Saffron shows promise in preventing liver cancer

I see articles like this over and over - This or that common herbal or spice product cures (Insert disease here.) And yet nothing ever comes of it. Is there a Big Pharma conspiracy, or are the articles just more BS?

It's the law, as regulated by the FDA; to make a disease-related claim on anything, the claim must be supported by clinical trials, usually phases 1,2, and 3, but sometimes even 4 phases. Phase 3 often involves requires a company to support the medical care of over 1,000 people for over 1 or 2 years. If you don't do that, you can't print the claim.

For Pfizer this is ok --they're budgeted for it. But how many spice makers can do that?

None.

And then if they can, in order to patent the treatment you must show you have imparted UNIQUE properties --you can't do that for a spice. It might be good or great, but it doesn't matter from a patenting perspective because you did not alter it in any special way.

So of course companies simply do not go about the process to begin with.

No one contests that Vitamin C is good for all manner of things, and yet it's ILLEGAL to print those claims on the bottle, and that's for the reqsons I described.

IMHO the benefits of natural nutritional substances are real. They are not fast acting as in a pharmaceutical, but they do supply the body with the building blocks it needs.

I can say that more of these substances ARE being researched by genuine scientists and they ARE coming up with some information that is startling to some, confirming to others.

In the case of coconut oil, there has been a HUGE finding that it contains a substance called medium chain triglycerides, or MCTs. The body uses them to generate a substance called ketone bodies. Those ketones have actually been shown to be used by the body as an alternate fuel for the brain in Alzheimers patients.

Go to decimon’s recent ALS thread and look at my post 10 for some links.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2766949/posts

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