Wow, I don't know exactly where to begin because I have opposing opinions about this article. On one hand, I am so happy to know there are more nutrients we can be getting from the sea. Both preventative and healing for such things like cancer. But it also freaks me out that humans are going for this "untapped" territory, for many reasons.
One, we have destroyed so many eco systems by now and are experiencing only the beginning of the entropy it's causing. Humans will probably do the same thing to the ocean floors and deplete that environment as well. The ocean is home to so many billions of living things and we tend to go into unmarked territory, claim it as our own and ruin it. How is this ok? I know it's great to save lives and if one of my family members could receive medicine that would help with their sickness of course I'd want it, but where are our limits in how much we take? What are our regulations with how we go about extracting these things.
Secondly, because of patents, people are taking these incredible nutrients and messing with their chemical make up so they can "invent" the medicine and get the credit for it. The problem with this is that, as us TCM students know, whenever you take some thing from it's natural environment and then mess with it you lose the natural balance of that thing. This causes many side effects and our body systems weren't meant for nutrients that have been chemically modified.
It's also frightening that he mentions how antibiotics saved millions of lives, and he hopes to find the new penicillin, but our generation is now dealing with the HUGE set backs that antibiotics has caused us. So many people are suffering from disease in epidemic proportions that can be traced back to the introduction of antibiotics in our body. So not only are we depleting from the ocean and rewiring the things we find, but we're also posing a threat for generations to come.
Sometimes it's so hard for me to accept that humans can't just leave stuff alone.
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