11.0 Consequential Chemicals with Adam Urato, MD: TEASER

Renegade Psych

Welcome to another series. This one features Dr. Adam Urato, MD, a Maternal-Fetal-Medicine specialist living and working in Framingham, MA, near where he trained at Harvard. Adam is in a unique position in medical culture because of his past experience sounding the alarm on Makena, a synthetic progesterone FDA approved for preterm labor in 2013, despite ONE shoddy clinical trial claiming it reduced the risk of preterm labor (without any impact on morbidity and mortality). Adam felt the trial was flawed and wanted to see more evidence of its safety and effectiveness before he committed to using it. However, over the next several years, others bit hook, line, and sinker on the propaganda bait put forth by the industry, those meant to regulate it, and its subsidiaries. While Adam fought to petition its removal until further evidence about safety and efficacy was completed, Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable pregnant women were injected with a synthetic hormone that, in 2019, was shown to have no evidence of efficacy, and to not be completely safe either. Unfortunately, the FDA dragged its feet for another four years (WTF!) until Makena was removed from the market (interestingly, 20 years after it emerged as a novel pharmaceutical in 2013). Long story short, THIS stance puts Adam in a unique position of scientific and moral authority and as a harbinger of truth in a growingly untrustworthy medical culture. It's hard to call Adam a conspiracy theorist when his Makena 'conspiracy theory' turned out to be completely valid... and therefore, it's hard not to take him seriously when he talks about the risks of antidepressant, specifically SSRI, use during pregnancy, as well as the uncertainty around the widespread use of the COVID vaccine and our divergence from other first-world countries in our current vaccination policies (We are a HUGE outlier in terms of recommending childhood and adolescent, and ESPECIALLY INFANT, COVID vaccination.)

Not to worry, however, Adam keeps it light while discussing really serious and important issues, and talks about the importance of fighting these fights as a happy warrior with an attitude of gratitude. I hope you enjoy.

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