Why Chemically Alter a Human Hormone?
The drug company hires chemists to alter the structure of human hormones in the laboratory so the drug company can obtain a patent on the new chemical structure, which is a new drug. This alteration is required in order for the drug company to obtain a patent which gives exclusive marketing rights to the drug company. The patent is necessary to protects profits. Because of a quirk in our patent laws, only chemically altered substances can be patented. Natural substances like human hormones cannot be patented, and are therefore generally not as profitable to manufacture. Above Left Image: Boris Karlof in Frankenstein 1931 Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Chemically Altered Hormones are Monster Hormones Hormones fit onto their receptors just like a “lock and key”, so any slight alteration of their chemical structure creates a “monster hormone” These resulting “monster hormones” are never found in the human body or anywhere else in nature. The reality is that these synthetically altered mon
