GOP Doctor Instructs John McCain and Explains What the McCain Bill Means for his Patients
February 16, 2010
[In a letter posted in the Health Sentinel on February 8, 2010, Nicholas J. Gonzalez, M.D., wrote to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., co-sponsor of the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010. The following is an abridged form of Gonzalez’ letter.]
Dear Senator McCain:
Though I am a resident of New York, not Arizona, I suggest that someone on your staff read my letter very carefully, as I believe you are unwittingly sponsoring a bill with potentially onerous consequences, one that might — if I read the information about it properly — lead to the death of hundreds of my patients fighting advanced, terminal cancer. I do not think that you would want their deaths on your conscience.
I am a registered Republican, and in the past have donated many thousands to Republican causes, including your reelection, even when it became clear to me that the Party, including you, had strayed significantly from its mission of limited government, deficit reduction and, ultimately, protection of individual liberty.
A former journalist (Time Inc.), I am currently a physician and cancer researcher. I was educated at three Ivy League schools (Brown undergraduate, Columbia post grad, Cornell for medical school) and finished a fellowship in cancer immunology under Robert A. Good, for ten years president of Sloan-Kettering. Under Dr. Good’s direction, 29 years ago I began researching the use of diet, nutrients and proteolytic enzymes against advanced cancer.
Though some consider my work “alternative,” and although in the past I have generated controversy (since my therapy does not conform to the drug company model), I have been funded by very mainstream corporations and institutions, including Procter & Gamble, Nestle and the NIH. Congressman Dan Burton, R-Ind., has long been a vocal supporter; and I have met with Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, at his invitation, to discuss this treatment. My research was featured in a lengthy profile published in The New Yorker magazine (Feb. 5, 2001) and more recently in the actress Suzanne Somers’ best-selling book Knockout about innovative new approaches to cancer. My colleague Dr. Linda Isaacs and I recently published the first book in a projected series, The Trophoblast and the Origins of Cancer, which discusses in some detail the scientific support for our treatment approach. You can learn more about my background and therapy at our website: www.dr-gonzalez.com
Dr. Isaacs and I are currently treating hundreds of patients diagnosed with terrible advanced cancer, patients for whom no conventional options exist. Many are successfully battling their disease with our regimen of diet, nutritional supplements and proteolytic enzymes — currently available legally as over-the-counter items. We use only high-quality products, manufactured according to my stringent specifications.
Though I suspect you and your staff created this new bill with the intention of protecting the public, as I read information about the bill, it appears to give the FDA near-dictatorial control over the manufacture and availability of supplements, allow it at its own discretion to remove legitimate nutritional supplements from the marketplace, file arbitrary complaints against legitimate supplements and impose drug-testing standards on each supplement. Testing of a single product to meet FDA standards for marketing of a new drug can cost hundreds of millions of dollars. To my knowledge, no supplement company has the resources to fight or meet such regulatory impositions. As a result, ethical supplement companies would (again, if I read the bill correctly) be forced to shut down.
I have read that you are motivated by recent scandals involving the doping of athletes with illegal steroids, certainly a terrible tragedy, and have been approached by various professional athletic organizations such as Major League Baseball. I believe these organizations are trying to shift blame from their athletes to the supplement industry. Regardless, the FDA already possesses the power to investigate and punish companies marketing and selling steroids improperly. It certainly does not need added control over properly manufactured and properly marketed supplements or food substances — and the companies that provide these products — in order to regulate illicit steroid spiking. It hardly seems reasonable, as could now be possible should your bill pass, to punish and perhaps even eliminate an entire industry because of a few renegade manufacturers.
