FDA is making it illegal for compounding pharmacies to compound 300 nutrients. This is an attack on all the Laura Mischleys.

[MBAnderson]

Below is an email I got from the American Association of naturopathic doctors & McGuff Compounding Pharmacy Services, Inc. who makes injectable thiamine for some of us. Apparently the FDA is making it illegal for them to compound approximately 300 nutrients -- even if prescribed by your doctor.

"Citizen's Petition has been filed on behalf of the Integrative Medicine Coalition to challenge the FDA’s unprecedented attack on physician-prescribed compounded nutrients, which is on track to reject fully 95% of the 300+ nominated natural ingredients often used by patients as compounded medications.

If the compounded medications you use include any of the nominated ingredients, your medicine is at risk.

A Citizen’s Petition provides an opportunity to express our concerns related to the current FDA position on regulating compounded medications. It is also the first and required step in establishing grounds to bring legal action. The petition is open to the public for comments. We need your voice to stop the FDA. "

Some of the things on the list;

alfalfa

asparagus

dried milk solids

molasses

organic vegetables

short chain fatty acids

shark liver oil

soybean protein

soy meal

sodium phosphate

zinc citrate

wheat germ

vitamin A acetate

yeast

saw palmetto

Sage oil

etc.

Here is a spreadsheet of those nutrients

docs.google.com/spreadsheet...

Dear Customers,

This is a call to action for support to continue to access compounded preparations. Please see below for the Citizen’s Petition that has been filed to safeguard your access to compounded preparations and how you can help!

Read and Comment On The Citizen’s Petition

Very Best Wishes,

2921 West MacArthur Blvd., Suite 142

Santa Ana, CA 92704

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Fax: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

Web: mcguff.com

From: American Association of Naturopathic Physicians [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of American Association of Naturopathic Physicians

Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2019 7:00 AM

To: Si Pham, Pharm.D.

Subject: ACTION NEEDED: Protect Compounded Medications

We need your help. Comment on the Citizen's Petition.

May 7, 2019

A joint effort of the Integrative Medicine Consortium, which consists of:

American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM)

American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP)

American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM)

International College of Integrative Medicine (ICIM)

Along with our other petition co-signers:

Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM), Medisca, & McGuff Compounding Pharmacy Services, Inc.

American Association of Naturopathic Physicians | 300 New Jersey Ave NW, STE 900, Washington, DC 20001

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[ElliotGreen]

Holy moley! This is outrageous! This is double minus ungood!

[MBAnderson in reply to ElliotGreen]

It is unbelievable. It's the 1st step in agribusiness coalescing with big Pharma and making it illegal to eat healthy.

[MBAnderson in reply to MBAnderson]

"These naturopathic doctors must be stopped. We have to stop them from killing people with alfalfa sprouts."

[justhavefun2 in reply to MBAnderson]

I wish there were different emojis on here...”killing people with alfalfa spouts” you are hilarious!! Lol “Somebody” must feel threatened by all of us sprout people...I go for the broccoli sprouts myself!

[Hidden in reply to MBAnderson]

Is taking a compound supplement eating healthily? Should a healthy diet not be one that provides from the food you eat all the nutrition you need?

[LAJ12345 in reply to Hidden]

Should be but unfortunately might not be for many.

[MBAnderson in reply to LAJ12345]

And herein lies the decision that matters -- the difference between what should be and what is. Do we actually eat a near perfect diet? We all think we do. No one knows -- because no one knows what the best diet is, i.e., participants on this forum are all very smart and well researched and are all over the map,

[SilentEchoes in reply to Hidden]

When your toxic burden overwhelms your bodily defenses, than you require supplementation. I personally cannot eat enough food to tip the scales.

This government overreach has got to stop. They can't patent food based medicine so they regulate it away. Then they herd us into a socialized medicine scheme because our medical system will collapse if we are not forced to support it.

[Hidden in reply to SilentEchoes]

What toxic burden is that? What tests should I be asking for to determine what actual supplements I should take? Is there a risk of overwhelming the liver and possibly the kidneys with taking multi supplements? Could they contribute to “toxic burden”?

