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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Posts: 5
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New Member
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Posts: 5
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Normast doubts
Hi MrsD and bent98,
It's very frustrating indeed but I can no longer find the page which gave specific details of the make up and ingredients of Normast. They've removed all such 'ingredients' passages from their own websites and Googling everywhere else either brings you back to the Dutch or English language Normast sites (all run by the same person). What I do remember is that the 'active ingredient' palmitoylethanolamide, was less than 1% of the total due to 'micronising' (their word not mine). Now micronising means reduction of the base element as part of the accepted homeopathic preparation process. I'm still trying to track down the active ingredients, or at least evidence of them but am not having any luck at the moment. That in itself should set alarm bells ringing in people's minds - why would you buy something without knowing exactly what was in it?
I hope MrsD, you'll be able to look at the Google translation of the two links in Dutch that I sent you because, despite the bad English that you undoubtedly will see, Google tends to translate to pigeon English) you'll be able to see how the Dutch organisation for investigating quacks and charlatans has come to some very strong conclusions about Mr, Keppel Hesselink and his dubious practices - his claimed qualifications are pretty much fantasy (as those articles show).
As you may have seen from my other post, I am a long term neuropathy sufferer myself and 4 years ago set about collecting as much genuine and expert information in one place about the disease and its treatment, to share with others. This is really to show you the nature of my involvement with neuropathy. In the course of all that research, I've come across various con men and scams in that time (especially in shady clinics in the States) as I'm sure you have. It upsets me greatly when people set out to make money out of the desperation of people with neuropathic pain. People will jump at anything which promises to take their pain away but we all know that nerve damage is not curable (in the long term) and the medications to reduce pain are limited. It is inconceivable that a product such as Normast would have escaped the attention of the major pharmaceurical companies if it were genuine. They're only aim after all is also to make money...but only from successful and tested products (the FDA makes sure of that).
If anyone can find the ingredients and their proportions, or even a number of people who have genuinely benefited from Normast (without having to use other things alongside) and not those on the forums written by keppel hesselink himself, then maybe things will become a little clearer. My neurologist here in Amsterdam is convinced that people who claim to have done well with Normast are showing placebo effects rather than genuine physical improvement and relief from the symptoms.
Keppel Hesselink remains under suspicion here in the Netherlands but like in all bureaucratic systems, the wheels of change move very slowly, so it may be some time before he is forbidden to practise. He can't be struck off the register because he isn't on one - he is only a self proclaimed acupuncturist here in this country and is not recognised as a professor, or as holding a chair in medical pharmacology at a German university. Proof of this is in those two Dutch links I included last time - sorry MrsD, I realise this is putting the onus on you but you need genuine proof and my translating them, is not convincing enough i fear.
I just feel that people should be very careful about ordering Normast - don't believe all you read and do your own research (outside the company's own sites). If you can't find anything then that should be suspicious enough. Having said that, from what I can see, Normast will not do direct harm but a homeopathic treatment cannot mend broken nerves and its painkilling properties are doubtful considering that the body makes PEA itself. If we need a supplement, then it first has to be proved that we have a deficiency and Ergomax and Epitech can't do that.
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