LifeVantage / Protandim Business Opportunity
When does network marketing work and how is LifeVantage and Protandim doing?

I recently read a blog post on an anonymous authored anti-protandim website trying to besmirch the LifeVantage and Protandim brand by suggesting that because Dr Joe McCord is paid, somehow it must be a scam.  The article says that Joe McCord is a well paid stockholder, and he is worth 1.1 million dollars.  I find the unknown author’s post a very empty and misleading.  It suggest somehow that McCord is manipulating the science somehow just to make money, and that he’s somehow only interested in the money, doing anything he can to make a buck.  This unknown author says:

“As for McCord’s financial motivation, there can be little doubt that he’s paid well for being a spokesman.”

Duh, of course there is little doubt that he is paid.  This is not a secret, it has never been; SEC filings require LifeVantage to disclose this, it’s public information.  It’s also true that McCord puts a great deal of time and effort to continuing research and help educate and support the company.  He SHOULD be compensated.  He has spent a lot of time bring Protandim to market, with his research and help in its formulation.  We also know that McCord gave (donated in exchange for stock) a lot of time and materials well before the company became a network marketing business.  Something that all early adopters who invest receive… stock.

But the part that I find most objectionable is this unknown author’s summary:

“It is up to the reader to decide how much integrity millions of dollars can buy. I presume it varies from person to person.”

What?  In what way has McCord lost his integrity?  Because he’s compensated for his work or because he has continued to endorse Protandim with the gold standard in science – peer review?  I’ve never heard anything he has said that risked his integrity, in contrast, he’s been extremely consistant, open and honest.  Maybe its because McCord contributes when needed to some element of the research as conducted in the last few years?  Doubtful, because something this author doesn’t consider or add would make that position folly.  All the research studies were peer reviewed, and published in some of the most well respected and screwtinized journals.  The peer review process has access to the same information, including yes, McCord is compensated, and they STILL passed his research (or research from others) with flying colors.  Even the latest research where McCord plays a small role, or none at all, echo his findings.

Distributors who listen to McCord understand he’s compensated.  Many don’t know exactly how much, but its not important.  McCord is extremely well decorated in the field of free radical biology, his experience is so overwhelming what he’s compensated at is not relevant, unless this unknown author knows about something illegal.  But he or she doesn’t, otherwise it would be front page news, and investors who watch this stuff, would be jumping ship.  Yet the stock continues to gain traction.  Is it because good things are yet to come?  Most likely.

Is this claim empty from the unknown blogger, who’s motive is clearly one-sided?  Yes.  It’s true McCord will do very well with Protandim financially, as he should.  While he alone doesn’t deserve credit for Protandim’s existence, nor will he alone be responsible for its success and adoption as one of the most important supplements a human can take, he plays a very pivotal role, and yes, a big slice of the pie.  But lets be clear here.  There is ZERO evidence McCord has cooked the books.  If this unknown author wants to suggest that McCord is in it for the money, and is not a valid spokesperson, then show me how.  It is a well known fact, as spoken publicly by CEO David Brown, McCord passed on a deal to sell Protandim to a big pharmaceutical company with a blank check years ago, and passed on the deal.  In it for the money, hardly.

McCord is simply one researcher however.  8 peer reviewed studies now include dozens of names of scientists and doctors who have been participating in research with Protandim.  Many of these (if not all) have no financial stake in Protandim whatsoever, totally independent from LifeVantage, yet echo and confirm McCords findings and contributions regarding  Protandim.  And this is only the beginning, since many and new 3rd party research is forthcoming, leading to huge statistical data on Protandim’s effectiveness in the years go come.

Anonymous skeptics and undeclared anti-protandim evangelist-bloggers will find no solace in their feeble attempts to discredit Protandim or McCord with lies and distortions.  3rd party peer review with real science will continue and a sea of research and experience regarding Protandim will overshadow them.  The only thing they will retain is some high page ranking when searching for the words “Protandim Scam”, as a relic of a once traffic websites with sophomoric arguments and vengeful motivations to be uncovered.