Greenpower: thanks for posting all this data.
Can you say what astragalus supplement you used? The only one I found which was listed as "0.5% glucosides, 70% polysaccharides" was Solgar SFP Astragalus (http://www.houseofnu...Vcaps&ovtac=CMP) but this is now listed on Solgar's site as "triterpene glycosides, 0.5%" (http://www.solgar.co...le-Capsules.htm). Now foods, on the other hand states that it is (Standardized to min. 70% Polysaccharides), but doesn't mention glucosides(http://www.nowfoods....%26%20Mushrooms).
Thanks in advance.
Ok, now I am now feeling kind of stupid. Especially after my remark that I prefer when the manufacturer write out in detail what's actually in their supplements. It would be nice if I actually read these details myself.
This is the content of the supplement I took some time before the baseline test: http://www.yournutri...exd.asp?id=2023
- Standardised Astragalus Root Extract (0.5% glucosides; 70% polysaccharides) 225mg
- Raw Astragalus Root Powder 250mg
For the last six months I've been taking this supplement: http://www.solgarnor...ot+extract.html
Please note the label. Then compare it with the text besides the picture - the ingredients don't match. I therefore think they must have changed the description of the ingredients just recently and I didn't bother to look closely at the specification of the content. Therefore I've copy/pasted the contents from my old post (#287) into succeeding posts.
So apparently I was wrong. At the back of the bottle I'm holding in my hand they seem to have changed the formula to the following.
- Standardised Astragalus Root Powdered Extract (1mg [0.5%] triterpene glycolides) 225mg
- Raw Astragalus Root Powder 250mg
I also mailed the Canadian lab and asked them about the error margin on the flow-FISH test. The answer was that they estimate their measurement error to be "around 0.3 kb for lymphocytes and 0.5 kb for granulocytes". I mailed them back and have asked for the error margin of the NK cells as well.
I will post the answers when I get them.
Edited by GreenPower, 11 December 2010 - 11:30 PM.