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Herbal And Dietary Supplements—Buyer Beware
Canada Free Press ^ | 01/19/17 | Jack Dini

Posted on 01/19/2017 10:58:30 AM PST by Sean_Anthony

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To: Mase

You swallow everything Merck,Ciba-Geigy, Pfizer, Eli Lilly tells you?


41 posted on 01/19/2017 12:50:59 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Mase

Do you fill your sons up with Ritalin and your daughters with Garasil?


42 posted on 01/19/2017 12:52:10 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Gardasil.


43 posted on 01/19/2017 12:54:49 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson
And, as usual, you're talking out of the wrong hole.

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.

44 posted on 01/19/2017 12:59:42 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase

Mase resorts to the last gasp of a bankrupt propagandist—the ad hominem attack.


45 posted on 01/19/2017 1:04:17 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Sean_Anthony

My cousin sells herbalife. Her sister says it is fake.


46 posted on 01/19/2017 1:05:47 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: MarvinStinson
Yawn.

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!

47 posted on 01/19/2017 1:13:56 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: wally_bert

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.


48 posted on 01/19/2017 1:21:05 PM PST by mumblypeg (Chicago called. They want their village idiot back.)
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To: mumblypeg

Good to know that in case I ever have that problem.


49 posted on 01/19/2017 1:33:36 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: dangerdoc

Interesting.

I’d like to read the research on that, if you don’t mind pointing me to it.

Thanks!


50 posted on 01/19/2017 1:53:17 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Higher Taxes, Less Freedom, More Bureaucracy! What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Sean_Anthony

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.


51 posted on 01/19/2017 1:56:53 PM PST by discostu (Alright you primative screwheads, listen up!)
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To: kruss3

The FDA deemed this poison safe and beneficial... After exactly the type of study this article claims makes drugs safe.


52 posted on 01/19/2017 2:19:13 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Mase

“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.


53 posted on 01/19/2017 2:25:28 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Uncle Miltie

BTT


54 posted on 01/19/2017 2:56:14 PM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: Phlap

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!


55 posted on 01/19/2017 3:03:53 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (Not tired of winning yet. BOO - YAH !)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I’m guessing it was about 2012. I’m on my phone but Google would probably get you there.


56 posted on 01/19/2017 4:58:20 PM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: Magic Fingers

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.


57 posted on 01/19/2017 5:01:22 PM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: Uncle Miltie

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.


58 posted on 01/19/2017 5:15:56 PM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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