Jen Gunter Instagram – A few times a week I get accused of being in the pocket of Big Pharma. This usually happens when I post about something that is inconvenient to Big Unregulated Natural or inconvenient to those who promote Big Unregulated Pharma (meaning compounded products). Look, let’s call Big Unregulated Natural and Big Unregulated Pharma exactly what they are, untested, unregulated products.
If you are new here, you might not know, but I don’t take any money from Big Pharma, Big Natural, or Big Unregulated Pharma. In fact, I don’t take money from any product/company in the health space. If I tell you that I love a power bar, or whatever, it is simply because I love that power bar. I have picked up lots of great product ideas from people doing the same in their accounts and I like to contribute to the community.
You can look up to see if a provider takes money from Pharma, and you should. But you have no way of finding out how much money influencers and providers make from promoting and selling supplements and diets, compounded hormones, and unnecessary tests like the DUTCH test.
If a naturopath tells you that there is a special way to come off the pill (there isn’t you just stop it), and conveniently they sell a supplement to help, that means they have bias.
If a doctor tells a national publication that a turmeric supplement is helpful for weight loss and inflammation, and then conveniently they sell that supplement, it’s bias.
I know people think they can weed out the good from the biased content, but the truth is repetition works. The more you see misinformation (for example, false claims about supplements), the more likely you are to believe those claims.
We need government oversight, but that will never happen. So the next thing you can do is look people up. Go to CMS.gov, and of course look to see who has a shop and what they are selling. If a $15 meal from a drug company influences doctors, then what is the effect of making tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars by selling Big Natural and Big Unregulated Pharma? | Posted on 15/May/2024 05:27:51



