At this point, I generally don't want to start the debate about advertising on social media again. Advertisements are there, they are basically necessary for survival, and therefore have their justification in a certain way. My problem lies elsewhere, namely when products can be ineffective or even dangerous. It's about products that could be the snake oil of 2022.
What do these products promise?
These products that I have recently been shown are posing as products that could be perceived as medical preparations. I deliberately use this phrase because the advertising descriptions themselves do not claim to be medical preparations. For good reason too, because otherwise this type of distribution would not be possible. For example, I keep seeing images of a preparation that is supposed to cleanse the lungs. The lung! Since Corona, the lungs have been declared what feels like the most important organ! And now preparations are coming along that talk about lung cleansing.
I took a closer look at the website behind it and also the promises. I was wondering whether the advertising website for this product actually makes reference to Covid-19. In fact, this is among other things. But not in the form of the product description, but in the form of supposed user reviews. This is where things get particularly exciting, because many of the properties that are suggested by the product at first glance but are not described then appear in the reviews as supposed effects.
I would like to briefly explain how this works: These reviews are the actually exciting part of the advertising website and at the same time they raise questions. Since I cannot contact the people who are said to have written this review, I as a reader cannot of course distinguish whether these reviews are real or perhaps even made up.
Every now and then you can see pictures in the reviews. These pictures show young, happy people holding the drug in their hands. These should then be the supposed users. The effect? Since I personally don't trust the reviews on this website (they are simply too opaque in my opinion), I can't understand whether this product has an effect. Of course, the product would have to be examined here, but the active ingredient advertised in it can initially be at least partially analyzed using search engines.
The active ingredient in this product is said to be “lungwort”. The advertising website on the topic of lung cleansing at least uses the term lungwort again and again. The fact is: Lungwort exists and is considered a medicinal herb. The ingredients are said to have an expectorant and anti-inflammatory effect, and cough irritations are said to be able to be alleviated. That’s it at this point. Further research shows that the effect has not yet been sufficiently scientifically proven. Lungwort was rated as a “zero monograph” by Commission E (an independent scientific expert commission for herbal medicines at the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices in Germany). This review states that it has neither negative nor positive effects.
Are these products dangerous?
These products are unlikely to cause any harm to the body. The problem lies elsewhere, that I rely on her when I'm sick. Because if they have no effect, neither positive nor negative, they cannot heal me. However, the damage lies in the rejection of medicine, which in turn can help. Such effects would also be worrying in relation to other diseases if, for example, ineffective preparations were offered in relation to cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, it always makes sense to speak to a doctor instead of being influenced by advertisements on social media.
This might also be of interest: No increase in suicides despite two years of corona pandemic Scientists at Leipzig University Medical Center have collected suicide statistics, broken down by age group and gender, in three federal states. Continue reading …
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