The dietary supplements you hire trying to enhance your health, most often to no avail. The studies have shown a long time that, unless they serve to combat specific deficiencies, these products do not have any beneficial effect.
And that's the good news. The bad is that to put on the market supplements are not required to demonstrate the efficacy of (as is the case for drugs), but only to document what are the ingredient sand the procedures used for the production, so as to ensure a degree of safety to the consumer. Obtained the permits required for the sale, the companies then very few constraints on the promotion, and can afford to allocate to their supplements the more unrealistic property. A perfect business, almost as much as that of ' homeopathy .
The advertising know that, despite the conspiracy, we trust even what we perceive as science , then the marketing strategy uses white coats in abundance and a language full of supercazzole scientific , in addition to press on an alleged naturalness (= goodness). Famous in the US is the case of Dr. Oz (also broadcast on La7D), a doctor whose hustling translate into peak sales for each product goes on in your hands. But, as told Medbunker , is very dangerous to talk to the public about non-existent miracles in the role of scientist.
In recent days, the website Science Based Medicine , which promotes evidence-based medicine, has analyzed just the case of Product B company Isagenix. According to the producers, the integrator should fight aging at the cellular level, by promoting the activity of the enzyme telomerase.
In short, every time our cells duplicate the ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, get shorter. When telomeres get too short, the cell enters senescence and, among other things, stops duplicate.In cells that have to continue to replicate throughout life (as the white blood cells), or those that proliferate rapidly (such as embryonic stem cells), however, is active telomerase, an enzyme that replaces the lost dna making the cell biologically immortal .
As noted by the doctor Harriet Hall reading the ingredient list , the Product B is no different from many other multivitamins, and instead of containing activators of telomerase contains several substances classified as its inhibitors . The composition, however, is only one of the problems of Product B, as all the other products that claim to do wonders like .
The fundamental point is that the telomeres to stretch to stretch for life is not at all logical and straightforward as it might seem from ads.
On the one hand the shortening of telomeres is in fact only one ofmany factors that define our age , the other is a reason why thetelomerase is active only in certain cells, or at specific times of life: between cells biologically immortal we can boast there are also those tumors. In short, no study course test that Product B affects how the telomeres, but if you could do it by contradiction we should begin to seriously worry about the side effects they might have, and certainly we would not want a substance with these properties were sold the same way as cod liver oil.
Which ones he is now happening with Product B then follows a script well tested. It starts from provisional hypotheses actually made by the scientific community (for example: "it seems that sharks do not get sick of cancer" ) and then continue trivializing and bending reality to their own purposes ( "shark cartilage cures cancer" ), pace of the rest of the scientific process of verification (" yes, even the sharks get cancer their cartilage is useless " ).
In the words of Harriet Hall:
"I will not go on to say that the Product B is a scam, but it certainly is not supported by sound scientific evidence. It is based on daring extrapolations of basic research, combined with speculation, assumptions are not justified, and wishful thinking. "
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