The Pharmaceutical industry has a stranglehold grip here and shape mainstream views.
There're always attempts to discredit alternative and natural herbs yet ironically allopathy does use ingredients from the nature but when other people use it through ancient knowledge passed down to generations, it is dismissed as quackery and junk science.
Allopathy is as much a religion as radical extremists of organized religion.
There is a lot of attempt to discredit the competition in every way possible, and they sponsor people like Stephen Barrett from quackwatch.com
That being said, there're doctors who're not indoctrinated by the propaganda and many have resorted to herbal alternatives to complement their mainstream knowledge.
I have a distrust for pharmaceutical companies and I try to avoid vitamins made by pharmaceutical giants.
Previously I used to take
Seven seas fish oil.
Redoxon vitamin C.
Then I did a study and realized these companies have ethics issues.
Merck has distributed contaminated vaccines with SV40 virus inside, that is known to cause tumors and cancers, admitted by maurice hilleman himself in an interview. (You can find on youtube)
Seven Seas fish oil was involved in a scandal where dioxin levels exceed safe doses and could prove to be carcinogenic so I stopped taking them especially when so many of them are going on the cheap in Asia, which prompt me to suspect 'product dumping' , as you shall see in the next paragraph about Bayer.
I would not trust Merck products, and if you're a woman you better be careful of their Gardasil vaccines.
Bayer sold contaminated hemophiliac blood products, that has HIV virus in them. They were banned from selling them in USA but they disposed of the products by selling it to Asians, causing many hemophiliacs to be infected with HIV.
http://www.aegis.com/NEWS/AFP/2003/AF030568.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/18/business...-aids-suit.html
Redoxon (roche sold to bayer) was the most widely bought vitamin C in Malaysia but many do not know that.
1. It is not the natural ascorbic acid, but patented synthetic form.
2. It does not list out all ingredients used on the box/container. This company is dishonest and I can prove it to you very easily.
Have you tasted real ascorbic acid powder? It is NOT sweet tasting at all. My experience is with the Solaray vitamin C in pure ascorbic acid form, no sugar. It tastes bad.
Redoxon C is a sweet tasting effervescent. How can you have a vitamin C that is sweet and the ingredient box lists out only Vitamin C without mentioning the actual scientific /chemical name of it's form ? If you don't stir the solution, after drinking you would notice white powder residue at the bottom of the glass after you've finished. That's the artificial sweetener.
This company is highly dishonest. The sweet taste is obviously aspartame and aspartame has controversy around it from being a neurotoxin to being carcinogenic.
Redoxon changed the formula after acquiring the product from Roche and added aspartame.
While we can question aspartame's status and argue in circles, what you cannot argue is they do not list out the sweetener used in their vitamin C products, in addition to the chemical/science name of the vitamin C used.
Anyone of you with a Redoxon Vitamin C obviously need to look at the ingredients list and see if they listed the sweetener used and in what quantities. Well you WON'T find the list, but you can't explain why your drink tastes sweet either.
What I would like to ask is how does our Health Ministry allow Bayer to sell Redoxon C in our market without requiring them to be fully honest about the ingredients?
Simple. Asia is dumping ground for failed and dangerous products from the wests. Our health ministry is either incompetent or on the take to allow these companies to dump their unsafe products in our market.
Don't say I never warn you about Merck and Bayer.
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