FDA: Stop Gagging Doctors

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are unnecessarily dying from COVID-19. The US medical system is ignoring any treatment that is not patentable and therefore cannot provide a multi-billion profit for some giant healthcare company. This was bad enough before COVID. It always had the tragic consequence of unnecessary deaths. But now with COVID it is particularly unconscionable. Are vitamin D levels being checked? Are patients given potassium in the hospital? Zinc or quercetin? Intravenous C?

Meanwhile, the FDA, FTC, Department of Justice, and some state attorneys general have launched a coordinated censorship campaign that prevents medical doctors and other healthcare providers from communicating their extensive knowledge about how to stay healthy during the pandemic using natural medicine. The actions of these federal agencies will lead to more COVID-19 infections and death. We have to fight back to preserve our right to stay healthy, naturally.

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Stop gagging doctors

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It gets worse. The FDA and FTC have told doctors they can't advise their patients and the public about how to stay healthy during the pandemic using natural medicine. This is an egregious violation of the patient/doctor relationship. It also violates the right of the public to learn about nutritionally based therapies that are not only supported by solid scientific research, but are also potentially lifesaving.

To rely entirely on FDA approved drugs, especially newly approved FDA drugs, during this health emergency is to fight with one hand tied behind our back.

The FDA and FTC sent warning letters to doctors and clinics. These letters allege that doctors and other practitioners were making illegal claims on their websites that a product could mitigate, prevent, treat, diagnose, or cure COVID-19 or related conditions in people, making the product an unapproved drug under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

These agencies know full well that it takes years and commonly costs billions to win FDA approval for a drug. We cannot afford to wait years for solutions to this pandemic. Importantly, no one will ever pay billions for approval of a product that, being natural, cannot be strongly patented. Vitamin D, zinc, and other natural prevention and treatment has the potential to save lives during COVID-19, but the current system eliminates any chance of them ever becoming approved drugs. To censor doctors who try to inform patients and others of these important diet based remedies is to condemn large numbers of people to unnecessary suffering and even death.

For example, vitamin D is a key immune system regulator.  Studies have shown that people with especially low D are more vulnerable to COVID-19.

Yet one of the FDA/FTC letters was sent to a nutritionist who talked about the results of this recent study showing a connection between COVID-19 and vitamin D. The post concluded, "The bottom line? In order to give yourself the best defense against the coronavirus, begin with optimizing your vitamin D status to at least 30 ng/ml starting today." 30ng/ml is just the minimum safe level of D on standard tests used by almost all doctors. But this nutritionist could face fines or even jail for sharing this basic information.

These same agencies, particularly the FDA in combination with the CDC, have repeatedly bungled our nation's response to the pandemic by not getting our testing program up and running promptly and by other mistakes. These same agencies, and the laws they enforce, all too often make our medicine less effective, more dangerous, and vastly more expensive.

For example, the FDA is poised to eliminate a woman's right to choose safe, natural compounded estriol as a treatment, and is creating insurmountable barriers to access homeopathic medicines. Given this history, it is not surprising that the agencies are now trying to censor doctors even during a medical emergency. Why are the agencies doing this? Are they so tied up in their own rules that they have lost all concern for the welfare of the public? Are they seeking to protect big drug companies from competition even at a time like this?

Especially during this pandemic, it is not acceptable to censor doctors or to censor others who want to share solid scientific studies with the public. We must reform our medical system so that good science can operate within a framework of good law. We must stop fighting the commonsense observation that what we eat and how we live can affect our health just as much or more than drugs.

The FDA has threatened cherry and walnut growers with fines and jail for credible studies on the health benefits of those simple foods. The agencies say that any mention of these benefits turns cherries and walnuts into unapproved drugs!  This nonsense has to stop.

Please stop gagging doctors from talking about the benefits of natural medicine.

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