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Here is a screen capture of a corporate search for "Unique Nutrition" at cyberdriveillinois.com" taken at the timestamp of this post

Note who is listed as President: Edward Younan

This contradicts Steve Sliwa's claim that he is the President of Unique Nutrition Inc.

Note the typical signature that user "uniquenutrition" at www.mindandmuscle.net forums uses:

Steve Silwa denied that "his" Unique Nutrition was the same as that one incorporated in Illinois. When asked to clarify the state of incorporation of his company he repeatedly sidestepped.

The moderators at mindandmuscle.net did not take too kindly at my inquiries about their forum sponsor:

uniquenutrition Posted: Mar 9 2006-21:43 | link

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Here is an exchange between David Lui and LifeMirage who in 2003 used to call himself Edward Younan. It is typical of the strife LifeMirage would get himself in when encountering the scientifically informed:

Note the inevitable queries on LifeMirage's ID and his characteristic evasiveness. This example of his pathological lying is typical:

"I have not had time to publish most of my articles (many are on glycation inhibitors) yet. I have other more important things to focus on in my life right now."

David Lui concludes on LifeMirage's self-proclaimed expertise:

In 2002 LifeMirage used to also post as under the ID "sherwyns@aol.com" and made similarly exaggerated claims...

Which made some people not too happy...

Which brought into question the credentials - or lack of - of those behind the company associated with LifeMirage (Sherwyn's)..

LifeMirage once again claims on his BrainMeta profile to be Lee Crost M.D. He had removed the name for a while when ImmInst users were posting at BrainMeta.

LifeMirage pinned a topic attacking his market competitor, Adam Kamil, which is a flagrant abuse of his moderator privileges, due to commercial conflict of interest.

I don't have a screenshot, but the original text was:
Pinned: Adam Kamil Warning
nootropikreations / le-creations

In the attached screenshot, you can see that "Adam Kamil Warning" has been changed to "Nootropikreations Warning". Ethically, I cannot disclose the contents of private communications received from BrainMeta's members, but suffice it to say, LifeMirage was not the moderator that made the change to the topic title. The topic is still pinned, however. (Since the forum is otherwise empty, the pinning of the topic is effectively irrelevant, but it still shows an abuse of LifeMirage's moderation powers to attack market competitors.)

I have the original wording documented in a PM I sent to Shawn, BrainMeta's admin, as well as in a message thread that was deleted from brainmeta.com by Shawn:

PM sent: Mar 11, 08:55 AM
From: Jay Fox
To: Shawn

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Shawn,

[excerpted private communications] ...As a moderator, he [LifeMirage] has a serious commercial conflict of interest, issues of identity fraud and misrepresentation of "medical" credentials notwithstanding.

By "Lee Crost"'s own admission--assuming that's who you think LifeMirage is--he works for Sherwyn's Health Food Shops, and yet he is/was an advisor for Unique Nutrition, a direct market competitor, under both the names Lee Crost and LifeMirage. He has slandered Adam Kamil--yet another direct market competitor--on other sites, but here as well, and has used his moderator privileges to pin the topic (I assume it was he who pinned the topic).

[excerpted private communications]

Jay Daniel Fox
Director and Chair, Immortality Institute

[excerpted reposts of deleted BrainMeta.com forum posts]

Jay Fox Today, 08:30 AM

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BTW, here's the text of LifeMirage's warning against Adam Kamil.

Remember, the title of this post used to be "Adam Kamil Warning, nootropikreations / le-creations", not "Nootropikreations Warning, nootropikreations / le-creations". The title was changed by another moderator at BrainMeta, after complaints about LifeMirage's conflict of interest.

Unique Nutrition--which is incorporated in the state of Illinois, with Edward Younan as the declared President--is registered with the Better Businiess Bureau in Chicago, IL, to Steve Sliwa. Note that Steve is the "Principal", meaning not necessarily the legal president of the company. Here's a link to google maps showing the distance between the two locations:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&sadd...A+CHICAGO+60613

Note the date Steve registered with the BBB: Feburary 2006. This is at most 26 days before LifeMirage attacked Adam Kamil's business for not being registered with the BBB. How convenient.

BTW, searching the BBB website for "Unique Nutrition" only turns up the one entry, the one in Chicago, IL, with Steve Sliwa as the "Principal". This was a nationwide search.

This BBB file against Unique Nutrition was created due to a customer complaint on February 2006 associated with billing errors, unauthorised charges or questionable collection practices. The bureau determined that they could not be satisfactorily settled by voluntary dispute resolution.

uniquenutrition wished to add this clarification:

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An old Google Groups post:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.drugs.s...236c284c362adac

Note that Steve signed as VP of UNI, and the date is Jan 20 2004, which is not quite six months after Edward Younan was registered as the President of UNI, July 23 2003 (see the second post in this thread).