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[JohnDoe999]

If I am interested in establishing which supplements have been tested on humans with favorable results, what would be the most effective and efficient way to proceed? 

[pamojja]

If it wouldn't exists, organize an enough manpowererd organization, who goes through all available supplement studies to sort out the more significants. You're a bid late, here it is: http://examine.com/supplements

[JohnDoe999]

In relation to whoever marked my initial post as "Pointless/Timewasting", I could not disagree more. I can not see what is pointless and timewasting in asking a valid question.

If it wouldn't exists, organize an enough manpowererd organization, who goes through all available supplement studies to sort out the more significants. You're a bid late, here it is: http://examine.com/supplements

 

Thanks

[Dorian Grey]

In relation to whoever marked my initial post as "Pointless/Timewasting", I could not disagree more. I can not see what is pointless and timewasting in asking a valid question.

If it wouldn't exists, organize an enough manpowererd organization, who goes through all available supplement studies to sort out the more significants. You're a bid late, here it is: http://examine.com/supplements

 

Thanks

 

I agree...  Pointless and time wasting to look into human studies on supplements in a supplement forum?  

 

Problem is, there are thousands of these studies and it's a very broad subject matter.  A more focused approach might be more palatable.  

 

In addition to examine.com, PubMed is an excellent resource.  Search any supplement and you're liable to turn up hundreds of studies, many on humans.  Hours if fun for enquiring minds. 

[OneScrewLoose]

If you search anything on pubmed, on the left there will be filtering options. One of them says 'species' and under it you can click on 'humans'. This will restrict your search to just studies on humans. Hope that helps.

Edited by OneScrewLoose, 12 June 2015 - 01:50 AM.

[frederickson]

this is an incredibly information-rich resource on supplements, including the clinical evidence behind the supplements, interactions, and depletions induced by medications and medical conditions that can be mitigated by supplementation. 

 

http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed

[OneScrewLoose]

this is an incredibly information-rich resource on supplements, including the clinical evidence behind the supplements, interactions, and depletions induced by medications and medical conditions that can be mitigated by supplementation. 

 

http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed

As much as I'd like to appreciate this 'resource', this alone proves it's garbage:

http://umm.edu/healt...ment/homeopathy

[frederickson]

 

this is an incredibly information-rich resource on supplements, including the clinical evidence behind the supplements, interactions, and depletions induced by medications and medical conditions that can be mitigated by supplementation. 

 

http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed

As much as I'd like to appreciate this 'resource', this alone proves it's garbage:

http://umm.edu/healt...ment/homeopathy 

 

homeopathy is not something that i have much to do with either, but this does not nullify the rest of the database. the poster asked for resources on supplements, and the database provides citations for thousands of studies on supplements and herbs. along with ray sahelian, this is one of the more objective resources out there, that is neither pro-supplement or anti-supplement.

 

http://umm.edu/healt.../red-yeast-rice

 

http://umm.edu/healt...h-st-johns-wort

 

http://umm.edu/healt...ions-quinolones

 

[RWhigham]

Anyone with a scientific background will reject homeopathy a priori, since it is so ridiculous and beyond belief the way its made. There are almost no remotely plausible explanations for it, and after all, the world is full of superstitions, superstitious people, all sorts of religious mythologies (not excluding  Christianity), and fruitcake theories.

 

But, when a naturopathic doctor dumped something in my mouth, I didn't know what, and died in an airplane crash shortly thereafter, I developed two striking side-effects:

  (1) I began sleeping nude with no covers and the AC turned down to 60 F, with my wife next to me under a pile of blankets. I was toasty warm. This lasted over a month.

  (2) Both my ear lobes turned into hard leather. Again this lasted for over a month. My wife was aghast and thought there was something horribly wrong with my ear lobes.

 

Later, when I found out the dear dead doctor had given me a dose of 10M arsenicum, my world turned upside down. As a scientific thinker, materialist, and atheist, this was unthinkable.  My ear lobes had felt like they had been preserved by a taxidermist using arsenic. The effects were temporary and there was no lasting effect on my health, but my confidence in the fundamentals of scientific knowledge was forever shaken. Of course, my brother, the PhD biochemist, would hear none of it. 

 

Since that time I have seen homeopathic's cure three of my wife's chronic ailments which were beyond the reach of conventional medicine, cure a number of acute ailments, and work on our pets, although, a priori, "it cannot work". I'm hesitant to post this because most of you, like my brother, will dismiss it as nuts. Ah well.