Very very valid point, but the ppl who helped pes become that popular company they r now maybe feel cheated as there is few companies that their products are legit none of this watered down bs.Or you know,
growing the business he built himself into something larger and more well known. While not shooting himself in the foot by dancing around ingredients that may see compliance issues. (As other companies are paying for one by one, and the FDA inquisition ever broadens)
PEScience is growing and getting brand recognition.
Isn't that an important goal of any company?
I will say that PES has avoided any ingredient controversy, which is good and bad. It gives the impression of a "clean and reliable" company from a safety standpoint, but certainly takes away from the hardcore angle - which fits with the changes that have occurred - broad audience looking for a certain product with safety being important vs. a narrower audience looking for dramatic results and willing to take on more risk.
Very very valid point, but the ppl who helped pes become that popular company they r now maybe feel cheated as there is few companies that their products are legit none of this watered down bs.
i used to recommend pes products to family and friends i won't anymore.
glad sns and Olympus labs are not going that route.
It is essentially a branding cash grab. It's just bizarre out of all the companies you'd expect to do this with their product line, PES was created for hardcore formulation type buyers and not the general population. They touted this on all their marketing and through all their reps.
Were they recently sold by chance?
they just became bigger and share holders are more hungry probably
Before throwing around accusations of 'watered down' formulas, keep in mind;
- High Volume is one of the best non stimulant pre workout products on the market with unparalleled combined doses of arginine nitrate, citrulline and agmatine. I am yet to know a product which sells these three in higher combined doses than we do.
- Ergonine is one of the best daily staple products on the market.
- Select is one of the best protein powders on the market with confirmed third party testing to hit label claims and be free from amino acid fillers, something which unfortunately is becoming more and more rare nowadays.
- GenoFlex is unarguably a very highly dosed product. Our cissus dose is right up there with dedicated cissus products yet ours also contains ApresFlex and passionfruit seed extract.
- Shift is open labelled as an extremely well dosed product which still uses Sabinsa forskolin despite us being able to sell a cheaper extract and making more money if we wanted to.
- Erase Pro and AnaBeta Elite are still two products which we have kept from the days of us being a much smaller company for our fans that prefer the more novel and hardcore products. We keep these for our initial fans despite them being two of our least popular products.
You guys need to remember something.
When we started as a company we were built almost entirely on this forum. We made products to cater to the hardcore forum users.
However since then, we have grown into being in some of the largest brick and mortar supplement chains in America, are distributed over several continents and are now in the top 40 of the biggest online supplement retailer in the world. If we sold the exact formulas we did when we first entered the market, none of these would be allowed to happen.
On top of this, regulations have changed in the past few years.
Imagine your customer base went from a few hundred people who know you through forums to hundreds of thousands of people around the world who know your products because we are in their local store or because they found us on social media through a sponsored athlete.
Let's take one super basic example, yohimbe. Most people here know what it is and what dose to use. What about people that pick a product off the store shelf who don't browse bodybuilding forums? A lot of people here may love it but yohimbe made Enhanced our most complained about pre workout product ever because the side effects from ingesting too much yohimbe can be very unpleasant. A lot of people on this forum hated us for discontinuing Enhanced but if it were you, would you really risk selling a product that people kept complaining about because it made them feel unwell?
Yes, our stimulant products no longer contain anything that could be considered non compliant or grey area. We simply can't do this because of how popular our brand has become and the avenues it is sold. Comparing us to smaller brands that fly further under the radar makes no sense because their risk to reward ratio is very, very different to what ours is now. It would be like saying the most popular brands in the world should still sell methyl-synephrine because some obscure manufacturer still puts it in all their products. It is an unfair comparison.
Before throwing around accusations of 'watered down' formulas, keep in mind;
- High Volume is one of the best non stimulant pre workout products on the market with unparalleled combined doses of arginine nitrate, citrulline and agmatine. I am yet to know a product which sells these three in higher combined doses than we do.
