The Japanese have been obsessed with it since the study came out and have a variety of treatments (tannins in persimmons and greentea) though none have passed large scale clinical trials :)

I was fed a YT video about it recently so it must be part of the "moment". Also a topic on menopause blogs from searching.

https://asayujapan.com/blogs/asayu-blog/persimmon-soap-answe...

https://miraiclinical.com/pages/why-this-ucla-trained-anti-a...

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bookofjoe 2 days ago | parent [-]

2001 paper's authors and affiliations:

Shinichiro Haze Send email to shinichiro.haze@to.shiseido.co.jp ∙ Yoko Gozu ∙ Shoji Nakamura ∙ … ∙ Kiyohito Sawano† ∙ Hideaki Ohta† ∙ Kazuo Yamazaki† Affiliations & Notes 1 Shiseido Co. Ltd., Product Development Center, Yokohama, Japan * Shiseido Co. Ltd., Basic Research Center, Yokohama, Japan † Takasago International Corporation, Central Research Laboratory, Hiratsuka, Japan

You'd think Shiseido would've put this on the front burner what with Japan's aging population but no sign of a product — lotion/spray etc. — after 25 years!

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dang 2 days ago | parent [-]

Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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