⚠️ Why Do Safe, Effective Compounds Get Banned While Risky, Patented Drugs Get a Free Pass?
It’s one of the biggest red flags in medicine today: Safe compounds with decades of promising research get blacklisted, while risky, side-effect-laden patented drugs are pushed onto the public with billion-dollar marketing budgets. That’s not science. That’s regulatory capture. 🏛️ How Regulatory Capture Works The FDA is supposed to be the referee. But in practice, it’s deeply entangled with the very pharmaceutical companies it regulates. Many FDA advisors and decision-makers rotate in and out of industry jobs. Pharma companies fund large portions of the FDA’s operations through user fees. The result? The system serves shareholders before patients. - If a compound can’t be patented, it’s marked as unsafe, untested, or “not for human use.” - If a drug can be patented, even with questionable safety data, it’s fast-tracked and rubber-stamped. This isn’t just theory. We’re living it. 💊 The Peptide Example - BPC-157 & Thymosin Alpha-1 → pulled from compounding pharmacies despite low toxicity profiles and a mountain of pre-clinical evidence. - Semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) → greenlit, patented, and prescribed en masse, even as reports of side effects pile up. - Compounding pharmacies → once lifelines for affordable, tailored care, now targeted and restricted for offering unpatentable options. When regulators attack peptides under the guise of safety while blessing high-risk patented drugs, the bias is obvious. 🔄 The Playbook This is how the cycle works: 1. Suppress affordable, non-patentable compounds like peptides by reclassifying them as “unapproved drugs.” 2. Create a vacuum in patient access. 3. Introduce pharma-controlled alternatives with patents, clinical trial data, and aggressive marketing. 4. Monetize the monopoly. It’s not about protecting you. It’s about protecting a business model. 🧨 Why This Matters If regulators succeed in erasing peptides, it sets the stage for everything else: hormones, biologics, regenerative compounds, and even lifestyle enhancers.