solotripper wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2012 at 6:36pm:

When you say "real science", is that Western science/medicine your referring too?

I do not believe that Western med has the only keys to the kingdom.  What it does have is the burdon of proof.  The ability to say what and how and to be able to replicate those results.

Much of the unregulated world goes by the spurious logic found in the shark cartilage for arthritis example.  Sharks don't get arthritis egro their cartilage must cure/treat arthritis.  Yeah.  Right.  Sharks don't have bones.

An unregulated industry makes all sorts of claims without any proof at all.  Not even the burdon of proof.

Modern science can explain it, if it does in fact work.  They just need to do a study.  So when they show me a double-blind study on tart cherry extract I'll believe it actually does what the study says it does.

I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm saying that I was unable to find any proof that it works.  The proof may be out there, I just didn't find it.  I'm not about to spend a lot of time looking for it either.  It's not my money.