Pieter Cohen
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 Jan
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Did it come from a lab or did it come from a plant?
It's what are the precise components in that health product?
If there's more than one, what's the ratio of those?
If there's one, precisely how much there is.
How is that ingredient or ingredients absorbed into the body?
And then once that's standardized, we can understand its health effects.
There is no clear distinction between pharmaceutical drugs and botanical preparations.
Red yeast rice is a great example.
Red yeast rice is a fermented rice product, kind of like making beer.
You combine yeast with the rice and make red yeast rice.
And one of the fermentation byproducts, there's a compound called monoclonal K.
And that compound is precisely the same chemical as lovastatin, which is a statin drug.
That's a perfect example of this overlap between precisely the same chemical.
And we've done research on a similar plant alkaloid like that called galantamine, where it's found in plants and has been part of some traditional botanical remedies, those plants have.
And it's also isolated, synthesized, and used as pharmaceutical drugs.
So there's no real distinction between these.
But I would say that unless you're standardizing the production of something, you really can't understand its long-term health effects.
It does seem like the current social media environment makes it very difficult to get accurate and useful tips and advice to stay at the forefront.
But this isn't just a problem that started with TikTok.
I'm sort of reminded of the evolution of the Dr. Oz show.
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