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MAGNETIC PILLS SUPPLEMENTS - Are your medication magnetic too?
So .. NEVER buy any supplement that has Iron in it .. a real brand will NEVER add iron to their product as they will know full well that most people have more than enough iron in their system.

>>6937
People with iron deficiencies may have a reason to take iron pills.

>>6937
It's normal for an iron pill to be magnetic, shouldn't it? It's not necessarily dangerous, is it?
>I don't know what's in it
Iron. Iron shouldn't kill you. I've never heard of iron poisoning.
Maybe if you take a ton of them you might get sick somehow, but why would you take iron pills if you didn't need iron? The excess iron should just pass through your body.

>>6939
>It's normal for an iron pill to be magnetic
It is not normal for vitamins to contain iron.

>>6940
They'd contain iron if one of the vitamins is iron.

>>6941
>if one of the vitamins is iron
Minerals might be supplements but under no circumstance they are vitamins.

>>6942
Last I knew, people needed iron to live. That makes it a vitamin.
Of course, you're unlikely to need iron in pill form unless you have a deficiency, but same goes for most vitamins as eating a healthy diet should get you all the vitamins you need.
Vitamin pills are a scam overall. You end up pissing out most of them since your body excretes whatever it doesn't need.

>>6943
>Last I knew, people needed iron to live. That makes it a vitamin.
People also need water and air and that does not make them vitamins.
Anon make it easy for yourself, go to wikipejew and find out the differences.

>>6944
Water is a macronutrient.

>>6945
Water is H2O, it has not any nutrient. Consider it a solvent and vehicle to carry substances.

>>6946
Water is absolutely a nutrient: a substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life.
As a macronutrient, water is the most essential nutrient in your diet by mass and volume.

>>6944
You are correct, vitamins only refer to organic compounds, however colloquially people refer to any sorts of supplementary nutrients as "vitamins". It's a common misconception.

>>6919
I would like to point out that pharmacology (root word "pharma"; "drug, poison") has association with witchcraft because in the times of ancient Greece the practice of herbalism and healing was a role given to priests and shaman, and hospitals use those symbols because they allude to ancient Greece as the origin of modern medicine. This is a cultural universal, as on a tribal level people with little understanding of healing hold the study of medicine with a degree of esoterica. To say that it's "fostered by worshipping idols" is an oversimplification though, while prayers plays a role even in faith healing, herbalism/pharmacology itself is something that persists even without the traditions and idols involved, because drugs do have effects on your body, and those drugs can be worth using in the right circumstances. Calling modern medicine witchcraft is a logical leap that doesn't really serve any purpose other than to scare people.
If you'd like to discuss why the pharmaceutical industry is full of shit and kills people by getting them addicted to drugs they don't actually need in a completely non-supernatural but equally sinister way, I'd be glad to talk about that.

>>6950
Erm, no, the two snakes circling a pole is an ancient biblical reference.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+21%3A6-9&version=NASB1995
>8 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.” 9 And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.
Of course the jews still fuck up and an amount of time later they worship the created item rather than God. Got so bad that another man of God destroyed the serpent idol the jews made it out to be.
The jews turning it into an idol probably spread to other cultures to become a widespread pagan thing.

>>7061
The two snakes circling a pole (Caduceus) also appears in ancient Greece, particular with the god Hermes.
A single snake circling a pole is the symbol of the Greek god Asclepius: the god of the medical arts, and the father of the Asclepiades, the Greek goddesses of Hygiene, Recovery, Healing and Remedy.
In America, retards confused the one-snake symbol with the two-snake symbol because Hermes is a far more iconic symbol in Greek mythology than Asclepius is, and so the two-snake symbol became the symbol of medicine in some American institutions.
>It is relatively common, especially in the United States, to find the caduceus, with its two snakes and wings, (mis)used as a symbol of medicine instead of the Rod of Asclepius, with only a single snake. This usage was popularized by the adoption of the caduceus as its insignia by the U.S. Army Medical Corps in 1902 at the insistence of a single officer (though there are conflicting claims as to whether this was Capt. Frederick P. Reynolds or Col. John R. van Hoff).
Also, the two-snake symbol with wings just looks a lot fancier, so maybe that played a role in the guys who chose the symbol.

>>7066
Oh yeah, I heard about that.
Apparently it basically evaded the FDA testing process altogether, slipping through the cracks and being grandfathered in during the period where they were changing testing systems.
All those pills are basically nothing more than snake oil. They were never actually tested. The government is ordering mass recalls.

