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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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[–] [email protected] 184 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can actually find small bottles of water on Amazon marketed as a miracle cure.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What I don't get about these products, is the use of radioactive material intentional? Do the people making this shit do it with the intention of giving people rings covered in thorium? If not, then why does it happen? Is the manufacturing process just so sketchy that it somehow gets cross contamination with actual fucking nuclear reactor fuel?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Wow. You'd think "natural" would be more heavily regulated since a lot of people consider it to be a synonym for "harmless" (I am not one of them)

[–] [email protected] 88 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Excuse me putting an onion in my grandfather's sock overnight cured him of death twice

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I hope you don't take the onion from his belt.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Personally I'm a fan of Smurf Juice brand colloidial silver.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Should I take this with my nightly mercury eye drops?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My bad.

https://127.0.0.1/C$/%userprofile%/Documents/EXCEL.ppt

If that doesn't work give Derek a call.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ehh more like marketing. But clearly pushing snakeoil in this case.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Congress needs to give the FDA the power to regulate supplements goddamn yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They had it and it was taken away in the 90s

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And Mel Gibson. When they were lobbying to get rid of the regulations, the supplement industry did commercials that had Mel's home getting raided by SWAT-looking guys for having supplements.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Best we can do is ignore everything while random judges give themselves power to override the FDA whenever it causes inconvenience to corporations.

— Congress

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Yeah. The peddlers of homeopathic crap are the first ones that need to burn.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I used to know sooo many people that would justify this, a cryptoscam, shilling literally any outright fraud or vastly overpriced bs on their social media.

'They're just getting their bag, you're hating cuz you broke!'

This is the cyberpunk dystopia.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Because i want to use TikTok.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Then u get the scams and infuriating content. Maybe complain on TikTok about it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Cool. Then you get what you want, because this is exactly what tiktok is.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Side note, for me, steamed kale is doing wonders.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Kale has a naturally high pH, so it's basically just an antacid. If it works consistently for you, keep it up. No point in taking industrial strength meds for something simple, after all.

The class of drugs for my kind of heartburn are proton-pump inhibitors and help limit acid production across the board. It's good these are over the counter now as I am on a 2x dose, but have been as high as 4x before.

I switched from standard antacids to just water and baking soda my stomach was so bad. Kale wouldn't have put a dent in my stomach acid, TBH. I drink a ton of water these days, and even if the pH of the water was off by a hair, it would be a bad time.

I probably might be able to cut my dosage back or even stop soon hopefully. It's one of the few drugs that are actually supposed to provide a long term solution.

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