Make Wellness Review: Proprietary Bioactive Precision Peptides?
Make Wellness prelaunched on a marketing website domain back in August.
Two immediate points of concern were:
- ambiguity as to when the company would actually launch; and
- Make Wellness’ initial prelaunch being a pyramid scheme.
Since August Make Wellness has dropped mandatory purchase requirements for affiliates.
Make Wellness has also launched on a permanent domain, so today we’re revisiting the company for a full review.
The Company
Make Wellness doesn’t provide a corporate address on its website.
The arbitration clause in Make Wellness’ Terms of Service suggest the company is based out of Utah. That said, the Utah address provided on Make Wellness’ products is a virtual office provided by Alliance Virtual Offices.
Heading up Make Wellness we have co-founders Justin Prince, Truman Hunt and Robert Finigan.
Justin Prince cites himself as a co-creator of Modere, a nutritional supplements MLM company.
Prince’s relationship with Modere broke down through a series of lawsuits. Following his termination, Prince sued Modere and Modere sued Prince.
Unfortunately being state-level cases filed in Utah, I haven’t been able to track the cases beyond initial filings in October 2023.
A social media video published by Prince earlier this year however suggests he was prevailing. I haven’t seen any official updates from Modere.
Truman Hunt made a name for himself in the MLM industry as Nu Skin’s CEO dating back to 2003.
Under Hunt’s leadership, NuSkin
- was fined by Chinese officials for running a pyramid scheme in 2014;
- settled allegations of Chinese bribes and corruption with the SEC in September 2016; and
- settled a pyramid scheme class-action for $47 million in October 2016
Truman stood down as Nu Skin’s CEO in December 2016. He was cited as Utah’s highest paid CEO for the same year.
Robert Finigan is Modere’s former Chief Marketing Officer.
Make Wellness’ Products
Make Wellness markets a range of supplements it claims contain “Proprietary Bioactive Precision Peptides”.
Proprietary Bioactive Precision Peptides are found in nature and effectively communicate with our body chemistry, directing cellular pathways towards youthful regeneration and away from age related decline.
Processing technology has been developed to protect and preserve bioactive precision peptides’ physiological activity and bioavailability.
- Calm – “combines four powerful ingredients–Ashwagandha, Lemon Balm Extract, GABA and L-Theanine–designed to naturally lower cortisol levels, reduce stress, and help balance stress hormones for relaxation without drowsiness”, retails at $49.99 for a box of thirty single-serve sachets
- Energized – “designed to power your day with clean, sustained energy”, retails at $79.99 for a box of thirty single-serve sachets
- Fit – “supports the natural muscle recovery process, protects muscle mass to support healthy aging and reduces recovery time after exercise”, retails at $119.99 for a box of thirty single-serve sachets
- Focused – “enhance concentration, support memory, and reduce mental fatigue”, retails at $59.99 for a box of thirty capsules
- Hydrated – “take this Peptide Support Product FIRST before using other Peptide products”, retails at $49.99 for a vox of thirty single-serve sachets
- Lean – appetite suppressant, retails at $89.99 for a box of thirty capsules
Make Wellness’ Compensation Plan
Make Wellness’ compensation plan pays upfront on retail sales and recruited affiliate purchases. Residual commissions are paid on unilevel team generations.
Make Wellness Affiliate Ranks
There are fourteen affiliate ranks within Make Wellness’ compensation plan.
Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:
- Affiliate – sign up as a Make Wellness affiliate and generate $1 to $499 monthly PV
- Affiliate 1 – generate $500 to $999 in monthly PV
- Affiliate 2 – generate $1000 to $1999 in monthly PV
- Premier Affiliate – generate $2000 to $3999 in monthly PV
- 4K Premier – generate $4000 to $6999 in monthly PV
- 7K Premier – generate $7000 to $9999 in monthly PV
- 10K Premier – generate $10,000 to $11,999 in monthly PV
- 12K Premier – generate $12,000 to $14,999 in monthly PV
- 15K Premier – generate $15,000 to $19,999 in monthly PV
- 20K Premier – generate $20,000 to $24,999 in monthly PV
- 25K Premier – generate $25,000 to $29,999 in monthly PV
- 30K Premier – generate $30,000 to $34,999 in monthly PV
- 35K Premier – generate $35,000 to $39,999 in monthly PV
- 40K Premier – generate $40,000 or more in monthly PV
PV stands for “Personal Volume”. Make Wellness tracks PV as:
- an affiliates own purchases;
- purchases by their personally referred retail customers; and
- purchases by their personally recruited affiliates
Customer Sales Bonus
The Customer Sales Bonus pays affiliates on retail customer sales made by affiliates they’ve recruited.