[SilentEchoes in reply to Hidden]

We all accumulate toxic load as we go through life, when the burden exceeds our capacity to mitigate this load we tip over into a diseased state, ie. cancer, heart disease, neurodegeneration...I have no idea what your lifestyle is/was or what your toxic exposures have been. You need to seek the support of a functional medicine practitioner to test and sort through your history. Improper supplementation can do more harm than good.

What you can do for yourself is to clean up your diet and remove toxic chemicals from your life. This is easy to research and implement on you own. Best Wishes.

[Hidden in reply to SilentEchoes]

As a clinical researcher, I have a couple of further questions. Does the body not have mechanisms to rid the body of toxins? Will supplements change our genetic profiles?

[SilentEchoes in reply to Hidden]

If you're a clinical researcher, why are you asking me these questions? I suspected I was being bated. Do you or someone you love have Parkinson's disease?

[Hidden in reply to SilentEchoes]

Yes. I was diagnosed with PD 10 years ago. My only aim is to understand some of your content which does not resonate with the knowledge I have.

[SilentEchoes in reply to Hidden]

Let's back up. I subscribe to the belief that there is an underlying cause for disease. It's not bad luck or magic, it is some interaction between genes and environment. Some we can control and some we can't, most we can modify.

I also believe that food is medicine and our bodies possess the innate ability to heal when given the proper nutritional support. That being said, you cannot eat food laced with toxic chemicals and expect to heal. You should expect to get sicker if you do not clean up your life and adopt a healthy lifestyle. Part of this effort is to detoxify your body. How you achieve this is between you and your health care provider.

You asked me "Does the body not have mechanisms to rid the body of toxins?" Of course, but are they functioning optimally?

scholar.google.com/scholar?...

Terry Wahls, MD recovered from her Multiple Sclerosis with functional medicine. She has published a book and has a TEDx Talk on YouTube. You can begin your research into functional medicine and learn about the Wahls protocol here:

audible.com/pd/The-Wahls-Pr...

I don't advocate for a particular protocol and supplementation should be taken under the supervision of a licensed medical professional. That doesn't mean it has to be an MD, we all need to perform our due diligence. There are many charlatans - some live in universities and work in science and medicine, they are usually found where large sums of money are involved.

You asked me if, "supplements change our genetic profile?" I reccomend you research sulforaphane and ashwagandha and form your own opinions.

Medicinal plants have been available to humans since time immortal. Our pharmaceutical paradigm is based on the fact that natural substances cannot be patented, but they are regulated. This incentivizes the production of synthetic active ingredients that are toxic outside a very narrow range that is considered therapeutic, this does not apply to all people, based on their genetic vulnerability to this particular pharmaceutical poison. It is my opinion that pharmaceutical drugs are poison and only natural substances can rightfully be called medicine. You might disagree with me, you are free to consume your poison and I am free to consume my medicine.

I'm not going to cite sources for my beliefs, which are based up my own individual research from reputable sources that are peer reviewed and published in well respected journals and accessible in PubMed. I have a good understanding of what I read and my goal is to be helpful to others who may not have the same abilities as me.

I've never claimed to be a scientist and I am not going to debate the scientific method. I fully advocate that people do their own research and draw their own conclusions.

You are a clinical researcher (I would appreciate context for your knowledge and experience) and are capable of fact checking me if you so choose. I still think you are baiting me and I'd like you to prove me wrong.

[Hidden in reply to SilentEchoes]

Thank you for explaining your belief system. Having looked at Dr Wahls’ work, she herself admits that it is not a protocol that will help everyone - 50% success in a randomised but not blinded trial. Interestingly, she indicates that with just the Paleo diet she continued to decline and her improvement did not begin until she began with the supplements and electrical nerve stimulation. That would seem to me to indicate that the diet was not part of her healing process. Perhaps that needs to be looked at.

I do not describe medicines that are manufactured as poison. If I need an aspirin, I would rather take the pill than suck on willow bark.

I wish you well and hope that the hopes and expectation that Dr Wahls has given you come to fruition although PD is not MS and is not an autoimmune disease.

Keeping you in prayer.

[aspergerian13 in reply to SilentEchoes]

Excellently summarized. Thank you!

