YOUR HEALTH INFO/NOTES
Dr. Peter Pantel, Ph.D. 410-823-6663
I find recent phytonutrient research papers inadequate in presenting good research … the impression that I get in reading recent research is that phytonutrients are either useless or that they are terrific!
The questions I have mulled over is “why is this so”? And I feel that I have part of the answer … and it is that much of recent research is funded and performed by people that have a special financial interest in the results being reported! THIS IS A NO-NO!
The special interests are:
The big pharmaceutical companies that do not want the phytonutrients to compete with their expensive pharmaceuticals
The providers of phytonutrients that want to sell us their products
An example of pharmaceutical special interest funded research can be read in a most respected journal praising the benefits of a pharmaceutical in preventing heart disease … the research was funded by the maker of the pharmaceutical and was carried out by persons that stood to gain financially by this type of information.
Or of a university that did a study on sprout benefits that was funded by the sprout grower, tried to patent the growth of sprouts while giving sales right to the head researchers' family.
An example of phytonutrient special interest might be applied to the seller of a currently very popular fruit drink … the fruit was always around, especially in the Mediterranean area, but did not sell very much here until somebody paid for some type of research to show how healthy it is.
I’ve decided that I will read and report mostly older publications, (15-40 years old) reporting on results obtained before the pharma companies and other special groups took over the information that is feed to us about health products.
So, before we accept published results, we should keep in mind the question:
Who paid for the research?
Who did the research?
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