On the surface, your bill sounds innocent enough, requiring manufacturers to provide the FDA with ingredients, etc. But current Good Manufacturing regulations already require supplement companies to provide proof of ingredients and quality. This proposed bill, whatever your stated goal, appears to play into the FDA’s longstanding animus against the supplement industry at large, which to date — under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) — has had some protection from capricious regulatory harassment. Based on years of study, I believe that the FDA’s antagonism even against ethically manufactured supplements stems from its close working relationship with the drug company giants. Like the FDA, the drug industry has sought for years to have supplements removed from the over-the-counter marketplace and transformed into prescription drugs, which it alone could control and market and for which it could charge enormous prices. You seem to have played right into this effort.
In your press conference, you alluded to expected opposition to your bill from the supplement industry. I suspect such opposition will be small compared with the opposition of the American public at large. In past decades, as the FDA, working with the drug industry, tried to gain complete control over the supplement industry, the American people have repeatedly fought back in vigorous campaigns, expressing their opinions to their elected officials in Washington. But the regulatory agencies in Washington never give up their dream of removing most if not all supplements from the free marketplace and turning them into restricted and expensive drugs, all to the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry and to the ultimate detriment of the public.
Ethically manufactured nutritional supplements, when used appropriately, are extraordinarily safe and provide considerable health benefits. We see this daily in our own practice, even with the most advanced, deadly of diseases. Furthermore, nutrients — again, when manufactured and used appropriately — have in my long experience none of the terrible side effects of prescription items or even over-the-counter drugs. For example, it is estimated that 10,000 Americans die each year from bleeding resulting from intake of aspirin or over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drugs, yet the FDA does nothing to ban these products, which bring in untold profits to the drug industry. Nor to my knowledge have you ever held a press conference expressing your outrage over thousands of Americans tragically dying from aspirin use each year.
On a personal note, I will tell you that since your press conference announcing the introduction of your bill, hundreds of my very sick patients have been very distraught, angry that you, of all people, would sponsor legislation that might possibly eliminate their life-sustaining supplements from the marketplace and essentially condemn them to death — all in the name of consumer protection. The mere possibility of such a turn of events has upset them enormously. I will also tell you that as we learn more about this proposed legislation, however you may position it, my patients are already considering mobilizing to support your opponent in every way possible, financially, as volunteers — even perhaps holding a “sit-in” at your offices for the benefit of the press. That is how seriously they are taking this situation. And let me assure you these people are not part of some supplement company conspiracy against safe manufacturing practices: They are Americans with terrible diseases, many of them veterans, who do not want interference with their treatment choice. I can understand their dismay. Perhaps I am wrong in my interpretation, but if this bill were ever to pass, the repercussions do seem potentially disastrous, in ways far beyond your assurance that this issue is a “no-brainer.”
I would be happy to talk to anyone on your staff about the unintended consequences apparent in this bill. As I read the information, it appears that ultimately it protects nobody except the drug industry and provides professional athletes with a convenient scapegoat. It certainly would not protect the American public that has repeatedly shown over the decades that it wants free access to nutritional supplements without FDA interference. Certainly, it will not protect my patients, who, frankly, did not need to hear of this bill, the thought of which has added enormous stress to their daily lives as they fight their life-and-death battles.
Sincerely,
Nicholas J. Gonzalez, M.D.
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You’ve obviously spent some time on this. Well done!
Thank you Dr Gonzalez.
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You have to look at “unintended outcomes” to appreciate the magnitude of the “Health Care Bill”. Big Pharma wants a new funding source (since a lot of us opt out of part D, etc.) and they got it. Now the allopaths can perscribe things only a fool would take to a whole new supply of fools. This really is genocide. The “Big Ag/Big Pharma problem” isnt new. Its been going on since the 1930’s.
right . f.d.a. want’s to stop nutrient’s so we can take expensive medicine to sometime’s kill & the F > D > A know’s it for year’s till they get caught .did any one see food ink about how meet &food is processed? I love all of the letter’s . keep protesting .. 142 million for macainiac from BIG PHARMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stop M A C A I N I A C K what does he care about people ?????????????? N O T H I N G !!!!!
i am replying my own message thank god he didnt make president hittler !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As a former patient of Dr. Gonzalez 17 years ago, with hit protocol I have been cancer free. I have been a long time proponent of dietary supplements, and Have written Obama, my two senators, and my representative. to include dietary supplements as part of Medicare. Which would probably save billions of dollars and increase health benefits. The FDA is the most corrupt federal agency, and has conspired with the drug and biotech industries to do more harm to the health of americans in the guise of protecting the public. Thank you Dr. Gonzalez
Thank you… Thank you …Dr Gonzalez!!!! You’re my Hero !!!!
