Joe Grinsteiner is a sociable online personality that publishes the anti-pharassite drug Ivemectin. In a recent Facebook video, he produced a veterinary -level Ivemectin pasta tube: the type made for Sworme horses.
He gave a closer to the tube. Then he licked a snail of the stuff and swallow.
“Yum,” said Grinsteiner in the video of February 25, one of the numerous posts relating to the Irmectina who made that they designed millions of views on Facebook this year. “In reality, this has a dead cancer flavor.”
Ivemectin, a drug shown for the treatment of certain parasitic diseases or prevent Covid-19. Now, despite a persistent message from federal health officials that its medical benefits are limited-interest in the Ivemectin is again increasing, in particular among the American conservatories that see it promoted by the right influencers.
Grinsteiner, 54, is a Trump supporter and a country music artist who lives in the rural Michigan. In his videos he said that Ivemectin edited skin cancer, as well as the cervical cancer of his wife. In a video last month, he said that a woman told him that his non -verbal autistic child had become a verbal after using ivectin. In a recent telephone interview, Grinsteiner said he hired a daily dose of Ivemectin to maintain his general well -being.
There is no evidence in support of people who take on Ivemectin to treat cancer or autism. Yet Mr. Grinsteiner believes that medical and political establishments only want to prevent average people from discovering the healing powers of a relatively convenient drug.
“These guys are absolutely guided by money,” he said in a video. “And when I say” these guys “, I’m talking about all those Washington politicians who take money from Big Pharma.”
In fact, ivemectin has become a sort of long -lasting pharmacological sorceress hat: a symbol of resistance to what some in the movement describe as an elitist and corrupt cabal of politicians, scientists and medical experts. While many of these experts fear that disinformation on inhertin can lead to overdose – or push people to reject proven treatments for Covid or other disorders – conservative legislators in a number of states are promoting legislation that would allow the Ivemectin to be sold without prescription, often in the name of medical freedom.
Last week, the governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders of the Arkansas signed a law that allows you to sell the over -the -counter Ivemectin. Another legislation is underway in at least six other states: Kentucky, Western Virginia, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Texas. In 2022, Tennessee approved a law that makes it easier to obtain IVEctin from a pharmacist.
The new health secretary of President Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in the past has embraced the idea that Ivemectin can treat Covidid, but if he could try to integrate the drug in his agenda “Rendi America Healthy Again” remains unclear. Kennedy did not respond to an interview request for this article.
But in 2021, he presented a petition at the Food and Drug Administration asking for officials to de-authorize the covered vaccine, claiming that Ivemectin was safer.
The Food and Drug Administration continues to underline that it has not authorized or approved Ivemectin for the processing of Covid, noting on its website that “the clinical study data currently available do not show that Ivemectin is effective against Covid-19 in humans”. Dr. Robert Califf, who led the FDA during the Obama and Biden administrations, said he was worried about people who choose Ivemectin for proven treatments, such as Covid vaccination or Cancer Chemotherapy. He said he was also worried about the overdose, in particular in people who take on the veterinary form of the drug. At high doses, ivemectin can be toxic and cause problems with the central nervous system such as blurred vision, confusion and convulsions. The FDA has also warned that high doses can lead to coma or death.
The media on the right, however, are full of advertising for the drug; Some ads describe it as an essential component of the surviving tools kits. The Gateway Pundit website has recently published a post sponsored by an online company that offers IVEctin as a prescription for “storage” purposes, with the illustration of a postpocalyptic road scene.
Two main figures in the Maga Movement – Former Matt Gaetz representative of Florida and Dan Bongino, deputy director of the FBI, have promoted the whole family pharmacy, an online dress that distributes Ivemectina with “a prescription of our authorized doctors”.
“Nothing more fighting the system for the treatments you want,” said Bongino in an episode of his popular podcast, one of his last before starting the FBI “escorts now before the next crisis hit”.
The continuous interest in Ivemectin is a surprise for Lewis A. Grossman, professor of law and historian of the American University who has written widely on the concept of “therapeutic choice”. Mr. Grossman said that in the course of American history, a series of treatments have become popular despite having little or no buy-in by expert medical experts.
For example, he said, Laetrile, a remedy for cancer not proven derived from the picycocche, increased in popularity in the 70s; The actor Steve McQueen used him in his battle without success against cancer.
At the height of Laetrile’s popularity, the supporters praised its convenience and blocked a great “conspiracy” of the medicine government against it, while many experts classified it as a charlatan. The FDA has never approved for the treatment of cancer or any other therapeutic use, said Mr. Grossman, who is writing a book on Laetrile called “Seeds of Rebellion”.
“The story of Ivemectin adapts to a very, very long tradition in America of people who cling to non -orthodox therapies based in part on their suspicion that, for reasons of maximizing profit, pharmaceutical companies and doctors are suppressing the truth about them,” said Grossman.
Mr. Grinsteiner said he was familiar with Ivemectin because he manages a small farm and uses it on a bit of his cattle. Suspicious of the covered vaccine, he decided instead of taking ivectin in advance during the pandemic. His wife did it too.
He was pregnant six months after starting to regularly take the Ivemectin. They went to the doctor, said Grinsteiner and found that his previously diagnosed cervical cancer had clarified. He also said he rubbed the Ivemectin in a cancerous point on the nose. He added that the point lightened and that a doctor later told him that the cancer was disappeared.
He made his first video on Facebook on his experience with Ivemectin in January. “It was like, maybe a minute video, and I went to bed,” he said. “And I woke up and my phone was only melting.”
Facebook briefly suspended his account, so he restored it. The company added to some of its video connections to a “context” page from the scientific feedback of the fact control group.
The page notes that ivemectin and another pesticide drug, Mebendazole, have shown “promising anticancer effects in in vitro and animal studies. However, preclinical studies cannot reliably predict the effectiveness of a drug against cancer in humans and candidates for drugs that show effectiveness in cells and animals often fail in clinical studies. “
However, Mr. Grinsteiner was frustrated with Facebook and started an autonomous website that he often mentions in his Facebook posts. On the site, Mr. Grinsteiner claims not to give advice on “what to take and (or) how to take it”. Rather, he said, it’s a place where people compare notes.
So far, visitors to the site have discussed in Ermectin as a potential treatment for neuropathy, renal failure, lupus and other diseases. Mr. Grinsteiner sells a shirt for $ 15.68 who declares: “I would like Ivemectin to work on DC’s parasites!”
A number of legislators who push to make the Ivemectin easier to buy in their states say they want to help the components that are already taking it, some of which use veterinary degree ivemectin because they cannot obtain it in a normal drug.
“The constituents brought it to me; it was not something I thought alone,” said the Senator of the state Alan Clark of the Arkansas, the republican who sponsored the new law there.
“Mainly they go to the AG shop” for Ivemectin, said Clark. “And it would be much safer for them to use what is intended for human consumption.”
Professor Grossman said that he has long been hypothesized that states do not have authority pursuant to the federal law to make a prescription drug available to the counter available.
Many legislators who try to facilitate access to Irmectin, such as the state representative Wes Virdell of Texas, claim to promote what Mr. Virdell, a republican, calls “medical freedom”.
“I think people should be able to choose any path they want” it was, he said. “Even if they are wrong, right?”
Dr. Califf, former FDA commissioner, sees it differently.
“All interventions have risks,” he said. “And if you have no benefit and you have any risk, then because never – you know, there is no rational reason why someone should take the intervention.”
Dani Blum Contributed relationships.