Complementary Health

As well as often taking a large number of pharmaceutical medicines, older people are also big users of complementary therapies and natural products.

It sounds like something from science fiction, but shooting fish oil capsules with lasers might hold the key to seeing inside them and detecting potentially harmful levels of oxidisation.

Huge textbooks have been written about the best ways to undertake research, how to statistically analyse data and how to interpret research findings.

This short article discusses some of the basic principles health professionals should employ when looking for studies and assessing their results, to decide how they should be used when giving advice to patients.

They may not have the support of the entire medical sector, but natural health products are a big part of New Zealand’s retail scene, particularly for pharmacy.   

As well as often taking a large number of pharmaceutical medicines, older people are also big users of complementary therapies and natural products.