The Center for Clinical Intervention Research at Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark wrote, “we believe that politicians and regulatory authorities should wake up to their responsibility to allow only safe products on the market,"
They are talking about over the counter vitamins and supplements and at least part of their reasoning is based on a slightly higher death rate for women using these supplements. (40.8 compared to 39.8 of the 12, 769 women in the study)
Not a very large margin to begin with and perhaps these women were already ill which is why they were dosing, or possibly over dosing on such supplements.
Regardless of why it is, I think the dangers of regulating these things far out weighs the danger of allowing people to choose for themselves.
Put a warning sign above the shelves if you like, but don’t think regulation is for the good of the people. It just transfers the profits from these supplements so that the average person must pay doctors to prescribe them, insurance companies to help pay for them, and big pharmaceutical companies to dole them out.
I use three over the counter supplements that I know for a fact do work for exactly what I take them for. They cost very little and solve big problems.
All regulating does is give control of that drug to the big pharmaceutical companies who can then charge horrendous amounts for what cost pennies today. It is not in our best interests. It is in the best interests of big business.
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