Health Canada Assaults Stem Cell Therapies
While Many Dangerous Drugs And Worthless Scams Get Approved, Health Canada Goes After Anti-Aging Remedies
It’s a statistical fact that tens of thousands of Canadians have died from prescription drugs approved by Health Canada, the authority charged with protecting the public, at home or in hospitals. The keyword for Health Canada intervention seems to be: does it really work? If it works then it must be a public hazard. Why? Because it threatens the medical-pharmaceutical establishment that Health Canada has undertaken to serve. Imagine alternative remedies or supplements that will make people healthier and younger and slows the aging process, so they will not need prescription drugs, surgery, and the many classical medical interventions that profit some doctors and most pharmaceutical companies. Aging is a gold mine of profits for the medical establishment. It’s an almost endless source of revenues for doctors and pharma, so they will do whatever they can to make sure that anti-aging remedies like stem cell treatment are put away under government authority.
A case in point is DHEA, a supplement that has been selling for decades over the counter in pharmacies and even drugstores in the United States. Health Canada first made it a controlled substance 30 years ago and made it almost impossible for pharmacies to dispense it. Several well-known researchers and doctors have written about the benefits of this supplement, which helps to replenish one of the fastest dissipating essential hormones in the body. The anti-DHEA campaign has been so successful, however, you cannot buy it in Canada even with a prescription.
Stem cells are master cells in the body out of which any other cell can be made. It’s found in abundance in the umbilical cord and fatty tissue. In China, Thailand, Ukraine, Russia and Mexico as well as several other countries stem cells are injected into the body from donor cells as a general anti-aging treatment. In Canada and the United States stem cells are recycled from the same individual with a specific purpose, such as repairing damaged tissue. Several American treatment centers boast about curing specific ailments including even cancer and leukemia.
Although it’s only been introduced into Canada recently, stem cell therapy is as close as it comes to a miraculous cure for several ailments. About a month ago Health Canada launched an assault on stem cell therapies apparently provoked by doctors who saw it as a threat to their own business. Imagine a patient opting for a successful stem cell treatment over surgery for a defective knee cap replacement. Stem cells are master cells in the body that can manufacture other cells as needed. In Canada the treatment was limited to recycling the patient’s own cells instead of injecting cell from donors. In its “infinite wisdom” Health Canada decided that stem cells, even from the patient himself or herself, must be considered drugs and require clinical trials. A clinical trial can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars or more and can only be afforded by big pharma.
Much more to come on this issue…
September 8, 2019
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