Lane Labs is latest victim in FDA's war of oppression against nutritional supplements that fight cancer

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Lane Labs is latest victim in FDA's war of oppression against nutritional

supplements that fight cancer

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For more than 7 years, Lane Labs has been marketing nutritional supplements to

people with various forms of cancer, including skin cancer. Their most popular

supplement is called MGN-3, made from a rice bran extract and well-known to

boost the function of NK cells in the human immune system. Lane Labs has also

been marketing Benefin, made from shark cartilage, and SkinAnswer -- both used

for the treatment of cancer. In July of 2004, a U.S. District Judge issued a

permanent injunction against Lane Labs, blocking it from selling the products,

and mandating that it repay customers who purchased the products. This is due to

the FDA's claim that the products are unapproved drugs because they are being

marketed with claims that they help treat cancer. All of this is just the latest

chapter in the FDA's war of oppression against nutritional supplements, and

especially those supplements that actually work to help prevent or reverse

chronic disease.

 

 

 

The FDA has consistently and repeatedly worked to promote the financial

interests of the pharmaceutical industry, and one of the best ways to do that is

to shut down any manufacturer marketing a product that competes with

pharmaceutical by actually making patients better. I believe MGN-3 is a

well-documented product, and it does indeed help the human body fight cancer and

destroy cancerous cells without the need for chemotherapy, surgery, radiation,

or other radical treatments offered by organized medicine. I also believe that's

precisely why the FDA targeted Lane Labs -- its products worked too well. Having

a cure for cancer on the market is simply not acceptable in today's medical

environment, where billions of dollars in revenue depend on the fact that a

large percentage of the population has cancer and requires expensive, long-term

treatments for it.

 

This isn't the first time the FDA has attacked nutritional supplements or

natural products, of course. The FDA banned the sale of red yeast rice after

learning that the supplement lowered cholesterol more quickly than statin drugs

and without any negative side effects. As soon as the agency learned that red

yeast rice was becoming popular, it effectively banned the product, forcing

people to turn to other products such as statin drugs, which of course enhance

the profits of the pharmaceutical companies the FDA seems sworn to protect.

 

The FDA has also banned ephedra by greatly exaggerating a small number of health

problems associated with users who overdosed on this Chinese herb, and now the

FDA seems poised to attack Chinese medicine and herbal medicine on a much wider

scale, thereby hoping to discredit and wipe out virtually all forms of healing

that aren't accepted by modern medicine and promoted by the American Medical

Association.

 

The FDA has also, of course, gone after stevia, a natural herbal sweetener that

threatens the market for aspartame, sucralose, and other artificial chemical

sweeteners. Stevia is a perfectly safe sweetener used around the world, with

literally thousands of years of safe use to back it up. It does not alter blood

sugar levels, and it is available at extremely low cost. The FDA has confiscated

products made with stevia, it has banned the importation of products made with

stevia, and believe it or not, it has actually ordered the destruction of recipe

books that give readers stevia recipes.

 

This is FDA-approved book burning, folks, and this is why the FDA is often

referred to as the Nazis of modern medicine. The FDA is clearly on a crusade to

wipe out all forms of natural medicine, including homeopathy, nutritional

supplements, natural healing, nutritional therapy, and anything else that they

can't regulate or control. They have sought to ban the importation of drugs from

other countries that would save U.S. consumers billions of dollars; they have

confiscated prescription drugs coming in from Canada; they have even searched

busloads of elderly people driving back across the border from Canada in order

to see if they were carrying perfectly legal prescription drugs. The FDA, it

seems, will stop at absolutely nothing to oppress alternative medicine, and Lane

Labs is simply the latest victim of this agency's atrocity against the health of

Americans.

 

Now, for its part, Lane Labs did get a bit aggressive with the claims. They

should know better than to both sell a product and make health claims about that

product at the same time, given today's oppressive medical environment. Doing so

will, of course, alert the FDA, even though those health claims may be

absolutely true. See, the FDA doesn't want natural product manufacturers to be

able make any claims whatsoever. That's one of the best ways to reduce the

marketability of such products and make sure consumers don't buy them.

