Comment · Sat, January 4, 2020
Epicor or Immune Defence?
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yehyehwut · 5 points
Anyone tried either or both?
ID seems very comprehensive but does cost double Epicor.
I do not get sick often (once a year until recently) but I'm finding I can less afford to get sick, people around me get sick a lot which has been getting me sick lately and maybe I am getting hit harder as I get older.
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ebowden · 2 points
I really wish I had some idea how to help you with that situation, because it's important for there to be evidence. I am the kind of guy who will actually seek it out before buying, but you have to deal with the real world, in which most people simply don't do that. It's the kind of product that could save lots of money and more importantly, many lives if it did turn out to be efficacious. Perhaps a bunch of people would end up linking it to reviewers and elsewhere? But that's a problematic thing to rely on.
If you got OTC approval, would that allow you to keep selling it the same way you are now? If so that'd be great, but I'd bet OTC approval is a fucking nightmare in terms of money and headache, perhaps even in legal trouble.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
There's zero way it ever gets OTC approval in the US. Approval of new drugs in the United States costs BILLIONS of dollars. Getting a new OTC monograph approved is not easy, and getting one with 8 different ingredients in it would be a nightmare. Then after we spent that money, anyone else could make it and take market share. This is because anyone can produce products using approved OTC monographs without prior notice or approval to the FDA. The system is NOT setup to be the best for you. It's setup to be the best for large companies that can use those high barriers to entry to keep their market share.