I think this one’s inclusion on BobRTC should be reconsidered. This claims to contain one of the main ketones that body fat is broken down into when someone is in ketosis. Apparently this is something that people have been taking for weight loss; whether it works or not is another story.
It seems like a load of bologna on it's face because, the whole point is to break down body fat into ketones (which are then burned for energy? I guess), so why would taking a ketone make any sense, the point is to produce them... but, Google says some studies have suggested this ketone in particular might work in a sort-of feedback loop, where it's mere presence, whether or not you created it, can get or keep ketosis going. The article about it that I found cited this paper, which I didn't read: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24140022/
Selling supplements that maybe work, maybe not, is a huge industry. There are apparently studies suggesting it might work as the ads describe, and other companies selling the same thing, for the same purpose. I just think, there is a fine line sure, but this seems like it's easily somewhere on the right side of it. I mean, you can make an argument for it, but such a loose interpretation of what a "scam" is would also include every company that sells supplements, credit card companies, landlords, religion... the entire cosmetics industry, almost every mailorder catalog out there, and QVC and Home Shopping Network, which have existed for decades selling nothing but this kind of junk.
The only reason I care is, I really get a kick out of BobRTC, I enjoy using it and want to see it last as long as the problem of phone scammers persists. At some point some actual scumbags with lawyers, like some of the bigger tech support scammers or CheapFlightsFares types... places that pull in millions and aren't as blatant scammers as say, refund scammers or fake social security, might get annoyed enough to put us in their sights. Stuff like this would make it easy for them to claim we're doing harm, casting the net too wide and harassing legal, non-scam operations in the process.
Plus, I mean, there are just so many actual scams out there we can focus on. If these guys were claiming their capsules contained beta-hydroxybutyrate and they were actually full of dirt, then I would see it... that's a scam, that's illegal, they are lying to people. This is just pretty standard claims, not unlike the ones made by the manufacturers of most every supplement at GNC. Given what we know about it, I don't think it belongs on BobRTC.