Patents on biological sciences – impact of synthetics vs. naturals

Unlike its synthetic counterpart, #natural #levodopa is not inherently toxic because whatever impurities in it have already been experienced by humans for millions of years or at least millennia. This issue, existent for at least several decades now, has not been resolved, making our ‘modern scientific’ drug therapy using mostly synthetics NOT scientific. The main reason is that after we have subjected our synthetic chemical to extensive scientific testing (in vitro, in vivo, small animals, & clinical trials in humans, etc.) supposedly to make sure the new drug is proven ‘safe and effective’, we then approve it and release it for general use in patients. However, from this point onward, it is nothing but going through the same process used by our ancestors in developing traditional (herbal) medicines – trial and error! All the new scientific testing is for naught. Yet few of us scientists realize it up to this day. The modus operandi (M.O.) of our scientific research seems to simply keep digging deeper and more holes (i.e., producing specializations), often losing ourselves in our highly specialized fields and forgetting our original purpose to make our body and soul (mind) healthy again. With an entity like our extremely complex body as the key part that contains millions (even billions) of unique chemicals and cells, how do we bring our research in all the parts together and normalize to make our body function well as a whole again, as our Creator has intended? I believe our future being able to do this peacefully will lie in our ability to somehow make use of cosmic elements like light, magnetic waves, and others. In Chinese medicine, we have been talking about chi/qi for millennia even though we don’t know what it exactly is. But there are signs of its being used, as in #qi gong. I am sure other cultures, like ayurveda, also have this qi counterpart. Yet advanced science is like a newborn baby in a grownup world. Why? Because most of us modern drug scientists do not think outside the box but rather hold onto some narrow-minded biase or are ignorant.

Here are my thoughts on the issue of synthetics vs. naturals. #Professionals of #modern medicine and #traditional #medicine need to be #less #critical #of #one #another, because each group is not what it seems. While modern-medicine researchers continue to demand #precision, there is no such thing when our #extremely #complex #body (containing countless chemicals, cells, and other living entities) #is #involved. I have repeatedly brought this up over recent years. Thus, with traditional medicine, it is mainly mumbo jumbo as #understood and #described #by #drug #consultants, at least during the previous 3 decades. Most of them must have #died or prematurely turned #illucid, because I don’t hear this kind of denigrative talk anymore about herbal/traditional medicine during the past 10-20 years.

I believe it’s now time to rethink our opinions against those of the other group, #ignoring their #uncorrectable #elements and start bringing the #best #of #both #therapeutic #systems to benefit our fellow humans. If not, just ingestible synthetic chemicals (e.g., drugs & additives, excluding non-ingestibles) will ruin our environment and health in no time. Without good health and a decent environment, life is not worth living. Please ponder these for the sake of your grandchildren and theirs, especially if you are in the 1% of our world population that holds the world’s money and hence power.

Briefly, the weak point in our modern drug therapy should help motivate the introduction of appropriate traditional medicines that lack modern ‘scientific’ evidence but have plenty of human trial-and-true experience and wisdom. For those few who have had the pleasure/experience of using some #traditional #Chinese #formulas for #colds and #flus or other #common #ailments (e.g., #facial #eruptions & #canker #sores), there are some safe and effective formulas commonly used in Hong Kong and nearby Asian countries that can be immediately introduced here. Some may already be here as #herbal #supplements. Unfortunately, after the DSHEA was passed in 1994, we have never handled the herbal products properly, because right from the start the industry members have been treating them as if they were drug products. Consequently, no 2 herbal supplements with the exact same labeled herbs are the same, unless they are produced by the same manufacturer. Because the technical experts in charge only see some of the chemicals in herbal or traditional medicines.

I am still confident that I will find a #computer #savvy #partner to write a program to tie the partners (producers, analyzers, researchers, users & others) in our #PBN #Naturals #Consortium together, so that we can begin #inviting #investors. Under my guidance, our #Worldwide #Consortium will be able to #greatly #improve the #mess of #current #herbal #supplements, starting with PNB naturals (#psilocybin, #baeocystin, #norbaeocystin, & others).

