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DOING FDA’S DIRTY WORK: AMAZON PULLS POPULAR SUPPLEMENT SO BIG PHARMA CAN PROFIT
The High Wire ^ | March 21, 2023 | Tracy Beanz & Michelle Edwards

Posted on 03/21/2023 4:52:13 PM PDT by COSIllinois

Amazon—the vast global internet enterprise that single-handedly shuttered countless smaller retailers—is putting the interests of big pharma ahead of the health and well-being of its customers. In a move that surely pleases the FDA and pharmaceutical companies, Amazon decided last month to no longer sell nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), a molecule naturally occurring in all life forms and vital in longevity. On the cutting edge of lifespan research, Amazon’s decision to remove NMN products is unrelated to safety issues. Instead, it hinges on a recent FDA decision announcing that because NMN is under investigation by big pharma as a potential new drug, it can no longer be marketed as a supplement. With the FDA’s corruption in full view thanks to COVID, this isn’t the first time the agency has allowed pharmaceutical giants to turn natural ingredients into profitable drugs while banning the affordable supplement version.

Like many health-related choices tainted by government bureaucracy, there is, of course, a somewhat convoluted and complicated backstory behind how this can happen. But to be brief, the FDA can remove a healthy natural product from store shelves because of the preclusion provision of Section 201 (ff) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. This provision states that before a company can market any “new dietary ingredient” (NDI)—which means any ingredients that weren’t sold “in or as a supplement” before 1994—it must first submit a notification to the FDA with studies proving its safety. The guidance appears relatively straightforward, but not when, as is the case with NMN, the FDA deliberately blurs the lines.

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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; dobasicresearch; fda; thefakewire; whypostthiscrap
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To: COSIllinois

There’s pages and pages of it: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=nicotinamide+mononucleotide&ref=nb_sb_noss


21 posted on 03/21/2023 6:17:40 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: COSIllinois

Can I still buy NMN in the US?
As NMN dietary supplements are no longer sold in the US, NAD+ injections may become a good alternative. The FDA had previously accepted NMN as a New Dietary Ingredient (NDI), which allowed supplement manufacturers to market it.


22 posted on 03/21/2023 6:18:45 PM PDT by COSIllinois
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To: COSIllinois

The FDA essentially IS Phizer/Big Pharma......they own every Congressman and their people populate the Deep State (CDC, FDA, etc.)


23 posted on 03/21/2023 6:20:59 PM PDT by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I appreciate it, But OBVIOUSLY something is Brewing! Like everything else, STOCK UP I would say!!


24 posted on 03/21/2023 6:36:02 PM PDT by COSIllinois
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To: COSIllinois; ConservativeMind

If you’re trying to ping someone you need to put their handle in the “to:” line, as above, not in the body of the post.


25 posted on 03/21/2023 7:12:10 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: COSIllinois

Typical


26 posted on 03/21/2023 7:30:55 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: TigersEye; COSIllinois; steve86

I thank you for the pings on this, and it’s a concern, but I really try to keep the Take Charge Of Your Health ping list for things that are modifiable to make one’s health better, and the removal off Amazon will still leave some other outlets able to sell it.

However, the FDA is cracking down and may ban it everywhere, soon.


27 posted on 03/21/2023 7:51:20 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: KittyKares

From the new Bing Chat:

Nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) is a promising molecule for therapy of diverse diseases by targeting NAD metabolism. The NAD+ production and consumption pathways including NMN are essential for more precise understanding and therapy of age-related pathological processes such as diabetes, ischemia-reperfusion injury, heart failure, Alzheimer’s disease, and retinal degeneration.


28 posted on 03/21/2023 8:04:20 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: ConservativeMind

ping


29 posted on 03/21/2023 8:05:01 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Further:

Reperfusion injury, sometimes called ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) or reoxygenation injury, is the tissue damage caused when blood supply returns to tissue (re- + perfusion) after a period of ischemia or lack of oxygen (anoxia or hypoxia). The term ischemia-reperfusion injury describes the experimentally and clinically prevalent finding that tissue ischemia with inadequate oxygen supply followed by successful reperfusion initiates a wide and complex array of inflammatory responses that may both aggravate local injury as well as induce.


30 posted on 03/21/2023 8:06:23 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: dynachrome

Bkmk


31 posted on 03/21/2023 8:10:35 PM PDT by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Thanks for the link. It looks like Amazon still has it.


32 posted on 03/21/2023 8:13:15 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: Alas Babylon!

I’m a senior, so that sounds promising.


33 posted on 03/21/2023 8:14:41 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: COSIllinois

Dickie has always been a small pile of shit.
A truly wretched person.


34 posted on 03/21/2023 8:15:38 PM PDT by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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To: nickcarraway
I track my sleeping SPO2% with a Fitbit Charge4. If I do nothing, my SPO2% will hover between 91% and 92%. If I add 50 mg GABA, 400 mg bromelain and 650 mg NAC at bedtime, the SP02% bumps between 94% and 96%. I bumped from 91 to 95 in one evening. The bromelain/NAC combo is sold as a blended product that has shown effectiveness against the spike protein. I'm happy with the consistent improvement of SP02%.
35 posted on 03/21/2023 8:46:37 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: COSIllinois

The FDA is there to protect us from Health Freedom.

Like we are children, and they are our parent.


36 posted on 03/21/2023 10:07:26 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

“Nicotinamide” is not the same thing as “nicotinamide mononucleotide”.

Here is a fairly clear description:

https://www.qyral.com/blogs/news/b3-confusion-niacin-nicotinamide-niacinamide-nad-and-nmn-what-s-the-difference

Here’s what Amazon just announced:

https://healthnews.com/longevity/longevity-supplements/amazon-marks-date-for-banning-nmn-products-from-the-site/


37 posted on 03/22/2023 4:28:48 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Myrddin

Great Info


38 posted on 03/22/2023 10:12:49 AM PDT by COSIllinois
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