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(NaturalNews) In January of 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to compounding pharmacies around the country. That warning demanded pharmacies stop selling bioidentical hormones as an alternative to Hormone Replacement Therapy drugs (HRT), insisting that compounding pharmacies were making "false claims" about an "unapproved drug." What was this so-called "unapproved drug?" Estriol, a natural hormone that has been manufactured by the human body for nearly four hundred thousand years.
Apparently, the FDA now believes that nature's own hormones and compounds must first receive FDA approval before they can be used. I wonder if pregnant women whose bodies manufacture their own estriol as a normal part of pregnancy will soon be arrested for manufacturing and "self-dosing" with unapproved drugs...
The FDA's actions against bioidentical hormones, not surprisingly, were spurred by Wyeth, manufacturer of Prempro, the artificial, non-bioidentical version of estriol that's used in high-profit HRT drugs. Following a "citizen's petition" by Wyeth (a laughable concept, given that the petition actually came from a wealthy corporation, not a citizen), the FDA launched an all-out assault against compounding pharmacies as a way to eliminate the competition for synthetic HRT drugs patented by Wyeth and other drug companies.
This is the FDA engaging in business as usual: Monopolize the market, eliminate the competition, terrorize natural product retailers and lie to the public. We've seen it time and time again, and bioidentical hormones are simply the latest natural medicine to be targeted by the FDA.
Natural is dangerous, artificial is safeThe FDA apparently wants us all to believe that artificial, synthetic hormones made by wealthy drug companies are "safe" but that naturally-occurring hormones made in the human body are "dangerous." You got that? All those women receiving bioidentical hormones just like the ones made in the human body, the FDA claims, are being put at risk with "unapproved drugs," while all those women being given synthetic, artificial hormones are receiving "FDA approved treatment" that just happens to enrich Wyeth, the drug manufacturer. (And pay no attention to the increased risk of heart attacks and breast cancer from artificial hormones, by the way. You're not supposed to notice those side effects.)
It you are finding it difficult to contain your laughter (or outrage), I don't blame you. With this move against bioidentical hormones, the FDA has become the laughing stock of the medical community. When the FDA attacked herbs and vitamins, most doctors didn't mind. When the FDA conducted armed raids on vitamin manufacturers and herbal formulators, conventional doctors and pharmacists said nothing. But when the FDA continued its march of nutritional censorship into the realm of bioidentical hormones, they awoke a sleeping giant. The medical community is now aware that nobody is safe from the FDA, regardless of the scientific merit backing your product or therapy.
The FDA's assaults on natural medicine are not based on science or safety, of course: They're based on one thing: Protecting the profits of Big Pharma. Anything that competes with Big Pharma is declared "unapproved" while virtually anything sold by Big Pharma is pronounced as "safe and effective." This scam has been going on for decades, and now the medical community is finally waking up to the reality of just how criminal-minded the FDA really is.
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