FDA

“Basically the FDA is like the primary blocker of like medical innovation, not just in the US, but in the world.”

“I mean, or rather I was interviewed for a very senior role. And I probably could have been At least number two that was on the table. But I chose not to, I mean, it's now a few years later.”

“I don't believe that one can abolish the FDA any more than one can abolish the Fed, but I do think you can exit the FDA like we exited the Fed.”

“Tom had taken a drug called Elsonris from lab all the way through FDA approval, full approval for sixteen million dollars, which is absolutely crazy in the drug world.”

“50, excuse me, 75% of the FDA is actually not funded by taxpayers. It's funded by pharma itself, and bureaucracies are built to grow.”

“Until very recently, the FDA did not have like a good definition of what it means to build an aging drug, right? Because in general, this sort of .3 in the broader medical world, aging is not considered a disease. It's considered a natural state.”

“They're still going, undergoing FDA approval, but like, yeah, no, none of these nasty heavy metals or microplastics in them. You know, it's reducing pressure on fish stocks. You know, this is good stuff. It doesn't have any of the nasty like parasites that you…”

“I think it's also going to be a lot harder than people think. Cause you have AI that's coming up with all these ideas, but the bottleneck is still regulatory. It's still FDA. It's still getting a clinical trial put together. That's one area where we're going t…”

“Their new product, Stello, is the first over-the-counter FDA-approved CGM. This was just as of, like, last month end of August.”