About

Rainforest Nutritionals Inc (RNI) was created by medical school scientists in order to commercialize the benefits of our research, primarily centered on South American ethnobotanicals – traditional medicines. It made no sense to us that peoples with a rich history of using a specific plant for a specific ailment over literally thousands of years were either wrong or just experiencing a “placebo effect.”

Thus, our research (the fun part) was to evaluate those ethnobotanicals we deemed most promising using modern Western techniques and then published those finding, subjecting the research to peer-review and criticism.  After all, there is no sense in doing research and then hiding it from others.  The beauty of the scientific community is that you share what you find with others so that they can start where you left off and ultimately, hopefully find out something far better.

We considered the route of drug companies (hidden research, isolating compounds, and determining/patenting chemical structures) but didn’t have the stomach for it, the $500 plus million nor the patience (7-10 years) needed to bring the “drug” to market – and then there are the side-effects.  For example, Aspirin is a “good drug” but attributed to over 16,000 deaths annually in the United States alone.

So we formed Park Labs LLC, a company to market RNI products – dietary and nutritional supplements.  We call them Ethical Supplements™ - not to imply that any other company makes “unethical” supplement: there are a few other good companies/products out there.

For us, Ethical Supplements are those on which we have actually conducted and published the research ourselves, only using our ingredients and only in the amounts that reflect the laboratory or clinical studies.

To date, our key ingredients are natural extracts - Vincaria®, RNI249™, Zangrado®, Progrado®, Inca Gold® and the newest (and much less researched) Pango® - but research continues.

Sometimes we will use a “general” ingredient, such as the epigallocatechin gallates (ECGC) found in green tea or the resveratrol (found in red wine), that are well-published and reviewed and then only in the amounts that were found to be effective in several studies.  We may even support another company’s product if the clinical data is irrefutable.

And for the record, we define “published” to include only those peer-reviewed journals listed with the US National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (or “PubMed” found online www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed) so this cuts out the supermarket tabloids & self-published/company-published material.

Also, you will not find “testimonials” anywhere on this site: we don’t believe in them.  You can simply make-up a testimonial.  Every time you visit a website and see the somewhat anonymous (aka “John D. from Scranton” etc) user touting the miraculous product that changed their lives, you should wonder if people are really that gullible. And no celebrity endorsements or scientific advisory board: you can pay anyone to endorse anything.

Finally, remember that clinical trials do not work on 100% of the participants: point in fact, neither do drugs. In any case, our products simply will not work for everyone.  However, if you are one of the few that fall into this category, give it a chance but then just return the unused portion and you will get your money back.  After all, we are all consumers and should expect no less.