[MBAnderson in reply to Hidden]

Surely, you're not suggesting body can rid Itself of say, oh, Agent Orange, paraquat, Mercury, asbestos, etc.? The list of things that are toxic beyond on the body's ability to cope is a long one.

[Hidden in reply to MBAnderson]

Of course some things require intervention. However, the kidneys, for example , are quite efficient at removing toxins from the venous system. The body also has its own system for dealing with free radicals - which closes down the more we supplement with free radical cleaners. In the days when the Paleo diet originated, there were still toxins in the world but the known arsenal of external assistance was not known. There was no anti-venom so if you got a bite from particular snakes you died. The length of life is also much longer now than then.

[SilentEchoes in reply to MBAnderson]

I am suggesting that you can remove environmental toxins from the body. You need help doing this from an experienced and licensed medical professional otherwise you can do more harm than good. Chelating toxins also removes vital nutrients and you must supplement to maintain equilibrium.

Functional medical doctors (MD) are in high demand, there is a 7 month wait for my appointment. Doctors in functional medicine do amazing work for families of children with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, and other neurodevelopmental disorders, and they can help with stroke, cancer, TBI and neurodegenerative injury. I encourage people to expand their beliefs and explore alternative therapy.

[Hidden in reply to SilentEchoes]

I encourage people to use everything out there that is available according to their need and availability. Care needs to be taken that many treatments, including those of naturopaths and modern medicine, come with no guarantees of cure. What may benefit one person may not benefit another.

[Rhyothemis in reply to SilentEchoes]

Canada has socialized medicine and they have a number of schools for traditional Chinese medicine and naturopathic medicine. Yes, the health care system in the US is collapsing since it is extremely inefficient and profit-driven.

[LAJ12345 in reply to Hidden]

Watch he this

theenergyblueprint.com/vita...

[aspergerian13 in reply to MBAnderson]

I'm in a nursing home beside a hospital. Unhealthy meal policies are imposed in enthralled allegiance to "protein calorie malnutrition."

[enjoysalud]

Leave it to the FDA..............

Los Angeles, CA, USA

[LAJ12345]

So does that mean companies like vitacost can’t supply these compounds either?

[MBAnderson in reply to LAJ12345]

Good question. Maybe.

[aspergerian13]

Theory: families and investors who own and/or control Big Pharma companies need to suppress competition, especially since so many recently marketed pharmaceuticals ain't efficatiously successful.

[Motherfather]

well start by buying things from different countrys we will all over come this if we all talk as one i have bought stuff from all over the world today i just got 2 injections for siatica i went in with crutches im feeling much better now its 9.45 pm and im walking again tomorrow ill strart walking and exercise again so my pd friends if i can do this so can you i wish you all the best of my irish luck my mom is 100 years old and had heart surgery at 88 years old and still alive so if she can do it a lot of us can ......so may the road rise up to meet you,,may the wind be always be at your back...may the sun shine warm upon upon your fields and until we meet again MAY GOD HOLD YOU IN THE PALM OF HIS HANDS....regards your pd friend john.

[windhorsepixy]

Do you know how do I get to an online link to this petition ? I would like to sign it and to post it on my Facebook page. Thanks for the information !

[MBAnderson in reply to windhorsepixy]

I will add that tomorrow. (My computer has been off-line for hours. Ugh.)

[Icequeen10 in reply to MBAnderson]

What happened to your computer? sorry I didn't respond to your? I try to take as little medicine as I can. , Starting with PD stuff. so to minimize side affects. I take Parcopa five times a day., starting ten am. To extend my on time I add 1/2 tablet of entacapone to each dose. I have RA, neuropathy of lower legs ankles and feet.. most of the relief I get from leg cramps comes from the 800 - 1200mg of magnesium.i ingest each morning 1 tsp of Mannitol, mirllax and a tsp of 'magic beads' from the shop where husband works..my stomach has never been this good! Dx times 7 years. Am trying B1. I go chiropractor every 2 weeks,, have dystonia...,.a wing and a prayer.,.. just surviving~

[windhorsepixy in reply to MBAnderson]

Is the link here & I'm not seeing it ? I really want that petition -

Thanks so much !