This 'Off Label Use' Created A Massive Market With Some Stiff Competition
The Michael Berry Show
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🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry Show |
| 0:02.0 | I remember when this happened because a friend of mine was the head of Pfizer's unit that sold Viagra |
| 0:11.4 | My friend was the head of that, his wife was actually the head of it and he worked there and then he had worked there earlier but not under the Viagra unit, |
| 0:23.0 | and he and I started as baby lawyers on the first day a couple years earlier than that. |
| 0:27.0 | But it was on this year, can you remember what year? |
| 0:30.0 | It's a Food and Drug Administration approved Viagra for use as a treatment for |
| 0:35.8 | erectile dysfunction. The first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States, and they still have some stiff competition |
| 0:44.8 | but in 1998 Viagra was a game-changer. There's a documentary about this there's a |
| 0:52.3 | book written about it and I've had doctors |
| 0:54.3 | tell me this. But this is considering what all has happened during COVID, let's |
| 1:00.5 | let's look at the regulations behind pharmaceutical products and how that works because it's |
| 1:08.0 | important to understand. |
| 1:11.3 | The Viagra was a drug that was developed for a big market which is kind of a blood thinner that would be a clot |
| 1:24.3 | buster and prevent |
| 1:28.3 | strokes and heart attacks because the blood would be slightly thinned. |
| 1:32.5 | Many of you and I take a baby aspirin |
| 1:37.1 | every morning at the direction of your cardiologist |
| 1:39.9 | because it slightly thins your blood |
| 1:42.1 | and it's easy on your tummy and it's kind of a good |
| 1:45.1 | long-term health benefit. Many doctors believe that to be true. My my |
| 1:50.1 | cardiologist Stan Dukman believes that and I've read I read a lot about medicine |
| 1:55.8 | in health and wellness which can be dangerous because I enjoy it and a lot of people |
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