Here are the topics I want to address/readdress in the #next #few #posts:

#Vicious #cycle of #synthetic #drug #therapy
#Patents #on #biological #sciences – impact of #synthetics vs. #naturals
#Human #greed

#Vicious #cycle(#VC) of #synthetic #drug #therapy.
This exists only when using #synthetic #chemicals as I have often explained. Being produced mainly from #toxic #petrochemicals, they are #brand-#new #to #our #planet. Our human species have no more than #150 #years of #experience with them, a mere #grain #of #sand #on #a #sandy #beach if we want to compare #our #experience #with #synthetics #to #that #with #natural #therapeutic #remedies (#herbs & other #natural #materials). Hence, they are #inherently #toxic, not just the chemicals themselves, but their #impurities. The latter often escape our attention, as the #drug-#identity-#and-#quality ‘bibles’ (aka #Pharmacopoeias) do not deal with these impurities. They simply allow a small percentage (like 1%, 2%, or more) in the drugs and consider them pure. Even after we have made major advances during the past several decades in analyzing and detecting minute chemical materials (nano, pico, & smaller), the standards of purity among scientists (esp. analytical chemists) still go by these #pharmacopoeial #standards. And the general #axiom still holds – a #synthetic #chemical #is #the #same #as a #natural #one if they both have the #same #chemical #structure and are #pure. But how pure? No one seems to know or care.

Here is an example I have thought about for years and already described elsewhere. #Lysergic #acid #diethylamide (#LSD) is up to 200x stronger acting than #psilocybin. What if someone just mixes 1mg (1,000mcg) LSD with 99mg (99,000mcg) synthetic psilocybin. A person taking 20mg of this mixture believing it to be pure psilocybin would experience double the effects of psilocybin. Or worse, if he puts 1mg of LSD in 99mg of #corn #starch and labels it ‘psilocybin’ and some person taking a dose of 20mg of this ‘psilocybin’ would basically take in #200mcg of #LSD, a #regular #psychedelic #dose. Has this ever happened during the past 25-30 years #in #research or #practice? If so, what kind of science is that? Just the thought of this scenario happening should warn us that something is not right with our #life #sciences using #synthetic #psychedelics in therapy. This also casts doubt on the quality of our synthetic therapeutics (e.g., psilocybin) on the market, no matter how much money is spent by some companies promoting them with fancy rhetoric. So, beware of these companies; their greed accelerates the decline of our health!

The difference between synthetic drug therapy and natural traditional medicines – we can do something about them

There are obvious #problems in #modern #drug #therapy using #synthetic #chemicals. No one seems to notice the #innately #toxic #impurities present in these #brand-#new #chemicals that are mostly made from toxic petroleum. Our #pharmacopoeias allow some impurities (1%-2% or higher) to be present, assuming them to be nontoxic. Among tens or more thousands of synthetic chemicals now ingested daily by us after modern #scientific #testing (in vitro, in vivo, in small animals, then in humans via #clinical #trials) followed by approval and release for human use. This last step is the same #trial-#and-#error process used by our ancestors in developing our medicines. Isn’t it ironic we have spent over a century after our synthetic era began, trying to develop a #modern #scientific #process, but end up with the #same #one #our #ancestors #used?
During the past decades, we have developed a huge industry that recently came up with a #self-#generating and #self-#perpetuating #income-#producing #process, that #benefits #only #drug #makers and their #interdependent #associates (#promoters, #advertisers, #crooked #politicians, and others), which I call #vicious #cycle (#VC). Thus, the more toxic a chemical the more #side #effects and #new #diseases it causes that #require #more #new #drugs to treat, hence the VC ad infinitum.

In contrast, our #herbal and #traditional #medicines were developed by the #trial-#and-#error process eons ago. Some of these are #well #documented, e.g., #Chinese #herbs/ #traditional #medicines and #Ayurvedic #medicines (at least before the latter were polluted by the British Empire’s rule of India for two centuries). These medicines have thousands of years of #human #experience and #wisdom. I can only speak for #Chinese #herbs and #formulas widely used in #China and in #southeast #Asia. I have grown up with them, along with my #training and #experience #in #modern #chemical #drugs and #additives. The following is my opinion and plan for making the most of the two systems, with whatever the best of the two that is readily available.

The #major #differences #between the #two #healing #systems (#synthetic vs. #natural) are: #modern #drug #therapy tries to bring the #unknown #inherently #toxic #elements of #brand-#new #synthetics up to at most past the present. The rest will be #for #our #posterity #to #experience and #judge.

My plan is to hold off some #synthetics for now, whenever possible, and start bringing the natural therapeutics to complement those that have #natural #counterparts available. Since there are not yet any feasible ways to bring the right naturals to market because there are no #meaningful #identity and #quality #standards available yet. The simplest way is to test (by #TLC/ #HPTLC) the #suspicious #products on the market #alongside the #decent/ #genuine ones #already #present for #generations. If found obviously deficient, those #imitations would be #eliminated.
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