Neumi Review: Steven K. Scott revisits glutathione MLM
Neumi (“new me”), operates in the nutritional supplement MLM niche.
The company is based out of Utah and headed up by Steven K. Scott.
On his personal website, Scott (right) describes himself as “a best selling Christian author & billion-dollar business builder.”
Steve’s blessed entrepreneurship journey has funded his ministry.
His latest project is called “Neumi” and he refers to it as the biggest health breakthrough he’s ever seen.
Scott appeared on BehindMLM in 2013, as co-founder of Max International.
At the time Scott was Max International’s sole remaining co-founder. Citing “drama at Max International and the integrity issues raised by top leaders”, BusinessForHome noted Scott left Max International in August 2019.
I did go looking for specifics but couldn’t find any. What I did find was Swish30, a glutathione supplement sold by Biotech Nutritional Sciences.
BNS doesn’t appear to have a standalone website. Swish30 has a website up, on which it states BNS was “founded in 2018 by Steven K. Scott.”
As per Swish30’s website, the supplement only appears to be available to wholesalers.
Reading between the lines, it appears Neumi’s 2021 launch was the combination of BNS, Swish30 and MLM under new branding.
Read on for a full review of Neumi’s MLM opportunity.
Neumi’s Products
Neumi’s flagship product is NutriSwish, a glutathione supplement that emphasizes fast delivery.
Gone are the days of waiting months to see results from supplementation! We have set out to disrupt the health industry through rapid absorption of key ingredients through our HydraStat technology.
Using proprietary HydraStat Nano-Technology, the makers of NutriSwish® have nanosized its active ingredients to nanoparticle sizes that become bioavailable within seconds by oral “swishing” for thirty seconds or longer and then swallowing.
Fragile ingredients like Glutathione have been expensive to get into the bloodstream- until now. With our technology glutathione and other key ingredients are affordably available.
Nano sized ingredients are the way of the future, and we are the trailblazers!
Neumi claims NutriSwish includes the following benefits:
- immune booster
- joint support
- cognitive health
- clean & sustained energy
- rapid recovery
- improves sleep and
- much more
NutriSwish retails at $65 for a bottle containing thirty servings.
Neumi’s other product is Neumi Skin, a glutathione skin product that emphasizes absorption.
Neumi Skin retails at $65 for a 200 ml bottle.
Neumi’s Compensation Plan
Neumi’s compensation pays affiliates on recruitment and retail sales.
Residual commissions are paid via a seven-level deep unilevel team. There’s also a rank-based pool bonus on offer.
Neumi Affiliate Ranks
There are nine affiliate ranks within Neumi’s compensation plan.
Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:
- Member – sign up as a Neumi affiliate and generate and maintain 100 PV a month
- Senior Member – maintain 100 PV a month and generate and maintain 1500 GV a month
- 1 Star Member – maintain 100 PV a month and generate and maintain 5000 GV a month
- 2 Star Member – maintain 100 PV a month and generate and maintain 10,000 GV a month and recruit and maintain three 1 Star affiliates
- 3 Star Member – maintain 100 PV a month, generate and maintain 20,000 GV a month and recruit and maintain two 1 Star affiliates
- Diamond – maintain 100 PV a month, generate and maintain 50,000 GV a month and recruit and maintain three 1 Star affiliates
- Double Diamond – maintain 100 PV a month, generate and maintain 100,000 GV a month and recruit and maintain four 1 Star affiliates
- Triple Diamond – maintain 100 PV a month, generate and maintain 250,000 GV a month and recruit and maintain five 1 Star affiliates
- Crown – maintain 100 PV a month, generate and maintain 500,000 GV a month and recruit and maintain six 1 Star affiliates
PV stands for “Personal Volume”. Personal Volume is sales volume generated via retail sales and an affiliate’s own purchases.
GV stands for “Group Volume”. Group Volume is PV generated by an affiliate and their downline.
Retail Commissions
Neumi affiliates earn a commission on product sales to retail customers.
Retail commissions are paid as a 20% markup on retail pricing.
Preferred customers are retail customers who sign up for monthly autoship in exchange for a discount.
Neumi preferred customer order volume is paid out via residual commissions (see “residual commissions (first 30 days)” below).
MLM Commission Qualification
To qualify for MLM commissions a Neumi affiliate must be active.
Qualifying as active requires a Neumi affiliate to generate 100 PV a month.
Recruitment Commissions
Neumi affiliates earn a 25% commission on Welcome Packs purchased by personally recruited affiliates.
Residual Commissions (first 30 days)
Neumi pays first 30 day residual commissions via a unilevel compensation structure.
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.
Neumi caps payable unilevel team levels commissions at seven.
First 30 days residual commissions are paid out as a percentage of sales volume generated by new affiliates and customers in their first 30 days.
