This was a pre-pre-clinical study, or what I like to call "Putting chemicals onto cells in a petri dish" Not exactly a high level of evidencepic.twitter.com/OgouKyBRoS
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This was a pre-pre-clinical study, or what I like to call "Putting chemicals onto cells in a petri dish" Not exactly a high level of evidencepic.twitter.com/OgouKyBRoS
There's really not that much more to it. Study is here:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/7/4/89 …pic.twitter.com/ewVssnYlxb
There were 10 essential oils that, when poured over bacteria in a petri dish, killed a bunch of them From this, we get the ridiculous headline
Remember, only 8% of products that are tested in vivo (living organisms i.e. rodent studies) make it to a clinical treatment The rate for in vitro studies like this is even lower
So, potentially, one or MAYBE two of these will result in a treatment Even then, it's worth remembering that the treatment might not work so well in actual people
When you read about people doing things to cells in a jar, it's important to note that this is totally different from doing it to actual people in the real world XKCD put it very wellpic.twitter.com/KOps0Gu6gk
All of that aside, this study is still very problematic because of it's relationship with Lyme disease/Chronic Lyme It was funded by 3 organisations that appear to support the idea of chronic Lyme infectionspic.twitter.com/jg0FcxrUfo
The study author also appears to explicitly endorse the idea that Lyme infection persists in the body long-termpic.twitter.com/e5cLprFJ8N
Now, there is quite a bit of debate about Post-Treatment Lyme Disorder/Syndrome (PTLD/S), but there is little genuine question about "Chronic Lyme"
In short, Chronic Lyme does not appear to be a true health issue. There is likely a post-treatment disorder that Lyme causes, but there is no active infection behind this
@skepticalraptor covers it very well here:http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/chronic-lyme-disease-scientific-evidence-supporting/ …
So even if these essential oils were effective at killing Lyme bacteria, the purpose that they are being tested for is very much questionable
Anyway, maybe some essential oils are better at killing Lyme cells in petri dishes than antibiotics But then, so is bleach. And FIRE
The real test is in vitro studies in animals, then actual clinical research in human beings Until then, I'm going to label this "almost certainly nonsense"
Blog on this study now uphttps://medium.com/the-method/essential-oils-cant-treat-lyme-disease-ae94d404147d …
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