Originally published at: https://blog.priceplow.com/supplement-news/harvard-striped
The dietary supplement industry is under a massive, well-organized attack, and this time, it’s not just coming from heavy-handed Senate bills. It comes from a Harvard organization named STRIPED, who’s using a unique attack vector: adolescent eating disorders. The industry needs to take note, because this group is well-funded and… …(Read more on the PricePlow Blog)
Historically, the lack of meaningful regulation argument has been extensively used by the medical profession/medical establishment to mislead the public into thinking that dietary supplements pose a great threat to their health.
But if you look past their hype you will recognize that a HIGHLY FDA-regulated market such as the medical industry cause MULTIPLE TIMES more damage to public health than the LIGHTLY regulated supplements (the difference is like night and day!), and that many of the claims of benefit of medical products are little more than fabricated “scientific” lies (read the scholarly article Tougher Supplement Regulation: A Necessity Or Politics? by Rolf Hefti, a published author of the Orthomolecular Medicine News organization.
Or… the US government - that is, the FDA, that is the medical-federal-industrial complex - has given itself the right to lie to the public about the most destructive “safety”-approved medical products they are exposed to as allopathic pharma drugs alone kill over 100, 000 people each year in the US alone. Or, the corrupt way the orthodox medical establishment is set up, the biggest recipe for trouble is already in place: it’s called “evidence-based” orthodox medicine (read the books “Death By Medicine” by Carolyn Dean, etc, and “Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime” by Peter Gøtzsche).
The spurious calls for more federal regulation of supplements and anti-supplement rants are usually little more than total public deception. Often coming from ignoramuses or individuals/groups who spread propaganda on purpose.