This volume is paid out across the unilevel team as follows:
- level 1 (personally recruited affiliates) – 25%
- levels 2 to 7 – 3%
Note that preferred customer volume is paid out on level 1. Welcome Pack volume as a result of residual recruitment is also paid out across the unilevel team.
Residual Commissions (after first 30 days)
After 30 days residual commissions are paid out via the same unilevel team first 30 day commissions are.
The only difference is commission rates and new rank-based qualified is introduced:
- Members (affiliates) earn 7% on levels 1 to 3
- Senior Members earn 7% on levels 1 to 4
- 1 Star Members earn 7% on levels 1 to 5
- 2 Star Members earn 7% on levels 1 to 6
- 3 Star Members to Triple Diamonds earn 7% on levels 1 to 7
- Crowns earn 7% on levels 1 to 6 and 1% on level 7
Milestone Bonuses
Milestone Bonuses are recruitment bonuses paid as follows:
- Milestone 1 – recruit and maintain three affiliates who are MLM commission qualified and receive $50
- Milestone 2 – generate and maintain three MLM commission qualified affiliates who have qualified for Milestone 1 and receive $250
- Milestone 3 – generate and maintain three MLM commission qualified affiliates who have qualified for Milestone 2 and receive $1500
Note there is no limit to the number of Milestone groupings a Neumi affiliate can qualify for.
Monthly Leadership Pool
Neumi takes 6% of company-wide revenue (excludes and first 30-day volume), and places it into the Monthly Leadership Pool.
The Monthly Leadership Pool is distributed monthly to 2 Star Members and higher based on shares:
- 2 Star Members receive one share in the pool
- 3 Star Members receive two shares in the pool
- Diamonds receive three shares in the pool
- Double Diamonds receive four shares in the pool
- Triple Diamonds receive five shares in the pool
- Crowns receive six shares in the pool
Joining Neumi
Basic Neumi affiliate membership costs $100 to $1000.
- Welcome Pack 1 – $100 (1 bottle NutriSwish and 1 bottle of Neumi Skin)
- Welcome Pack 2 – $300 (4 bottles of NutriSwish and 2 bottles of Neumi Skin)
- Welcome Pack 3 – $500 (7 bottles of NutriSwish. 4 bottles of Neumi Skin + VIP membership)
- Welcome Pack 4 – $1000 (17 bottles of NutriSwish, 8 bottles of Neumi Skin + VIP membership)
- Welcome Pack 5 – $1000 (12 bottles of NutriSwish and Neumi Skin each + VIP membership)
VIP membership isn’t clarified. Neumi’s compensation video however does state that non-VIP affiliate membership is $35 annually to maintain. VIP membership maintenance is $99 annually.
Neumi Conclusion
Neumi marks Steven K. Scott’s return to glutathione MLM. In a nutshell, NutriSwish is Swish30 with a different label and attached MLM opportunity.
All of this spins off from Scott’s time at Max International. The primary difference between the two glutathione themed MLM companies is Neumi’s rapid delivery marketing.
Biotech Nutritional Sciences (BNS) is focused on applying a breakthrough nano-technology to nutritional supplementation.
Glutathione is very fragile and can be destroyed in the stomach, which is why we have nano-sized it.
Nano-sizing glutathione allows us to deliver bio-available glutathione to your cells nearly instantly!
A 2015 research paper from Redox Biology suggests oral absorption of glutathione isn’t particularly good to begin with.
Glutathione (GSH) is critical to fight against oxidative stress. Its very low bioavailability limits the interest of a supplementation.
In humans, the effectiveness of an oral supplementation with GSH is very controversial.
Although oral GSH appears to be the most convenient and safe way to take GSH, the lack of efficacy explains why this form is not often used in clinical trials.
One factor to consider is Biotech Nutritional Sciences and Swish30 being launched in 2018.
A lack of wholesale interest in Swish30 might have contributed to the NutriSwish rebranding and Scott, at 76, launching Neumi.
Neumi claims to be “the leader in nano health and beauty”. Nano health is widely used for branding but doesn’t appear to be an actual product niche.
I might have dug deeper into Neumi’s “nano-sizing” claims, but in light of the company’s compensation plan I don’t think that’s necessary.
Neumi sets itself up to operate as an autoship recruitment pyramid scheme.
100 PV is all that’s required to qualify for commissions. And how Neumi expects affiliates to meet this qualification is bluntly laid out in corporate marketing material.
The following is from Neumi’s official compensation presentation;
If you have three members that join you from your recruiting activities, not customers just members, at milestone one when each of these people are purchasing their ongoing purchases or autoships, 100 PV per month, which is two products – and that’s the minimum required to stay active …
Later in that same video, it is further emphasized that autoship options are there to qualify for commissions.
