The thread-starting post:
Our pharmacists at work say the first manufacturer who comes up with an effective, relatively safe, and relatively inexpensive pill for weight loss will be rolling in money.
That's why I brought up l-tryptophan.
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The FDA took it off the market once, but found out that the problems were caused by an imporoper fermenting process used in Japan. Problem solved, they allowed it back on the market.
The FDA once took tincture of iodine off the market supposedly, as I understand it, because of its use in some illegal drug manufacture. They put it back on the market after enough people screamed about it.
Ask a modern medical practitioner about iodine and it's a no-no, but I, in common with many other people, always found it very useful, especially for minor penetrating wounds since it, itself, penetrates.
My mother, who had been a licensed Nanny in New York, advised its use for almost any unknown skin irritation "just in case." Since iodine is chemically active, it
sometimes sometimes is good for insect bites.
Apparently it sometimes tends to oxidize the itchifying agents in the bites. Either that or the alcohol in it numbs your nerves. Or both.
In fear of da goobermink taking it off the market again, I often pick up an extra bottle of tincture of iodine when I pass it in the pharmacy section. Paranoid? Nah. I just learned my lesson about the arrogance of institutionalized medical professionals.
Over the years I've noticed a constant narrowing of "normal" physiological metrics such as blood pressure, et cetera. This is good for business, as you can guess. The myriad ads for this and that obscure "situation," such as bosculated capulitis, is also great fear-mongering for the medical industry.
I remember the remark Bernadette made in "The Big Bang Theory," about "My company invented both a disease and the cure for it."
Those BBT writers are a pretty savvy bunch.
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Gee, that felt good.
Terry, 230RN
