Real Men Of Genius Presents: Jon Marshall D.O., posterboy of the liver killing hydroxycut

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Hydroxycut is a product of Iovate Health Sciences Inc. of Oakville in Ontario, Canada, and distributed by Iovate Health Sciences USA Inc. of Blasdell, N.Y. Surprise that a death has been linked to the use of Hydroxycut. I'm going to bet that it wasn't the first, only the first where the connection was recognized. I think that as long as this product has been on the market, it never seemed prudent to use such a product. In reality, if any over the counter drug showed any actual safe efficacy, physicians would prescribe it. That's why aspirin, which costs pennies per pill is recommended by physicians to many patients over 40. If a cheap drug could make you skinny, they would prescribe that too. Unfortunately, there are too many people out there willing to flush their money and their health away on crap in a desperately lazy attempt to acheive success before work.

Symptoms of liver injury include jaundice and brown urine, have been reported to the FDA. Other symptoms include nausea, vomiting, light-colored stools, excessive fatigue, weakness, stomach or abdominal pain, itching and loss of appetite. These are signs of liver injury that could lead to DEATH! 23 patients had severe injuries, some requiring liver transplantation. That said, most of the people who have taken the pills probably were ok. There are other drugs prescribed that are more dangerous. But if there is no benefit, no risk can be off set.

Most heinous though, is the endorsement of Midwestern University College of Osteopathic Medicine Class of 2005 graduate, Jon Marshall, D.O. They used this guy in the commercials because he looks healthy and is a "doctor." The guy was a resident, barely out of school at the time but, simply graduating medical school doesn't qualify you to provide endorsements on medication. The manufacture is guilty on this one though exploiting the general publics ingnorance. Most people who took Hydroxycut probably weren't looking for a board certified expert on weight loss.

I was just staring medical school when the commercials for Hydroxycut first took off, everyone in my school knew who Jon Marshall was. He's the guy who sold out his medical degree to make some cash endorsing a product that no sensible person would use. People might say its not fair to call him greedy, but he's in radiology residency, it's not like he's actually specializing in bariatric or sports medicine.

Now that FDA is advising people that Hydroxycut is dangerous people should consider the appeal to authority used in these commercials. Of course, if you had asked me four years ago, I would have said, don't take that, ever heard of Phen-Phen?