What a grrrreat! letter! About time an MD stands up for Truth!
I was thrown out of a family practice once with 1 minute of consultation because I dared talk about having a copy of dark-field microscopy on my daughter’s blood that showed a pre-diabetic condition. She yelled and screamed at me at how “crazy” I was to have a video of blood and that “who ever heard of that!” Meanwhile it is done in the hospitals all the time, as well as research biologists using it. As a matter of fact 10 years! prior to that my mother’s diabetes was discovered using a similar procedure by a Harvard graduate MD turned alternative – we had her diabetes reversed in 3 months with supplements! And guess what?…… 3 years later my daughter was diagnosed with diabetes type II. I want to rub the video in her face, I’m so mad. Instead, I’m sending her Dr Gonzalez’s letter – that would be a more powerful rub!
Two other times MD’s refused to treat me because I treat my fibromyalgia with supplements – they didn’t care that I suffered 10 years trying to find relief with MD’s, years that found me bedridden for 6 weeks at a time, swollen by 5 sizes and symptoms filling an entire page, after which I found help with natural medicine. She simply refused to order lab work or “treat” me if I used supplements. But the only way to get my blood and hormones tested is through an MD. And they call this healthcare!
What is it that Medicine and government don’t understand about this?:
There is simply 2 substances provided naturally by this Earth that without… our bodies putrefy.
Substances from which their inherent essences nurture the multiplication of one cell into trillion of cells with the unmanned intelligence to form feet, legs, arms, fingers, nose, eyes, mouth, brain, nerves, AND have these in precise locations, having precise and complex functions – all without our conscious direction. If these cells create themselves in such orderly fashion and unmatched intelligence with the necessary, required, nurturing aid of these essences… then why cannot they repair themselves the same way?!
These substances are nothing but:
Water and Vegetation.
Any wonder why so much disease, then?
THAT is the real no-brainer!!!!!
But who’s got the brains for that? ….Certainly and obviously NOT our government.
And WHO has asked MY permission to adulterate MY life sustenance provided by Earth as my BIRTHRIGHT??
NO to GMOs… NO to FDA…. NO to CDC…. NO to commercialism… No supplement restriction…
DON’T touch MY FOOD! PERIOD!
Enjoyed reading this post, thanks
I HAVE A GREAT SOLUTION FOR THESE ARROGANT POLITICIANS WITH JUST TWO WORDS!!! TERM LIMITS!!!!!
Dr Gonzales, Thank you, thank you and thank you again for your input. I’ m affraid that Mc Cain sponsored bill will only contribute to the all blunder of Obama’s medical bill and on the other hand create more confusion among people like O’ Rally, who is educated but uninformed (but very influential with his TV program). I’ve only hope that intelliget public will let misguided Senator know how wrong he is here and this bill will heart among the others many seniors who depend on natural medication only.
I have been using natural supplements for years, and believe me, they DO work. For years I had chronic pain at the base of my thumb, which has completely gone away since I started using glucosamine and chondroitin with MSM. Same for prostate supplements (saw palmetto and other ingredients) and it just works. And no side effects whatsoever. I started taking fish oil and noticed almost immediately my night vision improved dramatically, and that wasn’t even what I took it for. It has no side effects, only benefits.
