That Ginkgo Biloba Won't Help You - And It May Not Even Be Ginkgo Biloba
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 13:50
in Mathematics & Economics
If you are buying herbal dietary supplements like Ginkgo biloba (G. biloba) to boost cognitive capacity, the first thing you should do is stop spending money on herbal dietary supplements like Ginkgo biloba and the next thing you should do is wonder how, in a completely unregulated market, you can even know if it is real. It might not be. Even the olive oil industry thinks supplement makers need to be more honest. A new study in Genome used DNA barcoding to test the authenticity of Ginkgo biloba (G. biloba) found that almost 20 percent of samples didn't even have any. read more