Frankly, any remedy that is ‘marketed’ is bound to be overly expensive, as those marketing costs must be bundled in. I don’t think I’ve ever bought anything advertised…most heavily advertised products are simply a cheap product + the cost of advertising. These vendors are out to make a buck, they aren’t out to improve people’s health, and they wouldn’t give a damn to finance studies.
Part of the problem here is economic. Private studies can only be profitably conducted if you can patent and claim exclusive domain over the cure. But herbal remedies, for instance, cannot be patented, and thus experience strong price competition; paying $5 for a bottle of 100 pills is not uncommon.
This provides a thin profit margin, but not enough to actually finance research. If one company finances research, they would have to increase their prices to compensate…and if the research showed positive results, it would be the cheaper competitors who would benefit the most.
I don’t really have a solution to this. It’s a tricky problem, and seems to be a market failure, that requires alternate means of financing research to solve. It would certainly help if Universities spent more resources on researching alternative cures…
As for Cancer, let me say that if you follow ANYONE’S advice without looking into it thoroughly, including your MD, you are doing yourself a disservice. You might be totally resistant to any course of action that would not include chemo/surgery; fair enough. But at the same time, you should be equally resistant to any path that does not also include a complete analysis of diet and whether it is meeting your needs optimally. Nobody ever died from drinking too many green smoothies…
