US Law Forbids the Medicinal Use of Natural Substances – Sept 2019

Why the Law Forbids the Medicinal Use of Natural Substances Green Med Info

• According to the FDA's legal definition, a drug is anything that "diagnoses, cures, mitigates, treats, or prevents a disease”
• “Historically the FDA has required new drugs undergo expensive and elaborate multi-phased clinical trials, which are out of the grasp of any ordinary interest who might want to demonstrate the efficacy of a non-patentable (and therefore unprofitable) herb, food or spice.”

Curcumin Example
Articles on Curcumin at GreenMedInfo

Breast Cancer	91
Colorectal Cancer	34
Colon Cancer	61
Prostate Cancer	61
Pancreatic Cancer	35
Cancers: Drug Resistant	50
Lung Cancer	63
Liver Cancer	46
Cancer Metastasis	36
Skin Cancer	19

---

Vitamin D Life examples

Omega-3

• FDA now allows specific Omega-3 health claims - July 2019
  • It took 717 studies and > 1 year of work to get FDA to allow claims that Omega-3 reduces Hypertension and Coronary Heart Disease
  • There still are many more documented benefits of Omega-3 for which the FDA has not been paid to allow.

Vitamin D and Omega-3 category starts with

330 Omega-3 items in category

Omega-3 and Vitamin D separately & together help with Autism, Depression, Cardiovascular, Cognition, Pregnancy, Infant, Obesity, Mortality, Breast Cancer, Smoking, Sleep, Stroke, Surgery, Longevity, Trauma, Inflammation, MS, etc
   See also - Overview: Omega-3 many benefits include helping vitamin D

---

Each of the following supplements could be easily claimed to provide many health benefits,
but no company would profit by doing so
   wonder if non-profit organizations might fund it?

Magnesium

Vitamin K2

Vitamin D

Note: FDA does not even permit a claim that Vitamin D can treat rickets, much less scores of other health problems.
Note: Low-cost vitamin D testers are being sold in many countries in 2018, but no FDA approval for the US in 2019