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FDA Allows Deadly COVID Clot Shots But Targets Homeopathy and Peptides

Despite the fact the COVID mRNA gene therapy injections developed by the military as “counter measures” and “prototypes,” followed NONE of the regulations that are put in place to protect us from harmful medical products, they are still being promoted and given.  

But the FDA is doing what the FDA does best – attacks anything it views as a threat:

https://anh-usa.org/fda-launches-homeopathy-broadside/

FDA Launches Homeopathy Broadside

FDA Launches Homeopathy Broadside

As we predicted, the agency has targeted the next group of homeopathic products for elimination.  Action Alert!

The FDA is pressing forward in its plan to win its century long battle to eliminate homeopathic products from the medicine cabinets of Americans—a battle that was started with the Flexner report of 1910. The agency sent warning letters to several manufacturers of homeopathic eye care products in addition to Amazon for selling the products. These letters rely on the change in policy the FDA announced in 2018 that essentially made all homeopathic products illegal. Unless the FDA is held in check, we will continue to lose access to homeopathic medicine bit by bit until there is nothing left. We cannot let that happen.

The FDA indicates in these letters that it is going after eye drops because that route of administration is particularly dangerous from a public health perspective: “these products… in general pose a greater risk of harm to users because the route of administration for these products bypasses some of the body’s natural defenses.” Companies receiving these letters include Boiron, Similasan, Walgreens, and CVS. Some of the letters mention issues with manufacturing and product sterility. Like allopathic drugs, homeopathic products are required to follow good manufacturing practices.

This is in line with the approach outlined in the FDA’s guidance that stipulates certain categories of homeopathic medicines will be targets for enforcement actions. In 2020, the agency went after injectable homeopathic products on similar grounds.

As ever, this has almost nothing to do with safety and everything to do with control. We see this with pharmacy compounding, too, which are medicines that do not need to go through the FDA approval process. The FDA does not like that there are medicines out there that it does not have authority over, so it does everything in its power to eliminate them, using safety as a justification—as if FDA approval was any guarantee of safety! New prescription drugs have a 20 percent chance of causing a serious adverse reaction after being approved; properly prescribed drugs cause 1.9 million hospitalizations a year, and 128,000 people die from drugs prescribed to them.

Meanwhile, Similasan, one of the homeopathic products that generated an FDA warning letter, has a total of five adverse events listed in the FDA’s database. The letter sent to Boiron for its Optique 1 Eye Drops makes no mention of any safety issues whatsoever. The same was true of some of the injectable homeopathic products that were targeted. This comports with other data showing a vanishingly small rate of adverse events from homeopathic medicines.

As Similasan was among the products cited by the FDA for not following good manufacturing practices, the company has voluntarily suspended sale of its eye drops in the US as it resolves the issues raised by the FDA. For those seeking alternative medicines for dry eyes, blepharitis, and related conditions, we like medicines with hyaluronic acid (available, for example, as Hycosan) or carmellose sodium (including Optase).

This all supports the idea that the FDA’s issue is not that these medicines are a threat to consumer safety; they simply haven’t kissed the FDA’s ring, by which we mean paying exorbitant sums to go through the agency’s drug approval process.

Remember: The FDA gets a large part of its funding from drug company user fees, and for this reason sees Big Pharma as its client. Homeopathic medicines, like supplements and other natural products, compete with pharmaceutical drugs, so the FDA uses its enormous power to tilt the scales in favor of the drug companies. And because natural products and homeopathic medicines generally cannot be patent protected like drugs can, they can’t afford FDA approval and so cannot make disease claims. It is one among many ways cronyism is undermining healthcare in this country.

Action Alert! Write to Congress in support of a legislative fix to protect access to homeopathic medicines. Please send your message immediately.  (Go to top link to take action against FDA extortion)

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FDA Targets Peptides

FDA Targets Peptides

Peptides represent an exciting and rapidly developing new frontier in disease treatment and prevention as well as anti-aging, so naturally the FDA is swooping in…to make sure Big Pharma has a monopoly. Action Alert!

Do you want to increase your lifespan by 30 percent? Heal from injuries that conventional medicine has no answers for? Investigations into the use of peptide bioregulators are showing these kinds of promising results, but the FDA is working to make sure patients and doctors cannot access these medicines unless they are approved as drugs. We need a major grassroots response to make sure this doesn’t happen to these natural miracle molecules made from amino acids.

