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"The FDA ‘protects’ the big drug companies and are subsequently rewarded,
and using the government’s police powers they attack those who threaten the
big drug companies. People think that the FDA is protecting them. It isn’t
. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it is doing are as
different as night and day."
–-- Dr. Herbert Ley – Former U.S. FDA Commissioner
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/14/archives/demoralized-fda-struggles-to-
cope-some-top-jobs-remain-unfilled-at.html
"In recent times FDA has either banned or purposely limited the production
and marketing of many substances that are neither dangerous nor ineffective
for the treatment or complementary therapy of several conditions. Most of
these substances are in fact vitamins, that were often safely used for
decades without any harmful effects, and that were banned with alleged
motivations that really raised more than just one doubt about the
motivations of these decisions.
The first, and probably the most discussed vitamin that FDA banned was
Vitamin B6. Originally marketed in the form of Pyridoxamine, this vitamin
was found to be useful to prevent glycation, preventing long-term
consequences of several diseases such as Diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
Glycation is a natural process caused by the binding of glucose to proteins,
causing those proteins to become non-functional, while damaging cellular
membranes at the same time. Glycation process causes the formation of AGEs (
“advanced glycation endproducts”) which are deemed responsible of several
complications associated with diabetes such as neuropathy, kidney disease,
and blindness. AGEs may also play a role in other diseases including
Alzheimer’s, heart disease, cataracts, muscle wasting, and stroke2.
Pyridoxamine can stop these processes but, unlike pyridoxine (the standard
form of B6), high doses of this vitamin are safe as they do not cause
peripheral neuropathy. However in 2009 FDA banned the production of
pyridoxamine as a dietary supplement, after a pharmaceutical company called
BioStratum filed a petition to the FDA asking to ban the natural form of
this drug. Biostratum spent about $100 million funding various pyridoxamine
studies to determine whether it was effective to prevent the progression of
diabetic nephropathy (kidney disease), and wished to market it as a drug (
named Pyridorin) instead of a natural complement. FDA accepted their plead,
and all natural forms of Vitamin B6 were banned from the market to protect
the pharmaceutical company’s economic interests (and not people’s health).
Sadly BioStratum went bankrupt nonetheless, and neither Pyridorin, nor any
other form of pyridoxamine ever hit the market anymore. So people now cannot
just treat their conditions anymore.
A few years later, another form of Vitamin B6 surfaced on the market, this
time as P5P, a substance in which Vitamin B6 is converted once it gets
within the human body. Many people cannot properly produce vitamin P5P form
Vitamin B6 due to genetic conditions, so this supplement could help them
treat their conditions by directly providing it even though pyridoxamine was
banned by the same independent organism that was more preoccupied of a Big
Pharma’s bank account than of people’s own safety and health. Again, a
pharmaceutical company called Medicure Pharma, Inc. wants sole use of P5P to
market it as a drug instead of a food complement. The plead may require up
to 10 years to be approved, and during this time, P5P is out of the market
for anybody else, meaning that if Medicure can’t get their profit out of
that molecule, then nobody is going to use that medication at all.
A few years ago, one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies worldwide, the
Glaxo SmithKline company, asked FDA to market oil fish as a prescription for
several cardiovascular health disorders. The products was called Lovaza,
and every capsule has a median price of $2.40. The same, identical fish oil
bought in an health store (or even a grocery) costed no more than 30-35
cents for the same quantity. Clearly after FDA approved fish oil for sale as
a prescription, the price went up almost 10 times everywhere.
A similar story happened with folates and folic acid. Folic acid needs to be
converted inside human body into folates, a very common supplement also
known as “vitamin B9”. Folates are useful to prevent anemia, and are used
to produce healthy red blood cells in both children and pregnant women.
However not everyone can efficiently convert folic acid into folates as up
to 40% of total population has a natural predisposition for folic acid
accumulation4. Folic acid can be dangerous if not properly metabolized, can
build up in the blood and lead to an increased risk for several types of
cancer5. This time FDA didn’t ban folates altogether, but they played a
much subtler game. They are preventing food supplement labels from showing
the word folate, only allowing the word folic acid to be used instead. This
way they’re actually forcing natural supplement producers to use folic acid
instead of folates, as they cannot write “folic acid” on their labels
when they’re actually using folates. FDA claims that folates can only be
found in “conventional” (whole or minimally processed) foods, even though
many brands do actually feature dietary folates that are nonetheless
naturally found in foods. Curiously, the drug company Merck already holds
patents on Metafolin, a bioavailable source dietary folate. This way Merck
will be the only, exclusive proprietor of the only source of folates, and
will license it to dietary supplement companies making millions out of this
trade.
And what about intravenous Vitamin C? Although several studies thoroughly
demonstrated Vitamin C’s safety even at higher dosages, and this molecule
is safely used to treat several conditions ranging from hearth failure to
severe traumas, FDA still tried to ban it. Again the reasons behind the ban
were that Vitamin C because can’t be patented, and can’t be thus taken
through the FDA’s approval process for a “new drug”. In other words, if a
pharmaceutical company can’t make billions out of a treatment, then nobody
is entitled to receive that treatment.
http://medsnews.com/health/why-is-fda-trying-to-ban-all-vitamins/
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