Brigham Buhler
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first heard Oct 2024
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And it's a good tool in the tool belt if you're chronically obese, diabetic and sick and headed towards chronic disease. Of course, I'm never here to judge. We've got to put wins on the board and we've got to get the weight off. But I say this all the time. Prescribing a GLP-1 without talking about diet, lifestyle, and nutrition is like brushing your teeth while eating fucking Oreos.
It's very counterintuitive. It's just you've got to address the root cause.
So... Take a step back, I guess at this point, almost 14 years ago, as an entrepreneur, I had steps and protocols and procedures in place. So I would go meet with clinicians around the country and I would educate them on the importance of not prescribing opioids lightly. And the message was this. These can be very valuable to treat chronic pain.
When utilized in the right patient, it can be life-saving. But if you utilize this in the wrong patient, you're going to kill somebody. And so why not take the proper steps? There is a non-abusive, non-addictive alternative to opioids, and that is a ketamine-based pain cream. And it can't be abused. You can't separate out the ketamine. You have no way of abusing it.
It's a topical, but for orthopedic injuries, knees, shoulders, elbows, joints, backs. They were prescribing opioids for two months at a time, you know, right in like 60 day prescriptions. You're perpetuating this problem and then those get diverted. And so here were the safety nets. Don't prescribe it. Prescribe a non-abusive, non-addictive pain cream. That's option one.
Option two, you think this patient needs it. Okay. Toxicology screen this patient to make sure that they're not abusing other drugs. and or diverting this drug. Option three, you should have minimal pharmacogenetic test, which was a simple cheek swab that tells me if you have a propensity to become addicted, it tells me, can you even metabolize this drug?
Keep coming back. And the insurance companies had negotiated rebates because that was a compounded drug. So insurance companies hate compounding pharmacies.
Yeah, this is this is actually crucial, especially current events. Hims and hers did a Super Bowl ad. Set the world on fire. People were pissed because what they did was they kind of captured the Maha message and made it look like it's about being healthy. But the real message was, oh, and by the way, we'll sell you GLP ones. Call us today. The weight loss drugs.
And so that upset, you know, the health advocates and rightfully so. But then it upset Big Pharma because Big Pharma said, look, this is the problem. You know, you make us follow these rules and we have to give disclaimers and side effects. But these guys didn't.
And the problem with that is it went from a conversation about a telemedicine company potentially acting in a way that some people think was unethical to a full blown attack on compounding pharmacies. And the reason that attack was perpetuated is Big Pharma is attempting to every day discredit and scare people away from compounding pharmacies.
So a compounding pharmacy compounds medications unique to the patient. They also are utilized anytime there is a shortage in the marketplace. And so do not be fooled. I own one of the biggest compounding pharmacies in the country. And every single product we make is FDA improved ingredients that come from the same exact suppliers as Big Pharma.
Every single batch we make is independently third-party verified by an independent lab. Every single dosage we ship out the door, we then retest to make sure that it's exactly what we thought it was, said it was, and it is. Okay? There are dozens of checks and balances. And the FDA has been in my building three times in 18 months. There are over...
5,000 big pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities that the FDA has not inspected in five or more fucking years. Why? Because they've moved their facilities overseas. They're in India. They're in these third world countries that are hard to get to. The FDA has to file for a visa and then go over there and stay in a hotel with sometimes no running water. They don't want to do that.
So they just don't go look. And the reason we're on a GLP-1 shortage here in America is because Eli Lilly's American facility got shut down because of a whistleblower. And so big pharmas out there trying to scare people away from companies like, you know, all of these telemedicine companies, all these compounding pharmacies and tell people these are dangerous. These are unsafe. No.
It is no more dangerous than what you're doing. And in fact, I would argue what Big Pharma's doing is astronomically more dangerous because they don't have the checks and balances and they have the lobbying power. What happened with the Eli Lilly thing? Eli Lilly ended up getting hammered at one of their facilities. They came in and there were barefoot people in the sterile rooms.
They literally had destroyed records. Their efficacy data wasn't correct. I mean, there's a book called Bottle of Lies where this investigative journalist goes over to India with the FDA just to follow them. And they're literally burning records. Not Lilly, but a big pharmaceutical company was literally burning records. And we can go back in history to the long sordid, jaded history of big pharma.
A lot of people talk about Monsanto when we were talking about food. You know, Bayer Monsanto are the same company, right? They're owned by the same holding company. So Bayer that produces drugs, and Monsanto are sister corporations, and Monsanto produces chemicals that create cancer, Bayer sells cancer drugs.
But before that, Bayer sold hemophilia drugs, and they knowingly infected people with HIV in the late 80s, early 90s when it was a death sentence. So they cross-contaminated a hemophilia drug with HIV. They could destroy the batch and lose revenue for that quarter, or they could ship it into the marketplace and risk infecting patients with HIV. What do you think they did?
they shipped it to third world countries at a time when hiv was a death sentence and then back to compounding versus big pharma compounding pharmacies came out and said we can make hiv treatments for literally 12 a month at a time when big pharma was charging 12 000 a month
And they got sued by all the big pharmaceutical companies for trying to provide life-saving treatments to third world countries. Finally, there was enough of a voice, overwhelming swell of angry Americans and Europeans that they had to back down. But it was two years of an obstruction mentality. How many people died?
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