Small minds, big oppression
Okay...who woke up the FDA?
Suddenly these good little bureaucrats are powering up their hive-mind in order to "protect" us from safe, non-drug treatments.
Recently I told you about new FDA actions that will severely limit access to intravenous ascorbic acid (IAA), a proven cancer-fighter that has been shown to neutralize virtually any pathogenic organism.
Apparently the FDA has decided that IAA is an unapproved drug. And because it's obviously NOT a drug and can't be patented, they've basically found a way to make therapeutic doses of vitamin C illegal.
When it comes to being small-minded and petty, these FDA drones are extremely effective.
But IAA isn't the only item on their hit list. Now they're zeroing in on niacin. Which just HAPPENS to be a direct competitor of Big Pharma's cash cow: statin drugs.
You can't say that
Last month, FDA officials told Upsher Smith, a small Minnesota pharmaceutical company, that they couldn't reference niacin studies in their marketing of SLO-NIACIN--a supplement with sustained-release to reduce the warm, tingling effect that niacin sometimes causes.
So it's basically just niacin.
Upsher Smith has temporarily taken the SLO-NIACIN info off their website. But the FDA warning letter lists several studies that pose a problem. One study, published in the American Journal of Cardiology in 1992 is titled, "Marked benefit with sustained-release niacin therapy in patients with 'isolated' very low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and coronary artery disease."
Now, just think about that. There's a study in a major medical journal that shows a "marked benefit" in artery disease patients who take sustained-release niacin.
But the FDA doesn't want you to read about that on the Upsher Smith site. (Or maybe they don't want you to read about it at all...)
But either way, does the suppression of this information serve artery disease patients?
Other studies (which may or may not have been on the site) show that niacin also helps reduce triglycerides, and may help prevent dementia, arthritis, and anxiety.
When Dr. Spreen sent me an article about this new FDA action, he noted that niacin is also listed in the Physicians' Desk Reference as a therapeutic agent to lower cholesterol. It's right there in the medical mainstream's public record--the source ALL doctors turn to when treating patients.
But if you make and sell niacin, you can't mention this PROVEN benefit to your prospective customers?
Something is really WRONG with this picture!
Years ago, suffragette Crystal Eastman said, "Tyranny goes by the name of protection."
I can't imagine how much stronger a statement she would make today if she saw the workings of the FDA...especially if she were faced with heart disease.
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Anonymous
I maintain this: The FDA stinks and should be sent out to pasture. In other words: defund the FDA. Do you hear me, Obama? Do you hear me Congress?
Danuta
Im with you on this FDA stinks!!!!
Rett
Until big pharma and the FDA are reigned in, health care will be a joke. Food is our medicine and medicine is our food. They laugh all the way to the bank at our expense.
Mercedes Lackey
It's more than time for the FDA and Big Pharma to file for divorce. Clearly there is Spousal Abuse going on here, and as we all know, the Abused is trained to defend the Abuser.
Anonymous charles pavlich
the f d a is another lump of bull shit that should be tossed in thed dump, anything they say, i do the opposite.
SamDav
SOME ONE WITH A GOOD LAWYER SHOULD SUE THE ASS OFF OF THE FDA AND SHUT THEM DOWN FOR GOOD OF THE PEOPLE WHO BENEFIT FROM VITAMINS AND MINERALS.
Anonymous
OK so what we are saying here, is, that if we find a way to drink pure natural water to help us flush out toxins from our insides, they will ban this, according to their pea brains, this is bad because it does not have fluoride, chlorine, and the pharmaceutical drugs that manage to get in our water supply, and to top it off, their hair brain ideas always go forward a bit, is to add more stuff in our water supply, people we need to let our representatives know, I wake up and see ole glory and I remember all the good people who died defending that privilege, if it wasn’t for that I would swear I would be in a communist country with all the shenanigans and all the BS amongst our politicians, feel free to comment. JAM
Anonymous
You hit the nail on the head,here to the FDA,just say NO
Helen
Niacin is also a calming vitamin for wimon with stress >like family and carrear mght help guys BUT DO NOT LET THEM TOUCH MY VITAMINS THEY KEEP ME HEALTHY SO I CAN STAY AWAY FROM THE DR. THAT HAND OUT THOSE TOXICK CHEMICALS THAT THEY THINK ARE BETTER???!
m.c.
If they are Banning it, It Must be Good for you, Isn't that how it goes?!!! m.c.
Anonymous
This is just a figure of speech, but true as true can be, it takes a millennium for these people to ban the poison that Big-Pharma puts at the disposal of Drs to distribute, all this synthetic and profitable medications, I will call this ill gotten gains, till this day there is not one without indefinite side effects, yet it takes one hour to discredit something that is helpful something that is beneficial and with side effects almost at zero, if they have their way they will ban this beneficial product in a minute, what a catastrophe. JAM
Anonymous
This is a waste of time. The FDA probably is just doing this to try to make themselves look like they are actually working, much less for the common good. They don't have to ban anything. All they have to do is encourage medical schools to refrain from teaching nutrition or logic.
Ever try to get a mainline doctor to use alternative treatments of any type? If you have, good luck. The likelihood of finding one in rural America is even slimmer. One that has even heard of intravenous C, Dr. Hoffer, Dr. Pauling (except as a quack) or any of the other things that "actually work" is about as likely as ... well, words fail me.
I speak from experience here. I don't speak to my doctor. He tends to sneer too much if I slip and say something. I don't go often ... I am afraid that someday words will not fail me ...
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