A Fruit That Cures All Arthritis - Just Don't Eat it Wrong!

[dorkdotdan]

dont know. this isnt a conspiracy though.

Most plants with medicinal drugs in them don't have a high enough concentration to make them practical. Would you chew on willow bark for a headache?

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[Bisjac]

thats not what makes things legal drugs through the fda. amounts and concentrations have nothing to do with it.
they CANT approve of natural things.

any drugs that have natural ingredients have to have junk fillers by a certain % (i forget what the % is) to no longer be called natural. that dosnt mean its safer or anything, its just a technicality to sell a drug.

and you CAN get 100% bark, leaves, roots; whatever other herbal things in pill form at 100%. literally ground up with nothing added or removed.
they are still called natural though.

[SeventhSandwich]

and you CAN get 100% bark, leaves, roots; whatever other herbal things in pill form at 100%. literally ground up with nothing added or removed.

Yeah, but there's no mechanisms in place to make sure that you're getting the same amount of active ingredient per say, 100g of leaf.

[Bisjac]

well everyone who takes natural herbs and such arent eating the plants of things.... they are taking the pills.
they all have real measuremnets and nutritional value printed on them.
the fda didn't invent food labs. other companies are allowed to do such things.




heres what i take every day.
there is no VIT C pill or drop that is fda approved that your body can absorb more then 19% of 1000mg serving. physically, and according to the fda, illegal if unnatural.
and that is basically a pointless ineffectiveness amount.

but all natural options like liposomal VIT C's are 100% absorption with no maximum serving. about a tablespoon (its a liquid) is at least an equivalent of 20, 500mg pills.
obviously better for people who take VIT D as well, but i dont take that.


but you think thanks to the fda, things are more concentrated and work better. like there is something wrong with things being all natural.

[SeventhSandwich]

I have a problem with the word 'natural' itself because it has no set definition.

Some people claim it means "without chemicals" but that's ridiculous because everything made of matter is a chemical.

Some people claim it means "without preservatives" but plenty of pharmaceutical drugs labeled as 'unnatural' do not contain preservatives.

Some people claim it means "not synthetic" but that definition doesn't work either since tons of pharmaceutical drugs occur in nature (Such as aspirin).

[Bisjac]

im happy that the fda disallows a certain level of rat stuff in my food. and stops meds that turn out to be to dangerous to be any good. we need oversight.

but with that department, comes political lobbying from private food and drug companies.
we see them fighting ti change the definitions and legal %'s of things so they can make money. or like how monsanto fights to have the fda keep gmo food labeling off of retail food products, or how multiple companies fight to move the definition of oils/sugars/corn around on the food pyramid.

its just a game.

everyone seems to think that anything "natural" means there are hippies running around the woods with a pestle and mortar.
and im sure the food and drug companies love that perception.

[devildogelite]

I'll take my insulin for diabetes over any "natural" remedy.

[Thé Lord Tony]

What about that natural healthy dose of poison?

[SeventhSandwich]

but with that department, comes political lobbying from private food and drug companies.
we see them fighting ti change the definitions and legal %'s of things so they can make money. or like how monsanto fights to have the fda keep gmo food labeling off of retail food products, or how multiple companies fight to move the definition of oils/sugars/corn around on the food pyramid.

Monsanto's doing some pretty unethical stuff, but it doesn't seem like they're trying to hide any evidence that GMOs are bad for you. There was one animal study in France where they used GMOs and a substantial equivalent to test the effects of GMOs, and the results were that rats fed GMO grains had a higher risk of organ damage.

However, the lab used a relatively small sample size and used a strain of rats prone to spontaneously developing organ tumors, so the validity of that study is questionable. The only thing we really know about GMOs right now is that there needs to be more research.

[Fredulus]

hint for the gullible: if it sounds too good to be true, it's too good to be true

[devildogelite]

What about that natural healthy dose of poison?

When you don't get any attention do you just keep repeating the same thing. You're worse than a preteen girl.

[SirLancelot7]

double-blind randomized placebo-controlled clinical study w/ reasonable sample size or GTFO

Looks like someone got a 5 on the AP Stats test :)

[Thé Lord Tony]

If I feed everyone this fruit I can run the entire town!

[Irishbandit]

If I feed everyone this fruit I can run the entire town!

Run the entire town of you! Wait...

[Thé Lord Tony]

Run the entire town of you! Wait...