Re: Debunking progesterone creams
From: diana (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:29:26 -0700
ok - so msg is not safe because YOU are allergic? well, i'm allergic to
shellfish and i don't understand why the bastards don't take them off the
market too! i'm no fan of the fda, but you're not making sense.
>----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurie" <anonymous@obgyn.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list WOMENS-HEALTH"
<womens-health@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: Debunking progesterone creams
> The FDA is not a scientific organization. they take money from all
> sorts of special interest froups. i am severely allergic to MSG and
> they continue to say it as safe as baking powder and salt!!! they
> conducted a supposedly scientific study of MSG allergy with pills
> containing MSG and a placebo. However the idiots that they are put MSG
> in the placebo pills as well. I wouldn't trust a single thing that
> comes from the FDA. if they say it is bad a would bet it is good and if
> they say it is good i would bet that it is bad. They are just pissed
> that they aren't getting their kickbacks. Alternative medicine usually
> works waaayyy better for me than prescription junk. AND it usually
> isn't in a toxic mix of fillers, binders and food coloring! If a product
> works for one person it is worth it. I would say FDA approved HRT and
> dare I say it chemical birth control all probably have much much worse
> side effects than progesterone creams. Even if it is merely a placebo
> effect it is still working for the people using it and if not they have
> every right to stop. So give it a break!
> At Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Victoria wrote:
> >
> >Actually we don't know if and how many it works for. Without double
blind,
> >placebo studies, if a product works for only 5 people out of 500, would
you put
> >your money on it? What about pros/cons and drug interactions? Reliability
of
> >what is in the products and contamination? Review the FDA's letters to
companies
> >and you see very few responses from people on the creams who complain.
We're on
> >the Internet. We have no way of knowing whether or not it works for some
or that
> >they simply aren't promoting the product as part of their job. We have no
way of
> >knowing without legitimate medical backing who it truly works for and who
it
> >doesn't.
> >
>
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