{"id":26989,"date":"2024-01-03T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=26989"},"modified":"2024-01-02T22:21:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T03:21:39","slug":"selling-the-magic-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/03\/selling-the-magic-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling the Magic Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not satisfied with inventing a diabetes drug that makes healthy women lose a little weight, the pharma companies are now looking for a drug that mimics the benefits of exercise<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Various approaches are being pursued.\u00a0 One hormone that has shown promise is irisin.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2012, scientists discovered a hormone called irisin that is released by muscles during exercise \u2013 a messenger chemical that communicates with various parts of the body. In November 2023, Wrann and her colleagues demonstrated that irisin can reach the brain and clear the toxic amyloid plaques involved in Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a big breakthrough in understanding how exercise helps shield the brain from dementia.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is also believed to modulate bone growth and density and prevent loss of muscle mass.<\/p>\n

But of course, why take a careful, reasonable subject for pharmaceutical investigation when instead you can just go Vlad the Impaler<\/strong> on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause scientists are still unsure which exercise hormones are the most beneficial, the ExPlas trial is taking a broad approach. Injecting blood plasma from people who exercise regularly is a simple way of transferring all these potentially beneficial hormones to patients. \u201cThe Norwegian idea is to take the plasma as the drug and give it to those who need it,\u201d says Wrann.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, sure.\u00a0 Let\u2019s drain the blood out of the young and use it to keep the centenarians alive forever.\u00a0 I can just see it.\u00a0 Nancy Pelosi spends some fraction of her hundreds of millions of dollars of ill-gotten insider trading gains to have the blood of virgins pumped into her.\u00a0 While she\u2019s at it why not give her a skin transplant from some poor young woman who \u201caccidentally\u201d dies while participating in a beauty contest on Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s Fantasy Island now under new CIA-mediated management.<\/p>\n

I think we\u2019ve reached terminal stupid.\u00a0 And I say this as one of the dumbest people I know.\u00a0 All these physiological and metabolic studies keep demonstrating that doing natural things like getting enough sleep and exercising moderately or even just taking a walk produce all these incredible benefits that surpass by orders of magnitude the benefits of all these pharmaceuticals and without the side effects.\u00a0 They pump people, even children, with psycho-active drugs to combat the depression that is caused by the horrible lifestyles we\u2019ve created but don\u2019t care that the drugs make people zombies.<\/p>\n

We sit around watching tiny screens and don\u2019t talk to each other or walk with each other and certainly don\u2019t go out and play sports or even get together for a meal.\u00a0 At least going to the gym or your basement and doing some calisthenics and going for a walk in a park three times a week won\u2019t have the side effect of increasing your desire to commit suicide.<\/p>\n

The FDA is a rogue government agency.\u00a0 Instead of policing the pharma companies it is their co-conspirator.\u00a0 A new agency needs to be created with the mandate to review the drug safety and efficacy records for the last fifty years and eliminate all of the really harmful medicines that exist.\u00a0 And while they\u2019re at it they could contract out studies with teaching hospitals to test out non-pharmaceutical regimens for various medical conditions.\u00a0 And they could concentrate on the effects of diet and exercise on human beings.\u00a0 The AMA should also be forced to police its membership who should spend some reasonable amount of their busy day convincing their patients to get off their fat butts and stagger around the office park at lunch hour instead of going down to Taco Bell for another three thousand calorie lunch.<\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m twice as guilty as the next guy.\u00a0 But I at least admit it\u2019s my own damn fault.\u00a0 And I have it from the highest sources in the pharma industry that many of the miracle drugs that are supposed to counteract the ravages of our diet and exercise malpractice do more harm than good.<\/p>\n

If the smart boys in the labs ever did figure out a pill that kept us young and fit forever without horrific side effects, I\u2019d be the first one in line to get my dose.\u00a0 But they won\u2019t.\u00a0 That\u2019s not how the universe works.\u00a0 Things like the endocrine and immune systems in our bodies are so much more complex than what we\u2019ve so far deciphered and each component mediates so many separate responses that the tinkering that biologists and pharmacologists do is closer to voodoo than science.\u00a0 Maybe after artificial intelligence has had a century to stew in human biology, we might see some progress.\u00a0 But all of us will be long gone.\u00a0 So, get out the weights and put down the chimichanga and forget about the magic bullet.<\/p>\n

The baby boomers want to be young and cool forever.\u00a0 Their time is running out.\u00a0 What they should be doing is figuring out how to exit with at least a little bit of class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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