When I Googled
"Di-Dehydroepiandrosterone" the only result that I got that even looked like a clinical study was this:
http://www.wondersinscience.com/arch
ives/2005/0207/novelpheromone.html
Taken at face value, that abstract might lead one to conclude that
Di-Dehydroepiandrosterone, when applied to the skin over a 12 week period, would in fact raise plasma blood
pheromone levels and increase one's sexual attractiveness.
However, there may be those among you who, like
myself, DO NOT take things at face value. Even if you were willing to apply a product for several weeks to see
results, you may still have some questions. For instance, you might ask, "Why would a major research facility like
the University of Chicago conduct what would obviously have been a very expensive clinical study using a commercial
pheromone product rather than sourcing it from a reputable "Bio-Chem" supply company?"
Additionally you might ask,
"Why aren't the authors of that study credited on that abstract?"
I didn't know the answers to these
questions.
So I decided that the answers might be in the study itself.
Going to the "Search" option on this
page : http://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/ and entering
"Di-Dehydroepiandrosterone", I was disappointed to find that "Di-Dehydroepiandrosterone - did not match any
documents.", as you can see here:
http://www.google.com/u/uchicago?q=Di-
Dehydroepiandrosterone&sa=Search
(If you're doubtful whether this search function accesses the scientific
database, try entering "pheromone" or just plain "Dehydroepiandrosterone" and you'll see that it does.)
Not
fully convinced that it may have been an oversight that this abstract had not been entered into the University of
Chicago's database, I ran the term "Di-Dehydroepiandrosterone" on a Google Scholar search":
http://scholar.google.com .
Again, "Your search -
Di-Dehydroepiandrosterone - did not match any articles. "
(http://sch
olar.google.com/scholar?q=Di-Dehydroepiandrosterone&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Search)
I then ran
several of the key phrases from the (alleged) abstract that appears near the top of this post through both the U of
C search and Google Scholar, and still didn't come up with any hint that this study, or in fact ANY study on
"Di-Dehydroepiandrosterone" was ever conducted.
So, as it so often happens in the pursuit of truth, I find
myself puzzled by even MORE questions than I started with. Does Di-Dehydroepiandrosterone actually exist? Is it
conceivable that a pheromone company would concoct a bogus abstract to try to promote their product?
But the
bottom line question on this forum would of course be, "Is Pherlure any good?"
My answer would be simple. I don't
know. I haven't tried it.
Oscar :)