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| Pharmaceutical companies can make no profit from herbs which humans have historically consumed. Instead, they create new molecules. They have a hard time creating molecules that affect only the system they want to affect, therefore there are inevitably side effects. | Pharmaceutical companies can make no profit from herbs which humans have historically consumed. Instead, they create new molecules. They have a hard time creating molecules that affect only the system they want to affect, therefore there are inevitably side effects. | ||
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| - | Nature, evolution, has done a better job at creating beneficial molecules. All life is based on DNA, and molecules that are beneficial in one organism are likely to be beneficial for other organisms, which is why they consume each other for nutrients (not just for energy). | + | Nature, evolution, has done a better job at choosing which molecules are beneficial. All life is based on DNA, and molecules that are beneficial in one organism are likely to be beneficial for other organisms, which is why they consume each other for nutrients (not just for energy). |
| - | The odds that a pharmaceutical will have long term deleterious consequences are higher, if only because the molecule in question was not selected by nature for DNA based life forms. An allergic reaction can always be dangerous, but in the case of a pharmaceutical, the immune system can be challenged in a way in which evolution has no bearing. You could be messing with your immune system by creating an allergic reaction to a molecule that has never been in use by any organism. | + | The odds that a pharmaceutical will have long term deleterious consequences are higher, if only because the molecule in question was not selected by nature for DNA based life forms. An allergic reaction can always be dangerous, but in the case of a pharmaceutical, the immune system can be challenged in a way in which evolution has no bearing. |
| " Our lack of understanding of the global interactions between pharmaceuticals and the immune system confounds drug development, conceals potentially serious side effects of marketed compounds " [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706827 |source]] | " Our lack of understanding of the global interactions between pharmaceuticals and the immune system confounds drug development, conceals potentially serious side effects of marketed compounds " [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706827 |source]] | ||
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