Herbal Viagra not herbal
Filed Under (Health & Fitness) by Don C on 06-03-2008
Sounds like they are actually putting some of the real stuff in the fake stuff to make the fake stuff work. How clever is that?
Several unscrupulous drugmakers have given their herbal erection pills a pinch of special ingredients — chemicals that are terrifyingly similar to real Viagra and Levitra. Dutch public health scientists caught them while analyzing a batch of seized pharmaceuticals.
WTF is with the “terrifyingly similar” comparative? If Viagra and Levitra is so terrifying why are so many people taking it? Is it just terrifying to the drug makers? Or is it actually dangerous? Given the amount of money at stake in the limp penis market how can one ever believe what anybody says? One thing is for certain though, whatever the truth of the matter is, there are some very concerned people looking into it to it. For safety reasons, or course.
When several unusual molecules showed up in their initial screen, the scientists did some further analysis with a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer. It can give detailed information about the shape and composition of a chemical. Using that instrument, de Kaste and his colleagues verified that they had indeed found molecules which are very similar to prescription erectile dysfunction drugs, but not quite the same. When the researchers purified and tested the synthetic additives on a phosphodiesterase enzyme, the protein which erection pills affect, they learned that each of the phony medications was nearly as strong as the approved ones.
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