ASEA - does it do what it claims to?

[watertyger]

ASEA claims to help boost your immune system, and increase your body's ability to utilize antioxidants by 500%. I read the ingredients, and it says: water, sodium chloride. So, am I being told that mixing table salt with water accomplishes this? How does this increase cell functionality? My aunt just bought two (rather expensive) bottles of this stuff, and I want to make sure she wasn't duped. Please help illuminate this matter for me!

Here is the website for ASEA: www.teamasea.com

[Sqad]

It's Abracadabra stuff.

[LazyGun]

Like Sqad, I think this product is yet another example of supplementary snake oil. Reading the corporate literature, they follow very similar lines to other, equally dubious claims by supplement companies.
1. Overstate the role of antioxidants within the body.Overstate how their product can effect the action of antioxidants within the body.
2. Offer a nebulous, sciencey sounding explanation of how their product works , but hide any fundamental details behind the term " proprietary technology".
3. Stay well clear of offering any specific, empirically measurable health benefit.
4. Offer support "scientific" literature which is meaningless - insufficient, unpublished data, no dexription of method, no figures of numbers of tests performed, no data from other researchers, meaningless comparisons drawn. They also commit the cardinal sin of presenting in-vitro data as an absolute guide as to how something might react in-vivo.

A good, reasonably balanced diet will provide you with all the antioxidants the body could need. All the large, well conducted clinical trials carried out so far into the use of supplements to aid antioxidant levels within the body have shown no clinical benefit.

You and your aunt may find this site of interest ;
http://health.howstuf...ition/antioxidant.htm

[watertyger]

Thanks LazyGun, you backed up my thoughts on this. I'll show her that website as well.