Jane Black

Since the disease had limited her body, Diane, the mother, says that she was attracted to the way jellyfish seemed to move so easily.

And that's what led her to wonder if the marine animal might hold the key to a medical breakthrough.

And he took to it like a dog with a bone.

They don't have brains.

But despite jellyfish not having brains.

Or hearts.

Or hearts.

Mark wants to make his memory-boosting jellyfish supplement anyway.

And when the company ran it by the FDA again a few years later, FDA says, nope, we still don't think it's safe enough.

So if you're having trouble getting your new supplement ingredient, like glowy jellyfish stuff, past the FDA's review process, Melanie says you can just put it in a food product first.

The Prevagen shake.

They called it NeuroShake.

And the jellyfish company did formally notify the FDA.

They were now introducing the jellyfish thing as a food ingredient.

The FDA, again, questioned the safety of the ingredient in the shake.

But once you're talking about food ingredients, companies can actually ignore the FDA's concerns as long as they self-certify that their ingredient is safe.

And once they got into food, that gave them the right to add it to the supplement.

That is the get-around.

Between 2007 and 2015, the Jellyfish Company racked up more than $165 million in sales.

Meanwhile, people were reporting side effects to the company, that they were having chest pain and seizures and strokes while taking this supplement.