Phenylephrine is basically a placebo as a decongestant. I've taken it for years thinking FDA-approved meant vetted. Who do we trust now?
Read a report that Phenylephrine is basically as good as a placebo when it comes to being a decongestant.
Now - I am not a pharmacist. I am neither a doctor. So it should not matter to me. But it does. Because I have had medicines that had this as an element in it. This means I was being fed basically bullshit - and I was taking it because I felt that "FDA Approved" means its properly vetted and trustable.
But as it appears - it isn't! Who do we trust?
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