Just my two cents...
I tried Reliv a couple of years ago because of the many benefits that were touted by others. I went to their weekly meeting and heard from a lot of people with various ailments. Although by nature I'm a bit of a skeptic their stories and what it did for them made perfect sense to me. We don't get all our vitamins and minerals from our food so naturally we don't feel as good as we should. Food today is processed, too much sugar and not enough nutrition. Look at most people over the age of 30, they are pale, overweight, have high blood pressure, sickly looking and are not very energetic. Go into any office or store you see them everywhere, barely making it from day to day. Also, everyone seems to be on some kind of medication. Except no one every gets better. Everyone is headed downhill.
The only thing I didn't like about Reliv was some of the people, the distributors. They looked very money hungry. Willing to say anything so they could get you to part with your money. Most of them looked like liars. But the one lady (housewife) who did convince me seemed very legitimate and I believed her. She had fibromyalgia (sp?) Some people are just more sincere and believable than others.
So after that I took the plunge and became a distributor. Unfortunately I couldn't convince anyone of the benefits so I ended up using practically all of it myself. Except for one friend of mine. Honestly, I was disappointed. I liked the stuff a lot but nobody else did. I even gave one can of free stuff to my mother. She didn't notice any difference. She was very skeptical. So here I was out of over $600 and extremely disappointed and mad that I was suckered in on it. The only good thing that came out of it for me was that the stuff works wonders! I would wake up refreshed, not groggy, my knee no longer hurt, I had a general sense of well-being ! No lie. I took it religiously everyday. I loved it.
Fast forward to the present. I haven't been feeling so well lately and thought this would be a great time to try Reliv again. I didn't want to become a distributor, but I wanted to try the stuff one more time. For myself this time, no one else. I went on Ebay, but found it's still kind of expensive. About $30 a can. I even called the old distributor, no luck. No discount. So then I Googled an alternative to Reliv and found out about Life Force. What made me try it was I only had to pay the $7 S&H fee the first time and it was suppose to be as good as Reliv. Great! So I ordered it a couple of weeks ago. At first I was a little disappointed because when I read the ingredients all I saw was a high amt. of potassium and some aloe vera, not like Reliv Now which has everything in it, like Vitamin A, B, C, D, plus iron, potassium, etc. and in huge amounts.
So for two weeks I've been taking this liquid juice that tastes like unsweetened cherry cola. All I can say is it's nothing like Reliv. It did cure my restless leg syndrome but that's about it. Reliv seemed much so much more powerful. It seemed to cure everything, restless leg syndrome, cravings, energy lulls in the middle of the day, my injured knee, waking up groggy, etc. and it gave me a lot more energy. Even my skeptical mother said she bowled better when she was taking Reliv. She wanted to try it again.
Honestly, I think you really don't realize the benefits of Reliv until after you're off of it. When you're on it you just kind of take for granted you feel better. But once you stop taking it you're back to feel bad again.
Lastly, yes it's expensive, yes the distributor's are money hungry, but the stuff works GREAT!! If any of you out there don't want yours let me know and I'll buy it off of you.
For what's it's worth, I think Reliv is the better product.