“Are you just an ass or are you just trying to get a rise out of people?”

I don’t know; are you deliberately trying to insult my intelligence, or is it just something you stumble into?

“What do Gwyneth Paltrow, Alex Jones etc. have to do with Medicine?”

Don’t ask me: ask the TWO HUNDRED BILLION DOLLAR AltMed and Supplements global industry, of which they are a gleefully active and profitable part.

“If you think physicians are looking at Ayurveda/TCM/Yoga etc”

True. Physicians also look at Ayurveda to figure out why patients keep getting heavy metal poisoning.

(Irony! The purity cult that screeches about miniscule quantities of aluminium adjuvants in vaccines fully approves the shovelfuls of real toxic heavy metals deliberated added to their own beloved products!)

TCM and Yoga I mention below.

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“Here is something for your edification; [PM link]”

Oh, this is hilarious. IANAS and even I can detect the low-quality stink emanating off that. Sample extract:

“In a similar randomized placebo-controlled single-blind pilot trial, 20 male healthy, moderately active volunteers were randomized to receive either 1 g curcumin twice daily (200 mg curcumin twice a day ) or a placebo 48 h prior to and 24 h after a downhill running test. Subjects in the curcumin group reported significantly less pain in the right and left anterior thigh. Significantly fewer subjects in the curcumin group had MRI evidence of muscle injury in the posterior or medial compartment of both thighs. Increases in markers of muscle damage and inflammation tended to be lower in the curcumin group, but significant differences were only observed for interleukin-8 at 2 h after exercise. No differences in markers of oxidative stress and muscle histology were observed.”

I leave readers to dissect out all the obvious jokes.

Claiming and massively overstating purported health benefits of off-the-shelf products is SOP for your multi-billion dollar global Supplements/SCAM industry, who profit wonderfully selling off-the-shelf product at outrageous markup with sod all evidence for efficacy and even less regulation to ensure consumer safety, thanks to all the paid-off politicians and shysters on their books.

(And then Alties claim Pharma is bad at this! Pharma only wishes it had the margins and leeway that SCAM has.)

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“Read the book”

Why? Herbalism is at the cutting edge of 18th-century medicine. Big whoop.

Meantime, real medicine already has Pharmacognosy, which is the rigorous scientific study of plants and other sources in nature to find pharmacologically interesting compounds. And something like half [IIRC] our modern pharmacopeia is descended from substances originally found there; refined, understood, improved on, and successfully mass-produced.

Hell, Big Pharma’s even sifting through TCM’s vast heap of manure in search of the occasional nugget (they even found one too!). So despite Alties’ claims to the contrary Big Pharma is delighted to make huge heaps of money out out naturally-derived medicines too. While AltMed is delighted to sell all the useless leftovers Pharma already threw out.

That’s what science does: pulls out the good bits; chucks the rest.

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“You are also very wrong about "Yoga and Meditation" being merely "Exercise and Relaxation".”

I said “essentially”. As in: Exercise and Relaxation are the useful aspects, which real medicine already promotes. And the endless streams of ego-fluffing fabulist nonsense that True Believers and Salesmen hork on top is just the standard bait-n-switch into the overall scam. I thought it could go unsaid; clearly not. I lower my expectations accordingly.

Oh, and one last thing: “Gish Gallop”? Really, what is this; Echolalia Day for Quacks? ’Cos you’ve not seen Gish Galloping till you’ve read it in the original Ayurvedic comment thread, one thousand-plus long: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/ayurvedic-practitioners-pus...

I rest my case.

Religions are like colons: most everyone’s got them, and yours is well full of it.