Talc, acetaminophen, red dyes, beetroot extract – are these terms familiar? The answer is probably no, unless you’re someone with medical knowledge of medicines.
David Johnson and Max Spielberg are two longtime friends who sought out to ask themselves what were necessary ingredients in their allergy, common-cold, and pain medicines they were taking, as well as giving to their children. When it came down to the research they found and conducted alongside doctors and scientists, a lot of over-the-counter medicine contained a lot of unnecessary ingredients – aka inactive ingredients – that have actually proven to have health consequences. Between their two financing and legal expertise’s and their research, Johnson and Spielberg launched a medicine business called Genexa.
Genexa is “an over-the-counter medicine brand that’s dedicated to making clean medicines,” and has now found themselves in over 40,000 stores – Target, Walgreens, Rite Aid, CVS, Kroger, and Whole Foods – as well as having an online presence on their own personal website and Amazon. Spielberg commented on the matter saying, “We like to call it real medicine made clean.” Genexa offers an adult product line that has a greater focus on the antacid, laxative, and cough and cold categories, but also has a product line for children that focuses on allergies, cough and cold, pain, fever and sleep products.
Johnson and Spielberg recognized a gap in the knowledge everyday people had about the over-the-counter medicines they take, discovered a need for “cleaning up the products,” and took to their solution by committing their mission to making a difference in peoples’ lives, “staying the course, keeping their head in it, and grinding it out.”
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As I have grown older and begun to do more research about the medicines that doctors are giving us, the more I began to realize how bad they are for us. The metals, and chemicals placed in our medicine cannot be good for us. Seeing this article gives me hope that someone else sees this as a problem as well. I hope that this idea becomes more prevalent in society so that all Americans have access to clean medicine.
I like the idea of “clean” medicine. I’m not super familiar with the medical and pharmaceutical industry, but I know the products that arise from it have many ingredients that our body wouldn’t normally consume or process. I’m interested to know how well Genexa works compared to other products, because while other products may have a ton of ingredients we’ve never heard of, at the end of the day it still works.
This is a great idea, having cleaner medicine for adults and children is a new concept. It is a great alternative for people that are worried about what they put in their body and have positive long term outcomes instead of putting inactive ingredients into your body that have negative long-term affects. Great article.