Snake Oil Website

[kimballot]

This is a neat site for evidence-based supplement usage. Supplements are listed as bubbles. The higher the bubble, the stronger (more valid and reliable) the research study behind it; the bigger the bubble, the bigger the research study (eg: more people) behind it.

EDIT: oops... just read the legend - the bigger the bubble, the more google hits it got..

 

Lay your curser over the bubble to find out what the supplement was used for in the research. Click the bubble to get to the abstract for the research study.

 

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/

 

I think Buster should make one of these for PANDAS articles.... Buster... Are you out there??

Edited May 13, 2011 by kimballot

[MomWithOCDSon]

Way cool, thanks!

[LNN]

Cool idea. What's interesting tho, and a little "disappointing" is that some supplements are listed low on effectiveness but the focus of that supplement is for something we on the forum don't think of - e.g. tumeric/curcumin for cancer, when we think of it for inflammation, or milk thistle for hepatitis when we use it for detox, quercetin studies that look at athletic performance when we discuss its antihistamine effects. But still a cool concept. Thanks.

[kimballot]

Cool idea. What's interesting tho, and a little "disappointing" is that some supplements are listed low on effectiveness but the focus of that supplement is for something we on the forum don't think of - e.g. tumeric/curcumin for cancer, when we think of it for inflammation, or milk thistle for hepatitis when we use it for detox, quercetin studies that look at athletic performance when we discuss its antihistamine effects. But still a cool concept. Thanks.

 

Yes- each bubble is a study - so you could have a very high bubble for a supplement and a very low bubble for the very same supplement... For example,vitamin D is low for heart, but very high for overall health... so you really need to lay your curser over the bubble to see what the study is.

 

they also sayt that they welcome comments and new evidence -so if anyone knows of a study that is not on there... send it in!!