I feel convinced that Allopathic doctors are biased against the health benefits of herbal and homeopathic medicines. Naturally, they would not like to deprive themselves of material benefits, which are associated with allopathy. The trillion dollar world health system will not let dollars sway away that easily.

Any comments?

Hi Donald, no–stinging nettle should not make weight loss harder. Oxidation is a process by which free radicals can damage many important molecules in your body, including fats. This does not refer to stored fat, as in fat mass. It mostly refers to fats in your cell walls and small fatty particles in your bloodstream (like LDL). When these fats are “oxidized” by free radicals, they become dangerous and can clog arteries. In this sense, stinging nettle protects against oxidative stress/tissue damage. It doesn’t negatively affect fat loss.

Hi Rev,
We always aim for comprehensiveness and we would gladly include information about long-term safety if it was available. However, clinical research on many botanicals is limited and so is the long-term safety research in animals. We always point this out in the limitations section. No doubt, additional clinical research focusing on chronic use would be an important contribution to our knowledge. But unfortunately, it’s not available, which means that any mention of it would be misleading.

I personally want to know if I can add something to my regime for LONG TERM USE or use it for SHORT TERM USE ONLY. It’s a consideration that should be added to literally every single substance you review, and actually quite irresponsible to not add it.

Many times (and again just recently) I’ve discovered that a “safe” herb (or any substance) that has been in a supplement is indeed safe for SHORT TERM USE ONLY. But long term use has detrimental effects on XYZ. Again, herbs especially can be extremely powerful and not meant for long term use.

I actually came to this article because I googled “STINTING NETTLE LONG TERM SAFETY”.. Not exactly sure why it showed your article as you make no reference to long term at all. However you seem to want to be thorough, so to do that I suggest you stop overlooking the extremely important aspect of LONG TERM/SHORT TERM SAFETY…for EVERYTHING YOU REVIEW. Until you do, your reviews are woefully incomplete.