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A HONEY
OF
AN
IDEA
This is one of
those “I’ve got bad news and good news” stories.
Here is the bad news: Peyronie’s disease (PD) usually is given a bleak
outlook based on current medical thinking. There is no strong research that currently proves
any treatment method consistently or significantly
improves the course of PD. Yes,
PDI agrees with the medical establishment, there is currently no
proven medical cure
for PD.
Here is the good news: We think that the lack of a known or
accepted medical “cure” shouldn't discourage the man with
PD at this time, since there are so many safe and
non-controversial natural and alternative therapies that have earned good --
but non-conclusive -- reports in research from around
the world. As you know from reading
reports about various therapies, there are
many encouraging therapies from which to choose. There is
potentially very much that can be done for PD outside of
standard medical treatment, with encouraging science to back
it up.
Scientific research is slow and deliberate; it is often
contradictory, and it is sometimes – often – driven by the
profit motive. Some PD research shows favorable and positive
results with vitamin E, or MSM, or carnitine, or Nattokinase,
etc., while other research of these same substances indicates just as
unfavorable and negative results as the others are positive. Some research shows that
only such a small percentage of men with PD are helped by
conservative management that the results are not
scientifically significant, or the results are inconclusive,
or they are contradicted by other equally valid research. In other
words, PD research is often contradictory, vague and
undependable.
Many treatment methods are never studied because there is not enough
potential profit to justify the high cost of such research.
Just as a wild example, what if honey was actually an
effective
treatment for PD? Yep, all you had to do was eat some honey or
smear it on you, and a short while later your PD would be
gone. What would be the motive for a large drug company to do
the research proving that honey was a good treatment of PD?
None. If honey was a proven cure for PD only some beekeepers – and you
– would benefit. Without profit, research usually doesn’t
happen.
If honey was the cure for PD, the
research would never get done, and scientists would be
correct to say there is “no research available to prove
its effectiveness.” Of course that lack of proof would be by their
design. That is the dilemma of alternative medicine, and it is the
basis for the indifference and lack of treatment for PD.
PDI thinks there have been enough favorable findings for many
therapies – fully acknowledging research
and studies that contradict and refute them – that a person should
investigate these inexpensive and naturally occurring therapies to learn their
therapeutic benefit firsthand. Please note that for all
of the therapies (vitamin E, DMSO, carnitine, copper, etc.)
that are sometimes given negative results, there are other
favorable and positive studies of these same therapies that
contradict the negative studies. The therapies that
PDI suggests
are scientifically grounded, safe, economical and adequately
proven to a degree necessary to justify their cautious and
limited use in treating PD.
So don’t be too bothered by a current lack of proof for theses PD
treatments. PDI thinks it has “A Honey of an Idea “ for you.
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