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Comments on: Japanese cook up cancer-busting synthicurry

Curcurcurious 

Posted Tuesday 6th November 2007 18:10 GMT

If the natural compund loses efficacy quickly on ingestion, it is interesting how it was orginally identified as cancer preventing. While the "growth suppressive abilities" (presumably in vitro?) look good at "30 times" the mice results of "42 and 51 percent better" than control are disappointing, i.e. statistically unconvincing. Don't you think?

I wonder if they tried 

Posted Wednesday 7th November 2007 00:05 GMT

Joke

giving mice enemas of the substance thereby bypassing the stomach and small intestine. I want two thousand mice given a curry enema stat.

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