FDA Attempts To Probit Pyridoxamine

The FDA is trying to prevent the public use of Pyridoxamine, a natural form of vitamin B6. If the FDA is successful, we will no longer have the ability to have access to this vitamin, which has been available forever. This action is being justified because a drug company has filed a formal request to remove Pyridoxamine as a marketed dietary supplement. This action is justified because a pharmaceutical company has conducted research studies costing a very large sum of money and could not finish the research before they ran out of money. The FDA’s action would protect the drug company’s financial interests and it is not important that a new drug might never be developed or approved, and the restriction on pyridoxamine would continue to prevent it being available to the public as a supplement.

Why is Pyridoxamine medically important? Have you ever heard of glycation? I had never heard of it until a couple of days ago, and now I understand why it is important. Glycation increases the speed of degenerative diseases. Glycation occurs when glucose pathologically crosslink’s with a protein, making the product of the crosslink nonfunctional. There is nothing that can stop the glycation process completely. But a number of anti-glycation maneuvers can be added to our daily nutrient program to help. Research has developed a method to break glycated protein crosslink’s, reversing this aging mechanism. The FDA has acted to impede this research with regulatory barriers they have created. These crosslink breakers are referred to as glycation-reversing agents.

Medical importance of pyridoxamine, vitamin B6, is clearly shown in research studies that it prevents chronic disease and suppresses disease growth. This form of B6 is specifically effective in retarding the creation of advanced glycation end products. A quick list of age related health problems that B6 (pyridoxamine) reduced or aided are:

Atherosclerosis
Chronic Inflammation
Cataract Formation
Kidney Failure
Diabetic Complications
Alzheimers disease

One of the advantages of pyridoxamine is that it can be taken in high doses and you would not suffer peripheral neuropathy.

Kidney disease and Type 2 diabetes are two huge markets for the drug companies. If they could develop a drug that slowed the rate of kidney failure, they would have massive income. Research has shown that pyridoxamine slows the kidney failure marker, creatinine, by 68%. It would be terrific if this knowledge was made totally available to the medical community so those suffering from these diseases could benefit. But the drug company doing the research is out of money. Even if they found new funds, there is no guarantee that a new drug would become available now or in the future. If a new drug was developed it would be expensive, whereas, pyridoxamine can give those who suffer these medical problems relief and not break them financially. This twisted way the FDA operates just makes the whole thing a hoax. What really upsets me is that pyridoxamine is found in the food we eat. When we eat a meal we ingest pyridoxamine in small quantities. How does the FDA feel they have the power to ban a vitamin the public consumes in almost every meal? They have defined the safest form of vitamin B6 (pyridoxamine) to be a new drug. I have news for you; B6 has been around ever since time began.

Life Extension Magazine, July, 2009 issue, has a detailed article written by William Faloon. FDA Seeks to Ban Pyridoxamine.