R.I. P. Glutamine supplements?

[eatyourspinach]

https://healthimpactnews.com/2018/th...-a-40000-drug/

Earlier this year, we told you about an FDA back-channel that allows drug companies to turn supplements into drugs—and remove the supplement versions from the market. This has happened to a popular and medically important version of vitamin B6 (pyridoxamine), and with the FDA’s approval of a new drug to treat sickle cell anemia, the same could happen to L-glutamine.

Unless we close a back-channel at the FDA, more and more supplements will be turned into expensive drugs, and consumers won’t be able to manage their health cheaply and naturally with the supplement versions.

Last year, the FDA announced the approval of Endari, a drug for sickle cell disease. Endari is an oral powder comprised of L-glutamine, an important amino acid currently available as a supplement.

The drug company, Emmaus Medical, Inc., filed an investigational new drug (IND) application—demonstrating their investigation of L-glutamine as a drug—on May 15, 1997.

This is important because there is no new dietary ingredient (NDI) notification for L-glutamine. (Think of an NDI notification as a “new supplement” notification; by law an NDI notification must be filed on supplements that came to market after 1994.)

Enter the FDA back-channel. If a drug company begins investigating a nutrient for use in a drug before a supplement company files an NDI notification on that nutrient, the company can ask the FDA to have supplement version removed from the market, leaving consumers with no other option than the drug.

Currently, a 120-pill bottle of L-glutamine can be purchased for less than $10; a year’s worth of Endari will reportedly cost consumers more than $40,000.

If Emmaus enforces its IND, the only way that L-glutamine supplements could survive is if the FDA decides that L-glutamine was in the market “in or as” a supplement before 1994.

[Madevilz]

brb stocking up on Glutamine

[OT2000]

It was a supplement before 1994. My mother used it and bought it from Chamberlains when they existed.

[danielmoo]

Weird flex but okay

[TheFugitive]

I talked about glutamine once or twice

[gbullock32]

I talked about glutamine once or twice

You're ahead of your time.

[lucia316]

Do these drug companies not care about the feelz? I'm sad about that.

On the other hand, Martin Shkreli was not the exception, but rather the rule.

[KimJong-il]

Great, one less ingredient protein companies can spike their protein content with, Ill all for it

[Bigdumogre]

Luckily I have about 30 bottles at home - I’m good for atleast 2 years

[wasp9166]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand corporate america continues their locomotive of greed , they could give two f's about us


the medical "community" , drs, big pharma and insurance , don't want you to be able to treat yourself

i've had two drs, not one , two


when i told them i snort a little garlic powder when i get a sinus infection

both of them

dead silence

[BahtiyarWorld]

Glutamine is a very controversial supplement. If you make a good research, you will understand that there are people who suggest taking glutamine, and others who think it is useless. I am from the second team. I wouldn't waste my money buying glutamine.

[Bigdumogre]

Glutamine is a very controversial supplement. If you make a good research, you will understand that there are people who suggest taking glutamine, and others who think it is useless. I am from the second team. I wouldn't waste my money buying glutamine.

That’s why you are a disgusting fat body