FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty McCary

This is a common sense reform that makes sense.

And if you think about it, it can also save lives.

That system of doctors are only able to give you a medication by prescription failed us with the opioid epidemic.

It failed us with the overprescribing of antibiotics.

Most antibiotics are unnecessary.

So the system is not working as designed.

And now that we have a very educated public, a public that's getting empowered with health information like we've never seen before, this is an opportunity for us to do some common sense reforms

The frustrations of sitting in an emergency room just to get some anti-nausea medication, getting put in a funny looking gown and having to wait on a stretcher for hours and hours on end.

I mean, these are expensive healthcare utilization touch points.

And what are we worried about?

Somebody taking an anti-nausea medication that they actually didn't really need?

We've got to use common sense.

the pharmacy benefit managers who are notorious for playing a money shell game behind the pharmacy counter.

And you only get rung up for what's called the copay, but your employer or your health plan may be charged an exorbitant amount of money for a basic medication.

So many of the modern day medications that can be over the counter are actually less than the copay charged when you get them behind the counter.

Well, there's definitely a clear rise in gluten intolerance and celiac, and it may be because of the changes to the gut lining called the microbiome.

The microbiome in the

injured and affected in so many ways because of ultra processed foods, because of the overuse of antibiotics, which carpet bombs some of the microbiome bacteria and even from things like C-section births over vaginal births, because the types of bacteria that anchor and colonize that microbiome are different.