ALSUntangled No. 36: Accilion

Accilion is a topical mineral cream advertised by Advanced Mineral Compounds, LLC (AMC, 2). It is one of several products with different names and websites (Table I) that trace their origin to a botanist named John Wayne Kennedy (20) and his patent entitled ‘Bioavailable minerals for plant health’ (19). Three of these products are topical mineral creams while a fourth is a mineral supplement marketed to be sprayed on agricultural crops to promote disease resistance and improve growth. These products appear to have similar ingredients and similar proposed mechanisms, and nearly identical description by which they claim to distinguish themselves from other mineral compounds (Table I). A representative from AMC has told us that these products are different in important ways including ‘‘zinc/copper ratios’’ and ‘‘redox’’, that there is a legal dispute underway between the current owners, and that ‘‘efforts to have these compounds independently assessed and thoroughly verified are now routinely obstructed’’ (21). Interestingly, the same cancer-patient testimonials appear for three of these products and the same ALS-patient testimonial appears for two of them (Table I).