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HN really upvotes some dumb medical articles, come on, n=20 about peppermint?

• rozap 23d ago
  Silence, we have disruptive direct to consumer peptide startups that need to pump.
  • red-iron-pine 22d ago
    do the peptides have n < 20? cuz if so they may have more reason to sell than the bloody mint oil
• binarymax 23d ago
  I've got an n=65 about hibiscus and blood pressure, which has been better well known for awhile. https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2008/study-shows-consuming-hibiscus-tea-lowers-blood-pressure/ https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2008...
  • spathi_fwiffo 23d ago
    now we need a study of adding Peppermint oil into hybiscus tea.
    • SwellJoe 23d ago
      A Mediterranean place I used to eat at weekly served a hibiscus mint (spearmint, though) tea. Pretty nice.
    • cicko 23d ago
      I'll do a n=1 study on that
• ChickeNES 23d ago
  From PLOS One as well! I remember in college, I was taking a bio class that taught how to read journal articles...and a psych class that was assigning them. Psych class assigned almost solely PLOS One articles...which didn't survive the criticism I was being taught in the bio class lmao
• pessimizer 23d ago
  If there's anything consistent about HN as long as I've been on it, it's that HN is orthorexic.
  • doublepg23 23d ago
    > orthorexic New word of the day!
    • Ylpertnodi 23d ago
      Nah, been around a while, now.
• inglor_cz 23d ago
  Doesn't it make sense to run a small trial before running a big trial? Also, peppermint oil is unpatentable. Neither Merck nor Novo Nordisk can hope to make billions from it, and without the profit motive, the list of institutions with both the budget and the will to fund a 500+ participant study is pretty short. This might be the best we can get. And yes, I get that a small trial has less of a value...