I Genetically Engineered *MYSELF* to Fix Lactose Intolerance

Interesting is understatement, it's a channel which is one of the closer ones to hard science on the hard science - pop science spectrum and still having more than a million subscribers. Some outstanding videos IMHO: The channel owner applies himself a gene therapy to fix his lactose intolerance. [this video] How exactly the Covid Tests work: [link] Growing Human Neurons Connected to a Computer [link] Especially the Covid test video was eye opening against the conspiracy theorist propaganda during the pandemic because knowing how tests actually work on practical level makes you see through the claims effort free.

If I understand correctly the problem is that if you go to one of their labs they'll cook you a batch in no time (we know the genes, you can order a plasmid that has all the bells and whistles needed to get it made in yeast), but it'd be illegal for many reasons. (They can't sell it without FDA approval for one, they'd need an approved factory for that, and they are infringing on patents.) They obviously can't advertise this, but in videos they almost literally spell this out. So they do this strange outreach instead, with no clear steps in sight. Plus as others mentioned it's easy to buy insulin. ($25 at Walmart.) About how easy it is to make recombinant insulin I recommend this channel: [this video]

> I agree with that evaluation, but I also think mavericks should be allowed to try curing their own colorblindness (assuming they had informed consent and paid for the therapy themselves). I mean, what's stopping you? This guy cured his own lactose intolerance: [this video] But I'm guessing — in part because you say "paid for the therapy" — that you don't really mean "should be allowed to cure their own colorblindness"; but rather "should be allowed to buy a colorblindness treatment from a vendor of such" or maybe "should be allowed to request a prescription of a colorblindness treatment from a doctor who acquires it from a vendor of such." And you're already also allowed to do that — in theory. The FDA doesn't care about people buying medical treatments. It cares about companies selling them. Because companies are profit-focused, and the quickest way to money in medicine is to lie. For you to be able to get what you want, there'd have to be an intermediate category that stops just shy of the current "FDA-approved medical therapy" category. For a treatment to qualify for this category, it would still have to pass both safety and efficacy studies. The only thing that would be different, is that the FDA wouldn't weigh the safety vs. the efficacy of the treatment at the end; but instead just put an absolute minimum threshold on both safety and efficacy, and leave the prescriber to determine whether the safety risk outweighs the efficacy. But think about that word "prescriber." This