Rhonda Patrick· PhD
so as all of you know animals mostly rats and mice are used to spare having to do some of these experiments on people and so what usually happens what frequently happens maybe covet 19 is going to be an exception but what frequently happens is you have cell culture work you have or in vitro work where you add chemicals to cultured human cells or animal cells in a petri plate you get positive effect or not then you move to trials where you like it or not sacrifice mice to the cause of science and use and if you're lucky enough and there's a rodent model of a disease um you get some results and then maybe you'll do a pre-clinical study to verify safety and then you'll go to a full-fledged clinical study to look at efficacy so a lot of animal studies i'll get back to a few citations but there is one now there's one posted clinical trial in china in um uh zeixang university um and it will be looking at 160 160 subjects with early alzheimer's and they're going to be giving sulforaphane it was posted for start date of sometime in may of 2020.