Glucagon-like peptide-1 agonism - GLP-1, common in obesity medicines - is not essential to weight management, according to preclinical research led by Richard DiMarchi and Matthias Tschöp, with funding from their startup company Bluewater Biosciences.
I forget the exact statistic, but it’s like a spoonful of botulism toxin can kill millions of people. It really is potent.
But the difference between poison/toxin and medicine is often just dosage. There are myriad, countless medicines to discover in toxins. The toxin of an animal for instance a snake, is not one toxin, it’s hundreds, each with individual action.
There is a reason the ancient greek symbol for medicine has two snakes on it. Anyway here’s an old article on it in case anyone is interested.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-harnessing-the-powers-of-venom-could-lead-to-new-medicines
*This is not the article I originally read as that was easily ten years prior but search engines and enshitified and have decided this is the closest they will give me.
There’s only one snake on the medicine symbol. The two snake version is the one that represents Hermes. Everything else you said is correct though
Yes but these same people are often scrutinizing vaccine ingredient lists.