Why aren’t here any drugs that fix the targeted issue but have no risk of creating new issues elsewhere?
In: Biology
If the human body was designed to be treatable with medicine, drugs wouldn’t have side effects.
But it’s not designed, it just happened. Medicine is basically us trying to “hack” our extremely complicated bodies.
When you fix the brakes on your car, you can easily replace the brake pads and calipers without any “side effect” damage to other parts of it. This is because the car was designed specifically so the brakes, a known weak point, are easily repaired without “side effects”. It’s easy to do that when you’re designing the thing so it’s repairable in the first place.
But your body wasn’t built, it evolved through millions of survival-reinforced accidents, and any ability it has to repair itself also came from that process. No design, so not easily repairable.
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