FDA approval

During my career I would remind patients of the statements, “these statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and this product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease,” when patients would ask for my opinion on a dietary supplement or brochure/advertisement that they had seen.

Many had already purchased and some had already started taking the supplement in question.

I always tried to look into further for them.

I just finished reading, No More Tears (2025), by Gardiner Harris.

It’s extensively referenced and an excellent read.

I never knew the FDA was funded by industry, not taxpayers.

I should have made the following statement to patients, over my career, whenever I started them on any FDA approved medication/medical device:

This medication/medical device has been approved by the FDA but the approval may have been made by members of a review panel who had a financial incentive to approve and/or without the results of clinical trials that concluded adverse outcomes, due to being intentionally excluded from the submitted application, by the pharmaceutical company.

Gardiner Harris makes excellent recommendations on the last few pages on how to move forward from here.

It will be interesting to see if anything changes.