Originally posted by: tcsenter
My freind had a heart attack today, just a minor one. He's only 19. He was following the dirctions on the bottle and tool all the precautions. His doctor said that it was the ephadrene. This stuff needs banned, a lot of people have been getting sick from this stuff.
You're friend is either a liar, or he represents an extremely rare minority who is comparable to the tiny fraction of a percentage of people who are deathly allergic to common things like peanuts. I've been following the 'gloom and doom' warnings against ephedra for several months now, and the typical 'anti-ephedra' article depicts people in "perfect health" dropping like flies from taking ephedra. Of course, the 'perfect health' part was a comment made by the mother or coach, people from whom the kid was deliberately hiding his drug use.
Yet, investigators always seem to uncover that the 'perfectly healthy' ephedra user was taking five times the suggested dose, or was taking it for several months when the warning labels CLEARLY warn against using ephedra for any longer than several weeks, or they were combining other drugs with ephedra against the cautionary warnings of the label (aka "stacking"), or they had a known medical or health condition which the label CLEARLY warned was contra-indicated or dangerous.
The FDA has rejected calls to regulate or restrict the sale of ephedra precisely because ABUSE and MISUSE is so commonly found to be associated with reported ephedra 'incidents'. In fact, the GOA investigated reports of illness or death reportedly associated with ephedra, and BLASTED the integrity and credibility of these reports, pointing out a number of instances where the cause of death, injury or illness could not possibly have been 'related' to ephedra, such as one incident where some guy was shot, and because he was taking ephedra at the time he was shot, it was recorded as an "ephedra linked" death. DUH!
If you search hard enough, I'm sure you can find a dozen idiots who have somehow managed to kill or maim themselves with a plastic spork.