This is Why I Don't Get Too Excited Over Animal Studies

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This analysis shows that despite close concordance to human diseases, and seemingly promising early results, therapies developed from animal studies result in an FDA-approved therapy for humans only about 5% of the time:

Animal studies rarely lead to approvals, new research finds (fiercebiotech.com)

Curing inflammatory gut diseases in cattle or rodents is fine, but I don't start getting my hopes up until I see solid results in humans.

 

[Andersen007]

There is only one reasonable option left - dressing up as a cow and switching to an Exclusive Grass Nutrition diet. Last time I tried, they didn't let me out of the hospital for a year, was sedated and fed every single day. My slogan: no time for Crohn's when you can be a moose! Never felt so much care before, 10/10 would do it again.

 

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The best option is to somehow get turned into a mouse. Mice have been cured of every serious disease there is, often multiple times - as in cancer. Mice have been cured of cancer more times than I can count. And of course the mice are not the least bit grateful. They go on their murine way completely oblivious to all the effort and money spent on their behalf.

 

[Jo-mom]

Now now - our murine friends are contributing to Remicade, so we can't be too hard on them.