>>7068
>All those pills are basically nothing more than snake oil. They were never actually tested.
I'm not surprised, really.

>>7069
Not surprised at all? That was a pretty massive fuck-up, even by government standards. It made history.

>>7070
>Not surprised at all?
Nope, most pharmaceuticals don't cure anything and are prescribed as palliatives for masking the symptoms.

>>7071
>most pharmaceuticals don't cure anything
This is only partly true. Approved drugs do have active effects, and those effects can cure people in the right contexts, but the more common use of drugs is indeed to relieve symptoms which can also aid recovery efforts by reducing inflammation and other self-destructive symptoms. Few drugs are actually marketed as cures, but as symptom relief, which isn't the same as snake oil which does absolutely nothing.
Also, this series of drugs in particular wasn't made to be a cure at all, and was not marketed as a cure: it was made to relieve symptoms.
The reason why this was news in the first place was because the active ingredient evaded proper testing due to a massive bureaucratic failure: that's the surprising part.
>prescribed
These were over-the-counter cold medications. You didn't need a prescription to buy them.

>>7072
>Approved drugs do have active effects
Pardon, I meant to say approved drugs "usually" have active ingredients that do something, but as this news demonstrates that's not always true.

>>7093
There aren't very many meds to address high blood pressure caused by prescription meds, that don't cause other problems. Most doctors just go for prescribing lower doses of the meds who's side effects caused high blood pressure, if such a thing is medically possible.
There are many ways to lower high blood pressure aside from medication, most of which tie into your general health. Reduce how much salt, fat and alcohol you consume. Exercise regularly. Lose some adipose fat. Try to limit the amount of stress you're exposed to in life, etc.

>>7095
>There are many ways to lower high blood pressure aside from medication
This. Avoid medicine like the plague.

>>7096
If you have serious hypertension that could kill you in a matter of hours, heart pressure medication can be a life-saving temporary fix. Nitroglycerin, for example, is use to treat hypertension in a variety of emergency situations, such as during surgery.

Ahem.

>>7098
Based horse microbiome.
Give a new meaning to "herd immunity".

>>7098
>>7099
can confirm, this is how everyone drinks water on a farm (in my case, dairy farm, with big crotchtits, fun to fondle)

>>7100
>can confirm, this is how everyone drinks water on a farm
All poners salute this anon.
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>>7102
>Everything doctors know is getting you on medications
This is overstated. Doctors do a lot more than prescribe meds. They also do surgeries, diagnose diseases, and do early screenings to prevent progress of potentially deadly conditions.
The most common thing they do is lecture patients about their obviously-unhealthy lifestyles at the beginning of their appointments, but patients don't come to them just to be told to eat healthier and exercise more, so they tend to demand meds, and if the doctor doesn't prescribe them anything they'll just go to another doctor who will.

>>7104
>but patients don't come to them just to be told to eat healthier and exercise more, so they tend to demand meds, and if the doctor doesn't prescribe them anything they'll just go to another doctor who will.
Yeah. That's sad.

Is this thread actually going to be a discussion of the use and stockpiling of medications, or is it just supposed to be a complication of memes saying never to use medication under circumstances?
If it's the latter, I might make a separate thread about the former.

>>7150
Shitpost and discuss or shut up.

>>7151
It was a question pertaining to what kind of discussion is being had here.
>shitpost
So, the latter. I see.

>>7150
*compilation

Parents declining to inject their children.

If you are a junkie, watch out the dentist.

>>7150
>Is this thread actually going to be a discussion of the use and stockpiling of medications, or is it just supposed to be a complication of memes
Glad you brought it up. Would you like to discuss it then?

Hoard iodine

>>7171
>Hoard iodine
On it.

>>7183
Some of them get written up without ever having received approval too. Usually this is to draw attention to dangerous street drugs being peddled as medicine by snake oilers.

Melody Rain Palombi: 15-month-old New York baby dies two days after receiving three vaccines on same day; mother wants to spread awareness
https://thecovidblog.com/2023/11/17/melody-rain-palombi-15-month-old-new-york-baby-dies-two-days-after-receiving-at-least-three-vaccines-mother-wants-to-spread-awareness/

>>7184
>drugs being peddled as medicine by snake oilers
Yup, we have seen that for more a century already.

>All vaccines are snake oil, & they don't want you to know
>The Amish are a perfect example of a large group of unvaccinated people. No autism. No autoimmune disease. No chronic disease. US Gov study them like a control group.
https://twitter.com/wolsned/status/1725058928415764975