Peptides in peril: What happened?

Simply put, the FDA’s new guidance is prohibiting the compounding of a group of peptides, including many comprised of essential and conditionally-essential amino acids, like BPC-157, epitalon, LL-37, thymosin alpha-1 (Ta1), Kisspeptin-10, and more. The FDA’s justification for “taking action against a compounder or outsourcing facility” for producing these peptides is based on safety concerns. These safety concerns are, in our view, largely spurious, with the FDA generally claiming lack of safety data, the presence of impurities, or suggesting ‘immunogenicity.’ Lack of data certainly doesn’t imply risk, impurities can be eliminated with good manufacturing practice, and immunogenicity simply means the peptide primes or enhances the immune system, a property that could be regarded as beneficial, not harmful.

The FDA hasn’t instigated a permanent ban; it is an interim policy on these compounds, but this is a deeply concerning sign for future access, particularly because the FDA is using the safety risk as its justification to get these products out of compounding. If they’re not safe enough in compounding, how will the FDA respond to these peptides being sold in dietary supplements? Go figure. Currently, not many peptides are available as supplements, and few have yet to be approved as drugs. This means that patients and others who are dependent on these peptides as compounded medicines will lose access to them. Once again, the FDA is standing in the way of patients utilizing cutting edge natural therapies to help them live long, healthy lives.

Background: War on Compounding

This a new step in the FDA’s war on pharmacy compounding, a war that we’ve been drawing public attention to for years. These are specialist pharmacies that create customized medicines for patients with special needs, such as an alternative dosage forms, delivery mechanisms, or preparations that aren’t commercially available. They have, for example, been vital in the supply of bioidentical hormones for women looking for natural alternatives to synthetic hormone replacement therapy.

According to the law, to be eligible to be made at a compounding pharmacy, a medicine must either: 1) be a component of an FDA-approved drug, 2) have a USP monograph, or 3) appear on a list (referred to as the Bulk Drug List) developed through regulation by the FDA.

The agency elicited nominations to the Bulk Drug List and has, for years, been reviewing these nominations to determine which will be added to the List and which will be banned. As the peptides in question do not satisfy conditions 1 or 2 above, they were nominated for inclusion on the Bulk Drug List.

The FDA’s review process has been extremely slow, but the track record is not good, with a number of nominated natural products being banned, such as curcumin, acetyl-L-carnitine, aloe vera, artemisinin, astralagus, and more.

As the FDA goes through its process, it has released an interim policy covering whether substances that have been nominated to the Bulks List can continue to be compounded while the FDA reviews nominations. There are three categories. Substances added to Category 1 can continue to be compounded. Category 2 substances cannot be compounded in the interim due to “safety risks” identified by the FDA (and it’s in this category that the 17 peptides we’re drawing attention to in this article have found themselves listed). Category 3 substances need to be renominated because the FDA did not receive enough information to make an evaluation.

The FDA, in our view, could have — and should have — added these peptides to Category 1 and not disrupted patient access to clinically effective therapies with a strong safety profile. Peptides could theoretically be moved to Category 1, or even better, added to the Bulk List at some point, but the fact that the FDA is citing safety concerns is a clear indication of its intention to move to a ban in compounding and as dietary supplements.

Big Pharma Giveaway

By starting us down the road of a compounded peptide ban, the agency is clearing the market and preparing the way for the drug industry to come in and claim monopolies on crucial peptides used medicinally.

For example, one of the now-banned compounded peptides is thymosin alpha-1, or Ta1, a naturally-occurring peptide in the thymus. The synthetic version of Ta1 is approved as a drug in over 30 countries, though not in the US, to treat chronic hepatitis B and C as well as having an orphan drug indication for cancer treatment. Ta1 has, in fact, far-ranging applications that have yet to be tapped—no wonder there have been dozens of clinical trials looking at Ta1 for the treatment of a variety of diseases. Another of the targeted peptides is BPC-157, which has shown promise in a wide range of central nervous system disorders and other diseases.

We believe the FDA’s overarching goal is to preserve these and other useful, natural peptides for the pharmaceutical industry and shut down competition from compounders.

The main point is, natural peptides—as well as their synthetic versions that are chemically identical—are very clearly both on Big Pharma and the FDA’s radar. That means we must be vigilant in protecting access, lest they become monopoly drugs and harder to access for patients who want to use these peptides to heal themselves, enhance their health, reduce their biological age, or reduce their risk of future disease.

