I don’t see how this is legal, but people on Tik Tok peddling miracle “medicine” are becoming more common every day. No FDA approval, no research. Just their marketing hype and false promises. This one, lady is showing some sort of probiotic and claiming it can help people suffering from severe acid reflux and gastrointestinal reflux disease or GERD, replacing medicine that has been tested for decades.
This was all made legal in the Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act of 1994.
Before that, everythimg required FDA approval, but now if it says “natural” or “not intended to treat any condition” on the side, you can bottle and sell your own piss if you’ve got a good enough sales pitch
We’re getting dangerously close to social media apps where you scroll through ads and only ads. Maybe we’re already there…
My Facebook and Instagram are now >3/4 stuff that I didn’t follow. Not all are explicitly advertisements, but they aren’t things I wanted to see. That’s why I’m moving to federated services. Just wish I could convince more of my friends and family to move over. I use Lemmy as a replacement for Reddit so it’s more widely social, but the other stuff I only really used for friends, family, or special interest groups.
Influencer = Sales person
Ehh more like marketing. But clearly pushing snakeoil in this case.
Marketing is ensuring your product offering matches what people want.
I don’t see how an influencer pushing a particular probiotic product fits this
That probiotic is nice and all, but it’ll never beat apple cider vinegar. That stuff cures everything. Especially if you take it with silver.
Seriously though, this is just the latest venue for this kind of bullshit.
You’re supposed to put a link to where we can buy your miracle vinegar/silver mix in your post. Have you learned nothing from these marketing geniuses?
My bad.
https://127.0.0.1/C$/%userprofile%/Documents/EXCEL.ppt
If that doesn’t work give Derek a call.
It was weird that it needed my social security number, bank account, mother’s maiden name, and the name of my first pet to make the order but I guess it was worth it to stay healthy. Thanks bud!
O, and tell Derek I said hey.
Why are you using TikTok?
Because i want to use TikTok.
Then u get the scams and infuriating content. Maybe complain on TikTok about it
I get that on Lemmy too.
Cool
That kind of content is harmful regardless of whether OP is using TikTok or not. TikTok is just another medium.
For some folks, like myself, it was admitting to myself that I needed to change my diet and eating habits, and I haven’t had issues with acid reflux for years.
On the other hand, lots of folks have issues with this stuff no matter their eating habits and it is horrific to live with. As OP pointed out, things like GERD affect a lot of people.
That these people would take advantage of people in that situation is so infuriating.
Side note, for me, steamed kale is doing wonders.
But has steamed kale been approved by the FDA for acid reflux?
Perhaps what you’re doing should be made illegal, for safety reasons.
Probiotics hype in pill form but why is nobody shilling various yogurt type products?
I guess it easier and more PROFITABLE to sell avg tiktok consoomer some capsules then it is to educate them to eat “spoiled” milk product… Eww
An interesting system we go though. Solid incentives and well educated citizens.
Yogurt isn’t very suitable for sales through the mail
Congress needs to give the FDA the power to regulate supplements goddamn yesterday.
