I take issue with the level of control the FDA has over us but try to keep it in perspective; they are looking out for our own best interests, right? This takes it too far. There is a clinic providing autolagous stem cells (taken from own tissues) in Texas. It, like most experimental, treatments costs in the tens of thousands of dollars each go round. Is it risky? Does it work? Who knows? Obviously people are sick of the glacial pace in research; so tired of the bureaucracy that exists to serve an industry, not people, they are willing to take big risks.

Here comes our knight in shining red tape, the FDA. They need to save us for are we stupid (this is why we cannot understand peer review or placebo) and we are going to lose our shirts with this loony treatment, so they respond by visiting this clinic and trying their best to shut it down citing the lab for not being organized enough ?!? The next step is to claim our own stem cells, extracted from our very own tissue, is a drug and therefore must be regulated?!? Wow. How can they claim that when the cells are intended to go right back into us? This is way over the top in regulatory control. So glad the have my back. Don't you find it curious that there would be no Celltex or FDA without us, yet we once again are shut out.


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