Herbalife Detailed Review

Herbalife is a Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) company that's been around nearly 30 years, in the business of promoting the distribution of its diet and weight loss products as much or more than it promotes the products themselves. You've doubtless seen the ads, pamphlets, car window banners, etc. touting it. The diet and weight loss products - pills and protein shakes called "Thermojetics" are real products, but Herbalife seems to be more of a business than a diet.

The business side of Herbalife is becoming a distibutor - and recruiting other distributors - to sell the Thermojetics products. Becoming a distributor requires an initial, for some substantial, financial outlay - you must purchase the products from Herbalife that you will then sell to the public. This is a legitimate business practice, but can be a risky one for the distributor who does not do his homework before embarking on the opportunity. There is a reason that MLM companies are often marked by controversy.

The diet products themselves are, as you'd expect from the name, thermogenics - herbal fat burners intended to spike the body's metabolic rate. If you'd crossed paths with Herbalife products in the old days, you may recall that they contained ephedra. Since the FDA's ban on ephedra Herbalife products are now made ephedra-free. As for a diet program, Herbalife suggests you replace breakfast and lunch with the Thermojetics protein shakes and pills, then eat a sensible and balanced dinner along with a couple more Thermojetics pills. You should be taking a multivitamin as well.

Like a lot of other supplement peddlers, Herbalife stresses that their products are only effective when used in conjunction with a low calorie, low fat nutrition plan. Of course.