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To: Red Badger
but there is no good scientific evidence to support these uses.

That's an ongoing problem with herbal supplements generally. There's no good scientific evidence, because nobody has attempted to collect such evidence. Running multiple, properly controlled, double-blind studies of effectiveness and safety, is expensive. Very expensive. And there's little profit in it. So nobody does it. I see an opportunity for universities and perhaps the FDA to do something useful ...

29 posted on 07/10/2026 12:08:31 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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They have tried before to rein in the ‘food supplement’ industry but they, like their Big Pharma bros, spread their donations around to the proper places to make sure the Congress doesn’t pas any such thing.........................


31 posted on 07/10/2026 12:27:18 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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