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Comments

Re: Weird things you judge people for?

[(Anonymous)]

Things that are called "medicine" are things that have had three stages of clinical trials, at least in the US. If you have a therapy that's unpatentable because it's naturally occurring, it's generally not possible to fund a clinical trial. "Medicine" is a business. "Medicine" is what drug reps can talk doctors into prescribing. Not that doctors don't do their best - they do - but the therapy of the day is likely something that is making a ton of money for a drug company.

Though to be honest, the fact that you seem to think "synergy" is something that can be measured empirically instead of some abstract concept is rather suspicious

That's putting words into my mouth - I don't think that synergy is necessarily emprically measured, but I do believe many compounds work better in the natural form. Vitamin C, for instance. There is such a thing as synergy; even your Western doctors will recommend things like taking Vitamin D along with something fatty to make it absorb better.

that are good only in controlled doses

What makes you think that natural compounds can't be or aren't made available in controlled doses?

Re: Weird things you judge people for?

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, the Big Pharm conspiracy theory. It's true that market forces drive pharmacy, but you know, I don't think the world is missing out on natural miracle cures for anything because Big Pharm is trying to keep it out of the peoples' hands.

I'm sorry, but the whole "losing synergy" thing still sounds very woo-woo. We have tests to measure the efficacy of medication. While most doctors agree that getting all your necessary vitamins from a well rounded diet is better than taking pills, that's a long step from saying that this is the case for everything derived from a natural source.

The natural compounds currently on the market in the U.S. purport to be controlled doses, but this isn't necessarily the case. There is no FDA testing to ensure that a pill that says it's 50mg of ______ is actually 50mg of ______. Natural substances and the amount of [insert designed substance] is difficult to predict because it's all dependent upon environmental factors. You'd have to test, re-test and mix each batch to be sure you're getting the same thing, every single time... which is important in many medications. It can be done, but it'd be very work intensive and very expensive. Which is why people started synthesizing drugs instead of relying solely upon natural remedies.

Uh... it's important to control the dosage of asprin as well. Reducing the acidity is certainly a bonus, but knowing how much of it you're actually ingesting is really, really important.