Asking for something important and personal today.
A little over a decade ago, my wife was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had a total thyroidectomy.
The past 10 years has been an endless battle trying to work with different doctors and medication combinations while I watched her quality of life deteriorate in front of me. Several months ago, we had a breakthrough when we found a doctor willing to use desiccated thyroid extract and has been, with no exaggeration, completely life changing.
She feels like herself again, has more energy, is happier, and almost of all of her chronic health problems have drastically improved including hair loss, joint pain, digestive issues, extreme fatigue, among others.
The FDA recently announced that they are going to take action against all manufacturers, importers, and distributors of DTE (desiccated thyroid extract).
That means that over the next 12 months, providers will be required to transition patients off of DTEs because they will no longer be allowed to be prescribed.
There are currently 1.5 million people across the US who rely on DTEs for their thyroid health, with the majority of these people having transitioned from synthetic only thyroid medication and noticed significant improvement.
I’m in the process of creating an easily browsable and shareable site documenting the details. But the short version is that the FDA is reclassifying DTEs, in a way that is questionable at best, to ban a medication that has been successfully used for over 130 years.
I can’t overstate the impact DTEs have had on my wife’s health and quality of life, and how devastating the consequences of not having them has been.
The narrative that synthetic thyroid medications can successfully treat patients, especially those with a total thyroidectomy is just not true for a large amount of people.
For now, two small things would be immensely appreciated:
1. Share this post
2. Sign and share the petition linked below
Huge thank you to @AmyMyersMD for starting this.
I’ll follow up here with a link when I get the website up. Thank you so much for reading this all the way through.
I’ll be fighting this with everything I have over the next year. And I hope you’ll join me as you’re able
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A lot of you have clearly fallen for Roger Ver's political persecution ploy and don't actually understand the charges against him, so I'll break it down.
1. The IRS says he didn't pay the correct exit tax in 2014 because his filing reported that he personally owned 0 BTC when he had more like 58,000 BTC.
2. The IRS isn't overstepping their reach going after a non-citizen because the bulk of their complaint is related to US companies Ver owns. Those companies still have to pay US taxes regardless of his status.
No, the IRS isn't suddenly seeking to throw Ver in prison when they could "just send him a bill." That's not how they operate - they've been going back and forth with him for years on this matter. It got to this point because he has chosen not to pay. I bet that even to this day he could negotiate a settlement; the IRS prefers to profit rather than put people in prison.
Astute observers may recall that Michael Saylor had similar tax issues last year and settled for $40M so that he could move on with his life. A logical decision.
So why is Ver refusing to pay? Perhaps it's ideological, in which case he's his own worst enemy. But perhaps he's unable to pay.
Remember that in 2022 CoinFlex went bankrupt and claimed Ver owed them $47M for a margin call. He disputed this claim and didn't pay. Perhaps this is a clue.
Why would someone who by all accounts ought to be a billionaire refuse to pay such a relatively small amount in order to stay out of prison? Perhaps it's because he is unable to do so.
And yes, taxation is still extortion, but that tends to be a pretty weak argument when you're dealing with the tax man.