Brian White  |  October 28, 2020

Category: Beverages

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Joint Juice may not be an effective treatment for joint pain.

The makers of Joint Juice, a purported treatment for joint pain, are facing another class action lawsuit claiming its advertising and labeling mislead consumers.

The named plaintiff in the lawsuit, Kathleen Sonner, says she believed in Joint Juice’s advertising claims that it is a treatment for joint pain and wasted money buying the product. 

Premiere Nutrition “knew, but failed to disclose, that Joint Juice cannot provide the joint health benefits represented and that well-conducted, clinical studies, meta analyses and evidence-based guidelines have determined Joint Juice’s ingredients are unable to support or benefit joint health,” she said in the complaint.

She says she fell for the television advertisement appearance of professional football player Joe Montana who said, in that spot, that athletes choose Joint Juice as a treatment for joint pain. 

The complaint argues Joint Juice exploited the sports angle further with messaging stating the product was “originally developed for pro athletes by orthopedic surgeon Kevin R. Stone.”

She believed Premiere Nutrition’s promises that Joint Juice ingredients help to “keep cartilage lubricated and flexible” and bought into the claim to “drink daily for healthy, flexible joints.” 

The lawsuit alleges Premiere Nutrition took the “marketing gimmick” a step further by offering a “Joint Juice Health Assessment” on the company website and prominently displayed the Arthritis Foundation logo for consumers to see. 

Sonner alleges this marketing has led to the targeted demographic’s believing Premiere Nutrition’s treatment for joint pain actually worked, citing “Joint Juice was one of the most well-known supplements.” 

Beyond the deceptive marketing, Sonner says Premiere Nutrition disregards the science showing their products do nothing for the treatment of joint pain. 

“The ingredients in Joint Juice have been extensively studied … and have been shown ineffective at supporting or benefiting joint health,” Sonner said.

The lawsuit lists several randomized control trial studies that demonstrate the active ingredients in Joint Juice are not effective. Those studies looked at Joint Juice’s two active ingredients and found it ineffective in regard to the treatment of joint pain.

Researchers found glucosamine hydrochloride and chondroitin “[do] not play any special or unique role in the synthesis or repair of cartilage molecules,” adding further glucosamine is a common sugar found in the body. 

“A healthy joint does not need exogenous glucosamine or chondroitin because it maintains its structure and function from the body’s abundant source of glucose and proteoglycan synthesis,” according to a finding cited in the class action lawsuit. 

These studies included a series run by the National Institutes of Health over the course of at least four years with costs totaling more than $12.5 million, according to the complaint. 

Joint Juice may not be an effective treatment for joint pain.The research led many relevant organizations to denounce glucosamine and chondroitin as a treatment for joint pain. In 2009 and again in 2013, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons warned against its use. In 2012, the Cochrane Collaboration said they were no better than a placebo. 

In 2014, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation advised in its Choosing Wisely publication these joint treatment supplements are “a waste of money.” 

Sonner goes further: The Department of Veteran Affairs Department, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Rheumatology, and Arthritis Foundation all “strongly recommended against” using glucosamine and chondroitin as a treatment for joint pain.

Medical professionals in the United Kingdom agree. Both the National Health Service and the U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence concur with these recommendations, according to the class action lawsuit. 

Sonner argues that, despite this, the company continues to deceive consumers with bogus claims the drink works as a treatment for joint pain.

This will mark a second attempt by Sonner challenging Premiere Nutrition’s marketing and selling of Joint Juice, and also not the first time that the company has faced a class action lawsuit. A separate class action lawsuit also claimed that Joint Juice is fraudulently marketed and sold as an effective treatment for joint pain. 

Earlier this year in June, the Ninth Circuit dismissed Sonner’s class action lawsuit on the grounds she “lacked an adequate legal remedy.”

Formally Sonner is accusing Premiere Nutrition and Joint Juice of violating California’s Business and Professions Code and Consumers Legal Remedies Act. She is seeking to form a Class of consumers in California who bought Joint Juice from March 1, 2009 to June 20, 2016. 

Have you purchased Joint Juice because you believed it is a treatment for joint pain? Let us know in the comments below. 

Counsel representing the plaintiffs in this class action lawsuit are Timothy G. Blood, Leslie E. Hurst, Thomas J. O’Reardon II and Paula R. Brown Of Blood Hurst & O’Reardon, LLP; Craig M. Peters of Altair Law and Todd D. Carpenter of Carlson Lynch LLP.

The Joint Juice False Advertising Class Action Lawsuit is Sonner V. Premier Nutrition Company LLC, Case No. 3:20-cv-07453, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

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618 thoughts onClass Action Lawsuit Claims Drink Is Not a Treatment For Joint Pain and ‘Wastes Money’

  1. Matt says:

    This stuff worked great for me i ran up and down mountains for 10 year working under a yarder and my knees are in bad shape joint juice greatly improved my comfort and abilty to move quickly without major pain wich is extremly important in this line of work. The fact that a bunch of sue happy turds got this product off the shelf if pretty sad. If the joint juice didnt work for you why did you continue to buy it sounds like a common sence problem to me not lawsuit matterial. Thanks alot for helping my knee pain return!

  2. joseph glenn barber says:

    add me

  3. joseph glenn barber says:

    been using joint juice for years, knee still hurt

  4. JACKIE GAMBLES says:

    I BOUGHT JOINT JUICE THINKING IT WOULD HELP MY KNEE PAIN….IT DID NOT WORK

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