The FDA Needs To Be Stopped

[Tami Bellon]

Pulse of Health Freedom September 1, 2009

FDA Attacks Natural Thyroid Millions Depend On
We have learned that Time-Cap Labs, producer of a generic version of the brand name drug Armour, a natural and bioidentical thyroid replacement, has been ordered by the FDA to stop production. The FDA has decided to classify the company’s product, available for over a century, as an unapproved new drug. Since the new drug approval process is prohibitively expensive for a non-patentable substance, the FDA is in effect banning the natural product. The purpose? Presumably to protect the profits of other, inferior drugs that have been FDA approved.


AAHF In Process of Merging with Alliance for Natural Health
As some of you know, AAHF began life as the American Preventive Medicine Association. We adopted our present name in 1999. Over recent years, we have worked more and more closely with The Alliance for Natural Health, a UK based organization founded by the distinguished food scientist Dr Robert Verkerk. ANH shares our mission and values and has been a tireless and effective advocate for natural health in Europe and internationally. We are now in the process of merging with ANH. After the merger is completed, we will adopt a new name: The Alliance for Natural Health-US or ANH-US.

ANH-US Sues FDA
ANH-US has filed three lawsuits against the FDA in recent weeks. In each case, we have been joined as plaintiffs by dietary supplement formulators Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw and the Coalition to End FDA and FTC Censorship. We are being represented by the law firm of Emord & Associates.


VitaminsForbes: Vitamins “Quackery”. The Same Old Discredited Studies Are Hauled Out.
It’s silly, to tell the truth. Every so often, a major news outlet will publish an article to discourage people from taking vitamin supplements. The articles cite a by now familiar group of very badly designed and probably intentionally biased medical studies that are quoted because of their anti-supplement results. Sometimes the same old bogus studies are cited over and over, but made to seem like breaking news. Most recently, it was Forbes’ turn.

Deborah A. Ray, MT (ASCP), Editor
Craig Smith, Deputy Editor


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[musclemom]

Oh I'll be damned, so this is what happened!? My husband was on that medication and we couldn't get the prescription filled last month, the pharmacist couldn't give us a straight answer, just some comment about the med being discontinued. My husband was seeing his HRT doc (who originally prescribed the thyroid replacement) and was going to get a new prescription then.

Thanks for the info., even if it is frigging sickening, y'know?

 

[shirlene29]

whats its interesting is on the armour thyroid website they claim a backorder on it
I guess there was recent reformulation and their have been complaints as well

if they do stop manufacturing it/supplying it I know of several people's lives this will effectively destroy

amazing how many bad batches of synthroid have gotten through but now an essentially natural product thats been in use forever is being questioned

I hate the effin FDA

 

[needtogetaas]

Ya they been doing a lot of dumb shit these days.

 

[Melaina]

Unfortunately that's the way it is but it's not necessarily to protect the profits. I can understand the battle even if I may not agree with it. The government sets a guideline as to what a drug is and those who want drug approval go through the VERY expensive process. If it's not approved and it fits the definition of a drug then it's unapproved. It would be difficult for an agency to say...well you (company A) can sell a product that by definition is a drug but you can't (Company B). So yes, it protects those who've gone through the process of drug approval... and on the flip side, if you've spent millions creating a drug and getting it approved, then you'd appreciate that an agency is prohibiting other people from creating and marketing a product without following the same procedure. Like in school, no cutsies. LOL.

Musclemom, can your doctor prescribe the other drug to be filled?

 

[musclemom]

Musclemom, can your doctor prescribe the other drug to be filled?

Of course, brand name Armour Thyroid. A far more expensive prescription medication that is no more effective than the generic medication he's been taking.

I have heavily mixed feelings regarding the FDA. Let's say this, I think the agency is just as altruistic as most other government agencies.

 

[Melaina]

I didn't know if Armour was approved or not in the States. Generally though, from what I've been told that if you purchase an Rx drug from Canada (with a prescription from your doctor) it will not be prohibited IF that drug is not available in the USA. Worth a shot talking to your doc about...

 

[musclemom]

I didn't know if Armour was approved or not in the States. Generally though, from what I've been told that if you purchase an Rx drug from Canada (with a prescription from your doctor) it will not be prohibited IF that drug is not available in the USA. Worth a shot talking to your doc about...

Armour thyroid is legal in the US but the thing is, it's getting progressively harder to get because no pharmacy carries it because most doctors write prescriptions for Synthroid, levothroid and drugs like that, in other words, synthetic hormones that are patentable, instead of the whole, natural thyroid which some people (mainly those in alternative medicine) actually feel to be a better, more complete solution to the problem of low/slow thyroid.

As for getting prescriptions from Canada ... that's a whole other ball of wax. While it's legal, I've heard of different types of headaches cropping up, time delays, customs and so forth and the whole legality thing is iffy.

Like I said, my husband sees his doc in a week and we'll go forward from there.

 

[Melaina]

I will keep my fingers crossed that the dr appt. will lead to something good. One's health is never something that should be messed with, or taken for granted.

 

[Perragrande]

This is a major crisis for a LOT of people.

I've taken Armour Thyroid since I was eleven years old. I have Hashimoto's disease, the most common cause of low thyroid. I have argued with lots of doctors who want to put me on synthroid.

My mother was diagnosed with the same disease, at the same age, and she was put on Armour thyroid in about 1933 back in the Dark Ages.

The folks at Stop the Thyroid Madness - Thyroid info and life-changing truth about thyroid treatment are freaked out, and understandably so.

I had a stupid doctor take me OFF this stuff years ago -- I was off of it for nearly five years. I got to where I could only get out of bed on sheer willpower. My face was real puffy from the severe form of thyroid deficiency which is called myxedema. The doc who finally figured it out said I would have gone into a coma and DIED in a few weeks.