Cutting edge medicine in peril

Losing access to these compounded peptides would be a huge blow for patients and healthcare providers. We will delve further into these issues in future coverage, but research on peptides and their ability to help us heal and extend life is incredibly promising. Peptides are quite simply specific combinations of amino acids which are the building blocks of proteins. Most of the amino acids used in the peptides that have now found their way onto the FDA’s Category 2 list are bioidentical – meaning they are chemically identical to ones found in nature – especially in foods, and in healthy humans and animals.

For example, epitalon, also referred to as Epithalamin, is an extract of the pineal gland. Animal and human research has shown that it can extend life and decrease mortality by, among other things, improving the immune system, stimulating antioxidant defenses, and producing anticarcinogenic effects. Ta1, which we discussed above, is a thymus peptide that has immune-modulating effects. Peptide preparations of the cerebral cortex have been shown to exert neuroprotective effects. The administration of these peptides in animal studies has resulted in 25-40 percent increases in lifespan compared to controls.

We must protect access to these vital compounded peptides.

Action Alert! Write to Congress and the FDA, telling them to retain consumer access to natural peptide medicines! Please send your message immediately.  (Go to link to take action)

The Potential Benefits of Proteolytic Enzymes to Help Manage Rheumatoid Arthritis

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The Potential Benefits of Proteolytic Enzymes to Help Manage Rheumatoid Arthritis

People with RA often have restricted diets. Check this out!

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disorder that predominantly affects the synovial joints, leading to progressive joint destruction and disability. Traditional treatment modalities have primarily focused on anti-inflammatory medications and immunosuppressants. However, the exploration of complementary therapies, such as proteolytic enzymes, has gained momentum in recent years. This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the potential benefits of proteolytic enzymes in managing RA, backed by scientific evidence and clinical trials.

What are Proteolytic Enzymes?

Proteolytic enzymes, also known as proteases or peptidases, are enzymes that catalyze the breakdown of proteins into smaller peptides or amino acids. They are naturally occurring enzymes found in the digestive system, certain foods, and available as supplements. The enzymes work by breaking down protein structures, which can be beneficial in inflammation and tissue damage. They have a wide range of medical applications, from aiding digestion to wound healing1.

Key ReferenceSerratiopeptidase: Insights into the therapeutic applications

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**Comment**

This website has posted on proteolytic enzymes (PE) for years.  They do so many beneficial things, every Lyme/MSIDS patient should learn about them and consider adding them to their regimen.

The article states that proteolytic enzymes have been studied for their anti-inflammatory effects as well as their ability to reduce pain and improve mobility – all of which are often issues with Lyme/MSIDS patients.  It also states that conventional treatments for RA come with a host of side effects while PE are safer and more cost effective.  RCTs are still needed to establish long-term safety and efficacy.

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The Link Between Nightshades, Chronic Pain and Inflammation

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The Link Between Nightshades, Chronic Pain and Inflammation

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Few people are familiar with the term nightshades, and many will be surprised to learn that consuming foods from this plant group may be contributing to their pain and inflammation

Nightshades belong to the Solanaceae family which includes over 2,000 species. They also include some of the most popular foods consumed today; such as tomatoes, potatoes, all types of peppers, and eggplant. Although not truly nightshades, blueberries, huckleberries, goji berries and ashwaganda all share the same alkaloids which may have inflammation-inducing properties.

The Solanaceae family contains cholinesterase inhibiting glycoalkaloids and steroid alkaloids including, among others, solanine in potato and eggplant, tomatine in tomato, nicotine in tobacco, and capsaicin in garden peppers. The glycoalkaloids in potatoes are known to contribute to Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and negatively affect intestinal permeability. (1,2) According to Dr. Marvin Childers, When these inhibitors accumulate in the body, alone or with other cholinesterase inhibitors such as caffeine or food impurities containing systemic cholinesterase inhibiting pesticides, the result may be a paralytic-like muscle spasm, aches, pains, tenderness, inflammation, and stiff body movements.” (3) These symptoms may dissipate in a few hours or days if ingestion is stopped, based on the sensitivity of the individual, the amount of nightshades consumed on a regular basis and their level of inflammation. However for some heavy consumers of nightshades the process of inflammation and pain reduction can take up to 3 months.

