Not really, the error is still there and its an egregious error.
It seems you failed to grasp the basic structure of Ong and Tan's results. Consider how many times the two distinct mechanisms of AR activation by
Eucommia are mentioned:
(i) Title of paper: "Novel
phytoandrogens and
lipidic augmenters from Eucommia ulmoides"
(ii) "Here, we report that the tree bark (cortex) of the Gutta-Percha tree Eucommia ulmoides possesses
bimodal phytoandrogenic and hormone potentiating effects by lipidic components". (p.1, emphasis mine)
(iii) "(1) a phenomenal tripartite synergism exists between the sex steroid receptors (androgen and estrogen receptors), their cognate steroidal ligands and
lipidic augmenters isolated from E. ulmoides, (2)
phytoandrogenic activity of E. ulmoides was mediated by plant triterpenoids binding cognately to the androgen receptor (AR) ligand binding domain." (p.1, emphasis mine)
(iv) "the existence of
phytoandrogens is reported in this study.
Furthermore, a form of tripartite synergism between sex steroid receptors, sex hormones and plant-derived lipids is described for the first time." (p.1, emphasis mine)
(v) "A series of bioassay-guided fractionation showed that the
phytoandrogenic and hormone potentiating effects of E. ulmoides were mediated by distinct groups of phytocompounds; triterpenoids and short-chain lipids respectively". (p.2, emphasis mine)
(vi) "Fraction AB with dominant phytoandrogenic activity was subsequently re-chromatographed in C-18 matrix using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to obtain a phytoandrogenic fraction (AB-P1) of even greater purity. AB-P1 fraction was subjected to thin layer chromatography (TLC) and a phytoandrogenic triterpenoid fraction TLC4-5 was recovered for molecular mass measurement using electron spray ionization-mass spectroscopy (ESI-MS)." (p.3) [This concerns triterpenoids as an AR agonist]
(vii) "Subsequent 1H NMR and GC analyses of active fraction CB showed the major presence of the 8-carbon polysaturated fatty acid, caprylic acid, along with other lipids (figure 13 and table 1). Bioassays using pure caprylic acid and other polysaturated fatty acids (PFAs) correlated with the augmenting effect of E. ulmoides on the AR (figure 14) in varying degrees" (p.6) [This concerns the synergising effect of PFA and natural ligand on AR activation.]
(viii) "The novel discoveries reported in this study add
phytoandrogens and
lipidic augmenters to the emerging list of hormomimetics (such as phytoestrogens) known to exist in plants." (p.7, emphasis mine)
Obviously at that point (the third quoted line) but not before "short-chain lipids" are excluded, which I obviously missed.
Sorry but you missed at least seven slabs of text that either explain or reference the distinction between PFA/ligand synergy and phytoandrogenicity.
In any event, caprylic acid is not a triterpenoid. Triterpenoids have a C30 structure and caprylic acid has a C8 structure. That you could miscategorise caprylic acid as a triterpenoid suggests that you actually don't understand caprylic acid nor any of the triterpenoids.
Further, it is unclear that
Eucommia even contains caprylic acid.
Takeshi et al (2001) conclude "the main components of the bark are iridoids and lignans" (p. 1058). Don't get excited, caprylic acid is neither an iridoid nor a lignan. Lignans are phytoestrogens. What did Takeshi et al find in
Eucommia ?
No Caprylic acid in sight.
Sellers of bulk Eucommia don't sell it as a source of caprylic acid. It either has no caprylic acid (and Ong and Tan botched up and that is a distinct possibility since no-one has replicated their results (Google Scholar turns up 1 article and 2 books, so its a paper of little significance) or the quantities of caprylic acid are negligibly small.
Finally, the article doesn't actually answer whether fascia stretching is the mechanism by which SEOs primarily work.
I'd mark your article a solid
E (on the scale A=Excellent, F=Fail). Conflating triterpenoids and PFA is a grave error and the paper doesn't tell me anything about the supposed mechanical mechanism of SEO on fascia besides retelling the anecdotes about Platz and Parrillo.