THE TRUTH!

As a former Medical Rep I was both shocked and delighted to read Mike Fillon's new book! It's right on track!!!

Unfortunately our Doctors are in the pockets and in bed with the pharmaceutical companies. Most Americans are naive and trust everything their Doctors tell them. Shame on Doctors and The Pharmaceuticals companies for taking Americans on a deadly ride.

Under current FDA so called leadership I recommend before you take any medication you do your research. The FDA no longer looks out for our best interest they are looking out for their own. $$$$$$$$$$$

I would suggest this book to anyone who cares about THE TRUTH! Great work Mike, thank you!!

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A must read book!

What a great book! This book is filled with great information about how our vitamins and supplements really are being attacked by big pharmaceutical companies. I'm sure they would rather have us all taking their drugs, but shouldn't we be able to decide what's best for us? Shouldn't we be able to do our own research and make our own informed decisions as to what is right for each of us?

This book lays out lots of details on the FDA and Big Pharmaceutical and how they impact our choices. But the great part about it is that it's so easy to read. A real page-turner, packed with great information that we all need to know about. This guy's really done his research and written another great book

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Charles Hale

As a voracious consumer of books related to obtaining and maintaining good health-I'd read Fillon's earlier effort, The Good Digestion Guide-and as one who supplements his dietary consumption with vitamins and supplements, I eagerly awaited Fillon's latest effort, Supplements Under Siege. I expected more top notch reporting from this fine investigative reporter but I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book is as much a page-turning investigative thriller as it is a clarion call to Americans: Open your eyes to the commercial and political interests, which influence efforts to change the laws regarding the purchasing and consumption of dietary supplements, and eventually impact our health.

Fillon discovers and exposes misleading information on government web sites, including the FDA and the National Institutes of Health, planned negative studies by drug companies, timed to plant seeds of doubt in the public, misleading advertising, and sloppy reporting.

His chapter on the Regulators, specifically the FDA, which wields enormous clout over what we eat, drink, and take as "medicine" is both illuminating and disturbing. The book is filled with interesting facts; I was amazed to learn that the FDA regulates over $ 1 trillion worth of products, one of every four dollars spent annually by American

I was appalled to learn of the insidious practice called "off label prescribing" which is prescribing drugs for unapproved uses, particularly anti-depressants to manage chronic pain. Fillon suggests that this practice is at best tacitly approved by the pharmaceutical industry and at its worst an over-promotion of drugs to doctors.

If you're like me, one who believes that profits, influence and power are more important to the mega-sized pharmaceuticals than our good health than I highly recommend Fillon's book.

My only quibble is the books title. I think the title Supplements Under Siege is fine but Fillon's comment on what should be the drug companies' motto would have been better: Eat, Drink and Be Merry: We Have a Drug for Everything. And the subtitle to that should have been Fillon's wise words, "The best hope for our health is our own vigilance."

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