Show HN: A Platform For Self-Experimentation
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Show HN: A Platform For Self-Experimentation
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#2If this can somehow preempt experimentation on animals, I'm all for it.
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#3I would not mess with Saint Johns wart. It will make you feel happy and cheery; but side effects are brutal. And if you participate in other drugs it might have harsh side effects.
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#4I would not mess with Saint Johns wart. It will make you feel happy and cheery; but side effects are brutal. And if you participate in other drugs it might have harsh side effects.
And it's been banned in EU in 2011.
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#5This makes me wonder if there is a simple procedure for doing a pseudo-double-blind study on oneself (without a third party). That is, trying something that can be prepared in pill form in such a way that you don't know during any given day/week/month if it was a placebo, but that you can still determine that later to collate the data. I know a lot of people that swear by particular unregulated supplements or dietary choices and it would be really interesting to have an easy way to see if something they're taking is having the effect they think it does.
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#6I would not mess with Saint Johns wart. It will make you feel happy and cheery; but side effects are brutal. And if you participate in other drugs it might have harsh side effects.
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#7It's hard to do a test like this when there's a significant chance you're buying nothing but powdered rice regardless of what the bottle says.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/sidebar-whats-in-th...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/herbal-supplements...
Want to do a double-blind study on whether St. John's Wort improves your mood? None of the bottles tested from Walmart, Target, GNC or Walgreens actually contained any St. John's Wort in 2015. That's despite all the reports years earlier about the same problem. There's little reason to believe things have improved or will improve so long as supplements remain largely unregulated.
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#8It's hard to do a test like this when there's a significant chance you're buying nothing but powdered rice regardless of what the bottle says. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/sidebar-whats-in-th... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/herbal-supplements... Want to do a double-blind study on whether St. John's Wort improves your mood? None of the bottles tested from Walmart, Target, GNC or Walgreens actu…
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#9I would not mess with Saint Johns wart. It will make you feel happy and cheery; but side effects are brutal. And if you participate in other drugs it might have harsh side effects.
And it's been banned in EU in 2011.
A quick google search makes it sound more like all herbal medicines are now more strictly regulated but not banned.
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#10I would not mess with Saint Johns wart. It will make you feel happy and cheery; but side effects are brutal. And if you participate in other drugs it might have harsh side effects.
And it's been banned in EU in 2011.
It's still available for sale from the biggest herbal supplement retailer in the UK [1]. That fact alone makes this claim seem unlikely.
[1] http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product/holland-barret...