Posted by Larry Hoover on June 23, 2003, at 8:39:01
In reply to LARRY HOOVER, Re: nutrients and asthma, posted by McPac on June 23, 2003, at 2:07:39
> Lar, I know you've said that you enjoy questions...well, your expertise is in DIRE need at this thread on this board (here is a link): http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20030619/msgs/236166.html
I don't know that I'd have much to contribute to that discussion. Here's why.
Discussion of drug mechanisms are, to me, a lot like arguing religion or politics. Receptor affinities and subtypes and all that comes down to dogma, and in the end, the only thing that matters is, "Did this drug help McPac or not?"
I had a professor (also my supervisor) who used to call mechanistic arguments "hand waving", as in a bunch of kids in class, arms upraised, calling out, "I know!" "I know!" (and this was in regard to physical chemistry and chemical physics). The problem is, we don't know what these drugs do. We have some idea where they start to act on the brain (receptor types), but beyond that, it's all hand waving (dogma, IMHO).
Nutrient mechanisms, I look at differently. We know that e.g. vitamin C is essential for health. We probably don't come close to understanding all of the reasons why it is essential, but for the ones we do know, we can make health recommendations.
In simple terms, I perceive that drugs distort the body's innate functioning, whereas nutrients enhance it.
Lar
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