364: Bottle of Lies - Generic Drug Dangers with Katherine Eban

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Lucas Rockwood

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🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that 80 percent of generic drugs are manufactured in India or China, thousands of miles from the US FDA inspectors? When it comes to oversight, manufacturing safety, and transparency, it’s a huge problem when Big Brother is on the other side of the planet. Generic drugs offer consumers huge cost savings, but is safety and regulation the price we have to pay in order to afford our medicines? On this week’s show, you’ll meet an investigative journalist who uncovered the real problems with the generic medicine market.

Listen & Learn:

Why you should be most concerned about medicines you take regularly
How carcinogens, toxins, and even bacterial/viral infections are a real risk in manufacturing
Why ‘surprise visits’ are impossible for non-US-based manufacturing facilities
Why ‘first-to-file’ incentives encourage companies to cut corners
How the Indian concept of Jugaad might be at odds with safety

Links & Resources:

Katherine’s Site

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Katherine Eban is an investigative journalist and author. Her articles have won international attention and numerous awards appearing in Fortune, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Self, The Nation, and The New York Observer. Her work has been featured on 60 Minutes, Nightline, and NPR. She is the author of Dangerous Doses and a new book, Bottle of Lies.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood Show. I am your host. I am a yoga teacher, a
0:07.1	trainer, a serial entrepreneur. I'm a father, but first and foremost I am a student.
0:11.7	I love learning. This show is about scratching my own
0:14.3	itch to learn I go out and find experts in various health and wellness fields personal
0:19.1	growth and development and I pick their brains to share their best insights with you to hopefully help you live a more fulfilled and healthy life.
0:27.0	On this week's show we're talking about generic drug dangers and it's a very timely topic because big pharma is under scrutiny all the time
0:35.4	but probably never more than right now and I always assume that the move to generics
0:40.3	was a really positive one I always assume that these pharmaceutical patents were really unethical.
0:45.4	Come to find out that, like many things in life, it's much more complicated than that.
0:50.3	There's some real risks with generic drugs.
0:53.0	That doesn't mean that you should trust Big Pharma necessarily.
0:55.0	It doesn't mean that Big Pharma is the enemy necessarily.
0:58.0	Like a lot of things it's complicated, hopefully we'll unpack it here.
1:01.0	This is, this conversation is most relevant for anyone who's taking
1:03.8	anything all the time. So if you're taking a daily prescription medication of
1:09.2	any type or if your mother or your father or your kids are, there's probably worth investigating what exactly
1:14.9	you're taking, where it's being made, and whether or not it's safe.
1:18.0	There's a good chance that you could be taken something that's potentially harmful.
1:22.0	Hope you find this helpful and interesting.
1:25.0	As always, your questions, comments, and feedback are most welcome.
1:27.3	Email me podcast at yoga body.com.
1:29.5	I also like voicemail yoga body.
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