- affiliates you recruit generate $0 to $1999 in monthly retail customer orders = 4% Customer Sales Bonus
- affiliates you recruit generate $2000 to $3999 in monthly retail customer orders = 6% Customer Sales Bonus
- affiliates you recruit generate $4000 to $9999 in monthly retail customer orders = 8% Customer Sales Bonus
- affiliates you recruit generate $10,000 or more in monthly retail customer orders = 10% Customer Sales Bonus
Circle Sales Bonus
The Circle Sales Bonus is a percentage commission paid on PV each month:
- qualify as an Affiliate and receive 10%
- qualify as an Affiliate 1 and receive 12% (guaranteed min $80)
- qualify as an Affiliate 2 and receive 14% (guaranteed min $140)
- qualify as a Premier Affiliate and receive 20% (guaranteed min $500), plus $75 product credit
- qualify as a 4K Premier and receive 22% (guaranteed min $880), plus $100 product credit
- qualify as a 7K Premier and receive 24% (guaranteed min $1680), plus $125 product credit
- qualify at a 10K Premier and receive 26% (guaranteed min $2600), plus $175 product credit
- qualify as a 12K Premier and receive 28% (guaranteed min $3360), plus $200 product credit
- qualify as a 15K Premier and receive 30% (guaranteed min $4500), plus $200 product credit
- qualify as a 20K Premier and receive 32% (guaranteed min $6400), plus $200 product credit
- qualify as a 25K Premier and receive 34% (guaranteed min $8500), plus $200 product credit
- qualify as a 30K Premier and receive 36% (guaranteed min $10,800), plus $200 product credit
- qualify as a 35K Premier and receive 38% (guaranteed min $13,300), plus $200 product credit
- qualify as a 40K Premier and receive 40% (guaranteed min $16,000), plus $200 product credit
Affiliate Development Bonus
Premier Affiliate and higher ranked affiliates qualify for the Affiliate Development Bonus.
The Affiliate Development Bonus is a generational bonus tracked through a unilevel team.
A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):
If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.
If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.
Generations within each unilevel team leg are defined when a Premier Affiliate or higher ranked affiliate is found in the leg, after the first recruited affiliate in the leg (i.e. level 1 of that leg).
In other words, the first Premier Affiliate or higher recruited into a unilevel team leg by another affiliate in the leg (not you), caps off the first generation for that leg.
The second generation begins immediate after, and runs until another Premier Affiliate or higher ranked affiliate is found deeper in the leg.
Using this generational structure, Premier Affiliate and higher ranked affiliates are able to earn the Affiliate Development Bonus on up to five generations per unilevel team leg.
- generate one Premier Affiliate or higher ranked unilevel team leg = 8% commission on one generation per leg
- generate two Premier Affiliate or higher ranked unilevel team legs = 8% on the first generation and 6% on the second per leg
- generate three Premier Affiliate or higher ranked unilevel team legs = 8% on the first generation, 6% on the second and 4% on the third per leg
- generate four Premier Affiliate or higher ranked unilevel team legs = 8% on the first generation, 6% on the second, 4% on the third and 2% on the fourth
- generate five Premier Affiliate or higher ranked unilevel team legs = 8% on the first generation, 6% on the second, 4% on the third, 2% on the fourth and 1% on the fifth
A “Premier Affiliate or higher ranked unilevel team leg” is a unilevel team leg with a Premier Affiliate or higher ranked affiliate anywhere in the leg.
Rank Achievement Bonus
The Rank Achievement Bonus is paid out to Premier Affiliate and higher ranked affiliates who qualify as per additional set rank criteria.
