I might have thought the same had I not been a member of the original Facebook group when it first started out and we were all just a group of neuropathy patients looking for something that provided relief. The reviews are real people with various forms of neuropathy and members of the Facebook group. We maintained documents on the Facebook group of a list of the supplements we were taking along with research to support how they help neuropathy. One of the documents had a link to a manufacturer site or Amazon where we could purchase each of the supplements (about 12 or 13 different supplements at the time). Lots of us didn't like the fact that we were taking so many capsules daily.

The leader of the Facebook group had a connection with a local pharmaceutical company and worked with them to combine the different supplements into fewer capsules. The Facebook group members supported the effort with donations from members and pre-orders and the Protocol 525 was born as an LLC. The 525 is the first generation of the protocol and instead of renaming it to Protocol 424 when they reduced the number of capsule from 12 a day to 10 a day, I think they just decided to change it to the Protocol. They are now working on a liquid version which I'm hoping might show up next year and be more bioavailable.