busyThe dye is decades old. It took this long to notice the beneficial effect because food science and neuroscience are treated as totally unrelated fields. This demonstrates why too much cutting of subjects into little pieces is bad thinking: you can miss extremely useful connections.
Also, nobody wants to fund studies for humans. Right now there is no treatment for spinal injuries. This might be one. Why aren't people leaping into action to see if this would actually work on humans? Because the dye is extremely cheap. It would be too hard to make a profit. THIS is a key reason why our health care system is broken and unaffordable: the prime motive is profit, and cheap treatments can't attract research funding. Folks, we should be ALL OVER this line of research. We should be all over anything that promises a strong health benefit at very little cost.
Would someone in a sane country please call this to the attention of your scientists, in case it works out?
I'll also add that checking oral delivery would be helpful, in case that might be effective, because after all it's food dye. Imagine being able to stash a couple of blue pills in a first aid kit in case of suspected spinal injury. It'd be a lot faster than a trip to the emergency room -- similar to the current advice of taking aspirin for a suspected heart attack.
July 29 2009, 23:07:11 UTC 11 years ago Edited: July 29 2009, 23:09:31 UTC
Monsanto had to be sued by the people of India to keep them from trying to patent the active constituents of Neem - which is naturally antifungla, antibiotic, antiviral and is also one of the most extraordinary non-toxic to humans or pets insecticides on the planet. This is something they have been using for free as a part of thier cultural heritage for millenia and some American corporation wants to put a patent...on a PLANT so that anyone that uses it has to pay them? This is the same Monsanto that produces genetically engineered crops so that farmers etc are forced to buy from them.
The Medical Establishment of the AMA, the FDA, Pharmaceutical companies et al are not in business for people to be healed or to get well. 75% of the people in this country that are on drugs are on them, whether it is for depression, asthma, indigestion, erectile disfunction, fibromyalgia, hyperactivity, ADD or some combination thereof are on these drugs for the rest of their lives. It is all about return business and profits - and Americans pay more than any other country because we do not have subsidized healthcare or caps on what these companies can charge.
The best thing we can do, any of us, is educate ourselves so that we are empowered to take care of ourselves. Emergency care in modern hospitals is great, and the current medical establishment is great for diagnosis...but as one of those people who is now without insurance, self reliance is a way of life. It's back to Ayurveda, Acupuncture and the herbs - and I know I am going to be much better off because it.
I am also going to put some blue food colouring in my first aid kit now. ;)
July 30 2009, 01:30:21 UTC 11 years ago
Meh, drug companies, drug dealers. It's all the same business model.