- 25K Leader – have four Premier Affiliate or higher in your downline, have two Premier Qualified Teams and generate $25,000 in downline sales volume = $500 bonus
- 50K Leader – have eight Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, have three Premier Qualified Teams and generate $50,000 in downline sales volume = $1000 bonus
- 100K Visionary – have fifteen Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, have four Premier Qualified Teams and generate $100,000 in downline sales volume = $1500 bonus
- 150K Visionary – have twenty-five Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, have five Premier Qualified Teams and generate $150,000 in downline sales volume = $2500 bonus
- 200K Visionary – have forty Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, maintain five Premier Qualified Teams and generate $200,000 in downline sales volume = $5000 bonus
- 300K Visionary – maintain forty Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, maintain five Premier Qualified Teams and generate $300,000 in downline sales volume = $7500 bonus
- 400K Visionary – have fifty Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, maintain five Premier Qualified Teams and generate $400,000 in downline sales volume = $10,000
- 500K Mentor – maintain fifty Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline and generate $500,000 in downline sales volume = $12,500 bonus
- 750K Mentor – maintain fifty Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, maintain five Premier Qualified Teams and generate $750,000 in downline sales volume = $20,000 bonus
- 1M Impact Maker – maintain fifty Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, maintain five Premier Qualified Teams and generate $1,000,000 in downline sales volume = 25,000 bonus
- 1.5M Impact Maker – have sixty Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, have six Premier Qualified Teams and generate $1,500,000 in downline sales volume = $30,000 bonus
- 2M Impact Maker – maintain sixty Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, maintain six Premier Qualified Teams and generate $2,000,000 in downline sales volume = $40,000 bonus
- 2.5M Impact Maker – maintain sixty Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, maintain six Premier Qualified Teams and generate $2,500,000 in downline sales volume = $50,000 bonus
- 3M Impact Maker – have seventy Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, have seven Premier Qualified Teams and generate $3,000,000 in downline sales volume = $60,000 bonus
- 3.5M Impact Maker – maintain seventy Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, maintain seven Premier Qualified Teams and generate $70,000 in downline sales volume = $70,000 bonus
- 4M Legacy Maker – maintain seventy Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, maintain seven Premier Qualified Teams and generate $4,000,000 in downline sales volume = $80,000 bonus
- 4.5M Legacy Maker – have eighty Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, have eight Premier Qualified Teams and generate $4,500,000 in downline sales volume = $90,000 bonus
- 5M Legacy Maker – maintain eighty Premier Affiliates or higher in your downline, maintain eight Premier Qualified Teams and generate $5,000,000 in downline sales volume = $100,000 bonus
A “Premier Qualified Team” is a unilevel team leg that qualifies for the Affiliate Development Bonus.
Income Guarantees
Make Wellness guarantees income based on affiliate recruitment:
- recruit three affiliates who qualify at Premier Affiliate or higher = $1500 a month guaranteed income
- recruit four affiliates who qualify at Premier Affiliate or higher = $2000 a month guaranteed income
- recruit five affiliates who qualify at Premier Affiliate or higher = $3000 a month guaranteed income
Note that as of November 2024, Make Wellness claims it will drop income guarantees at the end of March 2025.
Founders Bonus
The Founders Bonus is an additional bonus awarded to affiliates who qualify for the Rank Achievement Bonus (see “Rank Achievement Bonus” above).
- qualify at 25K Leader and receive an additional $2000 over two months
- qualify at 50K Leader and receive $2000 over two months
- qualify at 100K Visionary and receive $5000 over two months
- qualify at 150K Visionary and receive $10,000 over three months
- qualify at 200K Visionary and receive $15,000 over three months
- qualify at 300K Visionary and receive $20,000 over six months
- qualify at 400K Visionary and receive $50,000 over six months
Note that the qualifying period for the Founders Bonus is the end of March 2026.
Joining Make Wellness
Make Wellness affiliate membership is free.
Make Wellness Conclusion
Make Wellness’ product range has an obvious overlap with other supplements available on the market (both MLM and non-MLM).
You’re basically paying a premium for “proprietary bioactive precision peptides”, which Make Wellness claims were discovered through “AI-driven methods”.
The discovery of the Bioactive Precision Peptides through AI-driven methods showcases the potential of technology to revolutionize nutritional science.
This approach accelerates the discovery process and allows more targeted and efficient identification of Bioactive Precision Peptides with specific desired properties.
Unlike traditional serendipitous approaches to nutritional intervention discovery, the AI platform allows for a targeted approach.
Call me skeptical but this feels like an excuse to ram AI marketing into a nutritional supplement sales pitch.
Peptides themselves are
strings of molecules called amino acids, which are the “building blocks” of proteins.
Studies show that some peptides may also have benefits for your skin, muscles, and maybe your weight. So, for decades, companies have been putting them into skin care products and dietary supplements you can buy over the counter.
