Volume 4, Issue 45
November 10, 2011

Supplement prices set to explode

Are you sick and tired of paying a reasonable price for your supplements? Do you want to start paying 100-200 times more for your high-potency multivitamin? If so, you’re going to love what the FDA has done.

As you may know, the FDA isn’t here to protect you, the American taxpayer. It’s here to protect the pharmaceutical industry and other large corporate interests. It protects anyone with enough money to pad the pockets of the FDA. Recently, the powers at the FDA (Faster Drug Approval) decided that the supplement industry is starting to cut into the bottom line of the pharmaceutical industry. Less money for Big Pharma means less money for the FDA.

As a result, the FDA has come up with a set of guidelines that will make it extremely expensive and difficult for the nutritional industry to keep manufacturing supplements. So expensive and difficult, in fact, that it will put most of them out of business.

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Why is the FDA doing this? It must be because nutritional supplements are dangerous, right? Not exactly. Back in 2008, one panel of scientists reviewed the dangers of nutritional supplements. They examined the data in the 174-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers. They published their report in the journal Clinical Toxicology. It specifically looks at the death rates from drugs, foods, and nutritional supplements.

Guess how many deaths there were from vitamins – zero. Guess how many from herbs – zero.  Guess how many from those nasty, dangerous amino acids – zero. OK, how about minerals and all other nutritional supplements – zero. That's right, in 2008 nobody died in the entire country from any nutritional supplement of any kind! But let’s put this into perspective.

The panel duly noted that, “Over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes 154,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 56 billion doses annually. Since many persons take more than just one vitamin or mineral tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable.”

So if nutritional substances are safer than water (yes, water kills people every year), why in the world would the FDA decide to initiate oppressive Big Brother regulations that would essentially make them unavailable to you?

Here’s why: Nutritional therapies are eliminating the need for most medications. And as more and more doctors learn how to use them, nutraceuticals are going to cut more and more into Big Pharma profits. Just last week, I was able to discontinue a total of 13 different prescriptions in my patients. That’s just one doctor in one week. Imagine what happens when thousands of doctors are doing this routinely. “Something has to be done,” says the FDA.

Marcia Angell a reporter for the Boston Globe put it this way. “For too long the FDA has behaved as though its job is to speed brand-name drugs to market, not to ensure that they are safe.” According to Ms. Angell’s scathing report, the FDA is simply a lap dog for the pharmaceutical industry. “It’s time to take the Food and Drug Administration back from the drug companies,” she says.

Well, I agree, and I think this might be just the time to start. If we don’t do something quickly and effectively, I won’t be able to take my patients off their drugs anymore. I won’t have the supplements I need. If I can find them, they will cost 100 times more than they do now.

Can you stop this intrusion by Big Brother? Yes, you can. Public pressure works. It worked back in 1994 when the FDA and Congress tried to outlaw supplements. Instead, Congress passed a law that not only protected supplements, but opened the door for incredible innovation in the supplement industry. We can do it again. But only with your help.

Here’s what you have to do. First, go to www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml. This web address is case sensitive. So type it exactly as it appears or follow the link. On the website, look up the phone numbers of your U.S. Senators and your Representative in the House. Then call them and tell them how you feel. Please, do it right now. Don't wait. The deadline for comments is December 1st. That’s not far away.

Second, send this to all of your friends who take supplements and ask them to do the same thing. This is so important it could mean life or death for millions of people. Please, do this right now!

Finding your Real Cures,

Frank Shallenberger, MD

PS. If you would like to read more about this, please follow this link: http://www.advancedbionutritionals.com/Special-Offers/FDA-letter-1.htm.

REF:

Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Giffin SL. 2008 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS): 26th Annual Report. Clinical Toxicology (2009). 47, 911-1084. The full text article is available for free download at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2008annualreport.pdf . Vitamins statistics are found in Table 22B, journal pages 1052-3. Minerals, herbs, amino acids and other supplements are in the same table, pages 1047-8

No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs Poison Control Statistics Prove Supplements' Safety http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n04.shtml

Charting a new course at the FDA by Marcia Angell, Boston Globe, April 6, 2009.


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