After reading the symptoms associated with nightshade consumption, it is easy to understand why one of the major problems attributed to nightshade is arthritis. Arthritis is also the most common disability in the U.S. (4,5) Statistics from a 2007-2009 study show that doctor diagnosed arthritis affects 49.9 million people in the United States alone (6). Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis affecting more than 20 million people. More than 2 million people are affected by rheumatoid arthritis, the most disabling and painful form of arthritis. Arthritis has no boundaries to gender, race or age, it affects young and old alike. (5, 7) In fact it may be surprising to some that an estimated 294,000 children (age 18 and under), have some form of arthritis. (7) In 2003 the medical cost of arthritis alone was approximately 128 billion annually. (4) Since 1994, disability-related costs for medical care and lost productivity have exceeded an estimated $300 billion annually in the United Statesthis includes arthritis and other rheumatoid related illness (8) Add to these numbers the report released in 2011 by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, where an estimated 116 million adults live with chronic pain, which costs the United States $635 billion annually in health care and lost productivity. (9) So the question is how much of these problems are nightshade related? That is the question some researchers are asking, as they believe that arthritis is often misdiagnosed in people who may in fact be experiencing severe side effects of nightshade consumption.

Many who suffer with arthritis or an arthritis related disease such as lupus, rheumatism, and other musculoskeletal pain disorders, have found that consuming foods from the nightshade family is in fact adversely affecting their health. Norman F. Childers, PhD, founder of the Arthritis Nightshades Research Foundation stated: “Diet appears to be a factor in the etiology of arthritis based on surveys of over 1400 volunteers during a 20-year period. Plants in the drug family, Solanaceae (nightshades) are an important causative factor in arthritis in sensitive people.” (3)

Three month challenge

If you want to know if nightshades negatively affect you, take the three month challenge. Avoid all nightshades for three months. (It’s called a challenge for a reason).Be careful to note the nightshade list, and become a label reader as some homeopathics, prescriptions, over the counter medications as well as numerous processed foods contain nightshades. Prescriptions and over the counter medicines may require a discussion with your pharmacist or a phone call to the manufacturer of your over the counter medicines to determine ingredients.

After three months, begin to reintroduce one nightshade at a time. Take note of any aches, pains, stiffness, and loss of energy, headaches, respiratory problems or any other symptoms. You may find as many others have, that the quality of your daily health will dramatically improve after eliminating nightshades from your diet.

The nightshade list

  • ­ tomatoes (all varieties, including tomatillos)
  • ­ potatoes (all varieties, NOT sweet potatoes or yams)
  • ­ eggplant (aubergine)
  • ­ okra
  • ­ peppers (all varieties such as bell pepper, wax pepper, green & red peppers, chili peppers, cayenne, paprika, etc.)
  • ­ goji berries
  • ­ tomarillos (a plum-like fruit from Peru)
  • ­ sorrel
  • ­ garden huckleberry & blueberries (contain the alkaloids that induce inflammation)
  • ­ gooseberries
  • ­ ground cherries
  • ­ pepino Melon
  • ­ the homeopathic “Belladonna” [note: this is highly precautionary as homeopathics contain virtually no measurable “active” chemical]
  • ­ tobacco
  • ­ paprika
  • ­ cayenne pepper

Soy sauce made in the U.S. is generally made with genetically modified (GMO) soy beans, which are cut with the nightshade plant Petunia.

The condiments black/white pepper and pepper corns are not nightshades

Other ingredients and products to avoid

  • ­Homeopathic remedies containing Belladonna [note: this is highly precautionary as homeopathics contain virtually no measurable “active” chemical]
  • ­Prescription and over-the-counter medications containing potato starch as a filler (especially prevalent in sleeping and muscle relaxing medications)
  • ­Edible flowers: petunia, chalice vine, day jasmine, angel and devil’s trumpets
  • ­Atropine and Scopolamine, used in sleeping pills
  • ­Topical medications for pain and inflammation containing capsicum (in cayenne pepper).
  • ­Many baking powders contain potato starch
  • ­Don’t lick envelopes, many adhesives contain potato starch
  • ­Vodka (potatoes used in production)

Read labels carefully because you could be doing everything else right, and still be sabotaged by one small amount of an ingredient.

Never buy a food has that uses the generic term of seasoning or spices…. nightshades may be included in the ingredients.

