Stop FDA removal of Supplements sold after 1994-Contact Legislators and OMB

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Greatest Threat Since FDA Tried to Turn

Nutrients into Prescription Drugs!

_Listen to Faloon discuss the FDA's Latest Attempt to Ban your

Dietary Supplements as recorded during the recent Life Extension Scientific

Advisory Board meeting _ (http://youtu.be/1cEaR9aypOg)

The FDA has just issued a proposed mandate that will enable the

government to ban the most effective dietary supplements you are now taking.

If this proposal is enacted, many fish oil formulas and natural plant

extracts will be removed from the market until so-called safety testing is

done. The FDA wants each nutrient company to force-feed laboratory animals

the human equivalent of up to 240,000 milligrams a day of certain fish oils.

This outlandish dose will injure the test animals and give the FDA an

excuse to outlaw the supplement.

How can the FDA do this? They are seeking to reclassify the natural

supplements you now take as " food additives. " This gives the FDA power to

mandate outrageous safety thresholds that have no relationship to the

scientifically validated doses of nutrients you take every day.

Why are they doing this? Because these natural products work too well.

Take curcumin as an example. It has been shown to inhibit a deadly

transcription factor in cells called nuclear factor-kappa beta (NF-kB) that is

responsible for immune system regulation. Over-expression of NF-kB is linked

with tumor cells that resist normal cell growth and maturation, as well as

inflammation.

Pharmaceutical companies want to own the exclusive rights to these kinds

of plant extracts that are freely sold on the market today. They don’t want

consumers to be able to obtain these biological benefits in low-cost

supplements. Instead, they want to patent synthetic versions as high-priced

prescription drugs!

What is being done to Stop This Travesty?

To give you an idea about how dangerous these draconian proposals are,

Life Extension helped organize a conference call last week. Dozens of health

freedom organizations participated and agreed to coordinate a massive

consumer revolt.

The official start date of this uprising is Thursday, September 8, 2011,

but you can take preliminary action today to thwart the FDA’s latest

attempt to steal your supplements and make them the exclusive domain of Big

Pharma.

We ask that you forward this e-mail to everyone you know so they can

understand the precarious state their health will be in when the FDA bans their

most effective dietary supplements.

Then, use our convenient website to e-mail letters to the White House,

your Representative and two Senators by clicking on the links below:

* _Send a letter to your Representative and two Senators_

(http://www.capwiz.com/lef/issues/alert/?alertid=51641606 & type=CO) demanding

the FDA

immediately withdraw their oppressive proposed guidelines pending rational

discussions with those who depend on dietary supplements to protect their

health and livelihood.

* _Send a letter to the President’s Office of Management and

Budget_

(http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/0719_Letter-to-the-White-House.htm)

as the FDA’s proposed guidelines on new dietary ingredients directly

conflict with an _Executive Order issued July 11, 2011_

(http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/0719_Executive-Order-Letter.htm) , that

orders the FDA to

streamline and repeal burdensome regulations that interfere with job creation,

economic growth, and innovation. To send OMB this letter select, copy and

paste it to

* _http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact_

(http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact)

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Life Extension will keep you posted on these frightening developments,

but please mark Thursday, September 8, 2011, on your calendar as the day

when millions of health freedom activists will rise up in unity against FDA

tyranny.

For longer life,

Faloon

“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies

would be in such keeping as our souls are now.â€

--- Jefferson

Historical Perspective

For those who don’t recall, the federal government came very close to

transforming high-potency supplements into prescription drugs in the 1970s.

The medical establishment lobbied so hard that it was a foregone

conclusion that Congress would change the law and force Americans to obtain

prescriptions for many of their supplements.

No one expected the consumer backlash that overwhelmed Congress into

submission.

Vitamin users inundated Congress with so many protests that the Proxmire

Vitamin Bill was enacted in 1976. This bill prohibited the FDA from

turning dietary supplements into “drugs†as the American Medical

Association

was urging.

Annual vitamin sales were less than $2 billion in the 1970s, yet

Congress received more mail from angry vitamin supplement users than any other

issue except the Vietnam War.

Today, Americans use over $26 billion of dietary supplements each year,

so you can imagine how many angry protests Congress will hear when the

public learns the FDA is trying to ban every supplement introduced after

October 15, 1994.

The FDA’s proposed guidelines represent the greatest threat to health

freedom since the medical establishment tried to seize control over your right

to ingest food supplements. Please take action today by contacting The

White House and Congress today by clicking the buttons below.

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