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TheTechnician27 , to mildlyinfuriating in People on Tik Tok peddling these scams
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Congress needs to give the FDA the power to regulate supplements goddamn yesterday.

remotelove ,
@remotelove@lemmy.ca avatar

Yeah. The peddlers of homeopathic crap are the first ones that need to burn.

Fester ,

Best we can do is ignore everything while random judges give themselves power to override the FDA whenever it causes inconvenience to corporations.

— Congress

JusticeForPorygon ,
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They had it and it was taken away in the 90s

AmidFuror ,

Thanks, Sen. Tom Harkin.

somethingsnappy ,

So many laws would have to change, and the FDA would need about 1,000x the people and money. I’m all for it, but it’s an unsolvable problem. If it is something taken orally, including food, it can basically only ever be a reactive response to people dying.

protist , to mildlyinfuriating in People on Tik Tok peddling these scams

This was all made legal in the Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act of 1994.

Before that, everythimg required FDA approval, but now if it says “natural” or “not intended to treat any condition” on the side, you can bottle and sell your own piss if you’ve got a good enough sales pitch

remotelove ,
@remotelove@lemmy.ca avatar

You can actually find small bottles of water on Amazon marketed as a miracle cure.

thurstylark ,

You can even find radioactive shit sold on Amazon as health products. So radioactive, that it can incur the wrath of federal agencies.

remotelove ,
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Just stay away from nearly anything that uses “healing ions” in its marketing material. If it’s not a straight-up fake product, it’ll likely kill you in due time. (Ozone generators are an exception unless you get a beefy one like mine, and then it can actually kill you.)

Edit: lol! I have seen that video and made my comment about ions before I clicked it. Good video, btw. 5 stars.

JusticeForPorygon ,
@JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world avatar

What I don’t get about these products, is the use of radioactive material intentional? Do the people making this shit do it with the intention of giving people rings covered in thorium? If not, then why does it happen? Is the manufacturing process just so sketchy that it somehow gets cross contamination with actual fucking nuclear reactor fuel?

quixotic120 ,

The important takeaway from this is that “supplements” have 0 oversight. The CBD, probiotics, vitamin d, etc that you buy could just be capsules of vegetable oil that does nothing at all. Or they could be asbestos and cyanide for all you know (that probably would lead to an investigation though). There’s also no safety regarding packing and handling, so it might literally be a guy with unwashed hands who just picked his butt loading your gelcaps in a dirty bathroom that someone just took a massive shit in. No one checks and verifies any of this and that’s why shills and hucksters jump onto this shit, it’s a completely unregulated market where can cut corners everywhere and say whatever you want as long as you include *not intended to treat any diseases and not evaluated by the fda

A $1200 thing you buy on instagram that sends “good waves” to your brain? Supplement. The cbd you buy at the gas station? Supplement. Doterra oils? Supplement. No regulation, no oversight, just robbing people based on their desperation to fix chronic pain and mental illness

SnotFlickerman , (edited )
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So the CBD thing really bugs me, in particular.

One of my medications has one of those warnings about how you can’t have grapefruit while taking this medication. That’s because grapefruit is metabolized on a certain enzyme pathway that gets interrupted. That enzyme pathway is CYP3A4.

You know what else takes that enzyme pathway? Fucking CBD. It also blocks the enzyme pathway, making any drugs administered less effective because they can’t bind to where they need to because the CBD molecule is already there, taking up space.

So like, for me, these are life saving medications so fucking around with this is really stupid but literally no doctor told me this. I accidentally figured this out while doing research on CBD. It seems like its becoming more publicized now, but the bottom line is this:

If you have medication that warns you that you should not eat grapefruit with this medication (about 60% of medications, I believe), that medication needs the same warning about CBD.

pharmacytimes.com/…/cannabidiol-presents-conundru…

Upon further evaluation, it was shown that CYP3A4 and CYP2C19 are the 2 major enzymes responsible for the metabolism of CBD; they are also responsible for the metabolism of many different drugs.

nobleshift ,
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EarthShipTechIntern , to til in TIL there's such a thing as vegetarian Spam
Mammothmothman , to youshouldknow in Research perhaps with real information about aliens abducting and exploiting people. Picture in post perhaps also prove these aliens are real. More info with a text document and other files in links.

It’s a shame that mental health care is not widely available when so many people are in desperate need of it.

Gork , to lemmyshitpost in Bream meame

Those were my favorite fish to catch in Stardew Valley

sunzu2 , to mildlyinfuriating in People on Tik Tok peddling these scams

Probiotics hype in pill form but why is nobody shilling various yogurt type products?

I guess it easier and more PROFITABLE to sell avg tiktok consoomer some capsules then it is to educate them to eat "spoiled" milk product... Eww

An interesting system we go though. Solid incentives and well educated citizens.

itsathursday , to mildlyinfuriating in People on Tik Tok peddling these scams

Obviously and issue but on par with actual product advertising on TV that has 0 approval and more often that not lists death as a side effect.

x00za , to memes in adblock on mobile is 95% the only reason I use firefox

In the bottom right I read: “we spent $8.500.000 on HIS ad campaign”

For a moment I was confused and thought about how desperate these people would be

Nuke_the_whales , to til in TIL there's such a thing as vegetarian Spam

I can imagine this tasting like actual spam since I find the vegan hot dogs and vegan Bologna actually taste just like the meat ones. It gets harder to replicate the meat taste as you get into bed m ground beef and steak substitutes

Klanky ,
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Agreed. In my experience, the more processed the original product is, the easier it is to replicate.

SkyezOpen ,

I found plant burger patties that were damn near meat flavor wise, but they were hard for me to get cooked right. They were a little mushy.

Nuke_the_whales ,

Impossible whoppers are pretty good. Impossible burgers from the store are too salty for me and leave a weird taste. I like the vegan chicken burgers though

sp3tr4l , to mildlyinfuriating in People on Tik Tok peddling these scams

I used to know sooo many people that would justify this, a cryptoscam, shilling literally any outright fraud or vastly overpriced bs on their social media.

‘They’re just getting their bag, you’re hating cuz you broke!’

This is the cyberpunk dystopia.

SnotFlickerman ,
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https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/bcb3cb68-7da8-459d-956e-7b0669fd6284.webp

God damn took me forever to find one without that text file in it

Cenotaph ,

Text file??

SnotFlickerman ,
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Like this one:

https://preview.redd.it/do-you-think-humanity-making-the-leap-to-cyberpunk-dystopia-v0-nqvcxy0128pb1.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=39741112b4d6e1bed8553bad0c8cfff631df7fda

Text file slightly laid over the n in the word cyberpunk.

The original high quality copy without this seems long deleted from reddit.

To find the one I did, I had to turn to tineye.

Cenotaph ,

Your hard work is appreciated, soldier. o7

Rooki ,
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InternetCitizen2 , to programmerhumor in Psychopath Dev

Normal day in America.

Meron35 , to lemmyshitpost in Thank you!

They forgot to list the Jackson, which is a coffee that starts out Black but turns White

acockworkorange , to til in TIL there's such a thing as vegetarian Spam

TIL there’s actual meat in regular spam.

Rivalarrival ,

Mmm… Compressed pig rectum…

werefreeatlast , to til in TIL there's such a thing as vegetarian Spam

What??? I gotta find me some of this Spam!

Kolanaki , to programmer_humor in Psychopath Dev
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Dumping Core

When your entire identity is about pooping.

Pantsofmagic ,

Isn’t yours?

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