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Is it common to respond to these expensive health cons?

Asked by Aster (20023points) January 26th, 2018

Doctors, mostly, not necessarily, sell pills for the purpose of “Live a Long, Healthy Life.” They come in a box of between five and eight bottles of capsules and run over $100 a set. They have videos about them on the internet you have to listen to forever before they announce the cost. You take a certain amount of each pill once or twice a day thinking you’ve located The Fountain of Youth. How effective do you think these pills are for longevity?

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gorillapaws's avatar

It would be based entirely on the safety and efficacy of well-controlled, double-blinded, peer-reviewed studies conducted by reputable physicians with a good size population, and those results were able to be replicated independently.

No amount of marketing, or testimonials with alter that.

chyna's avatar

I think it’s a scam. If it were true, you wouldn’t have to only get them through that specific doctor on the Internet. Everyone would have access to them.

flutherother's avatar

I expect the pills contain around $3 worth of the vitamins you get in a normal diet anyway.

Dutchess_III's avatar

I have never had a doctor try to “sell me” a pill that I didn’t need to address a particular issue I was having, which was the reason I was seeing him or her.
What doctor is doing this?

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

The “selling of elixirs” has been around forever, this is no different and I don’t even have to do the research on this particular item to tell you that.

zenvelo's avatar

Many of them are “doctors” with the same expertise as “Dr. Laura” or “Dr. Phil”. Not MDs!

elbanditoroso's avatar

They hope that a few ignorant suckers will pay them.

If you listen to the ads closely, you’ll hear a disclaimer “this is not intended to cure, prevent, or treat any disease or condition”. There’s a reason that they say that – they have to, because otherwise they would be lying.

If there really were some sort of magic health pill, wouldn’t you think that it would be sold in legitimate pharmacies?

johnpowell's avatar

Are we talking this shit or real doctors?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyGq6cjcc3Q

Dutchess_III's avatar

@Aster Asking again, which doctors are selling these, or are you referring to TV commercials?

Aster's avatar

Don Colbert, M.D.‘s Keto Diet . Comes with at least eight bottles of pills.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Well, the Keto diet is a scam. All diets are scams, except, maybe, weight watchers.

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

I assure you the cutting out junk food and not eating more calories than you burn diet works wonders.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Right @ARE_you_kidding_me? But man, will you have a fight on your hands if you try to tell people that.

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