Amazingly, as “chance” would have it, within 4 days of the banning of L-tryptophan, Prozac was the cover story in Newsweek magazine. Almost, as if by a miracle, it seems, Prozac, which is patented and is far more expensive than L-tryptophan, was there to fill the gap and became the miracle drug to take the place of L-tryptophan. Oh, and as we’ve already mentioned, unlike L-tryptophan, Prozac works no better than a placebo and it can cause psychotic episodes that lead to murder. Unfortunately, it’s part of an $11 billion industry, so it’s not going anywhere.
Nutrients should be derived from eating food, not popping pills (unless one enjoys seeing their urine turn yellow because of the water soluble vitamins getting flushed down the toilet-along with their money.
Bastards. Keep your damn toxic POS drugs out of our bodies and leave our natural supplements the hell alone!!
“Few industries enjoy the level of protection DSHEA provides supplement manufacturers.”
Oh my goodness, that’s just so hypocritical. Nothing compares with the pharmaceutical industry. They get to sell billions and billions of dollars worth of products that have been proven to be no more effective than placebos and have some truly nasty side effects besides. I’m talking about flu shots, statin drugs, antidepressants, and hormone replacement therapy to name just a few. But even better, even when one of their drugs has been found to actually kill people by the thousands, they are often allowed to continue selling those drugs. You think that’s an exaggeration? Consider the fact that even after Vioxx was implicated in the deaths of over 27,000 people,14 a 32-member FDA advisory committee decided that the benefits of Merck’s Vioxx and Pfizer’s Celebrex and Bextra outweighed the risk of cardiac damage for patients taking them — even though non-lethal alternatives were available.15