evaluating "clinical studies" claims, Hydroxycut(T
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evaluating "clinical studies" claims, Hydroxycut(T
A few months ago I noticed that a large number of weight loss supplements were claiming to have an increasing number of “clinical studiesâ€
Out of interest, why are you specifically highlighting Hydroxycut, as opposed to Joint Care supplements, or Eye health supplements etc etc, or perhaps even other Hydroxycut equivalents, like Aromastat, Lipovarin 7, Thermoslim etc etc?
Is this a specific example, just to highlight a point, or a product with one of the worst offending types of conducted trials / reasearch.
Is this a specific example, just to highlight a point, or a product with one of the worst offending types of conducted trials / reasearch.
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Great question. This is just an example of how to use critical questioning to evaluate any supplement. Hydroxycut was used as the example because everyone has heard of it, and seen the persuasive commercials. This review does not disprove the supplement, but it does reveal that the studies used to support the product have major flaws.
A lot of clinical studies are misleading.
I heard of a study on some kind of wellbeing product, supposedly with good science, that turned out to be quite well conducted, but on HIV patients, which invalidated it to quite an extent.
The things I always advocate especially with some supplements, is trawl the internet for user reviews. The amount of sites like this that have people saying what stuff worke,d was too pricey, was rubbish etc etc.
Also check sites with independant write-ups, where the listed product(s), have an unbiased individuals view(s), like a Bodybuilder or an Independant scientist, who have no specific or finaincial reason to discuss it.
Sites that look good, with molecular drawings etc etc, look nice, but if they then offer special offer codes, links to sites that sell, 50% off etc etc, it might not be easy to trust what you read, incase they omit things like risk of mild infrequent side effects, evidence of efficacy etc etc.
I heard of a study on some kind of wellbeing product, supposedly with good science, that turned out to be quite well conducted, but on HIV patients, which invalidated it to quite an extent.
The things I always advocate especially with some supplements, is trawl the internet for user reviews. The amount of sites like this that have people saying what stuff worke,d was too pricey, was rubbish etc etc.
Also check sites with independant write-ups, where the listed product(s), have an unbiased individuals view(s), like a Bodybuilder or an Independant scientist, who have no specific or finaincial reason to discuss it.
Sites that look good, with molecular drawings etc etc, look nice, but if they then offer special offer codes, links to sites that sell, 50% off etc etc, it might not be easy to trust what you read, incase they omit things like risk of mild infrequent side effects, evidence of efficacy etc etc.