-reviewed studies pertaining to Alovea’s (or EvolveHealth’s) products.
I mean hey, here’s a treatment for cancer. One of the world’s most deadly and crippling diseases solved.
Yet here we are with no peer-reviewed studies pertaining to Alovea’s products.
EvolvHealth launched in 2009. Not a single peer-reviewed study to date.
Not wasting anymore time on this. It is absolute scumbag behavior to market an MLM business on false promises targeting vulnerable people (not to mention illegal).
Peer-reviewed studies pertaining to Alovea’s products or spam-bin.