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Strategies & Market Trends : Bill Wexler's Profits of DOOM
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To: Bill Wexler who wrote (474)3/20/1998 11:50:00 AM
From: BDR  Read Replies (1) of 4634
 
<I was reading up on DHEA. I've never seen such a load of pseudoscientific crap in
my life.>

Bill- I have been watching the rise of HEPH with some dismay. As a practitioner of traditional medicine I am becoming more discouraged all the time with the scientific illiteracy of the general public. Coupled with a distrust of institutions, the lack of understanding about what constitutes scientific evidence has allowed the rise of a wide variety of marginal therapies like DHEA. Some say that these sort of things can't hurt but they do divert an individual's resources from more productive uses. Many of them are the elderly on limited incomes. In the worst cases real harm can be done by delaying or countering truly useful therapies. While I don't know how much of a rise in testosterone one could expect to see with DHEA, I have heard of prostate cancer patients taking DHEA to feel better. They may in fact be further stimulating their cancers growth. Where I am located now I have had several patients forego proven therapies with high cure rates for "safe" herbal therapies south of the border.

Enough of my rant. I was hoping that the scrutiny required of a public company would sink something like HEPH, but perhaps all those people out there buying DHEA are thinking "Hey, I can invest in this stuff now through HEPH!"
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