{"id":331710,"date":"2014-06-27T21:06:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T01:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=331710"},"modified":"2021-06-02T08:45:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T12:45:06","slug":"natural-medicine-is-great-but-chemists-can-make-it-even-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/natural-medicine-is-great-but-chemists-can-make-it-even-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural medicine is great, but chemists can make it even better"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\"> Absolutely true! Even &#8220;natural medicine &#8221; is chemical&#8230;. and sometimes with more side effects than &#8221; natural medicine&#8221;. And we must never forget that we have been ourselves created by chemist and biologists&#8230; <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>For years humans have searched for medicines in nature. While some seek \u201cnatural cures\u201d in order to avoid chemicals, in truth everything is made up of chemistry. But as humans, we\u2019re very good at manipulating what we find in nature \u2013 either through intention or accident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Penicillin: the antibiotic game changer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The late American anthropologist George Armelagos showed 30 years ago that the inhabitants of ancient Nubia made their beer by fermenting grain that contained streptomyces bacteria, which produces the antibiotic tetracycline. This in turn led to very low levels of infectious disease in the population.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t until the accidental discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928 and work done by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain in 1940 that led to the treatment of many wounded soldiers in World War II that the story of modern antibiotics really began.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/natural-medicine-is-great-but-chemists-can-make-it-even-better-28362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/10152542547584345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: Absolutely true! Even &#8220;natural medicine &#8221; is chemical&#8230;. and sometimes with more side effects than &#8221; natural medicine&#8221;. And we must never forget that we have been ourselves created by chemist and biologists&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":331711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}