- Ergonine is one of the best daily staple products on the market.
- Select is one of the best protein powders on the market with confirmed third party testing to hit label claims and be free from amino acid fillers, something which unfortunately is becoming more and more rare nowadays.
- GenoFlex is unarguably a very highly dosed product. Our cissus dose is right up there with dedicated cissus products yet ours also contains ApresFlex and passionfruit seed extract.
- Shift is open labelled as an extremely well dosed product which still uses Sabinsa forskolin despite us being able to sell a cheaper extract and making more money if we wanted to.
- Erase Pro and AnaBeta Elite are still two products which we have kept from the days of us being a much smaller company for our fans that prefer the more novel and hardcore products. We keep these for our initial fans despite them being two of our least popular products.
Sure, our stimulant products have evolved and we have avoided anything that could maybe land us in legal issues. Sure, many companies may still include these in their products and may often still describe them as 'fat burners' despite them rarely having human data to support this. However this is simply something we cannot do at the level we are at now. We cannot make product claims which are not supported in literature and we are not allowed to sell ingredients which don't comply with regulations as large retailers simply wouldn't allow it.
Hardcore supplement users who want to use DMAA, DMHA, AMP Citrate etc obviously won't find that Alphamine or Norcodrene feel anything like this which is perfectly fine but acting like we are watering down all of our products to increase profit margins is simply false. We have many of the best products on the market with the best doses, we have simply evolved our stimulant based products to guarantee regulatory compliance and to meet the demand from the majority of our customer base.
For example, you know what product I miss? Original Alpha-T2. I would love for us to still make it.
However, we cannot still make it without shooting our company growth in the foot. Big retailers can have much more stringent compliance protocols now and things that were sold a few years ago aren't available in them today. Therefore I understand that selling this product still is not a viable proposition.
No lol.
We have no share holders.
It is the same company owner who used to be the one man company posting on this forum several years ago. There has been no change in ownership whatsoever.
i was mainly talking about Norco and alpha not other stuff u mentione .You guys need to remember something.
When we started as a company we were built almost entirely on this forum. We made products to cater to the hardcore forum users.
However since then, we have grown into being in some of the largest brick and mortar supplement chains in America, are distributed over several continents and are now in the top 40 of the biggest online supplement retailer in the world. If we sold the exact formulas we did when we first entered the market, none of these would be allowed to happen.
On top of this, regulations have changed in the past few years.
Imagine your customer base went from a few hundred people who know you through forums to hundreds of thousands of people around the world who know your products because we are in their local store or because they found us on social media through a sponsored athlete.
Let's take one super basic example, yohimbe. Most people here know what it is and what dose to use. What about people that pick a product off the store shelf who don't browse bodybuilding forums? A lot of people here may love it but yohimbe made Enhanced our most complained about pre workout product ever because the side effects from ingesting too much yohimbe can be very unpleasant. A lot of people on this forum hated us for discontinuing Enhanced but if it were you, would you really risk selling a product that people kept complaining about because it made them feel unwell?
Yes, our stimulant products no longer contain anything that could be considered non compliant or grey area. We simply can't do this because of how popular our brand has become and the avenues it is sold. Comparing us to smaller brands that fly further under the radar makes no sense because their risk to reward ratio is very, very different to what ours is now. It would be like saying the most popular brands in the world should still sell methyl-synephrine because some obscure manufacturer still puts it in all their products. It is an unfair comparison.
Before throwing around accusations of 'watered down' formulas, keep in mind;
- High Volume is one of the best non stimulant pre workout products on the market with unparalleled combined doses of arginine nitrate, citrulline and agmatine. I am yet to know a product which sells these three in higher combined doses than we do.
- Ergonine is one of the best daily staple products on the market.
- Select is one of the best protein powders on the market with confirmed third party testing to hit label claims and be free from amino acid fillers, something which unfortunately is becoming more and more rare nowadays.
- GenoFlex is unarguably a very highly dosed product. Our cissus dose is right up there with dedicated cissus products yet ours also contains ApresFlex and passionfruit seed extract.
