Then headed R&D for a supplement company in Los Angeles.

The Federal Trade Commission asked supplement companies to stop that claim unless they can prove it scientifically.

Priest has his own supplement company called Assassin Nutrition in Australia.

Harper received a sponsorship deal with a nutritional supplement company focusing on active lifestyles, MusclePharm.

Dietary supplement companies base these claims on self-regulatory or European standards.

The media coverage and heavy marketing by nutritional supplement companies that followed those reports have created such a demand for Hoodia spp.

Vergara was the owner of a dietary supplement company named Omnilife.

"We need to have a supplement company that whatever they say is in the bottle is in the bottle, and stand behind it."

In 2006, he founded Nutrition 53, a nutritional supplement company dedicated to optimal life performance.

In the meantime, he is working as a personal trainer and a consultant for a dietary supplement company in Hauppauge.