A few years ago my doctor put me on Lexapro, a SSRI anti-depressant, for a temper problem. It didn’t help all that much, and I eventually weaned myself off of it because of the side effects. Couldn’t sleep at night, leg shaking like a paint mixer every 15 seconds all night, restless leg syndrome, enough is enough. Now I find fjsh oil has much the same effect, but with none of the side effects, only side benefits!
Yes, not only is the FDA is in bed with the drug industry, it is using gangster tactics in their crusade to put a stop to natural supplements. Armed raids are not uncommon against supplement providers, and they recently have threatened to raid cherry growers who make health claims about their products. It even forcied one to sign a consent decree admitting to crimes he didn’t commit and promising not to do it again. It has even gone so far as to kidnap Greg Caton from Ecuador, bribing local officials to arrest him and then flying him to Miami-for what crime? Selling natural anti-cancer remedies that really work, at prices ordinary people can afford. In Ecuador, perfectly legal. You can read all about it here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/027750_Greg_Caton_FDA.html
No, the FDA doesn’t need more authority to regulate supplements. What it needs is a very pointed and thorough congressional investigation of its tactics and behavior, and to be reined in, hard and fast.
Thank you, Dr. Gonzalez for speaking out about this travesty. I am an RA sufferer and have chosen to go the “alternative” route. For fourteen years I have lived a normal functional life thanks to natural health care and supplements while seeing other fellow sufferers go under the knife for sometimes multiple joint replacements and succumb to organ failure due to the Rx drugs they were taking. My TV keeps telling me about the “latest and greatest” drugs to make my life heaven but it takes longer to list the side effects and complications (including usually “death” as an option) than to tout the good things the drug does. Take any drug – the warnings are all the same! (My doctor said “take it, it’s safe and will help you – they’re just required to put those warnings on the label but they don’t mean it will hurt you” — huh??? I don’t see that doctor anymore. What this bill does is force me to see that doctor (or no doctor) because it put my alternative guy out of business!)
It is impossible for me to understand how basically good, intelligent men and women can even consider voting Yes on such a bill. I have a basic conservative gene and supported Senator McCain in his presidential election bid as well. His good judgment came into question with the selection of Barbi as a running mate and this bill seals the deal for me in deciding that he has lost maybe not only his mind but his scruples as well. How can one sponsor a bill with the ramifications of this one based on what people have told him about it? If he has actually read it then he couldn’t have made the claims about it that he has. And if he actually has read it and still makes those claims then he deserves to lose not only his Senate seat but everyone’s respect as well as he has lost mine. Should’ve passed the campaign financing reform bill – might have kept him out of Big Pharma’s pocket! But it was my intention not to stray into name calling, etc.
The fight to keep our health choices out of the hands of the FDA, Big Government and Big Pharma cannot and must not ever be abandoned!
This McCain sponsered bill would allow the almighty FDA total power over the suppliments that would be available to keep us healthy. The FDA should be dismanteled and the criminals running the organization should be prosecuted for allowing deadly drugs to be sold at outrageous prices to an unsuspecting American public. Their only mission is to make sure the drug companies remain profitable at the expense of the American people.
Doctors, show the drug reps that show up every day with doughnuts and free samples the door. Do your own research before prescribing medicine.
Politicians should not be allowed to accept money from pharmaceutical companies…PERIOD!
The intelligent American citizens should be allowed to choose what they want to take to keep them healthy and to treat whatever conditions and diseases they may have.
Allow the free market to work and the prices of drugs and suppliments will be drastically reduced.
Dr Gonzales ~
It is clear that big Pharma is out to gobble up any remaining market share by funding the politicians who agree to do their bidding. These faceless corporations have consistently degraded and destroyed the quality of life for millions of Americans for over forty years. Now they are attempting to remove all choice. The FDA is nothing more than a puppet organization that carries out the will of big Pharma.
John McCain, in a desperate attempt to maintain perceived power, is only the scout…the real enemy is the corporate empire that has been promulgated upon Americans like an aggressive cancer that feeds on money and greed. This must be addressed head on and with courage by all of us who believe in freedom – and the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I have read your interview in Knockout. Your work, and that of others like you, is a threat to the status quo, i.e., sick care does not seek to heal, it seeks to maintain high dollar treatments that line the pockets of a few, select individuals and their corporate sponsors.
