Endocrine Society Warns Public On Two Fake "Diseases."
In its "Booster Shots" blog, the Los Angeles Times (9/15, Maugh) reported that the Endocrine Society's Hormone Foundation is warning the public that two commonly discussed Internet "diseases" are in fact not real and were "apparently conceived only in an effort to sell products promoted to treat them." One is "adrenal fatigue," which promoters say can be treated with products that "often include extracts from human adrenal glands and hypothalamus that could be dangerous" and are not regulated by the FDA. The other fake condition is "Wilson's temperature syndrome...supposedly identified in 1990 by 'E. Denis Wilson M.D.' of Longwood, Fla.,'" who promotes various products, including "WT3," which could damage the heart and bones.
