Dietary-Supplements Books

I have ordered many books through Amazon and I am normally very happy, but not this time. With my last book order, most of the books were ragged at best and the copy's were very old. I am not sure what happened this time. Also, can I send the book back, we cannot use it?

Sunshine Lambert

Primarily this book simply proves that most of these compounds do NOT work - and what little advance is detected is likely due to a mild placebo effect. Pretty much each chapter (covering a separate substance) is the same. It starts out with a disclaimer that "there have been no human trials" on this substance (and in most cases no animal trials either... and where trials were conducted, massive doses were used or no measurable changes were detected - and in most cases the ones conducting the "study" (which is never fully cited of course)are clearly biased due to their involvement in promoting the product (like most Maca "research" is done by Peruvian government funded researchers who have a bias towards creating a new - and high income - cash crop for Peru's agriculture business.

The rest of the author's "examination of the substances" consist of two parts. First, he takes the product himself - sometimes just for one day! - and the reports what he noticed "different". No double-blind, placebo controlled testing, no blood testing of hormone levels, etc., etc. And then he concludes by throwing in one or two anecdotal reports from one of his patients as to the positive effect they supposedly had with this substance. Also he marginalizes the cost factor of taking the much, much larger amounts of some of these compounds that need to be taken to achieve the "supposed effect".

One having hormonal-deficient sexual problems (libido, ED, etc.) would be much better off (including financially) to get their hormone tested and then - if necessary go on a hormone replacement therapy (HRT) program using NATURAL bio-identical hormones as needed!

Would not waste my money on this book. This author has this same type of junk scattered across the Internet - and is just as foolish in his other "scientific reporting".

Don't waste your money on this product. Not enough info. Just do a google on emu oil.