Make Wellness seek to differentiate themselves by providing purportedly “proprietary” peptides but, other than the AI marketing angle, don’t go into specifics.
By partnering with leading labs, we are developing a range of products to address every aspect of health. Including sleep, energy, stress, weight-management, beauty and longevity.
By harnessing the power of nature. We offer a vastly superior, more effective, and safer approach to health wellness and beauty.
This is from Make Wellness’ website, which is where you’d expect them to delve into the claimed “science” Make Wellness is marketing their supplements on.
Without any scientific documentation, Make Wellness’ product offering is questionably overpriced backed by unverifiable marketing claims.
Make Wellness’ compensation plan is an improvement from the mandatory purchases baked into the original prelaunch offering.
Unfortunately though the current iteration leaves itself wide open to affiliate autoship recruitment.
Retail sales aren’t incentivized beyond the same commissions paid on personal recruitment purchases.
The Customer Sales Bonus only pays on retail activity generated by recruited affiliates. Beyond that retail sales can be ignored. A Make Wellness affiliate can focus on autoship recruitment and, over time, max out the compensation plan.
The quickest way to address this is to require a percentage of monthly required GV to be retail customer volume. Coming from Make Wellness’ mandatory affiliate purchases at prelaunch, this omission feels very much like *wink wink, nudge nudge* pseudo-compliance.
The good news is establishing whether retail sales are being focused on is straight-forward. As a potential Make Wellness affiliate, you want to ask your potential upline how much of their Circle Bonus qualifying volume is attributable to retail sales.
If retail sales don’t make up at least half of their generated monthly Circle Bonus qualifying volume (make sure you include their own purchases as non-retail volume), that affiliate is running their Make Wellness business as a pyramid scheme.
Frankly I’m not seeing anything in Make Wellness’ compensation plan to suggest this wouldn’t be the case (outside of the odd newly recruited affiliate with a few retail customers).
This may or may not matter to you as, admittedly, Make Wellness doesn’t have a cost of entry. Still, it’s worth considering that life is full of things that appear free but actually aren’t.
Make Wellness not charging affiliates to sign up might make for inflated signup numbers but doesn’t speak to the long-term viability of the company.
Pending Make Wellness providing consumers with claimed “science” regarding their purportedly “proprietary” peptides, and addressing the lack of retail sales focus, approach with caution.
Firstly, Justin Prince was not co-founder of Modere. He was their Master Distributor, and got terminated from Modere for cross-recruiting into Make Wellness.
Secondly, he makes his product sound more important & relevant than it really is. He spouts off many “buzz words” in his presentations to make it look like he knows what he’s talking about.
Thirdly, he’s got absolutely no proof that any of this product can be related to any of the studies that he claims his product has. It’s all the work of a “snake oil salesman”.
The opening comment regarding purchases being “mandatory” is incorrect. There is no mandatory requirement for product or App or marketing or sign-up purchases/fees.
In order to save space here I will just say this…..
Regarding the science behind the products, White Papers and Clinically Peer-Reviewed research has since been released and continues to be released as the necessary legal and peer reviews occur.
It is quite common to not have all the tools and resources available during a Pre-Launch. It is up to the individual if they are comfortable, taking into account ALL the facts, with being a part of a Pre-Launch or not.
The opening statement of this review doesn’t state there is mandatory purchases. There was, as per Make Wellness’ own website.
Instead of worrying about saving space try to understand what you’re reading first.
No it hasn’t. There are no published peer-reviewed studies on Make Wellness’ products.
That excuse might have held up till October or so. If an MLM company is full operating it’s no longer in prelaunch and there are no excuses. Let alone four months after prelaunch.
I went back and reread that sentence and I now see you stated “dropped”, as in no longer. My initial reaction was incorrect.
However, there never was a required purchase. So while I misread the sentence originally, I stand by the fact that required purchases never existed.
Affilaites have access to the White Papers and Clinically Peer-Reviewed research in their Backoffices. While you are correct in that they don’t exist on the customer website, that feature will be coming.
Again, Make Wellness is in Pre-Launch and currently scheduled to Launch March 2025.
As per Make Wellness’ website, yes there was.
There are no published peer-reviewed studies on Make Wellness’ products. If there were you’d cite them.
If Make Wellness is accepting distributor signups and customer orders it has launched.
