Dual Action Cleanse Infomercial

[jasonpatterson]

I've recently switched from being a teacher to staying at home with my kids, and I saw the oddest infomercial I've ever seen. It was a half hour commercial for a product called Dual Action Cleanse. It had all the standard detoxifying nonsense but added the fun 'fact' that we have 5-10 pounds of 'toxic fecal matter' in our colons.

My favorite moment in the commercial was when the inventor of this miracle product, Klee Irwin, claimed that it was wonderful for keeping your skin smooth and young though he has a face that is the result of a wicked case of cystic acne. Guess he should have been cleansing more often.

I don't know what I expect in reply to this, basically my question is, what ever happened to Jackie the Juiceman? What the heck kind of population wants to watch/purchase laxatives via infomercial?

[Gord_in_Toronto]

I've recently switched from being a teacher to staying at home with my kids, and I saw the oddest infomercial I've ever seen. It was a half hour commercial for a product called Dual Action Cleanse. It had all the standard detoxifying nonsense but added the fun 'fact' that we have 5-10 pounds of 'toxic fecal matter' in our colons.

My favorite moment in the commercial was when the inventor of this miracle product, Klee Irwin, claimed that it was wonderful for keeping your skin smooth and young though he has a face that is the result of a wicked case of cystic acne. Guess he should have been cleansing more often.

I don't know what I expect in reply to this, basically my question is, what ever happened to Jackie the Juiceman? What the heck kind of population wants to watch/purchase laxatives via infomercial?

I think I have a PT Barnum quote for that -- "There's a sucker born every minute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_minute).". No wait. He did not say that. :o

[Starthinker]

That infomercial moves me.

[Cuddles]

half hour commercial

Seriously? :eye-poppi

[jasonpatterson]

Seriously? :eye-poppi

Yep, is the magical land full of pink fluffy sheeps and bunnies free of infomercials? I'm used to them trying to sell crappy kitchen products, they used to try to sell tools, sometimes they sell cosmetics, but I have never seen anything like a half hour of poop commercial.

[dropzone]

Move to a major market and you will see plenty. Akron doesn't cut it. Even Kevin Trudeau is back, though I thought he had multiple court orders to go away.

[Modified]

The funny thing is that the host doesn't look very healthy. Maybe he's used his own product a little too often.

[EHocking]

So much for "natural" being good for you.

Disclaimer at their product page (http://www.dualactioncleanse.com/),

This product contains caffeine and may affect blood pressure and/or heart conditions.... WARNING: (State of California Prop 65) This product contains a chemical known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm

[wackyvorlon]

The "5-10 pounds of fecal matter" claim has been circulating for ages. Oddly enough, it is invisible on xrays, MRIs and colonoscopy. There's a word for having 5-10 pounds of fecal matter stuck in the intestine. It's called an impaction, and can make a person very sick.

[EHocking]

The Quackwatch web site, has a sideline - InfommercialWatch, which has an article on the subject (http://www.infomercialwatch.org/reports/dualaction.shtml) (and others, obviously).

[LostAngeles]

Is that the one where he marvels at the size of his four-year old daughter's poop?