@Jointcptraffic no suprise @Trevornoah gets quality content from our traffic management when your constables switch off traffic signals during peak hours to check their phones (JP Nagar) @kiranshaw I feel your pain. Had to ask her to step out & do her job. She was rather unhappy
You knew what Mondelez-Cadbury's did to The FoodPharmer when he called out the low quality in their Bounrvita product.
Now please listen to this very serious issue that has been happening on the side lines with respect to another company and their products.
BIG MUSCLES protein powder.
The YouTube influencer and Bodybuilding specialist Satvik Pandey (@satvik_pandey_ ) had analyzed Big Muscles protein and found that they were scamming the consumers. The label said one thing, but the analysis revealed something completely different.
https://t.co/Pfi3x7nPWn
He found that Big Muscles was 'amino spiking' their products - meaning, using low quality amino acids to bump up overall protein content, which artificially inflates protein quantity falsely making consumers believe that they are getting high-quality supplement.
In reality, they are getting very less protein content, with additives that cost you a lot more. Not just Satvik, but other fitness influencers also found the same thing with Big Muscles.
Trustified (on the All About Nutrition Channel) also found the same plus additionally, heavy metals and low protein than labelled in Big Muscles. https://t.co/UbHddoJSOo
But the story starts here.
Big Muscles have now started to harass the well-meaning and important for public health, Satvik Pandey with a series of serious troubling steps.
They did not go legal. They did not file a court case. Instead, they sent the Delhi Police to hound him. The very concerning issues that happened with Satvik was made public recently on his YT channel - https://t.co/IsiY8zFBa7
Its crazy what he went through.
Big Muscles sent cops to him telling him that during a meeting, they will PAY HIM to take the videos off. When he was clear that was not happening, then the senior cops in Delhi Police started harassing him with multiple calls and station visits. At one point, one cop tells Satvik's lawyer - "we know the work you did was truthful, but truth comes with a price." - and bargained for a bribe to let it slide.
Satvik did not yield. So, the senior Police Officer was called in the next time. Satvik showed him all the documents of analysis from approved/authorized labs - the police did not bother. He said, "show any number of documents, none of that will matter, until you yield." - because he was clearly paid by the Company to shut Satvik up.
The Delhi Police then gave out Satvik's home address - they doxxed him.
[Doxxing: search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the internet, typically with malicious intent.]
Satvik very clearly mentions that if anything bad happens to him/his family, then the CEO, the Marketing Head (the person who harassed Satvik the most) and CEO's father were to blame.
BUT THE REAL REASON WHY I AM WRITING THIS TWEET IS BECAUSE - Satvik's findings are CORRECT.
Because in our well planned and designed Protein Project (see here https://t.co/tEsMTXKI6F), we found EXACTLY what Satvik describes with Big Muscles.
It WAS THE WORST protein in our study. Big muscles Frotein Whey, with an advertised 76.5%, but detected a protein of 26.1%; Big Muscles Vegan Protein, with an advertised 81.3% and detected 19.4% protein.
https://t.co/BO0E5EyUnN
Big Muscles was also the worst when it came to 'MISLABELLING' their product. See here https://t.co/eqALei20nY
Big Muscles was also one among the few which contained pesticide residue and also traces of Cadmium and Lead https://t.co/5aGdPGvJjL & https://t.co/GqiMVJllrk
I am a clinical-scientist and I have the largest peer-reviewed published evidence of analytical work on herbal and dietary supplements in the world at present. I support Satvik's findings and I would like every one of you to please look out for him and get him the support he needs. Please retweet so that this reaches many, and as Satvik mentions in his video, let more people test (costs <1000 INR) and bring evidence that will help him come out winning.
Big Muscles maybe big on muscle tactics, but brains beat brawn any day.
@Coffeehudigi Your caption threw me a little... "Homes listen"...I thought you missed an L! I was wondering if there was a connection to Holmes, the Adventure of the Empty House and your thoughts!!!
@TrustwellH is fast becoming a hub of continuing education - education for the same of it. No drug companies, no promotion, and no eye on "points". Many thanks @arvindcanchi for your insight
Excellent time spent at the @TrustwellH auditorium discussing Surgery in CKD pts with post-graduates in dental surgery and maxillo-facial surgery last week. Many thanks to @aditya_moorthy for organizing this update event.
@arvindcanchi@JessySkaria@TrustwellH A large part of our cohort were military middle class urban dwellers who only had encountered cows as traffic obstacles!
@arvindcanchi@JessySkaria@TrustwellH Cows and hence cow dung is ubiquitous to the Indian rural setting whereas stubble burning is uncommon in most places that reported mucor. Also why only in that time frame?
A study of 202 cases of rhinocerbral mucormycosis at @TrustwellH by @aditya_moorthy, Tulasi Nayak et al. I was witness to the high levels of surgical skill shown by this incredible team of head and neck surgeons, ENT, Eye & Dental surgeons & neurosurgeons.
https://t.co/wFxSMqAb6H
@raghurajs_hegde Agree. Remember one patient with mucor, Aspergillous and candidemia... He was touch and go for a long time! But pulled through in the end
Congratulations to @nephdrkishan for winning the first prize at the free paper presentation event at the #ISNSCCON 2022. He presented a paper on Liposomal Amphotericin Associated Nephrotoxicity in Pts with Mucormycosis. CC @aditya_moorthy