What Section of the Compensation Plan states “required purchase”? I have been affiliates with Make Wellness during the Non-Disclosure Agreement days beginning in mid-May and from the beginning there has never been a required purchase.
I am not able to attach pdf documents or attach a screen grab to these comments to provide evidence of the Peer-Reviewed clinical research, but I have them as do all the other Affiliates through the One-Sheets available on the Hub in their Backoffices.
While technically, Make Wellness is open for business, it’s very common to have phases of opening or launching a company. Take Tesla for example, they took pre-orders for the Model S before they were fully functional with operations.
Even the first deliveries were phased as they ramped up production and fine tuned logistics. Not every feature was available with the first models, much in the same way, not every feature is available with Make Wellness right now.
Again, read what I said. I never said anything about the compensation plan.
If it existed all you’d have to do is cite the study and anyone could look it up.
If an MLM company is taking affiliate signups and customer orders it has launched. Stop making excuses.
The Compensation Plan would state (which it doesn’t) that purchases are required in order to earn commissions. Not sure what website from August you are referring to. Make Wellness’ website was not active until mid to late November.
I will provide some of the research articles in my next comment. I need to have the One Sheets open on my laptop so I can type them in the comment here on my iPad.
It’s not an excuse, it’s a common process when launching a business. Do you disagree with my comparison to Tesla?
Is there an echo in here? Read what I wrote again.
This is false. Make Wellness has had a website up since at least August 2024.
I was being polite and resisted the urge to mark it as a “derail”. Tesla is not an MLM company, how they run their business is irrelevant to Make Wellness pretending to be in prelaunch for almost a year.
Peer-reviewed Research examples…..
Momma, H; et al, (2002) Brit J Sports Med. 022; 56: 755-763
Cal, R; et al, (2020) Nutrients. 12(8), 2274
Dallas C. et al.; Phytother. Res.; 2013, 28(2): 212-218
Cases et al.; Int. J. Food Sci. Nutrition.; 2015
Park S. Et al.;J. Med. Food; 2020, 23(3): 1-8
There are more, but I’m not a proficient typer to handle that many punctuation marks… 🙂
2002, 2020, 2013, 2015, 2020… without looking at these studies I can confirm they were all published years before Make Wellness and its products existed.
I reaffirm there are no published peer-reviewed studies on Make Wellness’ products. It is dishonest to attempt to pass off unrelated studies as having anything to do with Make Wellness’ products.
Regarding the required purchases, I did reread what you wrote again. I am asking you to provide where you got that information because that has never been part of the business plan.
Do you have a screenshot or document to support your allegation?
The first time products could be ordered was November 5th. The Launch Event is early March 2025, approximately 4 months apart, not a year.
Who says an MLM versus a brick-and-mortar business are required to have different processes of opening or offering products?
I got the information from Make Wellness’ website:
https://behindmlm.com/companies/make-wellness-prelaunch-is-a-pyramid-scheme/
Make Wellness started publicly taking signups in August. March 2025 is seven months later. March 2025 is an arbitrary date, nothing much will change after because Make Wellness has already effectively launched.
Nobody said anything about “brick-and-mortar businesses”. Make Wellness is an MLM company. If you wish to discuss non-MLM companies do it somewhere else, thanks.
Regarding the required purchase, I did reread what you wrote. You reference a website that did not exist. Do you have a dated document or screen-grab to support your allegation?
November 5th was the first date products could be ordered. Early March 2025 is the Launch, approximately 4 months apart. Not “almost a year” as you stated.
What Law is there stating that an MLM versus a Brick-n-Mortar require different processes of opening? My wife opened up her private practice without all the services (I.e. testing equipment) that she now currently has.
Yes, research takes time. Developing the research into a human consumable product takes time.
If a company offers a new product with hyaluronic acid in it, are they a fraud? Hyaluronic acid has been researched since 1880.
I’m sorry, what? If you read the comments on the linked article, shortly after I published and pointed it out, Make Wellness changed their policy and website.
The quoted policy is from Make Wellness’ original website. Pretending it never existed is dishonest.
Are you really going to make me hand-feed you every little detail? My guy, it’s all published and has been since August 2024. Just read and save us both some time.
Thank you for confirming there are no peer-reviewed studies pertaining to Make Wellness’ products.
Thank you for the link to your older story about Make Wellness. That statement regardingOctober 31, 2024 was removed and never enforced.
