What's most fascinating about this news is not the news itself: it's the
admission that the FDA allows the continued widespread selling of
hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs even though they have been
clinically shown to cause breast cancer and heart disease! Can you
imagine what magnitude of wrath the FDA would unleash on any herb that
produced similar results? If echinacea were found to cause heart
disease, for example, the entire medical machine -- doctors, journals,
the FDA and the whole lot -- would join together in a headline-grabbing
outcry campaign against the herb. And
the FDA would ban it in short
order, too, just like they banned ephedra, an
herb linked to a mere 150
or so deaths. Hormone replacement
therapy, in contrast, has now
contributed to cancer and
heart disease for
over a hundred million
patients in the last decade alone. How's that for a scale of
comparison? And yet the
FDA remains silent.
It's no secret why: the
FDA is promoting profitable drugs while engaging in a massive campaign
to unfairly discredit anything that's outside the control of Big
Medicine. That's why I'm a big proponent of FDA reform.
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health researcher, author and award-winning journalist with a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public He has authored and published thousands of articles, interviews, consumers guides, and books on topics like health and the environment, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In 2010, Adams launched NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video site featuring videos on holistic health and green living. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and practices nature photography, Capoeira, martial arts and organic gardening.
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