Actress Suzanne Somers, 63, appeared on The O'Reilly Factor on February 19 to talk about Senator John McCain's proposed the Dietary Supplement Safety Act.
Best remembered by many as Chrissy Snow on Three's Company, Somers has been criticized for her views on medical topics, including The Wiley Protocol and alternative cancer treatments.
Actress turned self-help book author, Suzanne Somers is a huge proponent of The Wiley Protocol, a controversial form of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.
In 2006 she published the book, Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones. More recently she wrote the forward to the book, Stay Young & Sexy with Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement.
On Friday night's O'Reilly Factor show, Somers spoke against Senator John McCain's latest proposal of a bill that would give the FDA the power to restrict the sale of vitamin supplements, minerals, and herbs.
Somers has written extensively about her opposition to McCain's bill on her blog.
"McCain’s bill would wipe out even the minimal protections contained in DSHEA. It would give the FDA full discretion and power to compile a discreet list of supplements allowed to remain on the market while banning all others."
Read more about Somers' views on the proposed dietary supplement safety act on her blog.
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Amen. Leave us alone and let us take something without a prescription for crying out loud.
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Suzanne Somers is not an expert, however she thinks she can give medical advice. Where did you get you medical or pharmacy degree? She thinks it's ok that there's no regulation on dietary supplements. What she doesn't know is anyone can make dietary supplements and they DO NOT have to prove it safe of effective. There's no regulation on these, like over the counter or prescription drugs. They can sell it at stores and it's up to the FDA to prove it unsafe. That's why people always die from this junk and then it's pulled when it too late. Case in point - ephedrine. Many of these supplements interact with foods and prescription & over the counter drugs.
Many, many more people (100,000 a year) have died from APPROVED FDA drugs than have from supplements. Please folks, don't lose anymore of your rights to these scare tactics....and thats what they are. Educate yourself and learn what is actually true.
This O´Reilly is such a bad interviewer he doesn´t allow her to finish any of her arguments. This is typical American TV. No conclusion able to draw on this ADD interview.
More people die from prescription drugs than supplements or vitamins. Vitamins and natural meds have been around for centuries unlike the prescription drugs which have about 100years or less history. The pharmacutical industry spreads fear because they want to crush the supplemental and natural med out so they can poison us. There are more serious side affects with prescription drugs and its rare in vitamins or natural meds.
Susan Sommers is a hero to everyone using natural methods to keep healthy. What she says is backed by experts in various Medical fields in her interviews in her books. What she says is consistant with many other experts in the field of alternative medicine and those Doctors doing both Alliopathic and Complimentary medicine. She was an actress who played a dumb blonde role very well as a good actress should have. Please dont judge her by the part she played years ago otherwise we all should be judge by our past.
Just finished listening to her interview and she is dead right on everything. I lived 20+ years in Europe and the Codex Alimentar has controlled the vitamin and minerals there so you cant buy much over the counter. I would visit the US and buy a suitcase load of meds to bring back to Europe. There were more in the US to choose from and even the few that were sold in Europe were cheaper to buy in the US and you could buy them in bigger dosage so you saved more. This Mc Cain bill will have Codex like regulation in the US which the FDA and Drug companies have been trying to bring to the US for years. Do let this bill fool you. It is bad for the consumer.
Funnybones
There are drugs that have been around since 800 B.C. They have detected tetracycline derivatives in the Egyptian mummies. How do we know this - tetracycline binds to Calcium and forms an insoluble complex that then goes into growing bone and teeth. They have taken mummy slides of bone and have detected this. SO YOU ARE WRONG.
Funnybones,
Also, it doesn't matter if a substance is natural, that does not mean it's safe. Nicotine and snake oil are natural. So is Jimson weed - take that and you'll go insane and throw feces all over yourself for about 11 days. So would you take any of these. Plus, unless they are yanking it right off the plant and putting into the bottle - those supplements are not natural they are being manufactured just like drugs, but without all of the strict regulations. Many antibiotics are natural - so what do you have to say in regards to that. These drugs are derived from soil dwelling bacteria that use them for their own defenses. Again, being natural does not mean anything. They need labeling on these supplements so a layperson can use them in a safe manner. These can interact with many other medications or cause harm by themselves. Here's a quote from Paracelsus, "All substances are poisons, there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy".
The fact of the matter is Suzanne Somers does NOT have a medical or pharmacy degree and has no business giving advice in this area. These two professions are the only ones that can evaluate and understand if these supplements will interact with your disease state or medication. Another problem with supplements are they are not uniformed. I have measured some of these in lab and each pill comes out with varying amounts.
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