Synopsis
For 30 years, trial attorney Terence Mix went to war with the manufacturer of the world’s most popular fertility drug, and what he uncovered should terrify every woman who has ever been handed a prescription for Clomid.
This is not speculation. This is the sworn testimony, the buried studies, the confidential memos, and the smoking-gun documents Mix pried loose from courtrooms and corporate vaults over three decades of litigation against Richardson-Merrell.
“Not only did I find the gun, I have also found the bullets, fingerprints, names of accomplices and a long list of motives.”
What he reveals will shake your faith in the system built to protect you.
A drug given to millions of women to induce ovulation is the chemical cousin of Triparanol, a cholesterol inhibitor Merrell was forced to yank from the market in 1962 after it blinded hundreds. Clomid works by the same biological mechanism. It starves the developing embryo of the cholesterol it needs to build a brain, a spine, a heart, a limb.
“Clomid interferes with the body’s ability to synthesize cholesterol. Though not as potent, clomiphene citrate is a cholesterol inhibitor, just like its cousin, Triparanol.”
Mix walks you through the Mix Hypothesis Clomid birth defects step by step. The estrogen-pH-chromosome theory, the Sonic Hedgehog signaling pathway cholesterol disruption, and the population studies linking Clomid to neural tube defects, Down syndrome, hypospadias, and limb reduction deformities. Evidence the FDA has seen, confirmed, and then quietly shelved.
“The FDA of the 1990s and today is not the same entity that saved us from thalidomide. Not even close. The pharmaceutical industry is now running the show.”
And the warning label? Stripped. Softened. Delayed for decades. Even when draft warnings were approved in 1981, they were buried for over 12 years while women kept conceiving, kept miscarrying, kept delivering babies with devastating defects.
“If positive epidemiology studies are not ‘causative evidence,’ then what is?”
This book is the case file. The exhibits, the trial transcripts, the science, the cover-up, and a dietary cholesterol supplementation pregnancy solution that could prevent the tragedy entirely.
If you are taking Clomid, considering it, or prescribing it, read this before the next dose.
Awards & Recognition
The Price of Ovulation received the Gold Medal from the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), Silver from the 2009 Nautilus Book Awards, Silver from Foreword Magazine’s 2010 Book of the Year Awards, and was a three-time Finalist at the 2008 National Best Books Awards.