Very few know that Shiv ji created a dietary Phyto-protocol specially for Ganesha.
And it was called SHIV GUTIKA.
The complete note on that is in our blog post:
Dietary supplement
For those looking to science for guidance, it can be confusing when a new study comes out and a nutrient that was seen as beneficial one day is questioned the next. “Medicine is an art as well as a science, and through the years we’ve made a lot of mistakes,” said Dr. Roxanne B. Sukol, medical director, Wellness Enterprise at the Cleveland Clinic.
Dietary supplement is a fast-growing industry estimated to be 40 billion in USA alone but without any control or test. Huge discounts make them attractive side income but do they help consumer is question.
Take example:
EMMA, the dietary supplement claiming to solve digestive woes, touts a "Doctor Endorsed" label from a qualified gastro-enterologist. While not an outright scam, EMMA exemplifies the unregulated world of dietary supplements, where cherry-picked ingredients and deceptive marketing often overshadow scientific evidence.
In this case the “Doctor” turns out to be Dr. Gina Sam who judging by her educational background is certainly a qualified gastro-enterologist.
EMMA with promises to “give your gut a vacation.” Not sure what that means, but it seems to have something to do with pooping easily every day and “pooping out up to 10-15 pounds of bloat” in the first month of use. I wonder how the good doctor, who is said to have developed the product, went about measuring that amount of “bloat” whatever that may be.
Let us try to shed some light on the shady world of dietary supplements. To start with, such products are very loosely regulated, to say the least. While prescription drugs have to be backed by extensive studies, dietary supplements can be sold with evidence that would not pass muster at a high school science fair, and in the U.S. can be marketed with no evidence at all.
A common scheme is to dredge the scientific literature for some study for some natural substance that has been shown in some way to have some sort of physiological activity. That is not hard to do because just about anything when tested in the lab or in an animal will have some sort of effect, sometimes positive, sometimes negative. Then cherry pick the positives and plunk those ingredients into a pill or capsule, along with some vitamins and minerals for good measure, and claim the product is "science based." While there may be some evidence for some of the components, although usually not at the dose found in the supplement, there is no evidence for the supplement as a whole since no trials have been run. Therefore the "science-based" claim is bogus. It does not mean the supplement cannot work, just that there is no evidence it does. Of course, there will be all sorts of anecdotes from people who claim that their miserable life has been turned around by the doctor’s miraculous discovery, but in terms of science, that does not amount to a hill of beans.
In the case of EMMA, which is aimed at people who "struggle with digestive health," whatever that may mean, nineteen ingredients have been assembled. When it comes to such supplements and their list of ingredients, the more, the merrier. And people do not pay much attention to amounts. For example, EMMA contains 50 mg of chicory root inulin, and indeed inulin is a type of fiber that can soften stools and increase bowel movement frequency. But at a dose of several grams a day, not 50 milligrams! The same goes for deglycyrrhizinated licorice. There is some evidence for anti-ulcer effects, but at doses of grams per day, not 50 mg.
Probiotics
Probiotics were successfully tried with Diarrhea But then:
Probiotics are also thought to help restore friendly bacteria to people whose intestinal stores have been depleted through antibiotic use. Yet a large-scale study published in the Lancet in 2013 found that giving probiotics to adults 65 and older on antibiotics did not lower the risk of diarrhea compared to subjects who took a placebo.
And a placebo is a strong tool and that helps the industry in default.
Anti-oxidants
Dr. Dalin of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, who worked on the research published in Science Translational Medicine while at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His working theory is that, if anti-oxidants save normal cells from DNA damage, they are also saving the cancer cells, causing them to spread. “On a personal level, I would tell cancer patients to be very careful about taking anti-oxidants,”
So being careful as consumer is great idea. Nutrition is best come from food. True these supplements are heavily concentrated compared to food but there is hardly any evidence is it also useful to user.
In that case Shiv Gutika makes sense as dietary supplement
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