So I stand (sitting and typing) corrected, your statement (which I originally mis-read) is correct. Make Wellness, from a corporate philosophy standpoint, never required purchases, but there was an error in early messaging that created confusion and was removed.
Except for that time they did, as per the company’s own website and signup terms and conditions.
There is/was no confusion. Make Wellness’ prelaunch “launched” as a pay-to-play pyramid scheme. This was changed after BehindMLM published an article on it.
So you are claiming your article changed Make Wellness’ philosophy? That is certainly thinking highly of oneself now isn’t it?
I can attest that from the beginning, May 24, 2024 was the first call I attended and the Company Philosophy has always been that it is ridiculous to require someone to buy-in or require someone to purchase product in order to participate in the company.
An error does not establish precedence.
And I did provide a sampling of Peer-Reviewed studies. See above.
Make Wellness’ website was up for almost a month before I got around to looking at it.
No action was taken until BehindMLM published its article, which was widely read. If you were actually in Make Wellness back in August you’d know this (you’re the first person to rock up here trying to rewrite history).
Putting up a website explicitly mandating mandatory product purchases on signup isn’t an error. It is what it is. No point in denying what happened.
Feel free to provide peer-reviewed studies pertaining to Make Wellness’ products. There aren’t any, and you know it.
So you waited a month before taking a look? How do you know it was a month?
Also, thank you for the trip down memory lane regarding the error that was public.
I can’t stress enough, that from the beginning, it was never part of the plan to require a sign-up fee, or require a purchase, or require a monthly minimum purchase.
As far as me “rocking” up in here, it all stems back from what I already admitted to…I mis-read your original sentence AND I realized WHY I did.
You originally stated Make Wellness “dropped mandatory purchase requirements”. I originally misread that as dropped, as in released like a musician with a new song or company with a new product, NOT dropped, as in removed.
My misinterpretation was due to the fact that I know mandatory purchase requirements were never part of who Make Wellness is so I applied a different connotation to the word drop.
As I previously supplied and previously pointed out that I supplied them, there are Peer Reviewed research references in a previous comment of mine.
Now admittedly, the research is on the actual Bioactive Precision Peptides (BPP) and NOT on the final formulation. There are several key distinctions as to why that is.
1) Make Wellness will be doing peer-reviewed clinical research on our formulations; i.e. actual product.
2) The formulations have only existed for a few months and to expect peer-reviewed clinical research to be complete right now is preposterous.
3) The formulations were merely done to make the BPPs palatable. Quite frankly, they taste terrible which is why 2 are in capsule form. Two were able to be formulated such that the final product has quite frankly a very good taste.
4) When Neutrogena uses hyaluronic acid, the research is on the actual ingredient of hyaluronic acid, NOT Neutrogena’s face lotion. Likewise, when a company uses Whey Protein, the research in on the Whey Protein, not the final product of a chocolate flavored power in a tub. Similarly, Make Wellness’s research articles are on the actual ingredient (BPP), not CURRENTLY on the final formulation, which again, was done for palpability.
With all that said, I was able to use a different file format and can now cut-and-paste some more detailed references. So here is ANOTHER sampling…
Dallas C, Gerbi A, Elbez Y, Caillard P, Zamaria N, Cloarec M. Clinical study to assess the efficacy and safety of a citrus polyphenolic extract of red orange, grapefruit, and orange (Sinetrol-XPur) on weight management and metabolic parameters in healthy overweight individuals. Phytother Res. 2014;28(2):212-218. doi:10.1002/ptr.4981
Cases J, Romain C, Dallas C, Gerbi A, Rouanet JM. A 12-week randomized double-blind parallel pilot trial of Sinetrol XPur on body weight, abdominal fat, waist circumference, and muscle metabolism in overweight men. Int J Food Sci Nutr. 2015;66(4):471-477. doi:10.3109/09637486.2015.1042847
Kennedy K, Keogh B, Lopez C, et al. An Artificial Intelligence Characterised Functional Ingredient, Derived from Rice, Inhibits TNF-α and Significantly Improves Physical Strength in an Inflammaging Population. Foods. 2020;9(9):1147. Published 2020 Aug 20. doi:10.3390/foods9091147
Rein D, Ternes P, Demin R, Gierke J, Helgason T, Schön C. Artificial intelligence identified peptides modulate inflammation in healthy adults. Food Funct. 2019;10(9):6030-6041. doi:10.1039/c9fo01398a
Corrochano AR, Cal R, Kennedy K, et al. Characterising the efficacy and bioavailability of bioactive peptides identified for attenuating muscle atrophy within a Vicia faba-derived functional ingredient. Curr Res Food Sci. 2021;4:224-232. Published 2021 Apr 3. doi:10.1016/j.crfs.2021.03.008
By “wait” I wasn’t sitting around twiddling my thumbs. BehindMLM’s reviews are queued up and I get to them when I get to them.
