urso/ how do they get the Bear bile?

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Hi, Does anyone know how they get the bile from the bears? I have a picture in my mind of a bear with a t-tube inserted and a little bile bag attached. Thanks Litton

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,

I'm pretty sure they mix it up in a lab somewhere -- it's synthetic

now. Like Valvoline motor oil! Before science could duplicate it

though, many bears lost their gallbladders and their lives.

Here's some text from:

http://hdlighthouse.org/TreatmentNow/updates/0032ursodiol.php

The medical use of UDCA [ursodeoxycholic acid] dates back to at

least the 2,000 years of documented Chinese medicine. As a major

component of bear bile, UDCA was used to treat almost every

imaginable human condition. In our enlightened time, UDCA does not

come from bears. Although low cost UDCA has been synthesized, UDCA

may be one of the many beneficial drugs that are rescued byproducts

from food processing slaughterhouses.

Dana

(Mom of Josh, UC 3/04, PSC 4/04)

> Does anyone know how they get the bile from the bears? I have a

picture in my mind of a bear with a t-tube inserted and a little

bile bag attached.

>

> Thanks

> Litton

[Guest guest]

Dana, Thanks when I asked the Pharmasist she looked at me like I was from Mars. Dana wrote: ,I'm pretty sure they mix it up in a lab somewhere -- it's synthetic now.

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