Like penicillin, quinine, aspirin, and ivermectin, Nattokinase is a naturally occurring molecule of tremendous value for human health and longevity.
The all encompassing influence of the pharmaceutical industry—peddling patented medicines for premium prices—has generally led modern, western man to believe that only compounds originating in a laboratory can have true value for treating acute and chronic disease.
This is an entirely false notion. In fact, eleven percent of the WHO’s list of 252 Essential Medicines were found in flowering plants. As pharmacology professor, Dr. Ciddi Veeresham, noted in his paper Natural products derived from plants as a source of drugs:
Nature, the master of craftsman of molecules created almost an inexhaustible array of molecular entities. It stands as an infinite resource for drug development, novel chemotypes and pharmacophores, and scaffolds for amplification into efficacious drugs for a multitude of disease indications and other valuable bioactive agents.