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FDA Declares Vitamin B6 A Drug
Natural News ^ | 13 Feb 09 | Natural News

Posted on 02/15/2009 12:53:00 PM PST by vivalaoink

The FDA has effectively banned a naturally-occurring form of vitamin B6 called pyridoxamine by declaring it to be a drug, reports the American Association for Health Freedom. Responding to a petition filed by a drug company, the FDA declared pyridoxamine to be "a new drug."

Now, any nutritional supplements containing pyridoxamine will be considered adulterated and illegal by the FDA, which may raid vitamin companies and seize such products. See the history of FDA raids on vitamin companies here: http://www.naturalnews.com/021791.html

Pyridoxamine occurs naturally in fish, chicken and other foods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B6), putting the FDA in the strange position of banning a substance from dietary supplements even though it is already present in the food supply.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: b6; codexalimentarius; health; lping; vitamins
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To: vivalaoink
Intellectual property law does not allow BioStratum to own patents on pyridoxamine, but the company has a pending patent application on its method of obtaining pyridoxamine from vitamin B6.
41 posted on 02/15/2009 1:26:20 PM PST by NonValueAdded (May God save America from its government)
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To: DoughtyOne

Hey, if CO2 is a pollution, then B6 is a drug. right? Next they’ll be taxing sex and humor.


42 posted on 02/15/2009 1:27:05 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: vivalaoink

Vitamin B6 works with enzymes that break down histamine, improves tolerance of histamine, and decresease the number of histamine-caused headaches. Vitamin B6 has been shown to increase the intracellular accumulation of magnesium. Vitamin B6 is also helpful with hormonal headaches—those that come on with the menstrual cycle.


43 posted on 02/15/2009 1:28:43 PM PST by acoulterfan
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To: acoulterfan

http://www.naturalacneremedy.com/btf/vitaminb6.html


44 posted on 02/15/2009 1:29:53 PM PST by acoulterfan
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To: vivalaoink

Vitamin B6, also known as pyridoxine is part of the B group vitamins and is water-soluble and is required for both mental and physical health.

Pyridoxine is required for the balancing of hormonal changes in women as well as assisting the immune system and the growth of new cells. It is also used in the processing and metabolism of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, while assisting with controlling your mood as well as your behavior. Pyridoxine might also be of benefit for children with learning difficulties, as well as assisting in the prevention of dandruff, eczema and psoriasis.

It assists in the balancing of sodium and potassium as well promotes red blood cell production. It is further involved in the nucleic acids RNA as well as DNA. It is further linked to cancer immunity and fights the formation of the toxic chemical homocysteine, which is detrimental to the heart muscle.

Women in particular may suffer from pre-menstrual fluid retention, severe period pains, emotional PMS symptoms, premenstrual acne and nausea in early pregnancy. Mood swings, depression as well as loss of sexual drive is sometimes noted when pyridoxine is in short supply and the person is on hormone replacement therapy or on birth control pills.

Should you be taking antidepressants, contraceptive pills or be on hormone replacement therapy you may need more of this vitamin. As this vitamin is readily lost in the urine, it must be taken regularly to ensure an adequate amount in the body.

Anybody on a very high protein diet, using alcohol, or allergic to MSG (mono sodium glutamate) and/or tartrazine may also consider increasing their vitamin B6 intake.

Good sources to obtain pyridoxine from are brewer’s yeast, eggs, chicken, carrots, fish, liver, kidneys, peas, wheat germ, walnuts,

http://www.anyvitamins.com/vitamin-b6-pyridoxine-info.htm


45 posted on 02/15/2009 1:29:59 PM PST by kcvl
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen
These guys are gunna ban everything good for us and starve us to death. We’ll end up eating tons of food and still be malnourished.

Tin foil hat time? Maybe not. A malnourished population is a compliant one...