We must make this a national debate. It cannot wait for the next assault.
How would he feel if we got Botox banned? Or implants? How’s that wife looking now? I thought Republicans were for less government? Oh, wait that doesn’t count when you get 140 million from drug companies for re-election. Listen, John, we’ll leave your Botox alone and you leave our supplements. Deal? Oh wait, you want more $. Sorry, bud, you unleased a lethal virus on us named Sarah, and you get no $ from me.
I cured severe rheumatoid arthritis (diagnosed when I was a grad student at Stanford by Stanford MD’s) with my own protocol of diet, vitamins and herbs. The doctors yelled at me and said I’d be back begging for drugs on my hands and knees in a year. Nope. My hands unclawed, my hips were no longer screaming in pain, my toes did not throb, and I was back on a bike in a year. They said, “hip replacement” and I said, “Watch me.” Here’s to devil’s claw, yucca, B complex, extra B6, extra pantothenic acid, magnesium, no meat and no coffee. The coffee came back and I rarely take the herbs now, but all else is still the same. This was years ago, Today I would use low dose naltrexone which whips RA in a heartbeat and is non toxic and cheap. I would still do all the others.
I’ve followed Gonzalez’s work for years. It is impressive and if anyone should be listened to, it is he.
Please let the honest and practical natural doctors get us out of our deadly political drug culture and create the new health care solutions that could heal all citizens with far less cost, side effect, and FDA, big Pharma & political incest!
Come on John.. be what you say.. or else!
As an 81 year old Canadian, I can fully understand your problems with McCain. Yes he is in the pockets of big Pharma, all you need to do is look who supported him with 100’s of millions in his thank God unsuccessful bid for the oval office. Don”t these people understand what this fight is all about ? The FDA (puppets of big pharma) has been trying so far unsuccessful to do away with nutritional supplements, vitamins and minerals. How many billions of dollars could be saved – and God knows you need to save billions to try and trim deficits – if you were to promote supplements properly and do away with the drugs that have been proven to kill more people than they save.
Personally I am fortunate not to take any pharmaceutical prescriptions, I am healthy and looking forward to many more healthy years. But if McCain is successful with his bill DSSA, only God knows what will happen when supplement manufacturers will be forced to close. And how about those Major League Sports teams ? What gives them the right to meddle with something that is not their business at all. Let’s boykott the bunch of them. Make sure they know. Keep up your good work in keeping us informed, making it possible to stop the nonsense. Thank You !
This is outrageous and the challenge keeps coming up. I don’t think I’d be here if I hadn’t used supplements and alternative treatments for the last 30 years. I have, in most cases, stayed away from the drug/cut/burn doctors and have usually had unpleasant experiences when I haven’t steered clear of them. It’s a shame that more people do not know the value of supplements and natural health and instead rely on doctors and drugs who, they think, are the cause of people living longer lives.
The FDA and AMA have far too much power.
Thank you Dr Gonzalez for writing this letter to Sen. McCain. I am a 70 yr. old cancer patient and this
is my 2nd go round with cancer and this time I am doing the natural cure method-diet, supplements,etc. I am furious at Sen. McCain for even thinking about trying to do this. He is obviously ignorant of the facts when it comes to the VAST, growing market of supplements, vitamins, herbs, etc. OR MAYBE HE IS NOT!!! Maybe he is in bed with FDA, AMA, AND BIG PHARMACEUTICAL COS. I certainly hope not and I don’t have proof, but as I said he is either ignorant, or???????? I am going to notify his opponent, J.D. Hayworth of the pending bill. He should be able to make some good political hay with this information. DO YOUR HOMEWORK, MCCAIN–YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS!!!!??? WE SHALL SEE.