We have a very ingenious program where we have a quarterly pack for qualification.
You can ship one pack every quarter … and that will qualify you for 100 points every month.
What this reduces Neumi to is “sign up (preferably with the “most popular” $1000 pack), jump on autoship and then recruit others who do the same.
If this is happening company-wide, and it’s own marketing material certainly suggests it is, Neumi would be operating as a pyramid scheme.
This doesn’t surprise me, considering this is what I wrote of Max International in 2013;
My first red flag is a distinct lack of retail orientation within the business model.
This focus on affiliates purchasing products continues in Max International’s suggestion to new affiliates on how they should approach the business:
Your first step in qualifying for team Bonus commissions is to obtain at least 100 PV a month.
Enrolling in the Loyalty AutoShip program with 100 PV ensures you are an active Associate AND also provides you a consistent supply of product at a discounted price.
Rather than make sales, Max International simply suggest an affiliate buy their commission qualification volume themselves.
Nine years later, even with a different company, product and compensation plan, that focus hasn’t changed.
The good news is evaluating how your potential upline is running their Neumi business is easy.
Everyone has to make 100 PV a month. Your potential upline is more than likely to have a standing 100 PV a month order.
What you want to find out is if they have an equivalent minimum 100 PV a month in retail sales. These are actual sales to retail customers, not promises or suggestions of reselling product.
If that retail volume doesn’t exist, that affiliate is running their Neumi business as a pyramid scheme. And as previously pointed out, if enough affiliates are doing this then the whole MLM company is a pyramid scheme.
In addition to openly encouraging this in their marketing, Neumi’s marketing makes no mention of retail volume requirements or any form of retail sales compliance.
Approach with caution.
I became a Max International distributor after taking a blood test before and 90 days after using their “Glutathione Enhancing” product.
I continued to use the product for 2 years and then switched to prescription grade Glutathione administered by my doctor in the Philippines.
Can you send any research regarding this supplement?
Neumi would be responsible for getting their products studied.
As far as I know there are no peer-reviewed studies pertaining to Neumi’s products.
Are there independent lab test results of Neumi products available ?
Testimonials don’t provide required detail.
ProTip: Asking the same question will get you the same answer. See #3.
I started using this product to “test” it on myself before introducig it to my Gym members, many of whom are Parkinson’s patients.
I had a horrible car accident 2 years ago and had constant pain which I conceded I would have for life.
This product has done wonders for my body! Those I have introduced it to came back with similar great reviews.
To be compensated for your efforts in introducing a product to others should not be construed as ‘a scheme’. This is truly a wonderful product and FAIRLY priced.
Anyone who tries the skin spray can take a photo of themselves on day one and I guarantee you (if you live an average normal healthy lifestyle) and maybe even if you don’t – you will see results in 60 days that you cannot see with more expensive products.
I know. I have seen my photos and pictures do not lie.
Laurentia
Feel free to provide peer-reviewed medical studies that show NutriSwish has any effect on Parkinson’s.
Failing which, absolute shame on your for shilling horseshit to vulnerable people suffering a debilitating disease.
I did not say, nor imply it would cure Parkinson’s. (Ozedit, snip see below)
Nobody said you did.
Either pony up or stop running around making illegal medical claims about Neumi’s products.
How do we NOT know this Product DOES NOT contain Steroids. The People who talk great things abt it are the People who are selling it.
Did those People did 4 Years of Medical School and Residency. All I see are a bunch of Ponzi Scammers who will tell anything to sell the Product.
BEWAREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
the comments coming in are correct, unless you have a published clinical studies proving that their product can raise glutathione in the bloodstream of a human being they are misleading you. All you are going to get is expensive urine.
Neumi has NO published studies proving they can create glutathione in the cell.
I am a 52 yr old woman and being around models and beauty industry women who are plastic surgery addicts I am always looking for more natural ways of staying young looking and putting surgery off as long as possible.
I have been using Nuemi swish and spray for a month and a half and I am amazed by how great I look! I was thinking of getting work done but between this and Bio trust collagen I have avoided the need completely.
The collagen was a good start but when I added Nuemi to my daily routine I was just shocked.
I constantly get told I look great, this product works. And gout in my toe, gone!
I gave a bottle to my brother who has gout through his whole body and I am waiting to see how it works for him. I am hopeful.
I believe when a product works this good it gets attacked by the medical industry because they fail so often.
Feel free to provide peer-reviewed medical studies providing Neumi’s products have any effect on gout.
^^ For what should be obvious reasons as demonstrated above, anecdotal stories are meaningless.
Just talked with a buddy who’s in Neumi. He says something is foul at Neumi and the field reps are growing restless and suspicious.
Steven Scott’s constant religious rants are turning lots of people off. Distributors are pissed at Scott’s son for being an incompetent boob and not having a clue how to run a company.