Learn more about the similarity of tomato lectin with wheat germ lectin (WGA), as well as lectins found in rice and barley:

Rice, Potato, and Tomato May Be As Inflammatory As Wheat


References

1. Potato glycoalkaloids adversely affect intestinal permeability and aggravate inflammatory bowel disease. www.greenmedinfo.com/article/potato-glycoalkaloids-adversely-affect-intestinal-permeability-and-aggravate

2. Naturally occurring glycoalkaloids in potatoes aggravate intestinal inflammation in two mouse models of inflammatory bowel disease. www.greenmedinfo.com/article/naturally-occurring-glycoalkaloids-potatoes-aggravate-intestinal-inflammation-two-mouse

3. Journal of Neurological and Orthopedic Medical Surgery (1993) 12:227-231.An Apparent Relation of Nightshades (Solanaceae) to Arthritis https://www.noarthritis.com/research.htm

4. National and State Medical Expenditures and Lost Earnings Attributable to Arthritis and Other Rheumatic Conditions — United States, 2003 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5601a2.htm?s_cid=mm5601a2_e

5. Differences in the Prevalence and Impact of Arthritis Among Racial/Ethnic Groups in the United States, National Health Interview Survey, 2002, 2003, and 2006 https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2010/may/10_0035.htm

6. Prevalence of Doctor-Diagnosed Arthritis and Arthritis-Attributable Activity Limitation – United States, 2007-2009 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5939a1.htm?s_cid=mm5939a1_w

7. Prevalence of and annual ambulatory health care visits for pediatric arthritis and other rheumatologic conditions in the United States in 2001-2004. Sacks JJ, Helmick CG, Luo YH, Ilowite NT, Bowyer S. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=18050185&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

8. Prevalence and Most Common Causes of Disability Among Adults — United States, 2005 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5816a2.htm

9. Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research https://www.iom.edu/Reports/2011/Relieving-Pain-in-America-A-Blueprint-for-Transforming-Prevention-Care-Education-Research.aspx

Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of GreenMedInfo or its staff.

Interstitial Cystitis & Bladder Symptoms in Lyme & Bartonella

https://www.treatlyme.net/guide/interstitial-cystitis-lyme  (Article and video Here)

Updated: 10/13/23

Interstitial Cystitis and Bladder Symptoms

By Dr. Marty Ross

Some patients with Lyme disease and bartonella infection have symptoms similar to those seen in a bladder infection. These symptoms include

  • urge to urinate,
  • bladder pain and pain on urination,
  • bladder cramping, and
  • increased frequency of urination.

When these symptoms occur, a bladder infection should be ruled out by a healthcare provider. When it is ruled out, these symptoms are often the result of a condition called Interstitial Cystitis. Depending on a person’s age and other risk factors, a urologist may need to evaluate the bladder with a fiberoptic scope to assure that cancer is not present and to confirm a diagnosis of Interstitial Cystitis.

In this article I review the ways to support Interstitial Cystitis with natural medicines in a Lyme disease treatment.  (See link for article and video)

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ACTION ALERT: The FDA & Legalized Censorship

https://anh-usa.org/fda-launches-lab-test-attack/

FDA Launches Lab Test Attack

 

A new proposal from the FDA will compromise your ability to get the personalized medical care you need. Action Alert!

We reported a few months ago that the FDA was planning to propose a new rule to extend its power over laboratory developed tests (LDTs). That proposal was published last week, and, in line with our concerns, it represents a major attack on LDTs that we think will compromise patient health. We cannot allow the agency to regulate these critical tests out of existence. Use the forms below to post an official comment to the public docket.

This rule is the culmination of many years of effort from the FDA to extend its power over LDTs. Like previous attempts, what the FDA is trying to do is regulate LDTs like other medical devices, which means a boatload of additional regulatory requirements and, in many cases, premarket review.

This is a critical threat, as LDTs are crucial tools used in personalized medicine because labs can create custom diagnostic tests for all sorts of health conditions. LDTs are diagnostic tests developed and performed by local labs. They are important tools used by healthcare providers to diagnose and manage a wide range of conditions. They are widely used—thousands of different LDTs are available—and include genetic tests, heavy metal tests, tests for rare conditions, nutritional status tests, and hormone tests. They can be tailored to meet specific patient needs and can be used to respond rapidly to emerging threats like COVID-19. Currently, laboratories have the flexibility to adapt and modify tests based on evolving scientific knowledge and patient requirements. That could all change if this proposed rule goes through.  (See link for more and to take action)

The FDA has a long history of attempting to monopolize testing.  If they control testing, they control the entire narrative.

