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12 sats \ 6 replies \ @gmd 5 Jan \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
There are enough competing pharmaceutical companies that would be happy to sell you a cure to undercut their competitors and enrich their stock prices.
Just look at what happened with Hepatitis C. The pharmaceutical companies made tens of billions. This used to be the most feared complication of needle stick injuries in the hospital and we no longer worry about Hep C because it's been cured. It's plenty profitable.
Hep C has been cured? I had no idea.
Most if not all pharm companies have financial assistance programs if insurance doesn't cover their drug and there is no generic equivalent
Big Pharma is greedy but they are not callous either
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Yup, went from incredibly painful, unsuccessful and intolerable interferon treatments to a several week course of pills with pretty much zero side effects. The drug companies were able to get it priced it at the cost of administering and managing side effects of prior unsuccessful treatments, to the tune of ~$1+k/pill.
They were making $10B/year although the market is now shrinking. This all happened in the past ~15 years and was pretty amazing to watch. We pretty much don't think or care about Hep C anymore.
There is plenty of money to be made- problem is finding cures is hard. If you find a cure you can't just sit on it because some other company can do the same eventually and steal your moat and make billions.
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when one cures meat, one prepares it for preservation by drying, salting, etc.
in the case of common inflammatory diseases, the commercially available lab-made drugs are curing the body by suppressing the inflammation, so that the body's natural immunity ignores the toxins and poisons. this is how people end up dependent on the pharmaceuticals - as soon as the "curing substance" is withdrawn, the body starts rotting and reacting again, because the poison is still there.
there shall be more toxins dumped into the ground, the food, the water, and the air, until people beg for a "cure as a service" by subscription. their bodies will be similar to the cured meat; this is a mummification of sorts, but of a living body.
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i have not explored the benefits of the "dry fast" and the rationale behind it. i do think that before one attempts a dry fast, it is probably imperative to flush out as much toxicity as possible from the body thru sweat and urination; that is, drink high-quality water until the urine turns clear (and sweat is not salty maybe?), and stop taking in low-quality foods.
if you are asking specifically about drying food for preservation, i am really interested in dry-freezing foods that my friend is attempting to make with the freeze-dryer machine, which is supposed to produce food with a really long shelf-life and light-weight. a simpler product is something like biltong.