hi kathie you wrote: >I found the following in the Thorne Abstracts... >I don't think they sell anything, but I could be wrong according to their website which i will not point anyone to since i don't advocate free advertising for for-profit ventures thorne research inc are quite proud of the fact that they have been a 'leader' in the nutritional supplement business since 1984 so their 'abstracts' are a quite cleverly disguised means of promoting their or their suppliers' products medline/pubmed have no references to phos... for the past 3 years the british medical journal lancet jama nejm and webmedlit which tracks 22 medical journals have nothing to say re phos... there are several medline abstracts from 1989 to 1993 published by european sources which i'm not familiar with re memory and cognitive improvement in the elderly and with alzheimers in conjunction with phosphatidylserine but nothing since i wonder why? there is mention of bovine cortex phosphatidylserine does this mean an extract from cow's brain? is this a mystery? yours in cybeeria janet [log in to unmask]