FDA Claims Human Body Is a Drug and the Authority to Regulate It

According to the National Institutes of Health, Stem cells are cells with the potential to develop into many different types of cells in the body and serve as a repair system for the body. There are two main types of stem cells: embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells. Scientist believes they may be used to make cells and tissues for therapy of many diseases, including Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Now the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and the government want to make a ridiculous claim suggesting they own your stem cells because they are drugs. This has come about as a consequence of the FDA’s latest claim in its dispute with a Colorado clinic over its Regenexx-SD™ procedure, a non-surgical treatment for people suffering from moderate to severe joint or bone pain using adult stem cells. The Food and Drug Administration has filed an injunction to stop the clinic from using a person's own stem cells to alleviate pain.
The FDA argues that the clinic is violating federal standards by injecting patients with their cultured stem cells. The clinic's doctors remove cells from the patient and grow them in an outside lab before injecting the cells into painful joints. The backwards logic proffered by the FDA in court documents suggesting it has the right to regulate the clinic is twofold. First they state that “Stem cells are drugs and therefore fall within their jurisdiction.” Last, that the Colorado clinic “is engaging in interstate commerce and is therefore subject to FDA regulation because any part of the machine or procedure that originates outside Colorado becomes interstate commerce once it enters the state.”

The FDA in its own legal briefs and documents state that the agency wants to protect the market for FDA-approved drugs more than all else. If upheld in the courts, the implication of the FDA’s interpretation of the law, is that al cells produced by the human body are the property of the FDA and any use of these cells, even by the person that produces them would be against the law, even if it is to treat their own body. Because according to the FDA, “Stem cells, like other medical products that are intended to treat, cure, or prevent disease, generally require FDA approval before they can be marketed. At this time, there are no licensed stem cell treatments.”

This is just another example of how the FDA is concerned more with serving the interest of large drug and pharmaceutical companies over the people they supposedly are in existence to protect. They are quick to approve questionable medications like the chemical aspartame when it has been shown to cause cancer in rats.

Similar outcomes have occurred with Yaz (birth control), which the FDA first approved in 2001, with Yasmin to follow in 2006, but since then he two studies by Boston University School of Medicine and published in the British Medical Journal had shown that the risk for blood clots, or venous thromboembolism (VTE), was 2-3 times higher for those women who were taking pills that had drospirenone.

Still the query remains, how far can the FDA go into our private lives and are they actually concerned with protecting the public or making drug companies wealthier?

work hard and don’t complain

Growing up in Memphis, there were 3 general things I was inculcated with from either my Grand folk, Mom or Uncles:

1] If you gone be a ditch digger be the best ditch digger and they will always call Torrance to dig that ditch

2] Somebody gotta be number one, may as well be you.

3] Competition is for folk who have to prove something to themselves; you don’t need to compete boy if you already know yourself.

Over the years, I have had a lot of things said about me, but never have I been called lazy nor have I ever had my work ethic questioned. The little I know about my mothers father and my granny’s brother, I do recant both of them giving me advice as a child under the age of 4. My Great Uncle, while drinking Scotch and chain smoking Pall Mall Red would say “what makes a man is how hard he works, not for himself but his family and neighborhood – men take care of others.” These were straight old school cats, with my great uncle, like my granny, being straight up on out of Yazoo City, Mississippi.

Even after they both died, and my mother’s brother took over the reign of my family being the last oldest male in the household, he said the same thing to me over and over but added “we will always work hard and take care of out children, and working smart is the hardest work to do.”

I am writing this because of a request I received from one of my readers. He suggested that I was always talking about self suffiency and that I should share my joy of hard work and working for myself to others such to maybe motivates them to do the same. I honestly hope that this tractate does his request honor. For it is a joy, a joy unfortunately equal to that I experienced when my son and daughter were born, only without the tears. You see after both were born, I left the delivery room, looked at the moon in one case and the rising sun in the other and cried, like it was straight out of Roots.

Nowadays, not like there is nothing wrong with it, but many of us want the easy way out, We want to rely on our looks and become models, or we want to rap, or worse, we spend $10 to $20 dollars weekly trying to hit the lotto. No longer do we desire to wait or even earn what we desire for in our myopic purview, me, and me now is all that counts. We will complain while we have other providing or taking care of us because we cannot see that their work ethic is what sustains us, or that the opportunity given to us is always a function of chance; and that we need to make the best of all opportunities for we may not get another.

But for some of us, the easy way is the best way. Even if that means selling drugs, jacking someone’s shit, depending on others or just not being able to be on time for a job if one is fortunate enough to have one. And dont give me this bitch azz shit about its the only way folk can make money. Truth be told, hard work is a throw back like black and white TV. I mean we are so lazy that we will walk in front of a TV looking for a remote control to change the channel instead of doing it manually. We even too lazy to change our oil or even cook our own meals, preferring to waste loot at Jiffy Lube or McDonalds, while at the same time being, or saying we are too busy to sit at the dinner table together. To busy with all the convience around us – go figure. All I am saying is that work ethic is what engenders sprit of faith and accomplishment. Without such, we have nothing, for we will ask and wait for folk to give us shit, even if its freedom, liberty or equality. I see what George Clinton meant now when he said Free your mind and your ass will follow. For I am the last eldest man left in my family and outside of love, alll i can leave them with are my actions through my work ethic - can u dig it?

Amplification: In last post ACTION means macking or trying to get a girls number for yawl lames LOL - not sex.