I don’t see how this is legal, but people on Tik Tok peddling miracle “medicine” are becoming more common every day. No FDA approval, no research. Just their marketing hype and false promises. This one, lady is showing some sort of probiotic and claiming it can help people suffering from severe acid reflux and gastrointestinal reflux disease or GERD, replacing medicine that has been tested for decades.
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Not new. There will always be idiots, therefore, there will always be people selling snake oil.
dude i hate tiktok so much
This was all made legal in the Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act of 1994.
Before that, everythimg required FDA approval, but now if it says “natural” or “not intended to treat any condition” on the side, you can bottle and sell your own piss if you’ve got a good enough sales pitch
You can actually find small bottles of water on Amazon marketed as a miracle cure.
You can even find radioactive shit sold on Amazon as health products. So radioactive, that it can incur the wrath of federal agencies.
Just stay away from nearly anything that uses “healing ions” in its marketing material. If it’s not a straight-up fake product, it’ll likely kill you in due time. (Ozone generators are an exception unless you get a beefy one like mine, and then it can actually kill you.)
Edit: lol! I have seen that video and made my comment about ions before I clicked it. Good video, btw. 5 stars.
The important takeaway from this is that “supplements” have 0 oversight. The CBD, probiotics, vitamin d, etc that you buy could just be capsules of vegetable oil that does nothing at all. Or they could be asbestos and cyanide for all you know (that probably would lead to an investigation though). There’s also no safety regarding packing and handling, so it might literally be a guy with unwashed hands who just picked his butt loading your gelcaps in a dirty bathroom that someone just took a massive shit in. No one checks and verifies any of this and that’s why shills and hucksters jump onto this shit, it’s a completely unregulated market where can cut corners everywhere and say whatever you want as long as you include *not intended to treat any diseases and not evaluated by the fda
A $1200 thing you buy on instagram that sends “good waves” to your brain? Supplement. The cbd you buy at the gas station? Supplement. Doterra oils? Supplement. No regulation, no oversight, just robbing people based on their desperation to fix chronic pain and mental illness
So the CBD thing really bugs me, in particular.
One of my medications has one of those warnings about how you can’t have grapefruit while taking this medication. That’s because grapefruit is metabolized on a certain enzyme pathway that gets interrupted. That enzyme pathway is CYP3A4.
You know what else takes that enzyme pathway? Fucking CBD. It also blocks the enzyme pathway, making any drugs administered less effective because they can’t bind to where they need to because the CBD molecule is already there, taking up space.
So like, for me, these are life saving medications so fucking around with this is really stupid but literally no doctor told me this. I accidentally figured this out while doing research on CBD. It seems like its becoming more publicized now, but the bottom line is this:
If you have medication that warns you that you should not eat grapefruit with this medication (about 60% of medications, I believe), that medication needs the same warning about CBD.
https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/cannabidiol-presents-conundrums
Upon further evaluation, it was shown that CYP3A4 and CYP2C19 are the 2 major enzymes responsible for the metabolism of CBD; they are also responsible for the metabolism of many different drugs.
Congress needs to give the FDA the power to regulate supplements goddamn yesterday.
They had it and it was taken away in the 90s
Yeah. The peddlers of homeopathic crap are the first ones that need to burn.
Best we can do is ignore everything while random judges give themselves power to override the FDA whenever it causes inconvenience to corporations.
— Congress
That probiotic is nice and all, but it’ll never beat apple cider vinegar. That stuff cures everything. Especially if you take it with silver.
Seriously though, this is just the latest venue for this kind of bullshit.
Should I take this with my nightly mercury eye drops?
You’re supposed to put a link to where we can buy your miracle vinegar/silver mix in your post. Have you learned nothing from these marketing geniuses?
My bad.
https://127.0.0.1/C$/%userprofile%/Documents/EXCEL.ppt
If that doesn’t work give Derek a call.
Excuse me putting an onion in my grandfather’s sock overnight cured him of death twice
that bottle could conceivably say “snake oil” on it
