Posted on 03/21/2023 4:41:21 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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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Outrageous! Pretty soon if you are not on the approved list you will not be able to live. No food, no drugs…..
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NMN is hot these days. Popularized by David Sinclair. The anti-aging guru. Who now has his own Y-Tube channel. I first heard him with Joe Rogan a few times 4 years ago. On YouTube. These should be preserved on Spotify
Amazon did something similar with NAC [N-Acetyl Cysteine & N-Acetyl L-Cysteine] during the pandemic, after it was discovered that NAC helped with Covid symptoms.
The entire government “health” bureaucracy is completely corrupt.
Really? You're going to punish Amazon because they follow FDA regulations?
Focus on the problem and lobby congress to change the laws.
I just search on Amazon and nicotinamide mononucleotide is available for purchase.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=nicotinamide+mononucleotide&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
What I’ve been saying for years. If you are concerned with government corruption, the bulk of it has nothing to do with the Chinese, Russians or Ukrainians.
It is this sort of stuff - and vastly more of it - in the extremely wide variety of ways of playing with regulations and the actions of executive agencies, that corrupts politics and society.
The problem really began when supplement users discovered that Amazon was selling a lot of fake NMN products and informed Jeff Bezos. They stopped the fakes, but they also blocked the legitimate companies, particularly ChromaDex and DoNotAge. ChromaDex still offers their Tru Niagen (NR) supplement on Amazon which is another NAD precursor like NMN. You can still get NMN directly from DoNotAge regardless of the efforts of the FDA, Metro Biotech, and Amazon.
Frankly, the NMN cost is way too high for most people. Even from the low cost DoNotAge the daily dose is about $1. The lowest cost NAD booster is actually good old Niacin (B3). The body converts Niacin to NMN and the cost for a reasonable 50-100mg dose is under a penny a day.
you’re damn right I’m calling on them to be punished. Don’t be naive.
The FDA, property of Big Pharma, is waging war against natural remedies.
I couldn’t possibly take ordinary niacin (B3) — that was a one time thing never to be repeated but have settled on liposomal NAD+ with betaine for $0.25/dose. Both betaine and the liposomal characteristic markedly improve absorption.
Bkmk
Many thanks! Check out this man at Twitter. He says niacin taken with glutamine is the magic NMN producer https://twitter.com/NiacinGlutamine
One gram of each taken at the same time. I follow him at Twitter.
“liposomal NAD+ with betaine”
Liposomal anything translates into time release. So that what you take does not end up in your urine.
BTTT!!!
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