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My sister (a doctor) sent me a review of this, and the general implication was overwhelmingly AGAINST ephedra (which coincides with legislation against ephedra, eg in illinois and california). Browsing around medline, I can't even find much to implicate ephedra for anything non-transient. The current thrust (including of the afore mentioned article) is that ephedra promotes 'short term weight loss' but is 'extremely dangerous.' This sounds very...fishy.
My sister (a doctor) sent me a review of this, and the general implication was overwhelmingly AGAINST ephedra (which coincides with legislation against ephedra, eg in illinois and california). Browsing around medline, I can't even find much to implicate ephedra for anything non-transient. The current thrust (including of the afore mentioned article) is that ephedra promotes 'short term weight loss' but is 'extremely dangerous.' This sounds very...fishy.