I don’t see how this is legal, but people on Tik Tok peddling miracle “medicine” are becoming more common every day. No FDA approval, no research. Just their marketing hype and false promises. This one, lady is showing some sort of probiotic and claiming it can help people suffering from severe acid reflux and gastrointestinal reflux disease or GERD, replacing medicine that has been tested for decades.
That probiotic is nice and all, but it’ll never beat apple cider vinegar. That stuff cures everything. Especially if you take it with silver.
Seriously though, this is just the latest venue for this kind of bullshit.
Excuse me putting an onion in my grandfather’s sock overnight cured him of death twice
I hope you don’t take the onion from his belt.
it was too yellow
Personally I’m a fan of Smurf Juice brand colloidial silver.
I blued myself.
Should I take this with my nightly mercury eye drops?
You’re supposed to put a link to where we can buy your miracle vinegar/silver mix in your post. Have you learned nothing from these marketing geniuses?
My bad.
https://127.0.0.1/C$/%userprofile%/Documents/EXCEL.ppt
If that doesn’t work give Derek a call.
It was weird that it needed my social security number, bank account, mother’s maiden name, and the name of my first pet to make the order but I guess it was worth it to stay healthy. Thanks bud!
O, and tell Derek I said hey.
Influencer = Sales person
We’re getting dangerously close to social media apps where you scroll through ads and only ads. Maybe we’re already there…
My Facebook and Instagram are now >3/4 stuff that I didn’t follow. Not all are explicitly advertisements, but they aren’t things I wanted to see. That’s why I’m moving to federated services. Just wish I could convince more of my friends and family to move over. I use Lemmy as a replacement for Reddit so it’s more widely social, but the other stuff I only really used for friends, family, or special interest groups.
Man am I glad I killed my FB back In 2012 when it was mostly pictures of peoples babies and people acting like hating Obama was a personality trait
Congress needs to give the FDA the power to regulate supplements goddamn yesterday.
They had it and it was taken away in the 90s
Best we can do is ignore everything while random judges give themselves power to override the FDA whenever it causes inconvenience to corporations.
— Congress
Yeah. The peddlers of homeopathic crap are the first ones that need to burn.
So many laws would have to change, and the FDA would need about 1,000x the people and money. I’m all for it, but it’s an unsolvable problem. If it is something taken orally, including food, it can basically only ever be a reactive response to people dying.
I used to know sooo many people that would justify this, a cryptoscam, shilling literally any outright fraud or vastly overpriced bs on their social media.
‘They’re just getting their bag, you’re hating cuz you broke!’
This is the cyberpunk dystopia.
Why are you using TikTok?
Because i want to use TikTok.
Cool. Then you get what you want, because this is exactly what tiktok is.
Then u get the scams and infuriating content. Maybe complain on TikTok about it
I get that on Lemmy too.
Cool
That kind of content is harmful regardless of whether OP is using TikTok or not. TikTok is just another medium.
Disagree. TikTok is very ok to serve its users scams and spam. Not to mention all the data harvesting
I think Ticktok is harmful in its own set of ways
Side note, for me, steamed kale is doing wonders.
Kale has a naturally high pH, so it’s basically just an antacid. If it works consistently for you, keep it up. No point in taking industrial strength meds for something simple, after all.
The class of drugs for my kind of heartburn are proton-pump inhibitors and help limit acid production across the board. It’s good these are over the counter now as I am on a 2x dose, but have been as high as 4x before.
I switched from standard antacids to just water and baking soda my stomach was so bad. Kale wouldn’t have put a dent in my stomach acid, TBH. I drink a ton of water these days, and even if the pH of the water was off by a hair, it would be a bad time.
I probably might be able to cut my dosage back or even stop soon hopefully. It’s one of the few drugs that are actually supposed to provide a long term solution.
But has steamed kale been approved by the FDA for acid reflux?
Perhaps what you’re doing should be made illegal, for safety reasons.
Obviously and issue but on par with actual product advertising on TV that has 0 approval and more often that not lists death as a side effect.
This and random plugs for that fucking bovine colostrum shit. 3 slides of well known advice then slide 4 BAM “I don’t know how I ever lived with [insert condition here] until I tried this colostrum!!!”
Probiotics hype in pill form but why is nobody shilling various yogurt type products?
I guess it easier and more PROFITABLE to sell avg tiktok consoomer some capsules then it is to educate them to eat “spoiled” milk product… Eww
An interesting system we go though. Solid incentives and well educated citizens.
Yogurt isn’t very suitable for sales through the mail
