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Cheap, 'safe' drug kills most cancers
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Quote from biggerfish:
Referred to by health guy Mike Adams in an above post, here is the summary of the new FDA "guidance" document which is causing all the concern of potential overregulation due to possible reclassification of most vitamins, supplements, herbs, etc.:
2006D-0480 - Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration
FR Type: Notice
Action: Availability.Guidance.Level 1
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, we) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration." In recent years, the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) products has increased in the United States, and we have seen increased confusion as to whether certain products used in CAM are subject to regulation under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ("the Act") or Public Health Service Act ("PHS Act"). We have also seen an increase in the number of CAM products imported into the United States. Therefore, the draft guidance discusses when a CAM product is subject to the Act or the PHS Act.
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scrip...UMENT_ID=1451&SUBTYP=CONTINUE&CID=&AGENCY=FDA (scroll way down)
Below is the first published reaction by health advocate Mike Adams to this FDA document.
An overreaction, or sounding the alarm on another government/Big Brother "looking out for you" grab of individual liberties? After reading his entire article via the title link, you decide:
Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs"
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 by: Mike Adams
When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA's end game. A new FDA "guidance" document, published on the FDA's website, reveals plans to reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs and even vegetable juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage oils and massage rocks will be classified as "medical devices" and require FDA approval. The document is called Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA is accepting public comments on the docket until April 30th. They tried to sneak this under the radar, but word got out and now the natural health community is up in arms over this rule. If you wish to protect your access to nutritional supplements, herbs, essential oils, homeopathic medicine or any other "complementary" or "alternative" modality, it is crucial that you take action to post your comments with the FDA right now and write your representatives in Washington to put a stop to this outrageous effort to destroy natural medicine. (And be sure to really write them. Just sending an email has virtually no impact compared to writing a physical letter in your own words.)
Click here for the direct link to the FDA's comment posting page for this docket.
This move by the FDA is designed to once and for all destroy the 1994 DSHEA law that has made supplements "legal" while eliminating nutritional supplements and natural medicine from the United States, ensuring monopoly profits and control by drug companies and the FDA. It is the latest action item by the FDA / Big Pharma conspiracy that will not stop until health freedom has been abolished, drug companies rule the nation, and every citizen is diagnosied with a fictitious disease and drugged up on monopoly-priced pharmaceuticals.
FDA "experts" will decide what's a drug or medical device
Under these proposed guidelines, FDA "experts" (the same corrupt officials who reapproved Vioxx after it killed over 50,000 Americans) will decide whether herbs, supplements, vitamins or simple devices like massage stones are to be regulated as drugs and medical devices. If the FDA experts, in their infinite wisdom, decide that these things are to be reclassified, they will essentially be outlawed, stripped from the shelves, and regulated out of existence. Anyone who dares to manufacture, promote or sell such products may be branded a criminal and rounded up by armed FDA agents who have a well established history of suppressing natural medicine...
Health freedom action alert: FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as "drugs"
Democrats have a litlle power in the Senate and the FDA tries for a power grab. What else is new?? I don't trust Bush to nix this kind of thing either.
NO WONDER DRUG!
Hopefully someone posted this article from New Scientist. Don't get your hopes up.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325890.200-no-wonder-drug.html
It is indeed scandalous that promising anti-cancer agents such as dichloroacetate (DCA) go begging for support simply because they are cheap and unpatentable (20 January, p 3 and p 13). You have done a great service in bringing this information and perspective before the public.
However, after you published online your first article on this proposed anti-cancer treatment (17 January), my medical information service was deluged with demands from desperate patients for what you call a "too good to be true" wonder drug. We had to inform them that DCA had never been tested in humans, only in cell lines and experimental animals, and that it was totally unavailable to today's patients.
You did explain that it is too early to draw therapeutic conclusions, despite the promising lab work. But the magazine headline "Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers" implies that DCA is known to destroy actual tumours in humans. This continues to generate waves of unwarranted expectation among many patients and has already resulted in severe disappointment for people seeking a solution to life-threatening cancers.
It should also be pointed out that DCA is a by-product of the water chlorination process and a well-known environmental pollutant. It has been shown to be carcinogenic in rodent models and is also genotoxic, hepatotoxic and teratogenic in animals, all at doses well below what would seemingly be necessary to achieve a therapeutic effect in cancer patients. There are worthwhile anti-cancer drugs that are carcinogenic. But it would have been good to inform readers of this.
Hopefully someone posted this article from New Scientist. Don't get your hopes up.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325890.200-no-wonder-drug.html
It is indeed scandalous that promising anti-cancer agents such as dichloroacetate (DCA) go begging for support simply because they are cheap and unpatentable (20 January, p 3 and p 13). You have done a great service in bringing this information and perspective before the public.