 

Meanwhile, prescription drugs can make all sorts of unjustified claims, or

claims that are justified with bad science and distorted clinical trials. To the

FDA, those claims are perfectly fine. They can be exaggerated to an alarming

degree, all with the full approval of the FDA. But when a manufacturer of

nutritional supplements attempts to tell the truth about their products on the

label, on their website, or in promotional literature, they are considered an

enemy of health and are immediately attacked by the FDA. Typically their

operations are shut down, or in this case, a court order is issued so that the

manufacturing company loses hundreds of millions of dollars and can no longer

conduct business.

 

I have often compared the FDA to the Chicago mob, and this oppression of Lane

Labs and other natural health supplement manufacturers is a perfect example of

just how effective the FDA can be at mob-like rule. Using the full power of the

federal government and the U.S. Courts, the FDA can shut down virtually any

health supplement manufacturer they target, simply by claiming the products are

drugs. This is what happened with red yeast rice -- it's a natural product, but

the FDA can simply mandate it is a drug, and then shut down all manufacturers.

Using this same logic, the FDA could conceivably regulate and outlaw broccoli

due to its powerful array of cancer-fighting phytonutrients. Virtually all

natural foods -- soy milk, garlic, onions, ginger and more -- could be outlawed

by the FDA. Sounds crazy, but it's perfectly consistent with what the agency has

done with red yeast rice.

 

Folks, we are living in the Dark Ages of modern medicine. We are living right

now under a system of extreme health oppression. We are being ruled by a federal

agency that has more in common with the Nazi party or Chicago mobs than anything

resembling freedom or democracy. Today, your health freedoms are being violated,

and you run the risk of losing even more health freedoms if the FDA manages to

regulate or outlaw vitamins, minerals, herbal supplements, homeopathy,

traditional Chinese herbs, and other similar products. If the FDA had their way,

all of these would be outlawed, and Americans would be forced to take nothing

but prescription drugs in order to treat their diseases.

 

Of course, the FDA says they're doing all this, " To protect you! "

 

As Americans, we should all be outraged at this state of affairs. It is time to

reform the FDA. We need to do this by implementing a Department of Internal

Affairs at the agency. Secondly, we need to clean house at the FDA -- fire the

current staff, and replace them with people who do not have financial ties to

the pharmaceutical industry. Thirdly, we need a presidential administration that

is not so closely tied to the pharmaceutical industry. Today, the Bush

administration has such close ties to the pharmaceutical industry that it seems

health policy from the White House almost perfectly mirrors the plans of Big

Pharma. For example, President Bush has mandated that all people be screened for

mental health disorders, presumably so that they can be put on prescriptions of

anti-depressant drugs like Prozac. The Medicare discount drug card scandal, also

backed by the Bush administration, is really nothing more than a handout to the

pharmaceutical industry.

 

If we want health freedom in this country, we need an administration that can

stand up to the interests of the pharmaceutical industry, and that can insist on

freedom of choice in terms of health products and nutritional supplements for

everyday people. As an American, you have a duty to stand up for your right to

choose whatever healing modalities you wish to pursue in your quest for optimum

human health. If you prefer to receive traditional Chinese medicine treatments,

I believe that's your right. If you prefer acupuncture and chiropractic care, I

believe that's your right to choose that as well. If you believe in nutritional

and herbal medicine and homeopathy, you should have the right to choose those

without being considered a criminal by the FDA, or without having to wade

through government-sponsored disinformation in order to find out the truth about

what these products can actually do for your health.

 

The FDA is the enemy of health freedom. It is the enemy of disease prevention in

the United States. It is the enemy of democracy and the free market principles

upon which our country is based. It is time to not only reform the FDA, but to

investigate the FDA and leaders from the pharmaceutical industry by invoking

federal laws designed to counter organized crime, such as the RICO Act. It's

time for the FBI to get involved and get to the bottom of this corruption that

seems to be driving our system of modern medicine.

 

So what can you do about this? As a private citizen, you can write your senators

and congressman and tell them that you believe in health freedom and that you

think the FDA needs to be reformed, investigated, or recreated with a Department

of Internal Affairs. It's time for us as Americans to stand up for our right to

choose the health modalities that we believe in, and we should no longer accept

living in the Dark Ages of modern medicine, controlled by an oppressive,

Nazi-like administration known as the FDA.

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