A buried provision in Congress’ latest supplement broadside gives the FDA everything it wants to take away the supplements you rely on. Action Alert! Last week, we updated you on the current threats to your supplement access. We’re facing a multi-headed snake: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) has his stand-alone supplement registration bill, and separately, a similar policy has been added to the Senate version of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) reauthorization. But it gets worse. Hidden deep in this 400-page PDUFA bill is a provision that is a dagger to the heart of your supplement access. We need a powerful, sustained grassroots response to stop both of these bills from moving forward. Read more.
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Degenerative Myelopathy Successfully Treated with Thiamine
Two and a half years ago my household adopted a rescue German Shepherd about 10 years old. The shelter told us that he had arthritis in the hips, a common malady in Shepherds. Upon getting him home we found that he dragged his hind feet causing him to scrape his toe nails down to the quick and bleed. After a quick review of the literature we figured it was not arthritis but degenerative myelopathy, which was confirmed by our vet. Obviously the diagnosis had zero options in allopathic medicine but since I had read of the work of Dr. Frederick R. Klenner [1] I decided to try mega dosage of vitamin B1 (thiamine) knowing that it would help to protect the myelin sheath from further deterioration. Read more.
Controversial Durbin-Braun Proposal for Dietary Supplements Makes Its Way into PDUFA
Today, the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) released a discussion draft of its legislation to reauthorize FDA user fees for drugs, biologics, and medical devices package, which includes the controversial and divisive Durbin-Braun premarket approval concept and more that would be damaging to the industry. Read more.
Are You Getting the Right Quercetin?
NOW Foods, one of our recommended supplement companies, recently tested 24 quercetin brands. Twenty out of the 24 brands tested were found to have less than 90 percent of the potency listed on the label; 14 of the 24 brands had less than 50 percent of the labeled potency. Two of the 24 brands advertised vegetarian capsules, but were found to contain gelatin. One product had no detectable quercetin. Read more.
The Feds are Coming for Your Supplements!
Listen to Gretchen DuBeau, Executive and Legal Director of ANH-USA, talk to Dr. Ron Hoffman on his Intelligent Medicine podcast about the very real threats to your supplement access posed by Sen. Durbin’s (D-IL) proposed new “registration” system for supplements. Listen here.
Your Supplement Choices — Going, Going, Gone!
How a new proposal will replace the supplements you rely on with standardized, low-quality, one-size-fits all products. Action Alert! Imagine walking into your favorite store or doctor’s office to buy supplements. Instead of seeing a rich variety of products with various forms and dosages of vitamins and minerals, you see a few basic products, many of which do not fit your needs because the dosages are too low or the ingredients you need are not available. This is our future if we allow Senator Dick Durbin’s mandatory product registration bill to become law. Read more.
Why Does Science Still Ignore Vitamin C?
For more than 20 years, Dr. Harri Hemilä, biochemist, physician and epidemiologist, has been analyzing research conducted with vitamin C. In 2017, ORTHO magazine had an interview with him. [1] At that time, the interest in vitamin C was mainly about the common cold. Now it also concerns another virus infection, Covid-19. Has anything changed since then? The near-total lack of interest within medical science for vitamin C still exists. And apparently, medical professors don’t give a damn about the vitamin, as if it were a career killer. Read more.
Glutathione D-Day: June 8
The FDA is once again threatening personalized medicines, this time glutathione, a crucial antioxidant. Action Alert! Your ability to use personalized glutathione, an antioxidant that is essential to life, is in jeopardy. An FDA committee that has already voted to ban many natural medicines is meeting soon (June 8th) to decide whether compounding pharmacies can continue to make glutathione in any form, including IVs, inhaled forms, suppositories, and nasal sprays. Glutathione helps patients with a wide variety of ailments, including liver disease, cancer, stroke, and autism. Read more.
NPA Asks Industry to Sustain Opposition to Durbin-Braun FDA Mandatory Product Labeling Bill
The Natural Products Association (NPA) renewed its call for health and wellness advocates to lobby Congress to reject the Durbin-Braun proposal to require premarket approval for dietary supplements and weaken critical provisions of the Bioterrorism Act. Read more.
Durbin: Don’t Take Our Sunshine Away!
The “sunny” days of Americans being able to regenerate health with vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, could be over. Action Alert! Last week, we detailed what we believe to be Sen. Durbin’s end game with regard to his new mandatory product listing bill for dietary supplements: the imposition of European-style restrictions on high-dose vitamins and minerals. For those who care about natural health, one of the most important threats is to high-dose vitamin D. Read more.
