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Ephedra Products

Ephedra is a highly popular stimulant found in dietary supplements and sports drinks. The federal government is now deciding whether or not to impose tougher restrictions on ephedra products, including the possibility of an ephedra ban. Various groups have been pushing for years for the ban or at least stricter regulation on ephedra products. Ephedra dangers include death, heart attacks, strokes, seizures, and many other adverse effects. Many consumers do not understand the risks and benefits of “all-natural” products and equate all-natural as being completely safe.

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Popular Products Containing Ephedra Extracts:

• Metabolife
  
• Ripped Fuel
  
• Diet Fuel
  
• Stacker 3
  
• NaturalTRIM
  
• Hydroxycut
  
• Xenadrine RFA-1
  
• Metab-O-Lite
  
• Metabolift
  
• Up Your Gas
  
• Truckers Luv It
  
• Yellow Jackets

Label ingredient indicating ephedra compounds:

• Ephedra
  
• Ma huang
  
• Ephedrine
  
• Ephedra sinica
  
• Sida cordifolia
  
• Epitonin
  
• Pseudoephedrine
  
• Methyl ephedrine

Ingredients containing other stimulates (like caffeine):

• Guarana
  
• Kola nut
  
• Yerba mate
  
• Citrus aurantium
  
• DMAE

Mayo Clinic Publishes Ephedra Reports
Metabolife International still maintains their ephedra-containing product is safe despite the over one hundred personal injury cases against Metabolife. So far, the company has paid around $5 million to settle 29 cases. In January 2002, the Mayo Clinic Proceedings published a review of reports that were made between 1995 and 1997 regarding ephedra side effects. Metabolife continues to insist that the ephedra product is safe when it is used as directed, however the Mayo Clinic findings reported differently. Even at recommended doses, when people were using ephedra there were 11 sudden deaths, 16 strokes, and 10 heart attacks. For more information on ephedra please contact us.

Consumer Advocacy Group Petitions For the Ban of Ephedra
The Public Citizen consumer advocacy group actively works to remove dangerous products from the market, including ephedra. The group has been pressuring government to ban the sale of ephedra for years now, issuing a petition to the FDA September 2001. Prior to the announcement of the criminal investigation on Metabolife, the group wrote a letter to the Department of Health and Human Service’s Secretary Thompson to urge him to direct the FDA to open a criminal investigation of Metabolife. The group is still not satisfied with the continued availability of ephedra on the market and the government is now facing decisions of whether or not ephedra will become a banned substance or more closely regulated in light of the Metabolife legal battles.

Ephedra Banned

Ephedra dangers have been debated for years now, finally leading to the supplement being viewed as an unnecessary health risk and is now banned by organizations and foreign countries.

• In the National Football League
  
• In The International Olympic Committee
  
• In The National Collegiate Athletic Association
  
• In Canada
  
• In England

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