You can actually find small bottles of water on Amazon marketed as a miracle cure.
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protist@mander.xyz 3 months ago
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
remotelove@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
thurstylark@lemm.ee 3 months ago
You can even find radioactive shit sold on Amazon as health products. So radioactive, that it can incur the wrath of federal agencies.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
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.)
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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?
CulturedLout@lemmy.ca 3 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)
quixotic120@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
So the CBD thing really bugs me, in particular.
So one of my medications has one of those warnings about how you can’t have grapefruit while taking this medication. That’s because grapefruit is metabolized on a certain chemical pathway that gets interrupted. That pathway is CYP3A4.
You know what else takes that chemical pathway? Fucking CBD. It also blocks the chemical pathway, making any drugs administered less effective because they can’t bind to where they need to because the CBD molecule is already there.
So like, for me, these are life saving medications so fucking around with this is really stupid but literally no doctor told me this. I accidentally figured this out while doing research on CBD. It seems like its becoming more publicized now, but the bottom line is this:
If you have medication that warns you that you should not eat grapefruit with this medication (about 60% of medications, I believe), that medication needs the same warning about CBD.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It only makes prodrugs that first need to be metabolized by CYP3A4 less effective. It makes drugs that are inactivated by CYP3A4 more effective, which is the majority. It also only competitively inhibits while the drug is in your system, it’s not permanently inhibiting the enzyme like a suicide inhibitor.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 months ago
so grapefruit can either increase or decrease your metabolism rate of some drugs. It doesn’t just block it entirely.