Hypertension: Is It Time to Replace Drugs with Nutrition? (2014)

Re:Hypertension: Is It Time to Replace Drugs with Nutrition?... by Turing_Machine on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:03PM (#30307553)

Natural compounds can be patented, though.

If you discover that, say, eating cocktail onions cures cancer, you're allowed to patent that. Cocktail onions as such wouldn't be patentable, but using them to cure cancer would be.

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Re:Hypertension: Is It Time to Replace Drugs with Nutrition?... by ls15 on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:11PM (#30307621)

> Cocktail onions as such wouldn't be patentable, but using them to cure cancer would be.

In the sense that a person with cancer could be sued for eating unlicensed cocktail onions?

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Re:Hypertension: Is It Time to Replace Drugs with Nutrition?... by Turing_Machine on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:44PM (#30308396)

Technically, yes. In practice, very unlikely...but you'd almost certainly be sued for selling "ls15's Anti-Cancer Cocktail Onions".

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Re:Hypertension: Is It Time to Replace Drugs with Nutrition?... by ls15 on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:07PM (#30308593)

I'd be sued for that regardless of its efficacy.

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