<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px">They have to get funding somewhere. I'm a libertarian and fundamentally distrust the government, but I'd gladly support cutting the DoD budget by 2% and reallocating half of that to supplement research.</div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div><div><br></div><div>Yeah, or more. We have learned not to trust the FDA, which is and maybe always has been crippled by politics. SEC also - people move in and out of DC to Big Pharm, Wall Street, and probably all the other places the feds attempt to regulate. The game is, as always, it seems, follow the money. bill w</div></font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:56 AM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Thank you Dan and Dave - I just don't know where my mind went.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>No prob. We all have moments. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Here is another/new addiction problem: doctors never, in my experience, suggest meds other than prescription ones which Big PHarm pays them to push.</div></span><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">...</div></div></blockquote><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Some of these things work, and have been working for thousands of years. So why don't physicians know of these and prescribe them? We know, don't we?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>You sort of answered it above: money. Drug testing and marketing are expensive. Supplements aren't novel so they aren't patentable, therefore, drug companies have no incentive to develop them as products.</div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">This needs to change. How can we get people who have no monetary interest in the outcomes of supplement studies to do quality scientific work to find out what works and what doesn't?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>They have to get funding somewhere. I'm a libertarian and fundamentally distrust the government, but I'd gladly support cutting the DoD budget by 2% and reallocating half of that to supplement research.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></font></span></div></div></div>
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