46 posted on 02/15/2009 1:32:05 PM PST by ExpatCanuck
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To: Larry Lucido

“And yet the oh so trendy liberal morons who shop Whole Foods will continue to hail their new overlords.”

Exactly. I regularly encounter these idiots on the alt. health forums I frequent.


47 posted on 02/15/2009 1:32:39 PM PST by Magic Fingers
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To: driftdiver

“Actually I think they’ll be little green crackers.”

lol. yuck.


48 posted on 02/15/2009 1:34:12 PM PST by CodeToad (Liberalism is Communism, and both are a mental disorder. Grow up.)
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To: kcvl

Look at all of the foods that are going to have to be taken off the food shelves in stores:

http://www.nutritiondata.com/foods-000111000000000000000.html


49 posted on 02/15/2009 1:34:41 PM PST by acoulterfan
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To: aposiopetic

Thanks for the link.

I may be wrong, but my take on it is that the product most used in food preparations, and medicines are pyridoxine.

That’s not to say that there aren’t any other forms of B6 available in the retail or hospital pharmacies. New items are coming along all the time.

Still, I have spent 35 years in pharmacy, and the vast majority of vitamin B6 used there, in tablet and injectable forms, have been referred to as pyridoxine.


50 posted on 02/15/2009 1:35:05 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Resolved: McCain 2010, Gregg 2010, Snowe 2010, Spectre 2010, Collins 2014)
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To: vivalaoink

Won’t be long before the FDA tries to say water is a chemical and therefore a drug and therefore regulated.


51 posted on 02/15/2009 1:35:29 PM PST by CodeToad (Liberalism is Communism, and both are a mental disorder. Grow up.)
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To: vivalaoink

That’s it. They’ve gone too far this time.


52 posted on 02/15/2009 1:35:45 PM PST by Daughter~of~the~Constitution
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To: DoughtyOne

I remember now that it had to do with blood disorders ... people were taking it for anti-depression and sleep problems. They were taking too much per day ... I think about ten people died ....


53 posted on 02/15/2009 1:37:08 PM PST by SkyDancer ("America July 4, 1776 - February 13, 2009 ")
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To: goat granny

Yes of course its people. Do you think BO’s team cares about people? They are already moving towards people having a duty to die when they are no longer useful.


54 posted on 02/15/2009 1:37:16 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: vivalaoink

b6ttt


55 posted on 02/15/2009 1:41:08 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: vivalaoink
B6 sounds like a serious gateway drug that must be stopped
or a danger to some Lobbyist's company (but that would never happen here).
56 posted on 02/15/2009 1:42:36 PM PST by Diogenesis (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: DoughtyOne
Certainly you are right. On the basis of your formidable experience, you would definitely know!

As a technicality, it seems BioStratum is investigating pyridoxamine (as opposed to pyridoxine) for a particular intended use. Their high-priced lawyers are evidently saying others who wish to market pyridoxamine for that intended use can take a hike....to Leavenworth.

57 posted on 02/15/2009 1:43:05 PM PST by aposiopetic
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To: SkyDancer
..sooo, don't take so much.

Really sucks evil how they use the example of the stupid to regulate the rest of us.

Esp. w/all the health info available today.

Btw. I like the liquid in a dropper bottle our local Supermarket chain has.

They also have an excellent line of herbs.

Check yours you might find it's really good quality and cheaper than most others.

58 posted on 02/15/2009 1:43:39 PM PST by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: ExpatCanuck

Not sure if they are so interested in dumbing down America, they can leave that to the I-pod folks.

But this would cause a major shake in the supplement industry, with companies having to reformulate, and probably have some new testing procedures, etc.

The FDA is OWNED by big Pharma and HATES the supplement industry.


59 posted on 02/15/2009 1:44:20 PM PST by djf
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To: Delta 21

"... and you know when this practice of banning Pyridoxamine began...? Two thousand and nine. That's the way yer hard core Muzzie works..."

60 posted on 02/15/2009 1:44:30 PM PST by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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