The important takeaway from this is that “supplements” have 0 oversight. The CBD, probiotics, vitamin d, etc that you buy could just be capsules of vegetable oil that does nothing at all. Or they could be asbestos and cyanide for all you know (that probably would lead to an investigation though). There’s also no safety regarding packing and handling, so it might literally be a guy with unwashed hands who just picked his butt loading your gelcaps in a dirty bathroom that someone just took a massive shit in. No one checks and verifies any of this and that’s why shills and hucksters jump onto this shit, it’s a completely unregulated market where can cut corners everywhere and say whatever you want as long as you include *not intended to treat any diseases and not evaluated by the fda

A $1200 thing you buy on instagram that sends “good waves” to your brain? Supplement. The cbd you buy at the gas station? Supplement. Doterra oils? Supplement. No regulation, no oversight, just robbing people based on their desperation to fix chronic pain and mental illness

You can actually find small bottles of water on Amazon marketed as a miracle cure.

Wow. You'd think "natural" would be more heavily regulated since a lot of people consider it to be a synonym for "harmless" (I am not one of them)

Excuse me putting an onion in my grandfather's sock overnight cured him of death twice

Personally I'm a fan of Smurf Juice brand colloidial silver.

Should I take this with my nightly mercury eye drops?

You're supposed to put a link to where we can buy your miracle vinegar/silver mix in your post. Have you learned nothing from these marketing geniuses?

Ehh more like marketing. But clearly pushing snakeoil in this case.

My Facebook and Instagram are now >3/4 stuff that I didn't follow. Not all are explicitly advertisements, but they aren't things I wanted to see. That's why I'm moving to federated services. Just wish I could convince more of my friends and family to move over. I use Lemmy as a replacement for Reddit so it's more widely social, but the other stuff I only really used for friends, family, or special interest groups.

They had it and it was taken away in the 90s

Best we can do is ignore everything while random judges give themselves power to override the FDA whenever it causes inconvenience to corporations.

— Congress

Yeah. The peddlers of homeopathic crap are the first ones that need to burn.

My ex was not noticeably sad about it, but I felt awful for him because of his GERD. He had to stop eating for the day at around 17:00, he couldn’t have caffeine, alcohol, carbonation, anything acidic, capsaicin, or much fat. His mother was from southern Italy and he hadn’t eaten a tomato in more than a decade, and the only fruit he ate was bananas. He was not big on medication, though, so he considered all that to be a good trade off for not taking meds. I can’t imagine making the same choice if a medicine could allow me to have oranges and tomatoes and coffee, but different strokes I guess

I was hoping that my heartburn would go away after I quit drinking a couple of years ago, but instead, it got worse. Honestly, that it's probably because I started to form an actual diet and my stomach didn't know what the fuck to do.

Sigh. I am hoping this current mega-cycle of proton-pump inhibitors helps. It's been a fairly high dose for about quadruple the normal length of time, so it might actually stick this time.

God damn took me forever to find one without that text file in it

Because i want to use TikTok.

Kale has a naturally high pH, so it's basically just an antacid. If it works consistently for you, keep it up. No point in taking industrial strength meds for something simple, after all.

The class of drugs for my kind of heartburn are proton-pump inhibitors and help limit acid production across the board. It's good these are over the counter now as I am on a 2x dose, but have been as high as 4x before.

I switched from standard antacids to just water and baking soda my stomach was so bad. Kale wouldn't have put a dent in my stomach acid, TBH. I drink a ton of water these days, and even if the pH of the water was off by a hair, it would be a bad time.

I probably might be able to cut my dosage back or even stop soon hopefully. It's one of the few drugs that are actually supposed to provide a long term solution.