Nutraceuticals and nootropics for anti-aging

Recent news stories about efforts by totalitarians to control your body

In the U.S., various forces are conspiring to crush the nutritional supplement industry, using whatever pretexts offer themselves — the ephedra scare being their latest weapon-of-opportunity. A rational person might ask why so much effort is going into illegalizing supposedly dangerous dietary substances, while no effort at all is going into illegalizing such public dangers as bicycling, automobile driving, and swimming — each of which carries far more risk of injury and death than all of the supplements put together.

A squeeze on supplements

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If any of us imagined that other industrialized countries aren’t experiencing the same erosion of individual rights that is occurring in the U.S., we should disillusion ourselves. This attack by totalitarianism is taking place throughout the civilized world. Here are two articles that illustrate how matters stand in Austrialia, with regard to nutritional substances:

Quarantine laws foil Freeman

ASDA warning on diet risks

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The following article, while consisting mostly of the kind of bioterrorism scare-talk that journalists and politicians love to dish out, also contains some interesting suggestions about the use of nutritional supplements for reducing the effects of biowarfare agents.

Bioterrorism and you

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In recent years, athletic organizations have become leaders in the totalitarian drive to control people’s personal lives. Recently, the National Football League in the U.S. has adopted such radical dietary policies that it has ended up in court, and even the general public is beginning view the NFL as a tyrannical organization.

NFL watches diets

The following story on the NFL is a like a breath of fresh air. Unlike most journalists, the writer of this story hasn’t completely ‘bought in’ to the idea that athletes should have their bodies monitored for biochemical deviations from what the authorities say is allowed — like chickens in a chicken-farm, whose diet is controlled down to the last molecule.

Bad Drug Policy