Yes this is accurate. I get a prescription if I want the health insurance to pay for it. (This isnt covered by basic Canadian health care, ie many people pay for their prescriptions)
Canadian here, if you can't afford the 7 maple dollars for 200 vitamin D (1000iu each) thqt lasts a couple months you have more things to worry about than covid.
Side note for anyone, don't take vitamin D all at once if you're supplementing, split your dose into 4 (I take 4 pills a day unless I spent a good time outdoors that day and how the sun is that day) and take them at wakeup, lunch, dinner, and bedtime.
It has more to do with stupid people only doing what their doctor tells them.
I used to think Canada had something over the US by virtue of their doctors being more likely to prescribe supplements, something few American doctors would ever do, and their propensity to prescribe hard drugs only for a limited time, not for life.
The supplements can actually legally list what they are good for, whereas it's a crime in the US. It's also illegal for pharmaceuticals to advertise to the public.
But that's all just icing on the shit sandwich that is a broken socialized system of despair. It likely has more to do with saving the government money on prescription costs, than it actually does with helping people.
Check out the manufacturer funded study that allows the Canadian supplement ColdFX to claim it cures colds. I think it had 13 participants and was 0.86% more effective than placebo. The Canadian version of the FDA is really on top of things.
And why aren't people just buying the basic supplements themselves, like all of us have done? (Rhetorical question, no need to answer.)
Their healthcare prolly pays for it if it's prescribed. It's why American doctors write prescriptions for ibuprofen.
Yes this is accurate. I get a prescription if I want the health insurance to pay for it. (This isnt covered by basic Canadian health care, ie many people pay for their prescriptions)
Canadian here, if you can't afford the 7 maple dollars for 200 vitamin D (1000iu each) thqt lasts a couple months you have more things to worry about than covid.
Side note for anyone, don't take vitamin D all at once if you're supplementing, split your dose into 4 (I take 4 pills a day unless I spent a good time outdoors that day and how the sun is that day) and take them at wakeup, lunch, dinner, and bedtime.
Is a mapLe dollar the same as a Canadian tire dollar?
It has more to do with stupid people only doing what their doctor tells them.
I used to think Canada had something over the US by virtue of their doctors being more likely to prescribe supplements, something few American doctors would ever do, and their propensity to prescribe hard drugs only for a limited time, not for life.
The supplements can actually legally list what they are good for, whereas it's a crime in the US. It's also illegal for pharmaceuticals to advertise to the public.
But that's all just icing on the shit sandwich that is a broken socialized system of despair. It likely has more to do with saving the government money on prescription costs, than it actually does with helping people.
Check out the manufacturer funded study that allows the Canadian supplement ColdFX to claim it cures colds. I think it had 13 participants and was 0.86% more effective than placebo. The Canadian version of the FDA is really on top of things.
Generic ibprofin is cheap as fuck... All generics are.
Maybe Canada is subject to the Codex Alimentarius laws that prevent them from buying their own supplements. You have to go through a doctor!
They've been trying to outlaw supplements here in the US as well.
Former senator Orin Hatch was responsible for stonewalling that. Lots of supplement manufacturers in Utah.