To the best of my knowledge, Olympus Labs was the first company to use VASO6 when they included it in Re1gn. The feedback on pumps from Re1gn was very good, not just from casual people but also from very skeptical people including some that had a reputation for not being fans of Olympus Labs. When Olympus Labs originally launched Re1gn with VASO6, I’m not sure if Compound Solutions was distributing VASO6 yet or not. If they were, I wasn’t familiar with it.
Almost immediately after Re1gn was released, people on the forums started talking about, debating, and discussing VASO6. I remember seeing some very well-respected and well-liked people on here discussing VASO6 and being very impressed with it in terms of the science and personal use results. Two of these that really stand out to me are Danes and Synapsin because they both have very high knowledge levels of science and because I’ve seen both of them be hesitant to recommend anything that didn’t work for them personally.
Olympus Labs has had such good feedback on VASO6 that it has led to them using VASO6 in quite a few of their products. Olympus are smart guys, they wouldn’t be increasing their product cost and using it in so many different formulas if the feedback on it weren’t good and the demand for the ingredient wasn’t there.
A note on branded ingredients in general:
Companies that license branded ingredients generally do so because they want their products to be more effective. There is a marketing advantage in the sense that people may buy their product based off that ingredient but there is also a disadvantage in that their product(s) will cost more due to the increased price from using the branded ingredient. Therefore, the marketing advantage to using branded ingredients would most likely only work if the ingredient itself works.
Initial demand for branded ingredients is usually created by hype and marketing but sustained demand for branded ingredients is normally only accomplished through the ingredients actually working.
In this case, Olympus Labs saw enough sustained demand to go from using VASO6 in one formula to 4+ formulas and companies such as Primeval Labs, MusclePharm, Sparta Nutrition, Performix, Performax, Chaos & Pain, and many more had enough demand for VASO6 to use it in formulas.
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Almost immediately after Re1gn becoming so popular, we started getting asked to come out with a single ingredient VASO6. At the time, I cannot remember if Compound Solutions was offering it or not, but if they were, I don’t remember knowing that they were. I only became familiar with Compound Solutions offering it around the time that MusclePharm released a product with it in there.
It took us a long time to release VASO6 caps because we wanted to see if it was really that good and if the demand for it would be steady or if people were just wanting to buy it because of the hype that Re1gn was getting. As more products came out with it in there and we kept getting asked, that’s when we went ahead and moved forward on it.
We didn’t come out with VASO6 to try to ‘sell’ it or ‘promote’ it and definitely not to ‘over-hype’ it. The hype was already there, the requests were there, and we did what we do – we listened to our customers and released a VASO6 capsule product at a very cost effective price. If you think about it, when we take an ingredient like that and offer it as a single ingredient product, we are taking a huge chance because it should become evident real quick if the ingredient can live up to the hype because it gives people the ability to use it as a single ingredient product and see how much they really like it.
You can see evidence of how much people were asking us to do a single ingredient VASO6 by how excited people were when we launched it. And you can see how much people liked the ingredient itself solo by the great feedback that it received both on here and elsewhere. To say that that feedback would be a placebo is to say that some of the most knowledgeable, well-respected, and skeptical people on here aren’t trust worthy to give their feedback on something. The results and reviews have been overwhelmingly positive.
Note 1: I made a point above about how offering an ingredient like this as a single ingredient is a huge chance for us, but it’s also a huge chance for a branded ingredient supplier because they generally realize that if their ingredient doesn’t really show results, people are getting ready to find out. And do not ask me who because I don’t speak negatively of anyone, but we have been told no in the past by some companies in that they didn’t want their ingredients to be sold as single ingredients. My impression of this is that if Compound Solutions was not confident that VASO6 would show great results in people, they would have said no and not allowed us to do one because they would have had a lot to lose and hardly anything to gain because it would have tarnished the reputation of their ingredient; and the volume that we do on any single ingredient is nothing compared to what a company like MusclePharm or Primeval can do with it.
Note 2: VASO6 is not a miracle ingredient, nothing is. Just like most everything else, there are going to be some people that don’t respond as well to it as others and there are going to be some people that have to take a higher dosage than others. There are also people that are going to read how much people are hyping something and have an unrealistic expectation that no ingredient can possibly live up to.
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I think that the companies that are offering VASO6 in their products feel that VASO6 offers a great benefit and that they most likely get great feedback on their products or they wouldn’t pay the increased costs to use it in their products (because it increases the raw material cost substantially and results in less margin on their end).
If Compound Solutions misrepresented any studies, they misrepresented them to companies as well as consumers.
If Compound Solutions over-exaggerated the science, that’s sad because I don’t think they needed to because VASO6 is so popular and the feedback on it is so good.