There appears to be a little hangup in all the good news about poop helping cure intestinal infections. You see, when you discover that something, anything, acts as a cure for disease, well, that something becomes, in the parlance of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a drug.
And as a drug, that something must go through a strict approval process. All kinds of testing and forms to fill out. Can take years. Except the doctors using poop to eradicate recurring infections of Clostridium difficile bacteria dont have years. They have patients who need the treatment now.
The New York Times article reporting on the research results (which is the most emailed article at the NY Times, by the way) noted at one point:Dr. Lawrence J. Brandt, a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, said that the Food and Drug Administration had recently begun to regard stool used for transplant as a drug, and to require doctors administering it to apply for permission, something that he said could hinder treatment.
Now, I can understand that Dr. Brandt might become impatient with the FDA and its rules. It has used those rules to require food sellers to remove information from the Internet in which they even hint that certain foods can relieve certain medical conditions and thereby improve health. So if food can be considered a drug, why not poop?
So heres some advice for Dr. Brandt to deal with his impatience:
*Try not to lash out at the FDA. If they hold up your treatment, definitely dont say, You guys are full of shit! Instead, try the soothing-voice approach, as in, You guys are sooooo full of shit.
*Try not to threaten the guys and gals at the FDA. Definitely dont tell them, You guys better move it, or the shit is going to hit the fan! Rather, say something that might be appealing, given the new status of poop, like, The sooner you guys approve this, the sooner we can all bathe in the shit that is going to fly around here.
*Keep a lid on the personal accusations. You might be tempted to tell one or the other FDA operative, You guys really have you heads up your asses. Temper it a bit. Something more positive, like, Hey, try sticking your head up your ass, you may find some of the meds I need.
*Dont question the FDA commitment to improving health. When an official talks about how the approval process takes time, dont get accusatory, as in, You guys dont give a shit about whether people suffer. Give him or her an incentive. Next time you shit, think about how you could be helping people.
You see, it doesnt have to be adversarial. Dealing with the FDA can be smooth and easy. No shit.
I sure wish the shit would hurry up and hit the fan with the fda because they desperately need to be dismantled. I’ll bet there isn’t one live brain cell around the place. If there is, no one is using it.
I have a question: IF the drug companies/manufacturers are no longer liable for adverse reactions or the resulting damage from the reaction, why do drugs have to be controlled? I mean, it’s like they can put anything – ANYTHING – into these pills and potions and yet the fda *approves* it. That simply doesn’t make sense.
Thanks for pointing out the lighter side of this autocratic insanity David.
Ken
I wonder if the diet of a “shit stud” would play a large role in effectiveness, anyone know?
The truth is out there, and sometimes it just gets squashed but in this case I wonder, by whom? Wait, I just found a clue in the last paragraph: “Eventually, he said, if researchers can determine which bacteria are crucial, it should become possible to create products containing them, and to spare everyone the unpleasantness of dealing with stool specimens.” Researchers need work too you know, even when not much of it is needed.
In other words, if something so simple and cheap works, we must regulate it to a stop until we can distill it and make an artificial expensive and controlled alternative that can be highly profitable and “less unpleasant.”
You wouldn’t want all those poor multibillion pharmaceutical corporations to go hungry now, would you?
“Mi caca su caca.”
There already is a “less unpleasant” version. It’s called a probiotic, and although it will take longer to do the job, it will work, no matter which end it goes into. After all, all poop has different microorganisms depending on the source of the poop so there are no guarantees even if *testing* is done. I prefer to use foods such as kefir or yogurt or homemade sauerkraut or pickles or horseradish – any combination of those and many, many other fermented, probiotic rich foods. Of course, no doctor is going to recommend those simple solutions when he can recommend surgery and drugs. That’s a given. Then, too, doctors are forced by insurance companies to cut costs by prescribing a one-size-fits-all treatment whenever possible. Many of the symptoms of C. difficile are identical to the side effects of the antibiotic drugs. And GP’s can be inexperienced with C. diff diagnosis and treatment. Misdiagnosis is common. Because most antibiotics can make C. diff worse, you need to be very careful about the use of antibiotics if you have a C. diff. infection.
Most doctors dont know the first thing about natural medicine because they are never taught about it in medical school. In fact, most of them will discourage the use of natural medicine, even though they know nothing about it. The sad thing is, they don’t want to know be
There already is a “less unpleasant” version. It’s called a probiotic, and although it will take longer to do the job, it will work, no matter which end it goes into. After all, all poop has different microorganisms depending on the source of the poop so there are no guarantees even if *testing* is done. I prefer to use foods such as kefir or yogurt or homemade sauerkraut or pickles or horseradish – any combination of those and many, many other fermented, probiotic rich foods. Of course, no doctor is going to recommend those simple solutions when he can recommend surgery and drugs. That’s a given. Then, too, doctors are forced by insurance companies to cut costs by prescribing a one-size-fits-all treatment whenever possible. Many of the symptoms of C. difficile are identical to the side effects of the antibiotic drugs. And GP’s can be inexperienced with C. diff diagnosis and treatment. Misdiagnosis is common. Because most antibiotics can make C. diff worse, you need to be very careful about the use of antibiotics if you have a C. diff. infection.
Most doctors dont know the first thing about natural medicine because they are never taught about it in medical school. In fact, most of them will discourage the use of natural medicine, even though they know nothing about it. The sad thing is, they don’t want to know be
David, great post!
