Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

Truehope.com -- ??

1 view
Skip to first unread message

Allan Krisciunas

unread,
Jun 22, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/22/00
to
------------------------------------------

Has anybody heard of this company : www.truehope.com ?
Or : " Synergy Group of Canada Inc. "
Last night we had a presentation from them at our group. They have a
mineral-based "product" that they claim will help people with : Manic
Depression, Bi-Polar Affective Disorder, Schizophrenia, Clinical
Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Fibromyalgia. Wow, what a list! They
admitted not knowing much about OCD, but seemed pretty sure the "product"
would "help" OCD people too.

I am concerned -- 2 guys, they called themselves "research assistants".
But the bottle they put on the table in front of us costs $200 a month!
What kind of clinical research study asks its participants to PAY for the
medication they are being tested on? Actually, if it were a REAL research
study, wouldn't the research institute (eg: university) pay for the
medication/whatever, and even pay the participants themselves?

I suspect these "research assistants" are really just salesmen. But boy,
they sure put on a good show. They both claimed that they had suffered
from a whole list of mental disorders (I can't even list them, there were
so many), and that their children had too ... and one of them even broke
down crying half-way through, as he recounted his experiences.

Suspiciously, I sensed we were being presented with the age-old "snake-oil
salesman" technique. $200 a month?! Not covered by any drub-benefits
plan either, from what I gather. They had a long presentation full of
overhead slides, dozens and dozens, one after another, we had no time to
digest it all. These 2 were SLICK.

They gave the list of ingredients -- several dozen vitamins, minerals and
other things that I had never heard of before. Some looked like herbs,
but they insisted this was no homeopathy stuff. They seemed to know the
correct lingo, name-dropping serotonin a lot. But no real link between
their theory of the body's inability to absorb nutrients and serotonin levels.

Has anybody heard of this "organisation"? (I want to call it a company,
but these 2 guys insist they themselves do not "sell" it, they only do
these presentations as a favour to the company). Our group needs more
info on them. I am worried too since they say that, after a short time
being on the "product" (their words), you must lower your meds by 30%.
They admitted you must do so with your physician, but then they recounted
"case-studies" of people they knew, and said they had told those people
directly to lower the meds -- that's risky, if you ask me, for these 2
guys to tell the patient directly without them telling the patient's
doctor first.

Any info from anybody out there would be appreciated. You can post here,
or email me directly (ak...@hotmail.com). Thanks.
-Allan

Thrasher Brown

unread,
Jun 22, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/22/00
to
lol, sounds like snake oil t' me. They didn't know much about OCD but
seemed sure their product would help OCD? There's something a bit fishy
with that, my friend. If it's in a liquid form, it might make a nice
topping for ice cream, but other than that, I'd stay away from plopping
down 200 bucks for it.

---
Thrasher

Allan Krisciunas <am...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in article
<8itbtm$dse$1...@freenet9.carleton.ca>...

0 new messages