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Title: Lakota Pills
Post by: Lise on Feb 16 07 04:45
Did anyone hear about this? Apparently those Lakota ads on TV work so well that Costco customers are demanding that their stores carry those pills.

  That is works is debatable. The pills are mostly glucosamine which is a common ingredient in arthritis supplements. The ASC (Arthritis Society of Canada) says glucosamine can lessen pain when taken for a few weeks but it won't work on long term basis, if at all.

  Yet the makers of Lakota pills claim they work effectively, adding that their pills contain other herbs such as white willow bark and devil claws.

  At any rate, they are laughing all the way to the bank, thanks to their under budget advertisement showing Floyd Red Crow Westerman of Dances with Wolves fame selling the pills.

  Gives new meanning to the term Medicine Men.

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Title: Re: Lakota Pills
Post by: Sportsdude on Feb 16 07 04:46
oh gosh  
Title: Re: Lakota Pills
Post by: Moolah! on Feb 16 07 06:50
I had a long thread on this on DV with some in depth discussion.



Just went there and searched for it to post the URL here.



Apparently it has mysteriously disappeared.



I know for a fact that there was nothing objectionable in that thread... (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/8.gif)





Title: Re: Lakota Pills
Post by: tenkani on Feb 16 07 07:27
Yeah, that happens a lot.

It was probably deemed "pointless".
Title: Re: Lakota Pills
Post by: Russ on Feb 17 07 01:52
that annoying commercial has been everywhere. i lol'd a while ago thinking 'what idiot would fall for this'. i obviously have my ansewr