However, after you published online your first article on this proposed anti-cancer treatment (17 January), my medical information service was deluged with demands from desperate patients for what you call a "too good to be true" wonder drug. We had to inform them that DCA had never been tested in humans, only in cell lines and experimental animals, and that it was totally unavailable to today's patients.
You did explain that it is too early to draw therapeutic conclusions, despite the promising lab work. But the magazine headline "Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers" implies that DCA is known to destroy actual tumours in humans. This continues to generate waves of unwarranted expectation among many patients and has already resulted in severe disappointment for people seeking a solution to life-threatening cancers.
It should also be pointed out that DCA is a by-product of the water chlorination process and a well-known environmental pollutant. It has been shown to be carcinogenic in rodent models and is also genotoxic, hepatotoxic and teratogenic in animals, all at doses well below what would seemingly be necessary to achieve a therapeutic effect in cancer patients. There are worthwhile anti-cancer drugs that are carcinogenic. But it would have been good to inform readers of this.
the truth about chemo
http://www.polymvasurvivors.com/truth_chemo.html
http://www.polymvasurvivors.com/truth_chemo.html
Wow, I've seen lots of web sites with misinformation but that one ranks up near the top - complete nonsense.
Oh and what a surprise that they are selling an "anti-oxidant"
I guess false hope can be profitable but what a shameful way to earn a living.
Quote from BeakerBoy:
Wow, I've seen lots of web sites with misinformation but that one ranks up near the top - complete nonsense.
Oh and what a surprise that they are selling an "anti-oxidant"
I guess false hope can be profitable but what a shameful way to earn a living.
People that want to blow something off always say "nonsense", or "been debunked", etc. Cite some sources if you want to say those things, otherwise you are just a political hit man.
The website quotes nobel prize winners and other people that are certainly credible. Check out Lorraine Day's videos, she was a surgeon that had seen what chemo/radiation does and knew it's effectivity for sure. She got breast cancer and refused the very treatments that her profession advocates and cured herself with nutrition.
Quote from maxpi:
People that want to blow something off always say "nonsense", or "been debunked", etc. Cite some sources if you want to say those things, otherwise you are just a political hit man.
The website quotes nobel prize winners and other people that are certainly credible. Check out Lorraine Day's videos, she was a surgeon that had seen what chemo/radiation does and knew it's effectivity for sure. She got breast cancer and refused the very treatments that her profession advocates and cured herself with nutrition.
Cancer is horrible, chemotherapy is horrible but unfortunatly it is the best that modern science can offer for this disease at the moment. Prevention is king and possibly gene therapy in the future. I am not a political hitman, I just live and work in an arena where only peer reviewed work is acceptable not a website which takes quotes out of context and provides misinformation for their own gain.
Quote from Emilio_Lizardo:
Now I see! The problem is not enough opiates! If
I am feeling down a little heroin will turn things
around. Or maybe just a few Vicoden if I'm in a
hurry.
Smoking crack makes me feel even better than mainlining
smack. I guess that means I have a serious cocaine
deficiency! Probably because my serum alkaliniity is
way out of whack. Not to fear, I will just self medicate
with more crack until Fedex delivers my litmus paper
test strips and magic alkaline water.
And I thought I was delusional!
High as a kite (but not depressed),
Emilio
You're just showing your ignorance.
In the mid-1970's, scientists discovered that every human brain contains natural chemicals which are nearly identical to opiates (and also act on the same opiate receptors). These endogenous opioids are called endorphins, dynorphins, and enkephalins.
Look it up if you don't believe me, and then come back to apologize.
Quote from BeakerBoy:
Cancer is horrible, chemotherapy is horrible but unfortunatly it is the best that modern science can offer for this disease at the moment. Prevention is king and possibly gene therapy in the future. I am not a political hitman, I just live and work in an arena where only peer reviewed work is acceptable not a website which takes quotes out of context and provides misinformation for their own gain.
Ok, if you are doing such important work don't let us interfere with your schedule then.
Quote from Rearden Metal:
You're just showing your ignorance.
In the mid-1970's, scientists discovered that every human brain contains natural chemicals which are nearly identical to opiates (and also act on the same opiate receptors). These endogenous opioids are called endorphins, dynorphins, and enkephalins.
Look it up if you don't believe me, and then come back to apologize.
I am pretty far into believing that we can psychologically block either production of said chemicals or disable the receptor sites. It seems like a learned behavior really. Maybe something traumatic happened when we were extremely happy and we developed a psychological superstition that forever blocks the happy juices... I am repeatedly taken back to many little traumas that happened in childhood because I was so happy I did not think.. im going to see if I can undo this psychological damage and get the juices flowing, I'll report back. I have found that it is easy to undo psychological damage from trauma but whether the chemistry will be restored at a later stage of life.... haven't proven that for myself yet. It has to be better than taking a drug, some bupe might be in order to kick start the system at some point though, time will tell. The Earth is flooded with ignorance and sadism, life is just a big project of extrication.