Hooray for Dr. Gonzales! We need more doctors like him. We need more voices like his to stand up for our rights. This is a horrible, frightening bill, that I personally pray will never pass. It would be a nightmare for me, and many other people that I know who depend on supplements for many health issues. My life, and that of my husbands, changed a great deal after we introduced supplements into our daily routine. We would become very sick again if we were to loose that freedom of choice. I am praying that John McCain will not allow himself to be blinded by the deceptions handed out by the pharmceutical companies, and the FDA. I feel very disappointed, and worried about the fact that he has fallen for this. Who can we count on?
Brilliant letter by Dr. Gonzales. I am beyond Incensed by McCain’s attempt to deprive uis of our supplenents. My life was saved by some brilliant “outside the Box” Doctors and Health care practitioners who recognized what was wrong with me and helped me heal after traditional medicine could not diagnose me and then only wanted to poison me. I would be dead if I had no access to nurtional supplements that are safe, side effect free and inexpensive.
If it takes a March on Washington, let’s go!!
Wonderful letter! We need more physicians like Dr. Gonzales! I am also extremely upset by this bill and plan to do whatever it takes to fight this nonsense. With three Celiac Sprue patients in our family, one of them who survived for 20 following a liver transplant, I KNOW that we owe our health in large part to good nutrition and supplementation. Please continue to keep us updated and let us know where best our efforts should be made. McCain has lost my respect and support for good.
I agree with both Shaun and Kirt. My life has been saved by nutritional supplements after going downhill for 3 years after suffering a trauma-induced stroke in 1998 and following western medicine and Big Pharma treatment. I will donate to and work for McCain’s defeat by JD Hayworth, a true conservative. Listen to Dr. Gonzalez and the many thousands of MDs and other health care professionals who are light years ahead of Big Pharma and their poisonous drugs. Sounds like McCain is another one bought and paid for by Big Pharma.
John ‘the obvious shill’ McCain. I don’t know why, but in spite of all the devastating realities the US is faced with at this moment in time, this proposed bill sent me over the top. I guess that “the Cabal” that runs these puppets thinks we are so worried about our future and very survival, that it’d be a perfect time to slip this through. It literally makes me sick. Talk about enemy combatants and terrorism!!! Voting him/them out isn’t enough! How about secret rendition and torture in a black site prison? Something McCain readily agreed with when he voted for the John Warner Defense Authorization Act. What audacity he has calling the bill a ‘no brainer’. McCain is the no brainer!!! It’s possible that the Cabal KNOWS we may vote them all out and needs to get their minions moving as quickly as possible on their agenda before November. Health care, cap and trade, and now this. All instruments of MORE THEFT!
BJ in PA, well said! Our country can never have meaningful reform of any bent or fair and balanced representative government until we overhaul the campaign finance laws and amend the US constitution to put rightful power back into the hands of the high information voters. We are governed by the big money special interests through their prostitute flunkies in both parties facilitated by propaganda to create a psychology of fear and hatred which they use to divide us.
yea !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After my husband suffered from acute mercury poisoning from having his teeth (with “silver” fillings containing over 50% mercury) removed prior to getting dentures, he came very close to dying. The oral surgeon knew nothing about how to protect him from the mercury that was let loose getting those teeth out. Over a period of 9 months with many trips to the hospital and doctor’s offices and even a nursing home, he was sent home to die as they had no idea about mercury poisoning since it was never even mentioned in Med school. One Doctor admitted to me that since they had no diagnosis, they had no treatment and to seek alternative methods. We found an alternative doctor who treated him with supplements and hyperbaric oxygen. That was the beginning of his recovery and of course none of that was covered by insurance so we were left in debt. But, thank God my husband is now healthy again.
thank god . but see how loog it took the so-calledcaring dr.to tell you? that’s criminal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great letter. I’m also a prostte cancer survivor for ten years. I rely heavily on nutrition, supplementation, excercise and keeping my spiritual side in good shape. Besides over the counter supplements, I also take bioidentical Armous Thyroid, by prescription. However, for the past two years, the FDA has bee interfering with Forester, the manufacturer, where it’s now almost impossible to find this natural medication. Both my wife and I take it. This is an outrage, since there’s been no incidents with this medication, in use now for decades. However, the drug companies are pressuring the FDA so they can capture 100% of this market with their synthetic hormones, which have been shown to be practically ineffective!
