PatentLEAN

As Seen in Women' World tabloid It's been advertised in many places recently, mostly newpapers and supermarket tabloids. In fact the ingredient in this product is not new at all, it's name has been changed to suit the place where its advertised. The original patent goes back to 1994, see more below. It's for something they call 7-keto-DHEA (the real name is much longer).

7-keto-DHEA is for sale, under license from the original patent holder, on several sites around the country. The product seems to morph itself into a whole bunch of names, according to who they are marketing to. According to Dr. Zenk since his company, Humanetics owns the intellectual property rights and is the sole supplier of the "Ingredient" , customers who wish to use 7-Keto in their weight loss products must license the use of the "Ingredient" the company. Those other companies can all it whatever they want. Thus, the company called PatentHEALTH, LLC called it PatentLEAN. Now does that make things crystal clear?

There are no patents registered with the U.S. Patent office web site under the name PatentLEAN.

This is one of two patents from 1994 that contain the active ingredient which would seem to be a type of DHEA compound.

I don't see any definitive evidence presented on this U.S. patent site that would leave me to believe the claims made by the company in the advertisement above.

7-keto-DHEA Links

• 7-keto-DHEA story in Women's World
• this is one of Zenk's books on the Advantrx site.
• Patents listed on their web site.
• Their products
• Where the products are sold.
• Claim 7-keto-DHEA is for anti-aging.
• Claims that DHEA is a successful "anti-aging" substance. - Well, I'll be, where is the data for those wild claims? So what that most of the claims are for rats, younger, leaner, less forgetful rodents. That's just what I need. Pass the cheese please, and hold the mustard.
• Send for your own video or watch on RealPlayer. I loved the CBN piece with former right wing fundamentalist leader of the moral majority movement, Pat Robertson, who interviewed Zenk. Of course he hit Fox and all the rest of them.
• Studies posted on their web site reveal a study done in 30 obese people over a relatively short period of time. In fact it was only 8 weeks long. That is ridiculous!!! It seems to me that they may have actually used the same study twice. Eight people dropped out of the original cohort of 30 people. What happened to them? You will note that the product was not named here.
• This ridiculous site sells 7-keto-DHEA products that seem to be linked to comments about ephedra. This was a direct link from the humaneticscorp.com web site above. It is very confusing and I have e-mailed them to clarify the situation. It is obvious to me that if this was mixed with ephedra, it would not be what the company intended.
• Health Freedom Nutrition - yes that's right, Health Freedom
• Natural Products Insider Humanetics Licenses Patents MINNEAPOLIS--Humanetics Corp. licensed pharmaceutical rights to its patents on 150 compounds to Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Inc., which will evaluate the compounds for possible use in pharmaceutical products. Humanetics' 7-Keto is among the licensed compounds.

  "It won't affect anybody in the supplement industry [adversely]. If anything, it may help," said Humanetics president Ronald Zenk. "We're going to continue to sell 7-Keto as a dietary supplement, and Hollis-Eden will evaluate 7-Keto amongst the other 149 compounds and compare it and choose which compounds they'd like to use in pharmaceutical development."

  
  

 
     Licensee Name -  John Leonard Zenk
     License Number -   28845
     License Type  -  PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
     Degree  - M.D.
     Original License  -  08/11/1984
     License Expiration Date  - 02/29/2000
     Birth Year  -   1953
     Address  -   606 24th Ave. S. #300
     City State Zip -  Minneapolis MN 55455
     Country -  USA
     Disciplinary Action -  YES

     This data was retrieved on: 01/10/2002

     Direct questions and comments about these results to

          Robert Leach, Executive Director

          Minnesota Board of Medical Practice

          Telephone: (612)617-2130         



I was contacted by his lawyer in September 2004 and he requested that 
I update my web site. When John Zenk was ordered to surrender his
Minnesota license it was in September 1999. He was 
without a valid license until March 9, 2002 after he reapplied.
There are no restrictions on his new Minnesota medical license.
 
Minnesota Board of Medical Practice Search Results on October 1, 2004



	Licensee Name - John Leonard Zenk 
	License Number -  28845 
	License Type -  PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 
	Degree  - M.D. 
	Original License - 03/09/2002
 	License Expiration - Date 02/28/2005
 	Birth Year - 1953
	Address - Cascade Professional Bldg 
	Address - 18315 Cascade Drive #160 
	City State Zip - Eden Prairie MN 55347 
	Country  - USA 
	Disciplinary Action - YES
This data was updated on: 10/01/2004
Direct questions and comments about these results to
Robert Leach, Executive Director
Minnesota Board of Medical Practice
Telephone: (612)617-2130
This Board's data has been searched 3674334 times since 12/11/1997
  

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We demand a complete investigation why the government has failed to take action against any of these companies. The diet and weight loss scam industry is worth billions in North America, and much of it comes from Canada. In other words our country is a safe-haven for hundreds of scam artists who use the internet and advertise freely in newspapers without fear of investigation by our governement. Someone right now stands to make millions operating from the safety of Toronto, right under the noses of Health Canada and the Ontario government consumer protection branch.

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We will continue to do everything possible to educate the Canadian public about scam artists and rogue health care providers on our web sites. But, it seems clear from where I sit, that our governments just doesn't care about false advertising, health scams and the dangerous products that come into our country. They also don't care about mailorder scams that originate here, but are often part of an underground cash-filled pipeline to some island in the Lesser Antilles.

The world of health fraud on the internet includes dozens of other stories, some of them are very serious and involve doctors who are try to ship quack cancer drugs out of Canada into the U.S. That's another story, one that we will cover later on.

Office of Natural Health Products

What did the government do about diet and health fraud? Late last year, they decided to form a new office, a spin-off of Health Canada. They appointed a dozen or so people to a transition team, the overwhelming majority supposedly represented the cream of the crop who work in companies that supply Canada with vitamins, herbs, and other alternative health products. These are the very people who can't prove that their products work, who can't prove that there products are safe, and yet the government appoints them to a transition team to set up standards in the natural and herbal product industry.

While the company that sells this particular product featured in this article is unknown, it is a prime example of what the government has failed to do. Having an Office of Natural Health Products is like putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop.

Why hasn't Health Canada or the police visited the vendors, and their associates to see what is really going on. Where is the money going from their profits? Is it being laundered overseas?

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