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About Us
Who
are we and why should you trust us?
A bit about us and our mission...
Our mission for creating this website www.natural-remedies-review.com
is to provide you and your family with high quality, easy-to-understand
and unbiased information on natural and herbal remedies. What
good is our knowledge if we don’t share it with others?
The reviews we provide are based on scientific research studies. We
trust these reviews to look after our family's health.
My name is Tom Chua. I am pleased to be able to tell you about myself
and my wife Doris. We are both practicing pharmacists serving the
health needs of communities in British Columbia, Canada.
About us and our education - Some Basics
I
graduated from the University of British Columbia with a bachelor
degree in Pharmacology and Therapeutics. I then obtained a second
bachelor degree in Pharmaceutical Science (Pharmacy).
I have been a practicing pharmacist for over 15 years.
My wife Doris, also a pharmacist, graduated from the University of
Alberta with a bachelor degree in Pharmaceutical Science (Pharmacy).
She has been practicing pharmacy for 15 years as well.
We got a degree
but we didn’t get a complete education
You see,
in our school years, we were taught about using prescription
drugs to treat various health problems and diseases. That was fine,
except for one thing.
We both noticed that treatments of ailments with
natural remedies were never mentioned or suggested. It is as if natural
medicines did not exist.
As a matter of fact, one of Doris’s instructors told the entire class
that natural medicines do not work and that it would be a waste of
their money. She didn’t believe anyone needed to take vitamins or
minerals, let alone herbal supplements. (Perhaps she had a perfectly
balanced diet and is in perfect health? She probably thought she was
immortal as well.) Doris did not believe her.
It was then that she embarked on her own personal journey to discover
the healing powers of natural and herbal remedies. She never looked
back since then.
My journey was similar. I had no training in natural remedies as it was
not part any of the courses I took. I was forced to study natural and
herbal remedies outside of the classroom.
What We Want to Share with You
If you
feel the same way, then this is what this website
www.natural-remedies-review.com
is here for. We don’t just write a quick
one-paragraph review about the latest weight-loss diet pill.
We
review
it in detailed looking at current published studies. As it takes time,
we typically add natural supplement reviews bi-weekly. It
takes
time to do the research but we enjoy it. We also write shorter
information fact sheets and provide quick answers to frequently asked
questions herbal supplements and vitamins and minerals as they are
important as
well.
This online natural and herbal remedies review website represents over
30 years of our combined experience and knowledge in natural medicines.
Don’t be surprised if some
natural
supplements have very little research done on them even
though everyone
seems to be talking or taking them!
The truth is a lot of natural and herbal supplements don’t have a lot
of reliable research studies done on them. We will report on the
evidence that exists and provide you with our best evaluation possible.
We will also provide folk remedies to give you a sense of the other
options available.
Do you notice how most website say incredible things about a certain
herb? I’d look that up and find only one or two research papers done on
that
product. Scary.
A
client came in one day showing me an advertising brochure asking for
"what I think about this fruit." This company claimed their fruit
extract
cures about 25 different diseases! It seems every health conditions
that can start with "anti-" (such as anti-inflammatory,
anti-cancer, anti-diabetic, anti-hypertensive, etc...) were on there.
However, we were
not able to find a single well-designed published research study done
on humans to support any of the claims made. (Please, don't
ask us to mention what the fruit is.)
We are not saying that this fruit doesn't work for these ailments. What
we
are saying is that there is no scientific evidence that it
works.
The claims made by the manufacturer of this fruit
far exceeded any evidence of its benefits. Good for the company; bad
for your bank account. You may still want to try it nevertheless, but
at least you have the facts to work with.
On the opposite side, we have this popular herb called garlic. It has over
3000 published papers done on it both on animals and humans. That
is an amazing amount of research done on just this one natural
supplement.
You also won't find us taking the alarmist approach (like most
pharmacists are trained to do) and tell you to avoid them because we
don't know much about it. This opposite approach does not serve your
family's health needs either.
As pharmacists, we
want to provide you with all the sensible options backed by
some scientific
evidence. We aim to give you a
balanced approach to treating your ailments using natural remedies.
Best wishes to you and your family’s health.
Tom Chua,
B.Sc, R. Ph.
Editor
Doris Chua,
B.Sc, R. Ph.
Research Specialist
Revised: January 28, 2010
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