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https://anh-usa.org/ftc-clarifies-how-it-will-censor-supplement-claims/

FDA to Censor Supplement Claims

While the FTC appears to have backtracked slightly on its draconian campaign to censor supplement health claims, it is really a classic example of doublespeak.  Action Alert!

The FTC is working to conceal the remarkable truth about the healing and disease-preventing powers of foods and nutrients. This is only good if you’re a drug company looking to sell more expensive drugs for preventable chronic illnesses that often do not work. This censorship keeps you from learning that magnesium can help lower blood pressure, for example, or that chromium can lower blood sugar, or any of the other innumerable benefits that come from natural vitamins, minerals, herbs, and amino acids.

The FTC has been censoring natural product health claims for years, but the latest threat is the December 2022 revision to the agency’s Health Products Compliance guidance coupled with the hundreds of warning letters sent in April this year to producers of supplements, homeopathic medicines, and functional foods. These letters warned companies that if they make claims without proper scientific substantiation (that is, evidence from more than one randomized controlled trial, or RCT), they will face large civil penalties. You can reference our earlier coverage for the details.  

Important excerpt:

The agency is talking out of both sides of its mouth. On the one hand, it says quite clearly in its updated guidance (see below) that most supplement claims will require substantiation by RCTs, and other kinds of evidence will not be sufficient. On the other hand, it’s saying there “may” be some exceptions, but it depends on what experts in the field say. But we know good and well that the “experts” the government consults with are often on the take from Big Pharma or are otherwise critics of the use of natural products as the mainstay in health. Just look at what’s happening with another natural medicine in the government’s crosshairs, compounded bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (cBHRT). The FDA asked an “independent” panel of “experts” at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the clinical utility of cBHRT, and lo and behold, they concluded that there wasn’t any evidence to support cBHRT because there weren’t RCTs supporting safety and efficacy.

In our view, this “clarification” about possible exceptions to the RCT standard is all a smokescreen from the FTC, perhaps to lure companies into thinking they don’t need RCTs to support a health claim so the agency can bring the hammer down on them later.

(See link for more and to take action)

The FDA also has a long history of attempting to monopolize drugs, hormones, and supplements as well. The agency often completely ignores its scientific advisers and approves dangerous drugs & products – often without sufficient data. Pharmaceutical companies like Biogen (Project Onyx) use back channels to get FDA approval. And a court recently ruled that the FDA exceeded its authority by advising against using ivermectin for COVID. Instead, it dug remdesivir out of the drug grave yard after it failed for Ebola, and approved it for COVID (even babies!) despite being ineffective and toxic.

There were more than 500 deaths in the first year of remdesivir usage, but there have only been 20 deaths in 19 years of ivermectin usage. Nurses have dubbed the drug, “Run, death is near!”

But a world famous toxicologist couldn’t find a SINGLE case of an ivermectin overdose death.

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https://anh-usa.org/legalized-censorship-a-radical-shift-in-regulating-speech/

Legalized Censorship: A Radical Shift in Regulating Speech

 

From Joseph Mercola, DO

If you think freedom of speech has gone down the tubes, you haven’t seen the half of it yet. September 19, 2023, the U.K. passed a new law to “regulate” (read, censor) online content. The so-called Online Safety Bill has been described as “one of the most far-reaching attempts by Western democracy to regulate online speech.

Interestingly, the bill has been in the works for the last five years, again proving that online censorship is not something that sprang up in response to COVID.  Governments have been steadily moving in this direction for a long time.

As reported by The New York Times, the bill forces online platforms to “proactively screen for objectionable material and to judge whether it is illegal, rather than requiring them to act only after being alerted to illicit content.”

Of course, we now know that flagging material for removal is how the U.S. government has illegally circumvented constitutional free speech rights for the past few years.

September 8, 2023, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld part of the lower court’s injunction, banning the White House, surgeon general, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the FBI from influencing social media companies to remove “disinformation.”

Unfortunately, the appellate court also reversed, vacated and modified other parts of the original injunction, leaving the door wide open for certain federal agencies to continue their censorship activities.

Importantly, officials from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) were excluded, even though CISA has played a major, if not central, role in the government’s censorship of Americans.

 (See link for article)

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**Comment**

In case you are unaware: the FDA is not our friend. 

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