http://www.anh-usa.org/b-vits-deep-sixi ... -easy-way/
With these draconian regulations, and the threat of more to come, it has become especially difficult for doctors to obtain medications like compounded B12 in its methyl form—the form of B12 preferred by many integrative doctors because it does not need to be converted by the body before use.
The rising cost of the methyl form of B12 previously available from compounding pharmacies has in turn given drug companies a green light to start price gouging on their manufactured B12 (cyanocobalamin). This has led to the 700% price increase mentioned above—for what is actually an inferior product compared to the methyl form. It is inferior because this form of B12 must be converted by the body into the methyl form before it can be used, and not everyone’s body can do this.
This isn’t the first time the agency has used sneaky maneuvers to do the bidding of drug companies. You may recall the case of pyridoxamine, one of three natural and bioavailable forms of vitamin B6. This vitamin has many health benefits; indeed, we could not live without B6. Despite this, in 2009 the FDA banned the supplement form of pyridoxamine in response to a petition from a drug company—they wanted to use it in a drug formulation. (gabes note and they never actually used it!!!)
Alot of Aussies with Pyrolle issues and methylation issues buy P5P from iHerb. IF the FDA proceeds with this, it will have impact globally...An even more important form of vitamin B6, pyridoxal-5′-phosphate (P5P), faces a similar threat. The FDA has a petition from Medicure Pharma to ban P5P because the company wants to turn this critical vitamin into a drug. This is especially scary—all forms of B6, natural or synthetic, must be converted to P5P for the body to use them. If the FDA approves the petition, anyone who is not able to convert synthetic B6 to P5P would have to rely solely on Medicure’s product to stay alive.
also it could affect other key vitamins and nutrients...
It is almost like Big Pharma want to stop us from being pro-active about health and wellness!!
