Indeed, it has become typical within the so-called nutraceutical industry to mimic the pharmaceutical model, which focuses on identifying a single chemical substance within the complexity represented by each botanical agent, striving to standardize the action of each “active ingredient” in each use as if it were a chemical molecule from a pharmacy. Extraction and isolation processes also generate patents. This is what manufacturers want to differentiate their product from all others and thereby capture a larger share of the market, a value that serves the manufacturer but not the consumer/patient.
The truth is, there is no magic formula in foods and plants that can replicate the healing power of the entire plant. In fact, in most foods and medicinal plants, there are hundreds of compounds orchestrated by the intelligent hand of the Creator or Nature, or whatever you want to call it, and these compounds can never be reduced to the activity of a single, isolated, quantifiable phytonutrient or chemical molecule.
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