History's worst FDA advisors recommend filling pharmacies with their own unsafe, untested crap

RFK Jr's advisory panel of profoundly conflicted supplement sellers are recommending that you buy their supplements. Shocker!

Until the current administration, the US Food & Drug Administration was the gold standard worldwide for food and drug safety. Today it is quickly joining other departments of the federal government as the world’s laughingstock.

Under the leadership of anti-science activist RFK Jr., the Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PAC) has become a group of wholly unqualified cronies. The PAC’s role is to recommend new compounds that compounding pharmacies are allowed to put into the drugs they sell. They just met June 23-24, and voted to add seven unapproved (and largely untested) peptides to the list of approved substances — all of which had previously been banned by the previous committee as they lack any safety data at all.

Now, get this: Eight of the fourteen voting committee members were put in there by RFK Jr. less than one month ago — a majority giving him whatever he wants, and outnumbering the remaining longstanding qualified members.

Seven of these new eight have been reported to have conflicts of interest which in any other world would be absolutely disqualifying, i.e., they sell the very same compounds they are here to recommend. They include:

• Haleem Mohammed, who runs Florida clinics selling peptide injections through the Gameday Men's Health chain;

• Gabriel Alizaidy, who reportedly charges $500 for peptide consultations;

• Bobby Harshbarger, a pharmacist at his family's compounding pharmacy and the son of Rep. Diana Harshbarger, who has publicly advocated for looser peptide rules.

There truly is no bottom to the open corruption — and no longer any pretense of even trying to hide the obvious conflicts of interest.

Peptides are basically mini-proteins: short chains of amino acids. It’s a good sciencey-sounding word, so wellness influencers now sell them by the dump truck to the unsuspecting public. The Nobel Prize-winning biochemist online supplement hawker Joe Rogan is perhaps the most visible among them.

Here are the seven peptides being recommended:

• BPC-157 — Has been unsuccessfully evaluated for ulcerative colitis. Wellness influencers recommend it (without evidence) as an all-purpose healer: gut repair, tendon/ligament injuries, general inflammation. It’s also Rogan’s favorite.

• TB-500 — Has been unsuccessfully evaluated for wound healing. Wellness influencers recommend it (without evidence) for injury recovery, flexibility, and muscle repair.

• KPV — Has been unsuccessfully evaluated for wound healing and inflammatory conditions. Wellness influencers recommend it (without evidence) for gut inflammation, skin conditions, and general anti-inflammatory use.

• MOTS-c — Has been unsuccessfully evaluated for obesity and osteoporosis. Wellness influencers recommend it (without evidence) as a “metabolism booster” and “cellular energy enhancer” for longevity and anti-aging.

• Emideltide — Has been unsuccessfully evaluated for opioid withdrawal, chronic insomnia, and narcolepsy. Wellness influencers recommend it (without evidence) as a sleep aid.

• Semax — Has been unsuccessfully evaluated for stroke, migraine, and neuralgia. Wellness influencers recommend it (without evidence) as a “cognitive enhancer” and “smart drug.”

• Epitalon — Has been unsuccessfully evaluated for insomnia. Wellness influencers recommend it (without evidence) in anti-aging circles as a longevity compound.

This is an absolute travesty, and it explains why US states are now largely ignoring the nonsense coming from RFK Jr’s FDA and CDC, and have set up their own interim competing boards to provide real medical advice until such time as sanity and competence return to Washington DC (these would be the West Coast Health Alliance (4 states) and the Northeast Public Health Collaborative (ten states)).

In the meantime, just ask your doctor for medical advice — and it’s astounding that that needs to be said.