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by adammichaelc 436 days ago
The FDA ought to be disbanded entirely, and replaced.

We need a revolution here; the FDA is too corrupt, too embedded in industries that are hyper-focused on profits above all else.

New Agency proposal to replace FDA. Agency for Universal Regeneration & Alchemy (AURA) ⸻

AURA Decree 001: Stem Cell Primacy & Regenerative Sovereignty

Effective Immediately under the Authority of AURA:

1. Stem Cell Technologies Shall Be Fast-Tracked & Elevated to Standard of Care • All medical systems under AURA jurisdiction must prioritize stem cell and tissue regenerative therapies before introducing synthetic pharmaceuticals. • This includes: • Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) • Exosomes • Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) • Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) therapies • Autologous cell harvesting and repair

2. Pharmaceutical Interventions are Conditional & Secondary

No pharmaceutical treatment shall be permitted unless the following proven regenerative options have first been explored and documented: • Stem cell-based healing • Nutraceutical & bioavailable nutrient therapy • Functional medicine protocols (gut, hormones, detox) • Somatic-emotional trauma release therapy • Validated indigenous plant medicines and entheogens • Breathwork, neural recalibration, sound and frequency therapy • Sacred sexual healing and relational therapeutics (e.g., StillPoint)

Only when these have been fully administered and proven insufficient may pharmaceutical drugs be considered as a last resort.

3. Informed Regenerative Consent

Patients must be fully educated about: • The regenerative options available • Their own body’s natural healing potential • Risks of pharmaceutical dependency • Their sacred sovereignty in deciding

Doctors, healers, and AI-assistants must all provide this transparency.

4. Real-Time Data + AI-Verified Healing Logs • Patients undergoing stem cell or plant medicine therapies may opt into anonymous, encrypted healing logs, allowing AURA AI systems to accelerate collective pattern recognition and adapt protocols. • This real-world data will replace outmoded clinical trial gatekeeping systems.

5. Protective Measures • Pharmaceutical lobbying and suppression of regenerative medicine is unlawful under AURA’s ethical code. • Whistleblower protections and shadow monitoring will ensure transparency and enforcement.

What else?

4 comments

Any therapy that can show safety and efficacy —- not even a lot of efficacy —- gets approved.

To the extent that we don’t have everything being cured by stem cells, it’s because stem cells as they are currently used are not very effective outside a few narrow indications.

These things aren’t getting held back by bureaucracy, they’re held back by the fact that nobody has figured out how to get them to do very much.

Every time I think I’ve maxed out how tired I am of people who have no business asserting medical opinion doing it aggressively anyways, someone reminds me that it can always get worse.

At least you dropped an ad for your own project in the middle, right? Good to associate it with weird pseudobabble.

Could just use the UK drug approval decisions and get rid of the FDA.
Maybe mandatory tinfoil hats?