Tamar Nordenberg

International Nutrition and Oden said they wanted the products back so they could relabel them and sell them as dietary supplements. But FDA stated in its brief to the court that the company “cannot plausibly argue that a mere change in the labeling today will undo the effects of several years of unsubstantiated therapeutic claims.” The products were mostly orotates, which are made up of orotic acid and various minerals, such as calcium, magnesium, zinc, potassium, and lithium. “Oden said that orotates were the best thing ever discovered for cancer and other serious diseases,” says FDA investigator Luis Chavarria of the agency’s Las Vegas resident post. “He said their unique transporter system could carry nutrients through the cell wall faster than anything available on the …

The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate.        from A Sleep of Prisoners, by Christopher Fry In the pursuit of sexual success and fertility, the moon, and everything under it, has been touted as an aphrodisiac by some person or culture. Love potion peddlers stop at nothing to sell their sexual wares. “I’ll make you the same promise that my wife made to me,” says Theodore Maximillian in the provocative brochure for his “Maxim” product. “I’m going to cure your impotence immediately!” Maxim “acts as a potent aphrodisiac,” according to the advertisement. An aphrodisiac is a food, drink, drug, scent, or device that, promoters claim, can arouse or increase sexual desire, or …