Nutrient Pharmacology is dedicated to staying abreast of all new medical innovations and how it may influence the lives of patients, as well as the continued viability of pharmaceutical and/or medical companies as they are inextricably intertwined.
This is an especially exciting time in the world of drug development as companies finally start to embrace different methodologies. This may include sourcing drugs from previously unheard of origins. For example, they now have researchers in the jungles of South America studying poisonous plants or venomous snakes as they realize that these toxins can be diluted and combined with other elements to create groundbreaking medications.
This same line of thinking has now been applied to botanical ingredients. The pharmaceutical industry has not only been resistant to anything that has a plant-based origin, but dismissed evidence that clearly indicated the unique blend of efficacy and lack of side effects could actually be superior to synthetic drugs. It appears they now recall that the first antibiotics were accidentally discovered when someone left some cheese on a counter to the point that it became moldy.
Much of the current research and development is now done in smaller biotech firms and they are employing an “all hands on deck” strategy. The ultimate benefit to patients is that science has always benefited from “out of the box” thinking as a component of innovations.
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