Scientists make common pain killers from pine trees instead of crude oil

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Scientists make common pain killers from pine trees instead of crude oil - SLRPNK

Lemmy

That’s cool. Can’t wait for that vegan carfent recipe 💅
I’m significantly allergic to pine. I wonder if this means I would no longer be able to take these medications if industry switched to this method.

This has been one of the advantages of petroleum: the ability to make the same or similar product without concerns like this. Latex, for example.

It looks like this specific process has a lot more going on compared to latex but your question is valid and would need to be addressed.

It’s very unlikely that you would experience any problems. Drug synthesis such as this involves multiple reaction steps, precipitations, washes, and filtrations to produce the final purified active compound. If they’re creating acetaminophen, that final product is going to be pretty much pure acetaminophen with only trace amounts of impurities. Not enough to cause issues.

Not enough to cause issues.

You don’t much understand these kinds of issues.

Crazy how most medicine is made from oil…
It’s just a great starting point chemical to make lots of things

Literally an entire industry created by the Rockefellers.

Good documentary on this: corbettreport.com/rockefeller-medicine-video/

We use oil for medicine because of the oil industry.

Rockefeller Medicine (video) | The Corbett Report

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