US Law Forbids the Medicinal Use of Natural Substances

Why the Law Forbids the Medicinal Use of Natural Substances Green Med Info

• According to the FDA's legal definition, a drug is anything that "diagnoses, cures, mitigates, treats, or prevents a disease”

• “Historically the FDA has required new drugs undergo expensive and elaborate multi-phased clinical trials, which are out of the grasp of any ordinary interest who might want to demonstrate the efficacy of a non-patentable (and therefore unprofitable) herb, food or spice.”

  Curcumin Example

  Articles on Curcumin at GreenMedInfo

VitaminDWiki examples

Omega-3

• FDA now allows specific Omega-3 health claims - July 2019

  • It took 717 studies and > 1 year of work to get FDA to allow claims that Omega-3 reduces Hypertension and Coronary Heart Disease

  • There still are many more documented benefits of Omega-3 for which the FDA has not been paid to allow.

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Each of the following supplements could be easily claimed to provide many health benefits,

but no company would profit by doing so
    wonder if non-profit organizations might fund it?

Magnesium

Vitamin K2

Vitamin D

Note: FDA does not even permit a claim that Vitamin D can treat rickets, much less scores of other health problems.
Note: Low-cost vitamin D testers are being sold in many countries in 2018, but no FDA approval for the US in 2019