Which remains at odds with clear mandatory purchase language on Make Wellness’ website for almost a month. We have documented evidence vs. your assertion.
It is equally preposterous to make health claims based on Make Wellness’ products till said claims are verified through peer-reviewed studies. Yet here we are.
Please stop posting studies that have nothing to do with Make Wellness’ products. They are irrelevant with respect to Make Wellness due-diligence.
Ditto company product comparisons where no health claims are made (nobody is eating face cream etc.) The law is clear on this.
As for whey protein, if someone is selling 100% whey protein that’s fine. If they add a bunch of stuff and make new health claims those need to be studied and verified.
“Proprietary Bioactive Precision Peptides are found in nature”. if they are found in nature, how can they be “proprietary”?
“may also have benefits”, “maybe your weight”: can this blurb be any more vague?
Understood…you have a lot of companies to review. I get it.
I also “get” that I personally attended dozens and dozens and dozens of calls dating back to late May 2024 and heard from the founder’s mouth that required purchases was NOT the direction or the plan that Make Wellness was founded on.
I also “get” that I admitted to misinterpreting what you originally stated in your article.
I also “get” that I admitted to you reminding me of that error which was part of Make Wellness’s initial website. I hadn’t banked that as a crucial memory to store as I knew then, just as I know now it was an error.
As it relates to the Clincal Studies, read the language on the website. It states the BPPs are backed by science, which they categorically are. Make Wellness is not making NEW health claims as you allege in your example with whey protein.
The claims being made are directly from the clinically peer reviewed BPP ingredient(s) which is legally allowed. If you are using an ingredient that has been clinically studied and supported with peer-reviewed articles, you can legally state the claims, findings, results, etc from those studies.
Your issue with making claims from an ingredient is off base and not at all related to Make Wellness. Cheerios make claims about lowering cholesterol (Ozedit: derails removed)
Silent Bob, the proprietary comes from the process of extracting the peptides from the plants and/or animals. It can also be the blend of the peptides that give the clinically proven results.
And I agree with the frustration of “vague” statements like the ones you reference. Welcome to having a Legal Team review marketing material. Also welcome to the world of there always being that one person who, for whatever reason, the product doesn’t work.
Even if the study participants all experienced positive results, it is still a sample of the greater population. There will ALWAYS be outliers. It’s simply statistics.
Well that’s the direction they took and terms and conditions Make Wellness signed up people up with. That went on for almost a month till BehindMLM pointed it out as a “pay to play” scheme at the end of August.
There is nothing backing up any claims Make Wellness makes about its products. General science and studies pertaining to anything that is not Make Wellness’ specific products is irrelevant.
Which peer-reviewed studies have been done on. E.g. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6484378/
Please stop wasting my time. If there are no peer-reviewed studies confirming claims made about Make Wellness’ products than any such claims are not backed by anything.
Are nutritional supplement sellers legally allowed to make broadly general claims not backed by anything? Yes.
Does that mean the claims are backed by anything? No.
The reason “but our product contains X ingredient” isn’t acceptable because it relies on the assumption said product actually contains X ingredient as it was tested in the cited study.
How does one establish that? Peer-reviewed studies on the specified product.
Notwithstanding the active ingredient has to be exactly the same and dosed under the exact same study control conditions.
And that’s obviously not going to be the case when a third-party formulates a supplement. There are too many variables introduced, rending any previous ingredient study non-applicable to that particular supplement.
The only exception to this is “100% X ingredient” supplements, which Make Wellness’ supplements are clearly not.
Again, that never was the direction Make Wellness was taking. It was a simple error. It’s entirely likely your article moved the issue up in priorities of getting resolved. It certainly did not change the direction of Make Wellness.
Regardless, Make Wellness does not require a starter purchase, require an enrollment fee, or require a minimum purchase of any sort.
