Why not make a cure instead of making pills?

Why not make a cure instead of making pills?

Gee...I can't believe no one has thought of that yet!
(Sorry, you probably can't hear the sarcasm in my voice)Because they wouldn't make any money that way? Drug research is insanely expensive, and when new drugs are created the company that created that drug gets their patent for 10 years before it can even be reverse engineered by other companies.

Like it or not, the biggest jumps in technology and knowledge have come from private capitalist investments and research. You have to let them make there money or there wont be any new, better, drugs.

Besides, while many drugs do require a steady, long term dose, they are simply meant to assist the human body's anti-bodies and immune systems. The body is a runs on multiple intricate chemical balances and when a pill is absorbed into the bloodstream and carried to the target area in the body, that amount of medicine will eventually get used up by the body or cleaned out by the blood's filtering system (the liver.)Because different people respond differently to things.

Any "cures" that have been made for anything will NOT work for everyone because people have different body chemistries. I have to give that answer every day because people don't realize it. It's the same reason that there are so many drugs and so many supplements that do the same general thing (whether it be for the lungs/asthma, allergies, joints/arthritis, etc, etc.).

In a crowd of 1,000 people, you'd be hard pressed to find anything that they will all agree on. They won't all like the same food, music, color, fabric, or anything else you can choose... and they REALLY won't all have the exact same reaction to anything they can ingest. That's just the nature of living beings in general.

Even moreso than that, there are different causes to different problems, which will affect what will "cure"/help that problem. With cholesterol, it could be affected by diet, heredity, environment, amount of exercise, and other factors..... nothing on earth (including lifestyle change) can affect every one of those.

Aside from that, there's also the conspiracy theorists that proclaim that the drug companies have conspired with the doctors and FDA to keep the general population just a little sick so they will always need doctors and drugs. There's also the theories that the government is trying to kill us by keeping us on drugs and away from natural health products.

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