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Sugar has a big effect on your body. Thankfully these pills are apparently completely inert rather than sugar.

Eating sugar pretty much only has negative side effects on your health. It is an inflammatory substance for one, and it also suppresses your immune system. It might make you feel good in the very short term, but aside from the initial sweetness and physiological rush you get, there's nothing good about it.

Morale of the story:

Listen to the Earth and all its children, and it may save
you and your children.

We are finding cures in nature that have baffled science
for many years.

http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20050105/curry-spice-may-fight-alzheimers-disease

http://diabetes.webmd.com/news/20031205/cinnamon-helps-type-2-diabetes

http://www.chimachine4u.com/AA.html

http://www.healingdaily.com/conditions/saliva-ph-test.htm

actually, this is based on a report that was posted in an internation medical journal that showed the results of 13 countries. I remember reading the whole report a while ago so I googled for it and found this article that referenced it. Sadly, the link back to the report is missing.

Here is another article that references this year 2000 report, which may have more complete data:

http://www.healingdaily.com/Doctors-Are-The-Third- Leading-Cause-of-Death-in-the-US.htm

The message of this original report that I found surprising is that this was measuring the success rate of only people who DID receive medical attention in the hostpital and DID pay their medical bill. So poor people could not have been a cause of the US stats. This article was only compairing people who went to the hospital with illness, so the life expectancy of the whole US public doesn't play into it. The fact is, if you have the cash to pay for the medical treatment, you are less likely to be cured in a US hospital than one in another country. You'd be much better off to go to Cuba, for instance, which has one the best medical systems in the world. Japan is rated number 1.

Your saliva is not usually acidic.

http://www.healingdaily.com/conditions/saliva-ph-t est.htm

Doctors (their mistakes) are the 3rd leading cause of death in the USA.

http://www.healingdaily.com/Doctors-Are-The-Third- Leading-Cause-of-Death-in-the-US.htm

This article is a little extreme. Almost half are due to unforseeable drug effects. But still, a good reason to doubt your doctor.

Not exactly "research."

--MarkusQ

I've been using neti for years to improve my nasal bandwidth. I had no idea they made it into a distributed.project...

$100 billion is a non-negligable amount of money, not an "all it took" sum. Much like Newtonian physics breaks down when you start talking about planets and galaxies, with an undertaking this massive and expensive, simple economics can't be relied upon to ensure the socially desirable outcome is reached--even though said outcome would be probably the most profitable invention in the history of mankind. Getting those type of resources behind a single endeavour necessarily entails government intervention, if not for funding then at least for coordination. And therein lies the problem, a classic dilemma of political economy: our government is run by or (in prior administrations) at least beholden to people who have a very strong, vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Companies like Ford, Halliburton and Shell are making money hand-over-first in the oil economy, so why desire the politicians they've bought to research something new and unknown? Etc. etc. this stuff is obvious.

Consider another example: we spend (coincidentally) about $100 billion a year (http://www.healingdaily.com/conditions/politics-o f-cancer.htm) treating cancer. Yet we spend only a fraction of the (like 2%) on research each year. Why is that? It seems like a no-brainer on paper: even if one had to spend $500 billion (unlikely), the profits anyone who held that patent would reap would be much, much greater indeed. Yet no one comes close to spending that much, and cancer research is almost ignored by the private sector and grossly underfunded by the public. What is that?