Posted on 01/19/2017 10:58:30 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Of the fifty-one thousand products introduced since 1994, only 170 (0.3 percent) have any documentation of their safety
Americans spend more than $32 billion a year on more than 85,000 different combinations of vitamins, minerals, botanicals, amino acids, probiotics, and other supplement ingredients. 1
While it costs millions of dollars to develop and substantiate a pharmaceutical product, selling supplements requires no such investment. And new products are easily sold as supplements. The only common feature among them, as defined by the FDA, is that these are edible things not intended to treat, diagnose, prevent or cure diseases. However, this is why people take them. 2
You swallow everything Merck,Ciba-Geigy, Pfizer, Eli Lilly tells you?
Do you fill your sons up with Ritalin and your daughters with Garasil?
Gardasil.
Also, once again, my facts vs. your fiction/feelings. Too bad you never bothered to learn much about the life sciences when you were in school. I know, I know, it was too hard and hurt your brain. You should have tried harder, though. It could have saved you from posting idiocy here and forcing us to respond to it.
Mase resorts to the last gasp of a bankrupt propagandist—the ad hominem attack.
My cousin sells herbalife. Her sister says it is fake.
Have you ever taken anything produced by the evil pharma industry? Did it stop your headache or relieve your fever? Did it stop the infection? Did it clear up your zits? Did it allow you to have a cavity filled without having to pull you off the ceiling? Did you ever get inoculated against childhood diseases that used to kill 30% of all children before they reached age 5?
Buyer beware indeed. Damn those pharmaceutical companies! Bastards!
Fenugreek cures body odor. I knew a guy who stank like Limberger, but after he started drinking fenugreek tea, he started to smell like maple syrup. For real.
Good to know that in case I ever have that problem.
Interesting.
I’d like to read the research on that, if you don’t mind pointing me to it.
Thanks!
The biggest problem in the supplement world isn’t that there’s anything toxic in them, it’s that there isn’t anything substantive in them. Most of them run at 1 or 2 parts per million, they’re basically pill filler that was once in a room with the stuff they say is in them.
The FDA deemed this poison safe and beneficial... After exactly the type of study this article claims makes drugs safe.
“Unlike with prescription and over-the-counter drugs, dietary supplements do not have to be proven safe or effective before they can be marketed. “
Most have been used for thousands of years - safely.
“They can make any claim they want to make about their product and don’t even have to include a list of ingredients or the quantity of biologically active ingredients in each dose.”
False. The FDA regulates all claims - and even names of products. They also put companies out of business when they disapprove.
“But those supplement guys aren’t like big bad pharma guys now, are they? They wouldn’t lie about the efficacy of their product.”
Some have lied. Some exaggerate. This is as wrong when they do this as the scam claims made for drugs. Both are wrong when they occur.
BTT
CBD oil was recommended for my skin cancer on my forehead.
It is supposed to create a unwelcoming environment for cancer.
I permanently installed a vaporizer in a cabinet in my garage, and now I get my CBD oil directly from the source!
I’m guessing it was about 2012. I’m on my phone but Google would probably get you there.
I’d like to see the research. I’ve seen the fish data but I am only aware of two fish oil studies and neither showed improvement in either CVD disease or death.
I’m home now. This NIH article refers to a meta study completed in 2012 it is probably the one I am remembering.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3786657/
The preventive medicine task force now recommends against prescribing fish oil.
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