Shameless plug...
Digestive issues are a huge problem among serious bodybuilders, particularly those pushing large volume of food on a daily basis. The digestive system just isn't designed to accomodate that volume of food. This is exactly why I designed Veda-Gest...and I believe, without doubt, it is the single best overall digestive aide on the market today. The clinical research behind the ingredients within it is immense, showing that they help everything from IBS, to acid reflux, to heart burn, to constipation, and dozens of other digestive ailments.
I have now seen at LEAST a dozen people publicly post that it has helped their IBS significantly. Even on this board the product has a lot of positive reviews in both the MA Research sponsor thread (even though it is an MA Labs product), as well as in the peptide forum. By and large, the reviews are tremendously positive (zero negative reviews), with MANY saying it is the fist product they ever used--after years of buying digestive aides--that finally eliminated (or greatly reduced) their digestive difficulties.
I made this stuff specifically because I suffer from digestive problems. Going back about 5-7 years ago, I started looking for ways to improve my digestive health...and gradually started experimenting with all sorts of differnet digestive aides. It took about 5 years of experimentation before finally settling on a combination of ingredients that provided the most benefit.
Until I made Veda-Gest, I was purchasing 6 differnet products every month. I would buy each ingredient separately, as no company sold a product which contained all of them...and when I did find a company that contained several of them (rare), the doses of each individual ingredient were WAY too low.
Then, one day, about 6 months ago, my wife said to me "why don't you just make a product that contains all of those ingredients", so that's what I did....and truth be told, if it wasn't for a mistake on the part of my manufacturer, the product never would have been made. What am I talking about? When I originally told my manufacturer I wanted to make this product, I told him it had to be relatively inexpensive, as bodybuilders (generally speaking) don't want to pay a lot for digestive products.
After telling him what I wanted, he came back with a production cost that was slightly higher than I was hoping for, but still doable. It's production cost needed to be in a certain price range, as it was my intention to keep the retail price under $30, but I also knew that people would expect a discount code. So, I settled on a price of $29.99...which turned out to be $23.99 after the discount code.
Then, after I sold out of my 1st batch and went to have a 2nd one made, my manufacturer told me that he had made mistakes on the math...and that the original price was quoted-charged me was only 50% of what it was supposed to be, as he accidentally calculated the cost based on only half the amount of capsules it contains.
I responded by telling him not to make the next run...and that I was pulling the product off the website, as there was no way I was going to lose money selling a product. In the end, he felt bad/guilty...and because I bring all my other MA labs business to him, he did me a favor and agreed to cut me a price break--to the point where he is only breaking even. If I hadn't been bringing all my other MA labs business to him for years, this never would have happened.
Still, the production cost is way higher than what it should be for a product that sells for $29.99/$23.99. Let me put it this way. When someone uses a discount code, I only make a FEW bucks (yes, a few bucks) per bottle selling it at its current price, but because I had already introduced the product to market at that price, I decided to just keep the price the same. The only other alternatives were to either reformulate the product by cutting the doses in half, (reformulate= less effective), cut the number of capsules in half, or dramatically increase the price. Neither option sounded good, so I ultimately decided to sell the product more as a service to the community than as a way to earn money, as the sales of this product are nearly inconsequential from a monetary standpoint.