- Shift is open labelled as an extremely well dosed product which still uses Sabinsa forskolin despite us being able to sell a cheaper extract and making more money if we wanted to.
- Erase Pro and AnaBeta Elite are still two products which we have kept from the days of us being a much smaller company for our fans that prefer the more novel and hardcore products. We keep these for our initial fans despite them being two of our least popular products.
Sure, our stimulant products have evolved and we have avoided anything that could maybe land us in legal issues. Sure, many companies may still include these in their products and may often still describe them as 'fat burners' despite them rarely having human data to support this. However this is simply something we cannot do at the level we are at now. We cannot make product claims which are not supported in literature and we are not allowed to sell ingredients which don't comply with regulations as large retailers simply wouldn't allow it.
Hardcore supplement users who want to use DMAA, DMHA, AMP Citrate etc obviously won't find that Alphamine or Norcodrene feel anything like this which is perfectly fine but acting like we are watering down all of our products to increase profit margins is simply false. We have many of the best products on the market with the best doses, we have simply evolved our stimulant based products to guarantee regulatory compliance and to meet the demand from the majority of our customer base.
For example, you know what product I miss? Original Alpha-T2. I would love for us to still make it.
However, we cannot still make it without shooting our company growth in the foot. Big retailers can have much more stringent compliance protocols now and things that were sold a few years ago aren't available in them today. Therefore I understand that selling this product still is not a viable proposition.
No lol.
We have no share holders.
It is the same company owner who used to be the one man company posting on this forum several years ago. There has been no change in ownership whatsoever.
You guys need to remember something.
When we started as a company we were built almost entirely on this forum. We made products to cater to the hardcore forum users.
However since then, we have grown into being in some of the largest brick and mortar supplement chains in America, are distributed over several continents and are now in the top 40 of the biggest online supplement retailer in the world. If we sold the exact formulas we did when we first entered the market, none of these would be allowed to happen.
On top of this, regulations have changed in the past few years.
Imagine your customer base went from a few hundred people who know you through forums to hundreds of thousands of people around the world who know your products because we are in their local store or because they found us on social media through a sponsored athlete.
Let's take one super basic example, yohimbe. Most people here know what it is and what dose to use. What about people that pick a product off the store shelf who don't browse bodybuilding forums? A lot of people here may love it but yohimbe made Enhanced our most complained about pre workout product ever because the side effects from ingesting too much yohimbe can be very unpleasant. A lot of people on this forum hated us for discontinuing Enhanced but if it were you, would you really risk selling a product that people kept complaining about because it made them feel unwell?
Yes, our stimulant products no longer contain anything that could be considered non compliant or grey area. We simply can't do this because of how popular our brand has become and the avenues it is sold. Comparing us to smaller brands that fly further under the radar makes no sense because their risk to reward ratio is very, very different to what ours is now. It would be like saying the most popular brands in the world should still sell methyl-synephrine because some obscure manufacturer still puts it in all their products. It is an unfair comparison.
Before throwing around accusations of 'watered down' formulas, keep in mind;
- High Volume is one of the best non stimulant pre workout products on the market with unparalleled combined doses of arginine nitrate, citrulline and agmatine. I am yet to know a product which sells these three in higher combined doses than we do.
- Ergonine is one of the best daily staple products on the market.
- Select is one of the best protein powders on the market with confirmed third party testing to hit label claims and be free from amino acid fillers, something which unfortunately is becoming more and more rare nowadays.
- GenoFlex is unarguably a very highly dosed product. Our cissus dose is right up there with dedicated cissus products yet ours also contains ApresFlex and passionfruit seed extract.
- Shift is open labelled as an extremely well dosed product which still uses Sabinsa forskolin despite us being able to sell a cheaper extract and making more money if we wanted to.
- Erase Pro and AnaBeta Elite are still two products which we have kept from the days of us being a much smaller company for our fans that prefer the more novel and hardcore products. We keep these for our initial fans despite them being two of our least popular products.
