With the growing popularity of Ozempic-like drugs natural alternatives have fallen into the eye of mainstream criticisms. How much of these concerns are genuine or lacking context?
"If you don’t watch the news you are uninformed. If you watch the news you are misinformed." I love that quote!
One additional perspective: the media derives much, maybe most, of its advertising revenue from pHarma. Berberine is cheap, effective, much safer than the pHarma drugs, fewer side effects. With a knowledgeable herbalist, even more effective. Gee whiz! Send out the attack (reporter) dogs
I heard Viva Frei use it quite often. I think it's a good quote, although the media still seems to not be able to fully inform its audience. That segment from The Today Show is really remarkable in its ability to tell absolutely nothing at all.
Like I said, I won't go into whether Berberine is cheap or effective, but if the media is going to go on a sort of witch hunt then I'd hope they provided decent evidence, and instead they all kind of hit the same talking points.
I don't deny the fact that a lot of these companies seemed to have propped up Ozempic in contrast to Berberine. At the end of the day it's the lack of consistency in these reports that I find frustrating. I certainly think there's a lot of concerns with these sorts of drugs, as I have written about previously.
Possibly. I think part of it is also the media's need to try and save us from killing ourselves. It more reminds me of that whole scare over that strange hydroxychloroquine death where a wife gave her husband, I believe hydrochloriquine? Not sure, but there's that case as well as the case of the supposed Ohio hospitals being filled with people who were "too stupid" that they took Ivermectin, which was eventually discredited. The media has an inflated ego where they think they are saving all of us.
Berberine derived as in one of its metabolites? I'd have to look into it. The language in some of these reviews seem to suggest that metabolites of Berberine show bioactivity and are what may get passed into the bloodstream and provide some health benefit.
Not sure. Again, I haven't looked too deeply into it and really just framed my post around some of the things I saw in the press. I'll likely save a more in-depth assessment of berberine for a later time.
No problem! Hopefully the conclusion didn't get too confusing. I find that in a lot of these longer posts I tend to lose my train of thought by the end of them unfortunately. 🤦♂️
"If you don’t watch the news you are uninformed. If you watch the news you are misinformed." I love that quote!
One additional perspective: the media derives much, maybe most, of its advertising revenue from pHarma. Berberine is cheap, effective, much safer than the pHarma drugs, fewer side effects. With a knowledgeable herbalist, even more effective. Gee whiz! Send out the attack (reporter) dogs
I heard Viva Frei use it quite often. I think it's a good quote, although the media still seems to not be able to fully inform its audience. That segment from The Today Show is really remarkable in its ability to tell absolutely nothing at all.
Like I said, I won't go into whether Berberine is cheap or effective, but if the media is going to go on a sort of witch hunt then I'd hope they provided decent evidence, and instead they all kind of hit the same talking points.
I don't deny the fact that a lot of these companies seemed to have propped up Ozempic in contrast to Berberine. At the end of the day it's the lack of consistency in these reports that I find frustrating. I certainly think there's a lot of concerns with these sorts of drugs, as I have written about previously.
Those magazines are full of pharma ads. Pretty sure the word came down to slam any cheap/generic alternative to Ozempic. Ivermectin, anyone?
Possibly. I think part of it is also the media's need to try and save us from killing ourselves. It more reminds me of that whole scare over that strange hydroxychloroquine death where a wife gave her husband, I believe hydrochloriquine? Not sure, but there's that case as well as the case of the supposed Ohio hospitals being filled with people who were "too stupid" that they took Ivermectin, which was eventually discredited. The media has an inflated ego where they think they are saving all of us.
Check out HighTide Therapetics: they are doing clinical studies on a berberine derived molecule
Berberine derived as in one of its metabolites? I'd have to look into it. The language in some of these reviews seem to suggest that metabolites of Berberine show bioactivity and are what may get passed into the bloodstream and provide some health benefit.
I think berberine is better used as an endothelium repair agent than for fat?
Not sure. Again, I haven't looked too deeply into it and really just framed my post around some of the things I saw in the press. I'll likely save a more in-depth assessment of berberine for a later time.
Thanks for the info. 👍🏽💕
No problem! Hopefully the conclusion didn't get too confusing. I find that in a lot of these longer posts I tend to lose my train of thought by the end of them unfortunately. 🤦♂️