HGH Reviews Lesson Two on The Hgh Supplemental Facts Label

hghtruths.com – Time for another lesson on how to review hgh products yourself.  The first lesson covered the basics of how hgh spray products are crap.  In this lesson we will do an initial examination as to what to look for on the label.

The first rule is that a website that is obviously selling their hgh supplement should actually show you the label.  I am amazed at the number of these sites that make a big deal about how they have a label that meets all the GRAS rules for labeling and then don’t bother to show you the label.  Why would following the basic rules for rules be such a big deal?  99.9% of all supplements sold follow the labeling rules.  Why?  Because it is the law!

Still there are many sites that make a big deal out of the label and don’t show you the label.  I am not talking about the pretty front graphics design here.  There are no rules about the pretty graphics.  I am talking about the back of the label where the supplemental facts box is printed.  Legitimate websites are going to show you the actual supplemental facts box or at the very least they will publish the exact information information from the supplemental facts box.

Don’t know what a supplemental facts box is? Pop over to Bodybuilding.com or Swanson Vitamins.  Take a look at any supplement product and you will see that both sites show you the actual supplemental facts box.  Notice the black lines and the actual box.  There are legal rules about line size requirements and that you have a box.

Tough rules to follow.

To be fair, there are some other rules.  One is that you have to list information on serving size and the ingredients per serving while clearly stating that these are the ingredients per serving.  Still nothing hard to follow.

Now the label has to have a section that covers any ingredients that have an RDA or Recommended Dietary Allowance (Often referred to as Recommended Daily Allowance).  The exact amount of each of these ingredients should be listed along with the percentage of the RDA that this amount represents.  The ingredients should also be listed in the order of quantity in the product from greatest to least.

Still fairly simple.

Next there needs to be a section that lists all the ingredients that do not have an RDA.  Sometimes this is a straight list of ingredients and sometimes it is divided into fancy name blends that each have a sub-listing of the actual ingredients.  Whether in a straight list or in a blend, these ingredients are to be listed in order from greatest to least.

Maybe the tricky part is in the next step.

The final thing to do is to list the inactive ingredients from greatest to least.  In the case of hgh sprays the top thing in this part of the list is water.

Now that was not very hard was it?  Why make a big deal out of following the labeling recommendations?  Why not show the actual label?

That should be fairly obvious.  They don’t want you to have the honest information about what is in the product. 

The hgh marketers want you to buy their low grade product based on marketing hype.  They are not really looking for customers who are intelligent enough to not buy products because they cannot see a label.  They want the suckers who think the lies on their website are true.  These suckers have a much lower probability of returning the product for a refund.

The big rule you should follow is to never buy products from sites that do not show you the actual label.  The exception to this would be a legitimate vitamin retailer that has their own system for showing you the supplemental facts.  However, a vitamin retailer who does not do a good job of showing proper ingredient details should be avoided.

I am going to throw in another general rule that is not specifically related to the label issue.

You should never buy an hgh product from a site that is specifically set up to sell just that product or a small handful of products.  The odds are greatly in favor of it being over priced crap.  Generally, if an hgh product is any good it will be sold through legitimate online product retailers.  

However, these online retailers also sell a lot of garbage products.  They are in the business of selling what people want to buy.  They are not in the business of worry about whether or not the growth hormone supplements are any good.  There are a few exceptions to this statement.  A handful of companies exist that only sell products from legitimate brands and screen out most of the crap.  These honorable sites generally are not focused on the sports supplements business.

I probably should say more about the proprietary blends.

Manufacturers of many hgh supplements like to invent fancy names for those sections of ingredients that are “special” blends.  Like the scientific sounding name actually makes the product special.  Propreitary blends are a mistake that was part of the 1994 DSHEA Act.  I believe that the regulators should do away with the whole concept of proprietary blends.  People have a greater right to know exactly what the are taking than the companies do to protect their product from competition.

Proprietary blends only exist for marketing purposes.  They really have nothing to do with whether a product is any good or works. Do you really think that a different product that has the same ingredients but in slightly different amounts will be significantly different in its effectiveness?  Besides,  it  only takes is a few hundred dollars worth of testing to get an exact blueprint of what is in a vitamin product.

We always lower the grade on products that use a proprietary blend and raise it for products that give all the ingredients. 

I am saying that you should never buy a product that contains a proprietary blend.   Just do it being fully informed of why proprietary blends exist.

You can sometimes combine the RDA and proprietary blend information to figure out what is in a product.  That is if any of the RDA ingredients are included in one of the blends.  Before I talk about that  in detail, I will need to do posts on individual hgh releasers. 

Here is an example of something else to avoid: 2-Amino-5-Guanidinopentanoic Acid-5 Oxo L-Proline, 2,6-Diaminohexanoic Acid.

You don’t want to avoid those ingredients because they are just Arginine Pyroglutamate and Lysine.  What you want to avoid is any product that tries to BS you with the use of long chemical names rather than being honest and giving you the plain language version of the ingredients.  There is no legally usable ingredient that can only be shown by its chemical name.  This kind of BS is very common among scammy sports supplement companies. 

Where does that leave us with our review lessons so far?

1)  Hgh oral sprays are all garbage designed to scam you out of your cash.

2) It is no big deal to follow the labeling rules, most hgh products don’t give great details on their labels and avoid products that use chemical names rather than common names.

That should be a good start on labeling.  I am not sure what the next lesson will be.  I will probably need to start the series on the various hgh releasers and other ingredients so that you can make accurate judgements about the amount of ingredients in each product you want to self review.

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