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More logic please!
This graphic may surprise you, although factual. Learning this lit up a lightbulb for me.
Here’s an insight I gleaned, thanks to taking graduate nutrition courses. To be clear, as a former critical care nurse, I acknowledge that pharma has its place in medicine - mostly in hospitals. For chronic illness, plant medicine is often more effective and less potentially harmful. I’ve written half a dozen evidence based articles citing ”harm reduction” resulting from whole plant cannabis replacing pharmaceuticals for a variety of chronic illnesses.
Here’s why! The real advantage to whole plant herbal medicine - containing dozens or even hundreds of ingredients - is the presence of nutrient cofactors that are produced along side the active ingredient, as a natural inclusion in the plant material.
These are considered “extraneous” ingredients and stripped by pharmaceuticalization, without acknowledgement that they serve as important nutrient cofactors - needed for the isolated active ingredient to work properly.
The plants wisely grow these nutrient cofactors along with the active ingredients, for improved therapeutic synergy. Upon taking pharma isolates, the necessary nutrient cofactors are pulled from body stores, and cause nutrient deficiencies (aka pharma side effects!).
Of course, when pharma side effects are reported to the prescribing physician, they stack pharna to address the side effects, compounding nutrient deficiencies - instead of simply supplementing the depletion. Make it make sense!
Driving this issue is the fact that plant matter can’t be patented - aka profits monopolized - so our current for profit healthcare model actually incentivizes inferior medical practices.
The research agrees:
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