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Well, they can say that anti-aging treatments are just supplements for "healthy aging", since such treatments don't cure a specific disease and supplements don'
by rsanchez1 14y ago
Well, they can say that anti-aging treatments are just supplements for "healthy aging", since such treatments don't cure a specific disease and supplements don't have as many regulations as medical drugs. The bonus is that these supplements would actually work as advertised as opposed to vitamin pills.
- reasonattlm 14y agoGood luck trying to convince the FDA that a gene therapy to allotopically express mitochondrial genes throughout the patient's cells and add suitable RNA mechanisms to transport the relevant gene products back to the mitochondria again is a supplement. The FDA is already trying very hard to regulate the supplement industry in any case - that's a lucrative battle for lobbyists these past few years. The moment that it looks like "real medicine" is being marketed as supplements, the FDA will gain its mandate to regulate supplements and suddenly you won't be able to freely buy them anymore. That is pretty much the endgame anyway, given the rapacious ratcheted growth of government in the US, but there are certainly ways in which it could be accelerated.