Posted by Sulpicia on May 31, 2001, at 17:25:16
In reply to Re: TRUEHOPE/clarification, posted by good4u on May 31, 2001, at 15:07:36
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> Like everyone else, I'm just anxiously awaiting results of research studies.This is precisely the problem: there are NO research studies, not studies long underway, nor being done presently.
We are asked to believe their claims based on anectdotal claims involving tiny numbers of people. This product has
been around now for over a year and yet the group can produce no research results. You are entirely correct that nobody
would fund a study for this product, tho not because it's unproven nor because it's non-pharmaceutical.
The National Institute of Health is one of the largest grantors for research and they certainly do fund studies for unproven
treatments. What sets Truehope's products apart from the others is that researchers can give a reasonable account of why the
agent they want to study should work. For example, it's known that lithium lowers the level of inositol in the body: *if* this
were the mechanism by which it controled mania, it would not be unreasonable to see if giving inositol supplements were an
effective treatment for depression. There are numerous studies on this in fact.
The Truehope people could presumably never get a similar grant because there is no scientific evidence to believe that vitamins
can treat bipolar disorders, depression, ADD/HD, Tourettes Syndrome,schizophrenia, and Autism -- much less with the same formula.Doesn't it make you nervous that the Truehope head honcho, Daniel Stephan, when challenged on this forum to provide peer-reviewed
literature that would support ANY part of his product, had the audacity to cite an article on magnesium and schizophrenia in the American Journal of Psychiatry for 1929 [no typo]?
I should stop before I get worked up...
Be well,
S.
poster:Sulpicia
thread:59082
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