Dear Peter,
I could not agree with you more. I also rely heavily on good nutrition, supplementation and exercise. I consider supplementation God- givens and essential to good health.
I am writing you re Armour Thyroid. You may be interested to know I used to take it; however, apparently am doing ok without it. I am using Iosol Iodine from Wellness Resources (1-800-717-WELL(9355) and also Metabolic Advantage (Thyroid Formula) from Enzymatic Thereapy, INc, 1-800-783-2286. Perhaps you will be happily surprised at the results of taking these naturals.
God bless you. Sincerely, Joyce Davis, RN
Dear Peter,
I also was using Armour thyroid (90 mg), and panicked when it was no longer available. After doing a lot of computer searching, I found two sources of natural thyroid and now I feel better than I did on the Armour. You can get Erfa thyroid (30 mg) and Thyroid Pro from the UK without a prescription at http://www.antiaging-systems.com/a2z/thyroid.htm. The 3rd product I take is Hypo Support Formula by RLC Labs: http://www.thyroidscience.us/products/hsf/intro.hsf.htm. I take 1 Erfa thyroid, 2 Thyroid Pro, and 2 Hypo Support Formula every morning before breakfast.
My thyroid is basically dead after too many years of taking Synthroid. I switched to Armour only in the past 4 years.
thank you that’s good your feeling much better
Myself and my daughter have been patients of Dr. Leo Galland for over 2 decades. Our lives changed with his expert care using supplements, diet, and enzymes. We had serious problems that no longer exist. Without supplements, past and present, we might not be here. I am classifying John McCain with Henry Waxman because of their pimping for Big Pharma. It’s time to vote these puppets out of office. When it becomes a health issue, show no mercy. First our wallets, now our health. Is there no end to the lunacy in Washington! And these people are supposedly highly educated! We need some common sense and some people with open minds that READ.
great to hear that !me also ! if macainiak took vitamins etc. he would change from looking just like a drunk derilick into a descent human being !
Per the New England Journal of Medicine, John McCain received $142 million from pharmaceutical companies during his presidential campaign. Does he really think we’re so stupid to not see the connection.
Any liberal who masquerades as a conservative deserves no public office. Vote him OUT!
good letter 142 million .! that’s all ? wellhe didn’t make president ‘ thank the lord !!!!!!!! that would be a death sentance for me!!!!!!!!!!!! DODGE
I am a user of Natural supplements for general health and my osteoporosis.
I am infuriated with McCain’s Bill and am so happy that he is not the President of the United States!
We have to stand up against this bill. Big Pharma must be stopped at all costs, they claim to help people but all they do is dispense poisonous chemicals and call it medicine.
Natual supplements to me are the modern day (tea) and if this bill passes, I am sure that the people will rise up and defend their rights to natural-unadulterated suplements and foods!
i started in 1967 with dr. fraulo and vit c 3000 mg’s and vit . b-3 that’s also called niacin which protects the heart that’s finally being admited by the truth & not trying to conceal it !!!!! then he sent me to the brain bio center in princeton n.j. for test’s ! Dr. fraulo then added vitamin e &B-6 & zinc One friend who i saw 2 year’s ago from high school in 1955 said my face was so smooth !!!!!!!! she had not seen me for around 50 years !!!!!!!!! I told her vitamins minarals right types of organic foods &alternative docters who study how nutriton etc. save lives !!!!!!!!!! Drug companys spend million’s of dollar’s to block this along with the F.D.A. a death sentence