Quote from Lenin:

linda,

You asked for opinions; here's my thought process:
I saw the word oxidation and know that's often a code word to sell "antioxidants." So first thing I suspected more of the same supplement peddling with inflated claim. Next step in the process was to search the name of the doctor. First entry under his name was RON ROSEDALE NATURETICALS, as expected.
That pretty much closed my case. Another quack cure getting couched in jargon.

There's a good, useful, OLD term for stopping the body's oxidative processes...it's called DEATH!:D Anything that is a reducing agent CAN be called an antioxidant; on Earth the most widely available is WOOD!

Lenin,

I also am skeptical when someone is promoting the virtues of a product that they benefit from financially. When I see this, I search for independent opinions on the product in question. If I can't find any, I don't buy it.

However, to be consistent and logical, you must also apply this standard to prescription meds.

Statins have over $30 Billion worth of conflict-of-interest behind them. Pharmaceuticals are THE MOST PROFITABLE INDUSTRY SEGMENT IN THE WORLD - no other industry segment comes close to their total profit and profit margins...

So, when I see articles extolling the virtues of statins, I can also legitimately question their validity unless I can be assured that the researchers, doctors or others promoting them HAVE NO FINANCIAL TIES TO THE PRODUCT OR THE MANUFACTURER. Given the revelations of the past 2 years of the extensive, systemic conflicts of interest between the Pharmas and the FDA, NIH and doctors... there is plenty of suspicion of some drugs being 'quack' cures also. Some (such as VIOXX and Baycol) have been recalled because they were actually quite deadly.

There's plenty of doubt to go around on both sides of the aisles.

I personally suspect the solution to CHD will eventually be found to be a combination of supplements and as-yet-unmarketed prescription drugs, which will target the root cause of the arterial injury/inflammation-response process (and not cholesterol per se), or which will target increasing good cholesterol (HDL).

HubbleRules
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