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Old 10-12-2013, 01:17 PM
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Hi Karen,

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Originally Posted by kazzar1958 View Post
I hope I'm not teaching Granny to suck eggs here,
ROTFLMAO! I hadn't heard it expressed quite that way before—thanks for the much needed/deeply appreciated shot of endorphins!

My own philosophy with regard to supplements is to check out the safety first, and if it passes that, and may have a shot of being beneficial, then—
If it can't hurt to try it, then it can't hurt to try it.

At the risk of lecturing Darwin on evolution*, I've found it easier to bring up documents of that type by prefacing search criteria with scholarly:, study:, clinical trial:, pubmed (I'm not good with their own search tool), etc., depending on what I'm looking for.

There is also (new to me—just found it!) a Google Scholar site based in the UK. I haven't test-driven it yet, but it appears to do all of that filtering for us automatically.

*In seeking an alternative comeback to egg-sucking, granny teaching, choir/convert preaching, etc., I came across A Secular Alternative to “Preaching to the Choir”? Some of the best discussion is in the comments.

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