| The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) passed a | | | | and medical specialists for use in curing and treating |
| regulation that states that only pharmaceutical drugs | | | | diseases. Since the government has passed |
| can cure, prevent and treat a disease. Although the | | | | regulations stating that only drugs can cure and |
| FDA was originally designed to protect the health of | | | | prevent disease, the medical industry has very little |
| the consumer, it has become a regulation source for | | | | education on anything other than manufactured |
| lab-created drugs and pharmaceuticals. Because these | | | | drugs. In fact, natural remedies and cures are not |
| drugs can be homogenized and patented, the FDA | | | | taught in medical schools in the US as a result of this |
| has the capacity to regulate them, test them, and | | | | regulation. This means that, although natural remedies |
| provide results to consumers. Since natural remedies | | | | and cures exist, the medical professionals in America |
| cannot be patented or regulated, the FDA cannot | | | | are unaware of their potential and only offer patients |
| properly define the drugs or guarantee the | | | | the pharmaceuticals regulated by the FDA. |
| ingredients to the consumer. | | | | As a result of these regulations, the FDA has |
| As a result, the FDA only allows regulated substances | | | | managed to protect only the profits of drug |
| into the medical industry, creating a monopoly for | | | | companies, allowing these wealthy corporations to |
| pharmaceuticals. As explained in Kevin Trudeau's book | | | | create even more profit and provide unending |
| Natural Cures, Since government regulated medical | | | | influence to lawmakers and government officials. With |
| professionals in America can only prescribe FDA | | | | increased influence over the consumer base and |
| approved drugs, the pharmaceutical industry has | | | | medical industry, pharmaceutical companies create a |
| managed to manipulate this environment to create an | | | | guaranteed consumer base, providing continuous |
| ever-growing consumer base that is both dependent | | | | profit to put towards further creation of drugs as |
| upon drugs and uneducated to the natural | | | | well as powerful influence over the FDA and |
| alternatives, remedies, and cures for disease. | | | | government officials. |
| As explained in Natural Cures, The FDA manages to | | | | With the FDA regulations in place to provide only |
| protect the profits of the pharmaceutical companies | | | | pharmaceuticals through the medical fields, drug |
| while simultaneously neglecting the health and | | | | companies have the potential to create drugs that |
| interests of the consumer. Because they are derived | | | | may not serve the best interest of the consumer, |
| directly from nature, natural remedies can neither be | | | | but simply provide more profit to the company. Even |
| patented nor regulated, creating an environment for | | | | with lawsuits, drug companies stand to make huge |
| pharmaceutical companies to thrive and profit off of | | | | profits from every drug they produce. The book |
| government regulations in the FDA. Since the FDA | | | | Natural Cures explains this even further, showing how |
| cannot regulate natural products, they cannot | | | | the drug profits continue to influence the FDA and |
| approve their use for curing disease. | | | | the medical industry, perpetuating a guaranteed |
| This means that only pharmaceutical drugs pass | | | | consumer base for pharmaceuticals while hiding |
| through the FDA and into the hands of physicians | | | | natural remedies and cures from the general public. |