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Also, further on the "just because you don't see or know doesn't mean absence" front- a lot of health issues don't manifest in weeks or months. Sometimes things
by fxfan 8y ago
Also, further on the "just because you don't see or know doesn't mean absence" front- a lot of health issues don't manifest in weeks or months. Sometimes things accumulate over years. Something that FDA (or really the pharma companies) don't want you to think about.
- DrAwdeOccarim 8y agoI don't think it's that the FDA or pharma companies don't want you to think about, I think it's just very difficult to properly study the effect of things that take a lifetime to manifest.
- hnnh44 8y agoI'm inclined to believe this as well. It's so hard to get a statistically significant effect and approval for drugs that are worth billions of dollars, that there's simply little incentive to study and promote "natural" alternatives. Maybe moving to a city with better drinking water is the best move for a small subset of the population. There's no sinister cabal trying to hide this, there's just no incentive for anyone figure this out for you in an individual basis. I could see pharma working the other way though. If you could identify a location with a population who exhibit a deficiency and your drug is more effective there, there's an incentive to better promote it there. I don't think the industry is sophisticated enough at this point to accurately track this though, as individual patient response is difficult to measure and report on. Source: dated someone that did marketing for one if the top 5 pharmas.