another attempt at deception

It all seems so harmless! When a dietary supplement appears on the market with a clear label saying that it is "100 percent natural" and it is sold in a country like the UK the logical reasoning is that what you are buying is completely safe. You also presume that what it says on the labeling about effectiveness has also been verified by the respective medical authority.

Well you are completely wrong! Rules and regulations surrounding the marketing and sale of dietary supplements in both America and the United Kingdom are seriously lax and need to be changed. This has been highlighted recently by the case of a supplement called Timeout which claims to be [like all of the others] 100 percent natural when in fact it contains a scary sounding chemical called hydroxythiohomosildenafil which is obviously a doctor version of sildenafil, the active ingredient of the best selling erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.

The same sort of scam has been uncovered by the Food & Drug Administration concerning another product called MasXtreme which was sent to a laboratory and found to contain an even more scary sounding chemical called Aminotadalafil which is a dangerously manufactured variant of tadalafil, the active ingredient of the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis. The real reason why these sorts of products are so dangerous is that they can interact with other medications and cause potentially fatal low blood pressure.

Why is it that the companies that produce these medications don't clearly state what is in them? The reason is that nobody would buy them! They dress them up in green packaging, because everybody thinks that because it is green it is somehow healthy but in fact are loading them with untested and untried chemicals. They even go as far as to add a green dye to the tablets themselves in another attempt at deception.

As well as legislation against the proliferation of useless dietary supplements, it is about time that governments started to educate the public and warn about so called 'natural' medications which are in fact proving to be much more dangerous than unnatural ones.