From: Harvey Newstrom (harv@gate.net)
Date: Thu Nov 19 1998 - 23:39:51 MST
Patrick Wilken wrote:
> Keep in mind that rats are nocturnal animals and we are diurnal. This makes
> them less than an ideal test model for humans (there cycles aren't simply
> reversed from ours, but are different).
This is a big problem with animal tests. They often don't apply to
humans. As noted in my _Nutrients_Catalog_, many vitamins such as B7,
B8, B9, B10, and B11 were proven in animal experiments, and then later
we found out that they don't apply to humans at all.
-- Harvey Newstrom <mailto:harv@gate.net> Author, Engineer, Entrepreneur, <http://www.gate.net/~harv> Consultant, Researcher, Scientist. <ldap//certserver.pgp.com>
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