The Disruptive Technology Could Bring You Transformational Wealth

As I’ve said many times, the best way to get rich is simply to live longer and let the mathematics of exponential portfolio growth do its work. And— I have a company that has a synthesized form of a natural alkaloid I believe will allow you to do just that. I also believe that equity in this company will yield truly transformational returns.

However this technology is in the very early stages. This company is so disruptive, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the industries it will disrupt will try to discredit or stop the product. Moreover, we don’t yet have long-term double-blind human studies on the use of this substance.

On the other hand, there isn’t blinded human data for quite a few of my recommendations in Breakthrough Technology Alert drug candidates. This isn’t unique. There is, however, something about this product that inspired in me a particular degree of skepticism and caution. I assume, therefore, that it may provoke the same skepticism in you. Specifically, this company’s product is a “nutraceutical.”

Nutraceuticals vs. Drugs

Nutraceuticals are foods or food-derived products meant to provide health benefits. They may function exactly like substances considered drugs legally, but they are not categorized as drugs.

For example, you may take or sell the extract of willow bark for use as an anti-inflammatory, anti-clotting agent or painkiller without getting government permission. You can’t make medical claims about willow bark extract, or the active ingredient, salicylic acid, however. Current government policy in the U.S. and some other countries reserves that right for products that have passed extremely lengthy and expensive procedures.

If you synthesize a very similar compound, acetylsalicylic acid or aspirin, you have a drug. With regulatory approval, you can, therefore, make certain kinds of claims regarding its efficacy in the prevention of heart attacks or strokes. There is very little difference in the actual function of the two products, though.

One other difference is in the realm of patent law. Drugs can be patented, period. Nutraceuticals can be patented for specific uses only.

Because nutraceuticals are not subject to testing requirements and regulations, they are much easier to bring to market. In some instances, impure and even dangerous nutraceuticals have been widely sold. The FDA can force a product off the market if it is found to be harmful, but the agency does not have legal authority to require clinical testing.

There are incredibly important and effective nutraceuticals. Omega-3 fatty acids, in both the fish oil extract and the purified synthesized form, are linked by real data to improved health. The nutraceutical form of vitamin D is also an important supplement with clinically verified health benefits. If your circulating levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D are below 45 ng/ml, I would strongly recommend that you speak with a doctor who keeps up with the scientific literature.

I’m telling you all this for a reason. I recently recommended a company that has nutraceutical products to my Breakthrough Technology Alert subscribers. I’m convinced that this is one of the most important breakthrough technologies of our time. I won’t pretend, however, that we’re not in the Wild Wild West of investing when we venture into nutraceutical territory.

That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, though.

The same dynamics that make this area volatile and unpredictable can also lead to enormous profits…

Yours for transformational profits,
Patrick Cox
Penny Sleuth

May 23, 2011

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