This is another MLM scam. It definitely belongs under Frauds. The best thing we can do is either
a) expose their silly claims about being an NDN product or
b) ask why the profits and credit for this product are not being given to the alleged NDNs they took it from if the story was actually true.
They have quite a few alleged health products, but the ones they claim are NDN origin are Nopalea and Wellovah.
The Nopalea product is pretty unimpressive, pure hype. It's plain old nopales or cactus ears and fruit.
http://www.mytucsonblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/nopales-at-the-grocery-store-thumb.jpgNopales are a common food in the southwest among both NDNs and Mexicans. You strip the cactus of thorns, cut it and cook it with eggs, or make it part of a salad. Tastes kind of like green beans but sweeter. It is healthy, lots of vitamins. But you could go to any Mexican market and get the same thing much cheaper and healthier. Turning it into a pill seems like it'd strip it of much of its benefits, not make it better. Take a look at their prices. It's 160 bucks for a bottle. You can buy six months worth of nopales to eat for that price.
They claim Wellovah is made from Sonoran bloom, supposedly another NDN secret, though the tribe is never named. Sonora has mostly Yaqui or Oodham people, also Seri and Cocopah. I don't claim to know any of those languages, but Wellovah doesn't show up in any search when you combine it with those tribes names. It frankly seems like a cheesy word they just made up.
Trivita does claim to do charitable aid with something they set up called House of Giving. But it's a way for its
"associates" to give to charities, not for the company itself.
