Published February 24, 2010

I have one word for Sen. McCain — Avandia

Last week, I told you about the draconian legislation proposed by Senator McCain. If his bill passes Congress, it would give the FDA virtual totalitarian powers over nutritional supplements. Now consider that the FDA does have totalitarian powers over drugs. And rightly so. They injure and kill hundreds of thousands of people each year. So you need to know what the FDA is doing with its drug totalitarian powers versus its history with non-drugs.

We already know how the FDA handled the Vioxx scandal. It encouraged the drug company to put Vioxx back on the market after the company admitted it caused heart attacks.

Well, the FDA has done it again. This time, the horrific drug scandal surrounds Avandia — the diabetes drug. In this case, the FDA failed to warn people about the drug. It took a Senate committee to make public the fact that people were dying needlessly at the hands of Big Pharma.

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Published February 19, 2010

The Latest Attack on Your Supplements

If Arizona Senator John McCain has his way, many of the supplements you rely on for good health will disappear. And the cost of the few you can still get will go through the roof.

Earlier this month, Sen. McCain introduced a bill falsely labeled the “Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010” (S. 3002). Sounds good, right? Nothing to worry about. McCain says:

“Legitimate dietary supplement companies should have nothing to fear from this legislation. The purpose of the bill is not to create a sweeping regulatory structure, but instead a targeted structure that provides for openness, transparency and safety.”

Well, here’s what McCain didn’t say.

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Published February 18, 2010

Why CoQ10 doesn’t make statins safe

If you take statins, I hope you’ve been taking CoQ10 along with them. We’ve known for years that statins cause heart failure and CoQ10 can protect your heart. But just because CoQ10 protects you from the devastating effects of statins, doesn’t mean it makes statins safe.

That’s because it’s almost impossible to keep up with the damage statins do to your CoQ10 production. Some early research on statins showed that you have to take statins for a year before you notice any damage.

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