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Pre-market authorization (PMA) allows only drugs that are FDA approved. PMA sounds like a good idea, but really it’s misguided and harmful. It favors powerful drugs and drug companies, and keeps traditional and gentler medicines off the market, driving prices up. It interferes with the liberty of patients and doctors...
Wikipedia needs our help! Wikipedia is a great source of information on a wide variety of topics. RidgeCrest Herbals has supported Wikipedia financially (in our small way) for years, because we feel it’s the right thing to do. We think more reliable information on the Web is a very good...
Some people are looking for a pill that will solve all of their health problems—I’m not talking to them. Real people know that real health requires real change. You can’t keep doing unhealthy things, and expect a pill to erase all the bad effects of those actions. But an herbal...
I recently read Shawn Achor’s The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and in Life. Achor has taught at Harvard, spoken all over the world, and given a TED talk with over 25 million views. His premise is that success doesn’t produce lasting happiness; instead, happiness produces...
On April 13, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a notice to 670 food and supplement companies that may (or may not) be making unsubstantiated claims. RidgeCrest Herbals was one of these companies. So did we do something wrong? No, the warning list specifically says (on every page) that it...
Milton Friedman (1912-2006), one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, was a free-market advocate, libertarian, teacher, and iconoclast. While his ideas often challenged conventional thinking, he may be best known today for the Friedman Doctrine, which holds that a corporation’s only social responsibility is to increase its...
On February 7, 2023, Dr. Cara Welch, Director of the Office of Dietary Supplement Programs, outlined why the FDA wants a new mandatory product listing (MPL) database. She makes the following arguments: The market has changed, or at least grown, since the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) was...