The idea is to place corporations above the law in principle, and give government total flexibility to enforce laws and regulations only in ways which benefit corporations and assault dissenters from corporate domination and challengers to it.
That’s why drugs, for example, are “controlled” at FDA discretion – what’s really to be controlled isn’t drugs but any threat to the power of Big Drug. The same is true of the Food Control Act and its accompanying regime of the food police. The goal is to strangle the Community Food movement in its cradle.
A whole new meaning to man-made.
I hope that the FDA sticks its nose into the wild and unknown samples of diverse probiotic human fecal matter. It will drive them crazy. All science at the FDA is based on strict “standards of identity”. Human fecal samples lay far outside of any definable known standards. They are each special and different….
If the FDA ventures into this realm….raw milk acknowledgement as a medical food is close at hand. The FDA criticism that raw milk contains some fecal type bacteria would then be less villianized. In fact that could be the very basis of some of its medical value.
Add to all of this the pending primate studies being performed at certain CA Universities showing how raw milk cures Crohns…..and the FDA will be in a shake up. Its bias will be clearly exposed. The NIH will follow close behind by connecting the dots and it will be a brave new world. Evolution takes time and it takes persistence. The truth is the truth.
Raw milk needs to be classified as a “medical” food, but it’s probably not “close at hand”. Whenever people with mindsets like those who read here and are fans of raw milk are certain that the truth will soon become widely known, we are disappointed when the fda drops the ball, and they always do. Positive, truthful science and testing and whatever else they think is important, suddenly becomes unimportant when it involves real foods. And they understand poop (as compost) even less, it would seem. But I agree that fecal matter in raw milk is not the gargantuan issue it’s made out to be, even though that seems to be where the focus lies with some folks. If that were the truth and the whole truth, generations of people would not have lived to homestead in the 1800’s because they had very unsanitary conditions and would all have died if a little poop in their milk or on their veggies was such a terrible thing. Ick factor, yes, villian it’s made out to be, no.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/tax-on-flu-vaccines-helps-fund-national-debt/article/2517911#.UPc_k-gVlgM
Making us pay for our own slow demise, too boot. Now that’s slick. Gotta hand it to those doods in WADC, they’re a bunch of underrated treasures, aren’t they?
I guess I do not have the cultish skills required to hear what they say. When I hear coyotes yiping at night and trying to eat my calves…I shoot the bastards with a .223
Sorry to all the evolved souls. I love my calves.
Mark
We have plenty of coyotes where I live.They don’t ever bother the calves. Maybe because when they are small the calves stay with their mothers and the cows all have their horns.Coyotes are smart enough to stay a safe distance from a mother cow with horns.We also have plenty of wildlife like rabbits and turkeys that the coyotes can hunt. We love our calves and our coyotes.They are all part of the diversity here that makes the place healthy and sustainable.
miguel
I must admit…I have not been able to hit a coyote in years. I scare them off with a super high powered light. When my 4 million candle power system hits them…they are gone. We do find pieces of dead calves that are not well protected when they stay with their moms out in the pastures.
All part of nature.
I have never had to shoot a wolf.
Ken
The most interesting and disgusting, and typical, thing here is how the government taxes customers to cover the corporations’ legal risks, and how those risks are transferred from the corporations to this fund. That’s typical corporatism, and a good example of how the corporate state functions: Nominal government transfers power from itself to the corporations it creates, while transferring all liabilities from the corporations to itself.
The intended end result: Corporations have 100% of the power and license, zero risks or responsibilities, governments (still nominally “democratic” and “accountable”) function only as propaganda disseminator, corporate welfare bagman, and thug. The people are completely dispossessed and dominated. This is how corporate totalitarianism is being constructed before our eyes.
All the small agencies were designed to cover up the short-comings of the corporate world. What a great place to stash and lose money, huh. Very clever indeed.
But a tax to help us kill ourselves with unwanted, unnecessary, unproven, untested, unscientific vax?
One season we lost almost our entire flock of chickens over a short two weeks to a couple of bobcats, then lost our replacement flock. At that point I moved the chicken house down to the cow pasture, and have not lost a single chicken since. Often the chickens follow the cows as they graze, picking up jostled bugs while enjoying the protective services. Just yesterday I watched a large fox ambling through the pasture just 20 yards from a group of chickens who were standing in the snow with our cows—no sane fox would go near them. Similarly, its not uncommon to see chickens scurrying to our cows free-stall when a hawk is spotted.
Farming and fences are neither fully natural nor anathema to nature. As always, working with is easier and better than fighting with.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/22/pay-attention-adhd-diagnoses-jump-24-percent-over-/
Just as Autism has grossly increased, so has ADHD… oh I see, the drug companies make big $$$ with Ritalin and other drugs.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/GeneralPrimaryCare/36951
Poison is poison no matter what form it comes in.
“Milk, honey, coffee and syrup are also listed by the USP as being highly adulterated products. ”
And the lies continue…
2nd video accuses raw milk causing GBS, wonder if he had a flu shot?
As for the “debt”, if a society wants to have centralized money at all, then a government can directly issue enough money to lubricate the productive capacity of the real economy. That’s what the 19th century Populist farmer movement demanded, with the greenbacker planks of its platform. Needless to say, the exact opposite has since been done, and we’ve seen the devastating results. (Direct money issue would of course be best for farmers and worst for banks; it’s a testament to modern insanity that among farmers today one’s most likely to hear them suicidally parroting Wall Street’s lies about money.)