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Originally Posted by mrsD
Hello Sol, nice to see you again. For the posters here, for the record, I referenced Examine.com a short time ago, and Sol, came on that thread too. It was to correct a typo that I found there.
I think that site has great promise. But people who are not used to reading scientific studies need to realize that studies sometimes are all over the place, and not perfectly designed sometimes. It is the same (or maybe worse with drug studies, which can be deliberately skewed, or have ghost writers, etc).
The supplement field lacks the funds for doing many studies, so any that ARE done, are welcome as far as I am concerned.
I find that information is valuable on the net, and I welcome it in fact.
I did look carefully, but it was at 4am this morning, at Examine.com again, and I didn't see B12 studies. I just looked again.. 
So Sol if you are receptive to my idea, I think B12 should be on there. This is a hot topic here at NeuroTalk BTW and has been for years.  |
I'd like to send people to our about - both to see who we are that run it, and also our advisory board.
The reality is that the manpower we have is finite, and to do proper research takes time. It took us 6 months to fully do Vitamin D, and Vitamin C has been in-progress for a very long time.
We have a master list of supplements to hit, and we are slowly but surely chipping away at them. There are tons of supplements - in the past week we just finished MSM (popular for joints), krill oil, and chia seeds.
In regards to the scientific mumbo jumbo - I agree
It can be overwhelming, and one of our big revamps this month is to our Human Trials Database. Instead of focusing on statistical significance, we have changed the focus on clinical significance. This will make it far easier to see what supplements have what effects. A preview for caffeine: **
We've also been expanding our meta-data on each study - we now include trial length, body type, and gender. In regards to funding, when the funding is suspect, we do note it (eg all of the pro-CLA research was funded by Kraft, the largest supplier for CLA).
Hope that clears away any concerns people have. We take what we've been building (for over two years) *very* seriously. If you want to know more, we were recently interviewed by SNI: ** (SNI is operated by ISSN, which has their own peer-review journal).
[I had to break up the URLs as I am a newbie poster]