Re: Reversing cachexia/weight loss

I thought that the way I think* was pretty much just a pain in your ass!

Yes, but a caring pain in the ass whose heart is in the right place and those count for major points.

And I really do appreciate your knowledge and expertise.

*quite skeptically when it comes to claims that aren't supported with evidence

Until our government changes the rigged rules about what constitutes accepted "scientific" evidence for non-patentable alternatives and funds or helps fund studies that are completely free of mainstream influence and bias there will always be a dearth of evidence when it comes to natural alternatives.

The case of bitter melon is a stark example.  Despite the fact that bitter melon has had hundreds and hundreds of studies which verify it's effectiveness in treating diabetes and high blood pressure, the FDA nevertheless raided a company that made bitter melon tea, seizing its products, computers and other equipment and shutting it down, for daring to post links to such studies and claiming health benefits because by the FDA's very arbitrary and mainstream medicine serving definition, ONLY a product which has gone through the FDA trial process at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars can make health claims about any physical condition.  What utter hogwash and how many lives has that cost?

Until such glaring problems are corrected we will often have to fall back on mere scientific studies and historical successful use.

Personally, I would rather take something natural that many others have taken successfully than a lab created synthetic not found in nature and known to have side-effects that will lead to the use of still more drugs and turn me into another profit center for mainstream medicine's system of managed illness.

DQ