Radar investigates antidepressant drug of Giel Beelen

Radar investigates antidepressant drug of Giel Beelen:

NPO Radio 2 deejay Giel Beelen was monday on the TV program Radar the talk of the day. Beelen has been selling small bottles of 39.99 euros with drops 'to open your heart' for a while now. According to Radar, who spent no less than 12 minutes on Giel Beelen's antidepressant drug, it is dangerous junk.

Radar onderzoekt antidepressiva middel van Giel Beelen Radar has asked a number of pharmacologists about the antidepressant drug that does not contain a leaflet and of which all side effects are not known.

Giel Beelen,  radio maker of BnnVara, sells the drug Shambala through a webshop of his own spiritual platform Kukuru. According to Radar, the drug shambhala contains 50% percent alcohol, water, caapi and bobinsana, but in unknown proportions. Fons Hendriks of Radar could not find out what exactly is in the Shambala bottles of Beelen.

Ticking time bomb
Experts say in Radar that it can also be very dangerous. Thomas Dorlo, pharmacologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, agrees that this product is 'a ticking time bomb'. It could cause serotonin shock in humans, a poisoning with serotonin.

Radar onderzoekt antidepressiva middel van Giel Beelen

Professor Renger Witkamp says: "Bobinsana and caapi are the popular names. Potentially, this combination is dangerous, because your brain derails, as it were. If it were up to me, you would have to ban such a product. Perhaps accidents should happen first. I would say: don't buy this, because this is money-out-of-pocket-beating."

The panacea Shambala is banned in several countries, but in the Netherlands it is still freely available. It doesn't matter to Giel Beelen, he just keeps selling it. Beelen and his business partner Jesse van der Velde of Superfoodies could not say what exactly is in the drug.

Beelen strongly disagrees with the scientists: "I find it a bit embarrassing that I have to be the one who has to say: 'Hello, Mr. Scientist, you are just getting two things mixed up.' Because that cheese effect you're talking about isn't with this MAO inhibitor."

Radar reporter Fons: "You don't have a scientific background and I assume those pharmacologists know what they're talking about." Giel: "I don't think so." [RadioWereld.NL]
Photo: Still Radar

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