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The CoCoA study: 90 individuals over sixty, eight weeks, three doses of cocoa flavanols. What did the primary endpoint achieve and what COSMOS did not show.

Chinese magnolia vine and the liver, endurance, and drugs. We check which data comes from humans and which from animals, and how schisandra changes drug concentrations.

A 167 percent increase in sperm concentration sounds strong, but it is calculated against the baseline. We check what was really measured and against what.

A meta-analysis of twelve studies separates what is usually lumped together: sleep quality, insomnia, acute anxiety, and generalized anxiety. The results are varied.

Agaricus blazei and insulin resistance and liver. We describe studies involving humans, including a report of severe liver damage in cancer patients.

Common yarrow has an EMA monograph based solely on traditional use. Check the four registered indications, contraindications, and time limits.

Common motherwort without myths: EMA monograph status, indication for palpitations of a nervous origin, clinical study results, and a full list of contraindications.

Dabbing is the vaporization of a concentrate on a heated bowl. Measured temperatures, degradation products, differences compared to vaporization of flower, and the legal status in Poland.

Phase 3 studies MAPP1 and MAPP2 measured the effect of MDMA-assisted therapy in PTSD. We check what their numbers mean and why the FDA refused registration.

The Johns Hopkins studies and the COMPASS trial measured the effect of psilocybin in depression. We check which results come from phase 2 and what is known about phase 3.