[tldr - for your own health and financial well being please do not* use any health supplement or ayurvedic xyz herbal formulation unless:
a) it is traceable back to the original source - i.e. the farm where herbs were grown and the labs, manufacturing unit where the ingredients and end product were processed.
b) those farms, manufacturing units have verifiable, independent and reputable third party audits for quality and process flows.
c) they preferably have a clean track record - i.e. no product recalls due to serious quality lapses or run-ins with regulatory authorities.
/tldr]
Sorry for the seemingly abrupt and intrusive nature of my posts. Was planning to create a seperate thread about traditional - ayurvedic - alternative medicine, supplements etc. but the draft is just sitting as a word document on my desktop. It's getting drawn out and lengthy plus proper referencing is turning out to be a time consuming affair, hopefully something will be ready in a couple weekends.
Meanwhile here are two more examples of what an absolute mess the processed foods, dietary supplements, alternative-traditional medicine, ayurvedic-herbal concoctions industry is in (it's a feature not a bug*):
a)
"CNN Health - Leading [US] baby food manufacturers knowingly sold products with high levels of toxic metals, a congressional investigation found.
The clincher?
"Whether the baby food was organic or not did not matter, the subcommittee found -- levels of toxic metals were still high."
b) Accredited degree programs and Board Certified
"MDs" peddling snake oil and jungle juice?
Ditching Naturopathy for Real Science (w/ Britt Hermes)
@red dragon : except some few exceptions most research papers and data about herbal/ ayurvedic bioactive compounds and their pharmacological effects suffer from poor setups, questionable designs, absence of baselines, misrepresentation of outcomes and lack of peer review. The unfortunate teutonic shift towards
number of publications and citations determining the future funding, as against meaningful quality, in all research fields in general, hasn't helped the matter.
@quakze : unfortunately most single herb powders aren't toxicologically clean either.
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PS: Source of my babbling? Fifteen years personal experience in manufacturing supply chains including healthcare - and batchmates' experience in various MNCs across all continents, excluding Antartica : p
PPS: Two genuine preliminary queries to the proponents of ayurvedic concept of doshas (or energy balance in traditional Sino medicine) - Why can these doshas or balance not be measured or explained by quantum physics or modern biology/chemistry/medicine? Why isn't gold in any form assimilated by the human body nor found to be a part of any biochemical process in the human body? Thanks.