Corporate support for the field reps sucks. Company tells the field it can’t keep up with growth because it doesn’t want to go into debt by expanding and hiring.
Then there’s the recent Neuimi “YOU WILL OBEY” directive (called the “Compliance Companion: Lifestyle Claims”). This thing is just plain weird.
It starts out with a bullshit reference to the FTC as a scare tactic, then it tells the field they can’t use 90 different words or phrases that they’ve labeled “High Risk” such as (don’t laugh!): “debt free”, “residual income”, “stay at home”, “pay bills”, “time freedom”, “work from home”, etc.
My buddy says this Compliance Companion crap really has people pissed off, that it’s a total joke, that it is a violation of Free Speech.
My buddy thinks the company’s in trouble, maybe legal trouble, and he says he’s going to bail out. Says lots of others getting ready to bail out.
Flagship product NutriSwish may soon be “Nutri-Flush” right down the drain.
I used to use ur reviews as a Guage. Not anymore. So obvious that you will put anything out there for your benefit. Try to do some real research on Steven K Scott instead of what you want to put out.
And do more research on glutathione/gsh as well. Customer results speak for themselves. Retention rate high bc it works. Customer base high. Sales are high.
(Ozedit: derails removed)
Classic “everybody loves BehindMLM, until we review your company.” At least make it believable, this review was published a year and a half ago.
Peer-reviewed medical studies pertaining to Neumi’s products speak for themselves. Anything else is meaningless.
There is definitely no steroids in neumi products because I am randomly tested by my pain doctor for anything other than my pain meds and I have been using their products for over 2 years and I have been clean every time.
I had breast cancer and radiation therapy after my double mastectomy, and there was a 2 week period where I was unable to afford the nutriswish, and I had quite a decline in healing and health during the 2nd of those 2 weeks.
Once I was able to start taking it again my body responded very quickly and extremely noticeably.
It really is amazing and my only problem with it is the cost. I can no longer afford it now, and I’m trying so hard to find something comparable out there and I have not been able to find anything even close.
It’s so unfortunate that it is so expensive, because it really helps so much and so many people could benefit from it if it were a LOT more affordable.
I also have peripheral polyneuropathy and fibromyalgia, and both have improved so much over the 2 years that I have used it.
Feel free to provide peer-reviewed studies showing Neumi’s products have any effect on “healing and health”, polyneuropathy and fibromyalgia.
Anecdotal stories = meaningless.
Unsubstantiated medical claims = dangerous and illegal.
Carlton, maybe your buddy should cut his losses and look into something, cheaper, fairer, more organic based products with Certificates of Analysis for each one!
This industry has needed turning on it’s head for a long time now, and no changing names of Companies and re-branding other’s products AND ripping off affiliates by changing the Comp Plan was going to work!
I know because I was in Max International with S.K.Scott at the helm for 5 years and just when I thought I could finally make a dollar it changed ……… mongrels!!!!!!
This is of course my opinion BUT it is true!!! Glutathione is great, but your body actually needs more than just that!
Why do you think Max Int, had so many products which they told us we needed nearly every one of them?? Grrrr.
All I see is one Knicole Burchett dancing like a Retard on all Social Media sites. I am assuming all those who are hyping along with her are her Affliates.
If Neumi was SO GREAT, why it is not there in the Medical community. Is it FDA approved.
Stop jumping around like a bunch of Retards and use proper scientific knowledge to sell.
What’s this new ‘Neumi debit card’ (ask your sponsor for more information)?
I’d assume it’s the usual get a debit card through a third-party merchant. Not really a selling point.
I was just introduced to this product. I am getting 2 bottles from my girlfriend to try myself & for my mother who is Diabetic @ has neuropathy arthritis to see if it helps.
So long as NutriSwish is for the arthritis and not the diabetes, otherwise you’re putting your mother’s life at risk.
Note that as far as peer-reviewed studies go, NutriSwish hasn’t clinically been proven to help with arthritis any more than tap water.
The only thing that Neumi has supplied/published as “clinical” is what it passes off as a “white paper”
hydrastat.com/pages/white-paper
Plus, they claim that there are more than 177, 000+ studies on glutathione. No, the simple word “glutathione” appears that many times, not that many studies about it.
That’s a marketing document. It’s not a peer-reviewed medical study.
Also a study on glutathione isn’t a study on Neumi’s products.
Correct.
Sherman Unkefer , one of the most notorious con men and swindlers in mlm history is involved in this company.
An ex con with a life time of dozens of failed Mlm’s under his belt he continues to jump from one company to the next spewing the same old lies of wealth health and prosperity often using quotes from the Bible.
If this guy is hawking this so called opportunity you can guarantee it will fail in a year or two and you’ll be wishing you never got involved.
@Harley: Any proof on that?