Prince, I didn't "dig up a thread" from a year ago... I bumped into it by coincidence on the internet, and I signed up to this board just to answer it, to protest what you wrote. If it has been up for a year without an answer, then it has been spreading poison in people's minds for a year, and it is time it is corrected.
If you want me to leave, I'll leave... criticism always hurts, especially when it is true.
It doesn't matter if you are the "owner" of the board... You said there isn't an 'FDA' in Mexico and that you would not "try" any drug from Mexico because there is no Government regulation of drugs. That is what you SAID in ANSWER to a question from somebody who ASKED a simple question, meaning can he or can he not trust medicines made or sold in Mexico.
Instead of ANSWERING his question, you put FEAR into his mind with an answer that is TOTALLY FALSE. What do you want me to say?
The truth is that there IS a Government bureau in Mexico known as "Salubridad" which is the equivalent of the FDA, but without as much... what shall I call it ?... POLICE POWER... as the FDA...
Their function is the same as the FDA, to make certain that medicines that are sold are legitimate, and made from legitimate ingredients, etc. But they are not FEARED by the public or the pharmaceutical industry, and they are polite and helpful when you approach them, and I have never heard of them raiding a business like the Life Extension Foundation for selling Omega-3 or other products that compete with the pharmaceutical industry. (Or giving a $50,000,000 fine to a pharmaceutical company (Genentech) for speaking the truth in answer to a question from the public in a conference, to SAY that growth hormone can help a short person to grow taller.)
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http://www.lef.org/fda-museum/2_gestapo_like_raids/gestapo-raids.html )
The FDA's Raid Of The Tahoma Clinic
On May 6, 1992, the FDA sent its gun-toting agents to Kent, Washington to raid a medical clinic run by Dr. Jonathan Wright, a highly popular alternative medicine physician who has been successfully treating patients for many years. The FDA proceeded to seize large quantities of vitamin B-12 and other vitamins and minerals, as well as computer files, patient records, and personal property. Their alleged reason for staging this raid was stop Dr. Wright from treating with patients with "contaminated" vitamins, but the FDA presented no evidence in support of this allegation.
The FDA's illegal raid of Dr. Wright's clinic, which was also obtained with perjured testimony, has put him out of business and has left hundreds of his patients without the medical care of their choice. It has also served as a brutal warning to other U.S. physicians that unless they toe the FDA's party line on how to practice medicine, the FDA will destroy them!
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Everything has to be approved by Salubridad before it is sold in Mexico, but the process to get a medicine approved or rejected is months instead of years, and pesos instead of millions of dollars. So you have small pharmaceutical companies that can get medicines approved, and not only the Giants because of the enormous cost of getting a medicine approved.
There are medicines registered for sale in Mexico which are approved in Europe, but are still not approved in the U.S.A. There is growth hormone made in Mexico for years (by an Israeli pharmaceutical company) which is still not approved for sale in the U.S. and of course the big market is not Mexico, it is the U.S.A. So, is that BAD ?
I consider myself LUCKY to live in Mexico, and one of the principle reasons for this feeling is that I have a lot of freedom to choose what I do FOR MY BODY, and to buy medicines without much complications and expense. Just as an example of the expense you have to go through in the U.S. to get a good medicine, I have gotten feedback from people who spent more than $1000, even $1500, JUST TO GET A PRESCRIPTION in the U.S. to buy injectible growth hormone. We can buy Humatrope MADE IN THE U.S.A., or Saizen MADE IN ITALY by Serono, without a prescription... Thank God for that !!! I also buy all my anti-aging medicines in Mexico, legally, some from pharmacies, some directly from the pharmaceutical companies, and they are ALL authentic, 100% guaranteed !
And... There is NO NATIONAL EMERGENCY in Mexico because we can buy medicines without a prescription (for not-dangerous and not-addictive medicines). I have never heard of anybody who has gotten acromegaly from an overdose of growth hormone, in Mexico... or died from an excess of EPO... but I have heard of many people who have gotten acromegaly in the U.S., and I have heard of MANY people who hve bought FAKE testosterone and FAKE growth hormone in the U.S. (where their advisors and their suppliers are in the streets or in gymnasiums.)
I have bought medicines in Mexico for more than 40 years, and I have NEVER, EVER, heard of anybody buying a FAKE medicine in a reputable pharmacy in Mexico (but I have heard of fake or stolen growth hormone sold in flea markets). I have never even SEEN a fake medicine.
So... that is just to set the record straight.
And... Mr. Universe... testosterone does not "run rampid" in Mexico City, but you can buy Sten for about $3, and Sostenon 250 and Deca Durabolin both made by Organon (of Holland) in a drugstore, legally, for less than $10 per shot... without a prescription... and you can be absolutely 100% certain all of them are authentic if you bought them in a drugstore.
Ellis