Ginkgo Fails to Show Benefit in Preventing Dementia

[respirate]

An eight year study of Ginkgo Fails to Show Benefit in Preventing Dementia
you can Google it

[M4Y0U]

I never said i didn't want to hear about studies, i said i didn't want to hear about pharmaceutical funded studies because they tend to demote certain benefits shown in plants to the profits of their own lobbying.

Here's what i said

''I would also like to point out that we don't want to promote pharmaceutical studies here on this forum but rather promote good studies that are good news for the alternative ways to a healthy life, that's what people want to hear here.''

I don't know where you got that i didn't want to hear about studies, actually i'm reading studies results on a daily basis and I'm all for the scientific method when applied correctly.

M4

[respirate]

M4 posts on the  THE ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES COMMUNITY

[peggy64]

what or who is M4?

[Paxiled]

Please don't listen to M4 on letting us know about studies -- we need to know all we can.  Thanks for posting this.  It's good food for thought.

[respirate]

the national center for complementary  and alternative medicine did the research

[Paxiled]

As I said on the other forum, nobody ever claimed gingko does anything about dementia other than unscrupulous multi-level traded herb companies.  It does help oxygenate the brain and protects the integrity of blood vessels, but only in combination with other herbs.  Herbalists don't use one herb for anything -- they always use them in combination.  And I've never heard any herbalist or naturopath claim they can cure dementia or prevent it, given that nobody knows yet what causes Alzheimer's.  Now, vascular dementia might very well be helped by gingko, in combination with other herbs and nutrients, because we know what cause that -- it's another form of atherosclerosis.  The way to prevent that is the use of plenty of antioxidants, preferably by eating plenty of colored vegetables and some fruits.  But with Alzheimer's, how can anyone claim to prevent something that has no known cause as of yet?

[laura1967]

Who exactly funded this study for 8 yrs is what I would like to know. Not who did the study, but who funded it.