From: Tanweer Syed, M.D.
Subject: Re: question about the creams
Date: July 1, 2007 4:46:25 PM HST
To: Brady Barrows

Dear Brady,

I am traveling and replying your email while I am in Hong Kong. You can modify
or edit this email as you wish I am with you.

Dear rosacea forum marathons,

Thank you for your email with questions from our rosaceans. I think there is a
great misunderstanding about green tea extract. What I am using is AN ANALOGUE
of GREEN TEA Extract with distilled water with a proprietary formulation and
that is totally different in exhibiting clinical properties as compared to other
commercially available green tea extracts. Both Diamond and coal are chemically
carbon but physically different the same is here. If our lovely rosaceans do not
know the difference they should google or ask some undergraduates in chemistry
to explain the difference between an analogue and other isomers. Coming to the
formulation I am hearing from many of rosacea forum patients that there is no
list of ingredients, here I must say I do not need any marketing or sales
gimmick to promote the customized cream contains only an analogue of green tea
extract and water. Please be informed I am fully preoccupied with my national
and international clientele and do not need additional publicity to persuade
rosacea patients to buy green tea extract hydrophilic cream. Legally my first
request to all of you is to see your local dermatologist and fully try
everywhere when you have no hope then come to me. Again further clarification,
there are absolutely NO, ALCOHOLS, PROPYLENE GLYCOLS, PARABENS, ORTHO, META,
PARA HYDROXY ACIDS, OILS, FRAGRANCES, ORGANIC OR INORGANIC CHEMICALS in this
cream. There is no Caffeine in true green tea extract, rather Catechins. When I
say the customized cream contains ONLY an analogue of EGCg and water I do not
need to write it separately the ingredients list. May be common sense is not
common. By mixing different concentration of EGCg at different temperature level
of of water I get different forms of cream. Let me explain you the basics of
cream technology. In general cream formulations contain 75 percent water and 25
percent oil soluble ingredients. We heat both of them separately at 75 C
presuming pasteurizing. Now if we mix and stir oil soluble phase into water
soluble phase at certain mixing speed we get oil-into-water hydrophilic cream
which is water soluble and have cooling effect while testing on the back of
palm. If the same process is reversed and mix water soluble phase into oil phase
we get lipophilic cream which impart greasy or warm sensation on the back of
palm. One can see how mixing is important while getting quality products. As I
said all bakers use the same ingredients but the taste of cookies different. We
have Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola where basically they are using the same
formulation but getting different taste, can anyone dare to ask Coca Cola to
divulge the formulation. In medicine we have generic names and each
pharmaceutical company is offering same generic with different brand names. One
can see the quality. I am not reinventing the wheel but must say it takes
several years and lots of funding to become a dermatologist. Many of my
colleagues are still paying their study loans so many times they are under
stress too. If a patient cannot afford the fee the patient should sue the
government to arrange free medication and not to blame hard working
dermatologists. On the other side when a patient visits and pays visiting fee to
get a prescription medication the total is in general more than USD 200.00 with
no assurance or guarantee to get cured or healed. Because dermatologists do have
their limitations too. Many times after several sessions of IPL or Laser
treatments many get great results and some do not get the same results so it is
not wrong with the dermatologist or procedure. Each patient reacts differently
and one should not blame dermatologist or procedure. All rosacea patients have
one thing in their minds that there is no cure for rosacea and most of the
medications are meant to suppress the symptoms so with this in mind placebo
interfered and many times the medication or procedure do not show the expected
results, because there is no faith involve in the first place. I believe instead
of blaming one another we should strive to health authorities to consider
rosacea seriously and offer funding to rosacea forum to conduct reliable
clinical studies. Medically rosacea may not be fatal but may ruin the whole life
of an individual seriously. The other side is that many dermatologists do not
have the time to research just for rosacea and most of the time our rosacea
patients know more than dermatologist. Here they want to dictate the
dermatologist to prescribe what they want without realizing that medical
practitioner has limitations and may not jeopardize the medical license or
sometimes their ego. Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches, just think if
one of rosacea patient is a medical practitioner what would be the behavior.

For the last several years working mainly on Rosacea, seborrheic dermatitis and
acne patients and backed by clinical studies I have noted that by varying
different composition of an analogue of EGCg we got creams that have shown
clinically beneficial and encouraging results to cure such skin disorders. After
looking at continuous efforts to help rosacea patients from Brady I offered
voluntarily to answer your questions or I should say your curiosities about an
analogue of green tea extract. Since 2006 every where the prices have gone up
including laboratory expenses, postal services and shipping etc. I am unable to
lower the standard of cream, however, for a short time I promised to Mr. Brady
Barrows to offer USD 100.00 to USA and Canadian residents only. For
international rosacea patients is also USD 125.00 instead of USD150.00 when they
order thru rosacea forum. Please keep in mind I am doing it purely on
voluntarily basis. I have 24 hours and sleep only 5 hours at this age. I charge
USD 350.00 per 30 minutes as my visiting fee with 8-10 weeks waiting period. I
am always traveling even then most of you know I reply to your emails promptly.
I do not have a big organization with large profit margin to offer samples etc.
and also not selling a product either. I sincerely welcome logical technical
questions and discourage to see questions about meaningless list of ingredients.
I hope I have replied to most of you. Please try what suits you and you feel
comfortable. If you think by buying green tea extract from a store and mixing it
with a cream helps you please do so, may be it works for you and not to others.
Again I humbly request you please do not blame dermatologists, blame the system.
Think positive rather cursing medical practitioners that will lead you nowhere.
Dr. Syed

For More info >

http://www.rosaceans.com/html/drsyed.html