Viagra ingredient in Chinese supplements

Finally, a supplement that works.

"Dietary supplements marketed to provide male sexual enhancement contain undeclared erectile dysfunction drugs putting users at risk, the Food and Drug Administration warned Friday...

Product testing indicates that some of these so-called supplements contain Viagra's active ingredient, sildenafil, or a compound with a chemical structure that mimics sildenafil.

These chemicals could interact with nitrates in drugs taken for disorders commonly associated with erectile dysfunction, including diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and heart disease. The result could dangerously lower a user's blood pressure, according to the FDA.

The agency also warned that the safety and purity of these illegal ingredients is unknown."

In some ways this is good news. Here are a few:

This can act as a lesson on how to make an effective supplement - put active ingredients in it.

Other marketers and manufacturers may follow by adding value to their supplements as in "making them work."

Some consumers may actually have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

But, in some ways this is bad news. Here are a few:

Some may alter the traditional carol changing it from "ding-dong, ding-dong" to "dong-dong, dong-dong."

The dish will need to be renamed to Chicken Almond Dong if the supplement is added while cooking.

Since, at last, a supplement is effective, we will have to revisit the labeling issue as it does anything but make things supple.

And in some ways this is no news.

People are still morons for falling for any of this crap.