FDA — The Hardest Right

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The Supplement Aisle Has No Referee — Your Kid Is the Lab Rat

Nineteen-year-old NBA draft prospect Darryn Peterson ended up in a hospital training room begging staff to call 911 after taking a creatine loading protocol last fall. Bloodwork showed dangerously elevated creatine levels — not dehydration, as doctors first assumed.

Said Peterson to ESPN: "I thought I was going to die on the training table that day." Registered dietitian Ashley Kitchens put it plain: "He had never taken creatine before and jumped straight into a loading dose, which made his situation dangerous." The standard safe dose is 3–5 grams daily. Loading protocols push 20 grams a day for several days — and nobody on the label is required to warn you your baseline levels matter.

The supplement industry pulls in tens of billions a year with no pre-market safety approval required by the FDA under current law. The boardroom collects the revenue. Working folks and their kids absorb the risk. Get your baseline labs before you start anything — that's the only protection on offer right now.

Source: New York Post MAHA FDA Healthcare

FDA Just Lost Its Third Leader in a Year — Who Keeps Winning?

Trump is moving to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, according to Bloomberg Politics, capping months of turmoil at the agency that decides what drugs, food additives, and medical devices land on your family's table.

Makary took the job in March 2025 with a mandate to shake up a captured agency. Instead, the FDA has churned through leadership while Big Pharma's lobby — PhRMA spent $31.6 million in federal lobbying in 2024 alone, per OpenSecrets — keeps its lobbyists parked at every revolving door in town.

Every time the watchdog gets unstable, the watched parties win. Real Americans don't get safer food or lower drug prices from a headless agency — they get delay, confusion, and another boardroom that breathes easy.