Reply #1: If big pharma would only ignore it, [View All]

we'd be ahead of the game. Instead, along with the FDA, they will do their damnest to bury it. If they can't patent it, therefore allowing them to totally control the market for whatever number of years they're allowed to, they don't want it. I've been in the vitamin business for years, and the main reason certain claims can't be made is that it's impossible to afford all the testing necessary if you can't "corner the market" as it were. The FDA will go along...there's been a revolving door for executives between the FDA and big pharma for years. They'll declare it "untested" and all evidence will be considered anecdotal. It doesn't matter if it's been used for years for another purpose, it would have to go through all the years of bullshit for THIS purpose. And when you're talking about something this cheap and easily available, they'll work overtime to kill it. Cancer treatment medication is HUGE business.

Hopefully, some branch of the Canadian government will step in and fund the research necessary. I'd like to think our good friends to the north have not been totally corrupted by our "profits first, screw the people" corporate government down here.