Our products do contain the clinical dosages of the Bioactive Precision Peptides (BPP) used in the studies. I have seen the studies and lightly read a few of them, but as I stated earlier, I am not able to attach a PDF or a JPG screen grab to these comments.
For example, the Lean product is in capsule form (no additional ingredients) and is the BPP complex that was studied. The Clinical Study from 2015 lead by Cases is the BPP in Lean and is the clinically proven results. Just compare the ingredients list with the product used in the Clinical Studies. They are the same.
The sampling of studies I provided do not specifically state Make Wellness because Make Wellness was created with agreements with the labs to bring the BPP to market. Make Wellness is merely a brand and a company to bring the science to the masses.
Stay tuned as the website is continually being updated with new information.
Garth, I can honestly say I reluctantly admire your relentless defense of Make, along with Oz’s limitless patience in answering you.
There is nothing anyone can say that will sway your mind, because doing so would mean admitting you made a mistake and that’s not an easy feat.
Good luck with your investment and enjoy your proprietary peptides.
Silent Bob….I actually admitted multiple times to making a mistake.
I admitted I misread the article.
I admitted I misinterpreted the author’s choice of words.
I admitted Make Wellness made a mistake (an error) in August.
In fact, that last one is a bulk of the discussion.
A spelling mistake is an error. Getting a date wrong is an error. Explicitly stating in your Terms and Conditions that affiliate purchases are mandatory, and signing people up on said terms and conditions, for a month, isn’t an error – it’s a policy.
I feel like I’m pointing out the obvious but if this “BPP complex” hasn’t taken off since at least 2015, there probably isn’t much retail demand for it. Good products don’t take ten years to catch on with consumers.
Attaching an MLM compensation plan to a no-interest product isn’t going to change that.
While there certainly are order of magnitude of errors, an error is an error. We don’t have Level 2 Errors or Lever 9 Errors.
For anyone reading these comments, first, I’m sorry. 😉
Second, good for you for being interested.
Now, if you’ve read this far, you have two options.
Option A, accept that an expose article uncovered a nefarious plot to require a purchase.
Option B, accept that a mistake was made.
Whether you chose Option A or Option B, realize these facts.
1) On October 28, 2024 zero purchases were required.
2) Between October 28, 2024 and today, December 27, 2024, $0 enrollment fee is required, $0 initial purchase is required, and $0 minimum monthly purchases are required.
3) People still enrolled between August 1, 2024 and October 28, 2024 because they most likely attended or watched a recording of the Founder stating $0 enrollment fee, $0 initial purchase, and $0 required monthly purchase.
Now as it relates to BPP taking off since 2015 I will state the obvious.
1) Scientists and Laboratories are not in the business of selling products.
2) The next evolution of any breakthrough starts in the fringes then moves to the billionaires having access, then to the millionaires having access, then to the masses.
Make Wellness is taking BPPs from the millionaires having access to the masses having access. This is akin to anything in life.
Take automobiles for example. GPS used to be only for the very high end luxury vehicles. GPS eventually made it all the way down to Honda Fits and Hyundai Elantras.
Regarding a “no-interest product”….watch us…. 😉
The numbers don’t lie.
Please stop making things up. Make Wellness prelaunched as a pyramid scheme. This wasn’t an error, it was a choice defined by very specific terms and conditions that people signed up under for almost a month.
It wasn’t until BehindMLM publicly pointed it being a pyramid scheme that any change was made.
There are no “options”, this is what happened. Stop trying to rewrite history.
What are you talking about? Labs sell their formulations all the time – well, the formulas with a potential consumer market anyway.
I’m not rewriting history. I stated an error occurred. You discussed the error in your article. I am not arguing it didn’t happen. There is a very big difference. Arguing it didn’t happen would be trying to rewrite history.
Yes, “labs sell their formulations all the time”, which is exactly what happened in this case. BUT laboratories do not exist for the sole purpose of mass production. The technology had to evolve and capital had to be invested and production had to ramp up to make it affordable for the masses. That takes time.
It’s one thing to produce a small sample size for clinical trials. It’s an entirely different matter to produce 1,000s and 1,000s of products consistently.
One does not put together a website with pyramid terms and conditions, sign up people for almost a month and then get to pretend it was “just an error” after the nature of the pyramid terms and conditions is publicly pointed out.
This is the MLM equivalent of “it’s just a prank bro!”.
All I see is excuse after excuse. Best of luck with it.