This question came about as my wife has just started a course of steroids to treat her Crohn’s Disease. They work amazingly well, amazingly quickly… But they are only a temporary solution as they have a range of significant side effects such as thinning of the bones, insomnia, etc…
Steroids are “old” in medical terms – why haven’t we managed to remove the side effects yet?
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The biochemistry of the human body is beyond enormously complex. Worse yet, different people may have slightly different biochemical pathways for a given reaction. A friend doesn’t respond at all to opiates, another is hypersensitive to them. Ditto for lots of other reactions.
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