I probably won't take part in your study. Frankly, as I followed this thread and saw that a journalist was taking part, I was angry-I felt you were just snooping around for a story, acting like one of the gang.... I've enjoyed the sense of community I feel here with the other supplement-addicted folks like me. I've also enjoyed the semi-anonyminity of posting (yes, someone prolly could find out who I really am but at least, for now, I can pretend I'm posting as a Malbec-swiggin' man.) Having a journalist around suddenly felt like this sense of trust was being violated. You've certainly ignited the discussion and brought out some good points which I've now enjoyed. Do you intend to ultimately write a story about this and for what audience?
Journalists are everywhere. Think of them as normal forum members who share your same interests, but who then go to write about it. Much like bloggers. And how could you get pissed off at bloggers?
Some journalists are ok, some are good people and some are dirtbags. I would not trust a stranger just because they said they wrote for somebody. Frankly, I'm not so sure it's a good idea to have a lot of new publicity over it. The price has been coming down and that will make it spike up again.
It's true, I
could use information found in this forum in an article. If you post anonymously, I would leave you as anonymous; if you identify yourself clearly, I might use your name. I understand that could be uncomfortable. Revealing your name to a community of you've voluntarily entered, isn't the same as revealing it to the world.
Maybe if you guys want you could have a vote about it or something. Maybe it would be better for someone else to take up the project I have proposed if you are uncomfortable as far as what I would do with the info. (I wouldn't use info from that project in my site except in anonymous form, unless I have the permission of the relevant person.) I could bail out of here if you guys want your close-knit sense of community back -- no hard feelings, I totally understand.
As far as raising resv. prices -- I think our website is too small to have this effect. Prices haven't risen despite articles all over the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, etc. ... I doubt they'll go up because of my articles. My articles, in response to malbecman's question, are written for the entire public. I write 'em on all subjects, from astronomy to zoology... but when I write about resv., my purpose would be the most obvious one, giving people useful info that might help them live longer. Our website is free, by the way, so it's not like I'd be selling the info. (But I do make money off the advertising on our site. And obviously, I'd like to personally benefit from what useful info could be learned from my project.)
Perhaps a 2 stage approach to Jack's proposal might be helpful. At this early stage, posting is often highly subjective, given the short time many people have been ingesting relatively larger doses of resveratrol, both extracts and synthetic.
Personally, although I've been taking lower doses for years (mostly via Longevinex), in past weeks and months my dose has increased comparatively massively, and includes a variety of resveratrol sources from extract and synthetic forms.
If interested people could start keeping a personal log including dates, amounts of resveratrol ingested, type (extract with percentage purity and source vs. synthetic), time of day/dosing schedule (QD, BID, TID, etc. +/- food, liquid, etoh-wine, etc.) objective measurements (bp/pulse, basal body temp., fasting glucose, other lab studies, weight, physical performance related such as running times, weight lifting personal maximums, etc.) as well as more subjective observations (mood, energy, appetite, libido, stamina/endurance, etc.), it would likely be much more easily tabulated in a thread with specific and standard format and more easily analyzed than attempting to collate scattered posts from this thread.
also age and gender are critical dimensions. If resv is moderating damage or improving metabolism then it should be most apparent in those in whom the damage has already happened.
Both excellent ideas in my view. So then, my idea would be to continue for now in this thread, since others including the thread founder have assurred me I'm not off-topic. I would still ask people to post any subjective (but still honest & careful) observations in this thread, as I asked before. But when it comes to people actually posting entire logs, which they hopefully will, such reports would probably be best posted in a separate thread created for the purpose. I would be willing to start that when the need arises. I don't mind taking it upon myself to collate scattered posts. Basically some of the posts would be an integral part of the conversation here, others may belong better in the other thread, and we can deal with that as the need arises.
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