I don't think the FDA does a very good job as a "best practices" agency -- I'd rather see them police label claims and purity but otherwise butt out of people's decisions...
Amen, brother. :-/ Or, heck, publish studies about risk, and THEN butt out of the final decision. I would want that decision to be between the doctor and patient... or between the patient and his or her own Deity.
self-medicating for athletic purposes who had been told that very high doses were just fine for keeping joints quiet.
Heh, yeah. Again, I'm for giving an adult a good risk assessment and then letting him decide, BUT taking high doses of a potentially damaging medication so you can win the track meet does seem a little less... necessary... than taking them so you'll stay away from the sharp knives. :-)
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Amen, brother. :-/ Or, heck, publish studies about risk, and THEN butt out of the final decision. I would want that decision to be between the doctor and patient... or between the patient and his or her own Deity.
self-medicating for athletic purposes who had been told that very high doses were just fine for keeping joints quiet.
Heh, yeah. Again, I'm for giving an adult a good risk assessment and then letting him decide, BUT taking high doses of a potentially damaging medication so you can win the track meet does seem a little less... necessary... than taking them so you'll stay away from the sharp knives. :-)