The Gov't was looking very hard at ephedrine based products...
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Why do you think drug companies have whined about the availablity of Ephedrine so hard for so long? Could it be because there isn't nearly has much profit margin in it versus competitive products like Allegra or Claritin? My wife was paying over $100 a month for asthma medication before switching to Ephedrine. She still keeps her Albuterol inhaler just in case, because admittedly the Ephedrine isn't quite as effective as the much more expensive other drugs she's tried. Ephedrine is also non-addictive unlike many of the other medications she has taken in the past.
As to long term effects, I've never heard of a study that showed anything negative. My nephew, who takes Ephedrine to help him breath while sleeping, has looked into it deeply since he takes 20mg of it every night.
The Gov't was looking very hard at ephedrine based products after several reported deaths.
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Yes, they found 15 deaths between 1993 and 1996. That's five per year. That's only 1/20 of the number of people that are killed each year from ibuprofen overdoses. If it's 20 times safer than ibuprofen, then I think it's very safe.
Oh, and don't believe everything that is printed on a supplement label...
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I don't, and that's why I never buy any supplement, other than a multi-vitamin, that contains more than one ingredient. If I want to take aspirin, I'll buy it from a name-brand company. I don't want to take a supplement, like Xenadrine, that contains a herbal form of an unknown quantity or quality.z