-- Kevin Tarr wrote: > This research is in mice, but if it proves effective > for humans, it will be a great help. <snip> > (MSN article, so advertisements present) > > Looks like the whole thing is an advertisement. They > probably already have a warehouse full of Ginseng > berry extract. > > Kevin T. > Garbage in garbage out
<raises eyebrow> Actually, Kevin, 'alternative medicine' is _not_ just garbage; some of the herbs/plant products _do_ have health/medical benefits and uses. People seem to forget that many of our current drugs are derived from plants or microbes (aspirin and penicillin, frex). The problem with many herbal/alternative products is lack of decent research; frex there is some evidence that glucosamine is helpful for arthritis, but the 'studies' re: chondroitin are very poorly done. Debbi who is healthily skeptical, but not deliberately blind I'm trying to say this in a non snide condescending way. It may read that way, but I mean it truthfully. So we have drug companies which have spent billions of dollars to cure baldness and give a formally impotent man blue steel for three hours but the biggest health problem facing America is going to be solved by ginseng berries, something which have been around for forever? Sorry, I'll file that under C for crackpot along with coral calcium and omega-3 fatty acids from fish oils. Not saying that breakthroughs can't come from nowhere, but I'd bet dollars to donuts that ginseng berry extract will be touted as the 'new diet miricle drug' and on the shelves before next summer. Kevin T. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
