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Originally Posted by King Kabuki
Unfortunately for herbs most of the studies done to test them also do not run analyticals to find out if the active ingredient levels match the studies that show positive results. Doing this would crack down on another raw material scam Companies do, “spiking.” This refers to adding more of the principle active used in standardization to strengthen shit versions of an herb. Chris Lockwood (whom much of this information is coming from, he’s the current Vice President of the International Society of Sports Nutrition) equates this to using more wood to build your home. Good theory, but without additional nails and supporting materials, it just doesn’t work. However, it’s legal because of lack of regulation within the Industry.
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I kinda disagree with this. it depends on who is doing the testing. If a university is doing the testing on an herb to see they aren't looking for special brands or trying to prove/disprove anything. EVERYTHING is controlled for in a study. If they are giving humans, mice, rats, or hepatocytes an herb, they are giving it the extract to know EXACTLY how much is given, and in the case of mammels its given as mg/kg or something to control for size. I mean, they don't grind up gingko biloba leaves and sprinkle them in the mouths of the elderly and make them do the daily sudoku to test for memory/intelligence. Its much more scientific than that. Also, the herbs that are used are normally of the highest quality available (that can realistically be found).
I would only disagree with that if muscletech is testing herbs that they don't sell to promote their own product. Or if a tiny university did a few tests and the paper isn't in a good journal. Even big corporations don't have a lot of money for science testing most of the time, and many of them have other agendas.
The amount of time and effort that goes into a good paper that gets published in a good journal is amazing. These people get hundred thousand dollar grants (sometimes millions) to spend on the research, they use VO2 machins that easily cost thousands or tens of thousands. Each animal can be from 20-200 dollars each also. They aren't going to spend all that money and then go to Save-on-Supps to get their herbs. They get their herbs from major companies and pay out their ass on them for purity and whatnot. I bet if you took a hit from medicinal marijuanna you'd be floored. The shit they test on is MAJOR chronic.