exciting NEWS
Rob Verkerk to lead
ANH both sides of the Atlantic
With challenges to natural health and freedom mounting in the USA, the UK and Europe, ANH USA and International teams consolidate, with Rob Verker, Ph.D., as leader.
Nature-aligned health at risk
Threats to natural health continue to grow. On the one hand our fundamental freedoms and long-standing principles of medical ethics are being deeply eroded. On the other hand, Big Pharma, the products of which have dominated healthcare for the last 80 years, has now aligned itself with the biotech industry.
This means Pharma’s model is now moving away from using biochemistry to block or interfere with physiological or metabolic pathways, to one where it’s modifying our genes or their expression in ways that nature does not.
Nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) is a precursor to the coenzyme NAD+ that declines with age and is involved in cellular/DNA repair and protection, immune system function, and many key metabolic processes. A growing body of evidence suggest NMN supplementation may have multi-system benefits, including reducing age-related inflammation and related processes, while boosting cardiovascular and brain health, and supporting metabolism.
So, how do you take something good, like NMN, away from people without causing a public outcry?
The FDA has quite a playbook when it comes to eliminating natural medicines, but the strategy used against NMN, an exciting anti-aging compound found in nature, is tried and tested. It’s akin to boiling a frog slowly. Like CBD before it, the FDA has said that NMN did not meet the definition of a supplement because it was studied as a drug first—meaning that NMN supplements are technically illegal. Now the devious part: do nothing. No sweeping ban of NMN supplements, no feds swarming vitamin shops. The FDA says, in so many words, that NMN supplements are illegal, and then does nothing.
This accomplishes several things. NMN supplements now exist in a grey area: they’re still available in some places from reputable companies, but there aren’t many options. Amazon won’t sell it. Merchant service providers won’t partner with companies selling NMN. Its questionable legal status may attract shady companies to enter the scene and sell fraudulent, mislabeled, or inferior quality products. It becomes hard to trust what you’re getting.
At the same time, what supplement company would invest the time and resources into creating better or more innovative NMN products when the FDA has said they’re illegal, and could eliminate products anytime it wants?
And just like that, without having really to do anything, the FDA kills the market for NMN supplements. Not overnight, but gradually.