Why are there no “perfect drugs” that work well without side effects?

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It seems like the more potent a drug/medication is, the more risks are involved with it, where as drugs with very little risk don’t help nearly as much.

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The body is a very complicated machine. It is constantly self-adjusting. Drugs are like taking a 9lb hammer and banging on something — it’ll fix that one thing but it throws off other connected things (and things are not always connected in immediately logical ways). The drugs tend not to absorb at a steady rate (taking a pill for example) vs the gradual ebb and flow of bodily functions, so also throws off the machine.

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