![]() There's no organized approach to collecting information about the adverse effects related to supplements, he explained. As Cohen showed, they may also contain chemicals and designer stimulants that have never been tested before. So these pills can be promoted for weight loss or any number of health benefits, with no real evidence backing the claims. Supplement manufacturers are not required to prove that their products actually do what they are marketed for in humans. Here we are finding the next version of DMAA." Nutrition supplements are very loosely regulatedĬohen is a critic of the way the Food and Drug Administration regulates supplements, and said consumers need to be on alert since the labels on their pill bottles might not tell them the full truth about what they are putting in their bodies. With their new discovery, Cohen said, "There is no need to wait seven years. That was seven years after it was introduced."īut while it's now illegal to put DMAA in supplements because it poses such a health risk, the new research shows manufacturers are using a sister chemical instead. "It took people getting sickened by it - having bleeds in their heads, dropping dead running marathons, that pathologists realized were due to DMAA - that finally moved the Food and Drug Administration to get DMAA off the market. DMAA was found in dozens of sports and diet pills, selling to the tune of $100 million in 2010 alone. "In 2006, DMAA was introduced on the market, but it should not have been in supplements," said Cohen. And DMAA - the parent compound from which DMBA is derived - was banned in the US, UK and several other countries because it is linked to strokes, heart failure and sudden death. ![]() The health effects of DMBA are unknown because it has only ever been studied in a small number of cats and dogs, but never humans. The researchers found DMBA - the new designer stimulant - in a dozen supplements. that finally moved the FDA to get DMAA off the market." "It took people getting sickened by it - having bleeds in their heads, dropping dead. In this case, DMBA is a man-made version of the chemical DMAA, also known as as 1,3-dimethylamylamine, methylhexanamine or geranium extract. ![]() Designer drugs are just synthetic variations on the chemical structure of existing drugs, made to have similar effects but avoid being classified as illegal. "This is the third time in the last year that we have seen a brand-new class of drugs appear in mainstream supplements," said lead author Pieter Cohen, an internist and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, who conducted the research with colleagues in Michigan and the Netherlands.Ĭohen and his co-investigators examined over-the-counter supplements for the presence of a new, designer stimulant called DMBA. ![]() That's the conclusion of a new study published in the journal Drug Testing and Analysis. Now, new research suggests that many consumers may be unknowingly ingesting similar untested designer stimulants - because over-the-counter nutrition supplements can be laced with them. ![]() In the past, people looking to get high on designer drugs had to seek them out, knowingly risking their health on products like "bath salts." ![]()
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