Sure, our stimulant products have evolved and we have avoided anything that could maybe land us in legal issues. Sure, many companies may still include these in their products and may often still describe them as 'fat burners' despite them rarely having human data to support this. However this is simply something we cannot do at the level we are at now. We cannot make product claims which are not supported in literature and we are not allowed to sell ingredients which don't comply with regulations as large retailers simply wouldn't allow it.
Hardcore supplement users who want to use DMAA, DMHA, AMP Citrate etc obviously won't find that Alphamine or Norcodrene feel anything like this which is perfectly fine but acting like we are watering down all of our products to increase profit margins is simply false. We have many of the best products on the market with the best doses, we have simply evolved our stimulant based products to guarantee regulatory compliance and to meet the demand from the majority of our customer base.
For example, you know what product I miss? Original Alpha-T2. I would love for us to still make it.
However, we cannot still make it without shooting our company growth in the foot. Big retailers can have much more stringent compliance protocols now and things that were sold a few years ago aren't available in them today. Therefore I understand that selling this product still is not a viable proposition.
No lol.
We have no share holders.
It is the same company owner who used to be the one man company posting on this forum several years ago. There has been no change in ownership whatsoever.
Or you know,
growing the business he built himself into something larger and more well known. While not shooting himself in the foot by dancing around ingredients that may see compliance issues. (As other companies are paying for one by one, and the FDA inquisition ever broadens)
PEScience is growing and getting brand recognition.
Isn't that an important goal of any company?
You have an "ergogenic staple" supplement covered with E9.Side note: will someone take the time to go over with me which you feel ARE relevant supplements (going outside of my personal "staples" of):
GUT Health
Orange Triad
Oxi Omega
PES HV
PES E9
Digestive Enzymes
Any test boosters or estrogen blockers etc that are worth it? What do you guys love of the supplements readily available today?
That stack is very comprehensive since PES E9 covers the ergogenics and the rest are for health.Side note: will someone take the time to go over with me which you feel ARE relevant supplements (going outside of my personal "staples" of):
GUT Health
Orange Triad
Oxi Omega
PES HV
PES E9
Digestive Enzymes
Any test boosters or estrogen blockers etc that are worth it? What do you guys love of the supplements readily available today?
You have an "ergogenic staple" supplement covered with E9.
PA (Phosphatidic Acid) is one of my favorite natty ingredients. The most economical way to get PA is to take 3tbsp/day soy lecithin granules.
As for "test boosters," don't expect them to raise your testosterone to supraphysiological levels, but they can increase lean body mass, improve body composition, and improve libido and mood, which can definitely be useful. AlphaMax XT and Testify are two great options. AlphaMax XT contains full doses of Ashwagandha (which has research showing improvements in body composition and endurance, as well as stress/anxiety/cortisol reductions), tongkat Ali (which can improve libido and reduce cortisol), Forskolin (which can help improve body composition), ferulic acid, and other ingredients as well.
Ashwagandha is a staple for me. It has studies showing it can reduce stress/anxiety, improve cognition, reduce cortisol, improve performance and endurance, etc. KSM-66 is a quality extract (5% withanolides), and is often dosed at 300mg 2x daily.
I also feel nootropics can greatly improve overall quality of life.
Cleared!Hey bud, clear your PMs so I can message you about PA!!! Thank you
Dosing for AlphaMax XT? I'm 5'11" 157lbs and use the standard dose of 2 caps 2x daily (usually in the morning with breakfast and the evening with dinner or before bed). That dosing gives you full, research supported doses of many ingredients (Ashwagandha, tongkat Ali, Forskolin, etc), so I wouldn't want to use less, and don't see any need to use more either.I also remember being very hungry last time i ran AlphaMax XT, but I do trust that company; any advice on the dosing protocol that has worked for you guys? (I'm only 155 lbs and 5'6'' so keep that in mind please)