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Editorial: Molecules are molecules

Opinion - Editorial

Many people trust "drugs" and distrust "nutritional supplements" (while they also ignore the effects of the "food" they put down their throats). But everything in the material world is made of molecules - Viagra, Vitamin C, BMWs, bowling balls, water, salt... and you - for example. Why should the molecules in food and natural supplements be treated as somehow less "real" and more unimportant than prescription drugs?

Tens of billions of dollars are spent every year to convince us that the molecules in prescription drugs are always somehow more special. Many are very useful. Life-enhancing - or even life-saving. But you'd certainly die in time if you had no source Vitamin C in your diet. You'd lose your sight without a source of Vitamin A. Your body is a biochemical machine requiring raw materials. Molecules are the raw materials.

There is an economic reason why drugs are advertized and expensive and so many supplements are not. Drugs are patented, regulated by the government, and prescribed by doctors. Most supplements are not.

But this is not the standard worldwide. In many countries, supplements require a prescription. Because they work.

Funny how people compartmentalize and label. Because molecules are molecules.

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