Slim Sciences claims their product Slim Guard brings about amazing fat loss in weeks from its 5 ingredients: Sodium chloride, potassium citrate, magnesium malate, zinc glycinate, and calcium citrate. This seems ridiculous on its face with this composition of simple minerals. Is this a scam?

This is indeed a scam and this is why you felt uncomfortable, intuitively, that this glowing and highly polished saga of rapid weight loss, almost like a miracle, in weeks, and the way the story was told as simply a fairytale-like recounting of a magical meeting and a wondrous outcome and someone, a layperson in fact, roaming the globe to figure out the mystery of the regimen of the native people keeping their weight in check was met with success and sounded too good to be true. And that is because it is. The whole weight-loss arena is fraught with imposter products and corrupt opportunistic businesses working through false front organizations, clever use of copywriters, and their talent for persuasion in often launching copycat products cleverly duplicating labels and even logos in some instances. So this was a bold undertaking and an example of a wholly invented product and rationale to make it sound scientific and dupe people into paying money for the privilege of being fooled.