The FDA has announced it is banning the sale of andro products --
pro-hormone nutritional supplements used by body builders. It's part of
the FDA's ongoing campaign to destroy the nutritional supplement
industry while boosting the sales of drugs. Granted, andro is a risky
product with potentially harmful side effects. But Hormone Replacement
Therapy drugs are just as risky, if not worse, and were heralded by the
FDA and the pharmaceutical industry for decades before it was finally
revealed that HRT drugs had absolutely no scientific basis for being
prescribed to anyone. Worse yet, they actually increased the risk of
stroke.
Notice the double standard yet again: the FDA pounces on
potentially dangerous supplements, but utterly ignores prescription
drugs until it is prodded by watchdog groups and health complaints into
doing something about it. Part of the justification for cracking down on
andro products is to "protect the children" who are inreasingly turning
to athletic performance enhancers. And yet, at the same time, the FDA
still allows antidepressant drugs to be routinely prescribed to children
while at the same time helping cover up evidence that shows such drugs
cause children to commit suicide. There's no effort on the part of the
FDA to prevent these suicide-promoting drugs from being prescribed.
Similarly, there's no effort to take one million children off the
narcotics given to them by school counselors and psychiatrists in the
form of Ritalin. We're raising a generation of doped up, FDA approved
kids in our country, and the only thing the FDA can do about it is ban
the nutritional supplements.
These actions on the part of the FDA
are nothing less than criminal, and it's time for serious FDA reform.
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