Scientific_Methods
Scientific_Methods t1_ix5on5f wrote
Reply to comment by rebuilding-year in Honey improves key measures of cardiometabolic health, including blood sugar and cholesterol levels -; especially if the honey is raw and from a single floral source. Honey is a complex composition of common and rare sugars, proteins, organic acids and other bioactive compounds by Wagamaga
Especially if you do no follow-up confirmatory studies.
Scientific_Methods t1_iraxe39 wrote
Reply to comment by Joe_Q in is it possible to synthesize proteins chemically? by yeeturking
To add to this. Many proteins require post-translational modifications that bacteria cannot perform. In those cases yeast cells are often used to produce the protein.
Scientific_Methods t1_jdzxvhb wrote
Reply to comment by and_dont_blink in Study Suggests Wild Blueberries Help Burn Fat. Results showed participants burned notably more fat after consuming wild blueberries. For example, fat oxidation rate rose by 19.7%, 43.2%, and 31.1% at 20, 30, and 40 min after cycling. by Wagamaga
I agree with the other poster. This isn’t an ideal study but you’re being disingenuous or didn’t really understand the study design.
The washout happened prior to either control diet or wild blueberry supplemented diet. There is an issue with the control as you pointed out. But it’s not nearly as egregious as you make it seem. The WB powder provides an additional 100 calories per day. That should have been easy to replicate those calories in the control diet and so I’m confused as to why they either didn’t, or didn’t mention it in the methods.
I would take this study to mean that eating colorful fruits is likely to help you burn more fat. With more experimentation needed.
Finally. It’s very common for companies to donate drugs/supplements/specific foods to researchers for their studies. When I’m designing a study to test a specific drug I will contact the manufacturer to see if they are interested in donating drug for the study. And they often say yes. I acknowledge them appropriately but there is nothing nefarious about it.