Introduction to supramolecular medicine

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Supramolecular and Molecular Medicine
September 13, 2022
I am going to explain supramolecular medicine to you here. To explain supramolecular medicine, let me first discuss classical medicine, which is another name for molecular medicine. To understand better, what do we mean when we say molecular medicine? Consider a person suffering from diabetes or high blood sugar, certainly in classical medicine or molecular medicine, they seek to increase the glucose molecule as blood sugar when it is determined that a person has high blood sugar for treatment with medicine. A chemical medication called metformin is used, which has a molecular structure. By taking metformin, the patient's high blood sugar decreases and improves. Therefore, what we deal with in classical medicine is biochemistry and chemistry. Biochemistry and chemistry talk about molecules, so classical medicine is also called molecular medicine because it deals with chemical molecules. When we talk about supramolecular medicine, we use the term supramolecular. The supramolecular medicine is based on supramolecular chemistry, in molecular medicine or classical medicine, they talk based on the structure of molecules, and perform diagnostic measures and therapeutic measures based on it, but supramolecular medicine, which is dependent on supramolecular chemistry, uses the space around the molecule instead of the molecule itself, the forces and information that exist around the molecular structure. For me to be able to explain this matter better, let's have a review about sugar and candy(Nabat), which means that when we use sugar, we bring glucose molecules into our body, and when we use candy (Nabat) we introduce the same molecules into our body. But one thing has happened and that is that to prepare Nabat, glucose molecules are subjected to high heat, and after that Nabat is prepared in several stages. Molecularly, there is no difference between sugar and Nabat, but when you use sugar, compared to when you use Nabat, you notice that when you use Nabat, your body temperature rises, even though these two molecular structures are Equal. Where is the difference? In the supramolecular space. The heat that we talked about is used during the preparation of Nabat, it is placed exactly in the space around the glucose molecule, and the person who eats the Nabat feels warm. There is an old example that says grandmothers, when anyone has a problem, so to speak, they say they have a cold, they immediately prescribe to use boiling water and Nabat in Persian culture. Why? Because they used this supramolecular property of the glucose molecule, so you can see that there is no difference in terms of the molecular structure, but there are properties, there is information in the space around the molecules, intermolecular forces, and things like that that give certain characteristics to that molecule. In supramolecular medicine, we deal with these special features that in the field of disease diagnosis, we use the properties or supramolecular characteristics of the molecules of the patient's body, and we also use supramolecular drugs in the treatment, drugs that contain information about the space around the molecules, in this way, supramolecular medicine, which is a type of integrated medicine that more explanations will be provided in the future. It works based on supramolecular chemistry, and the topic of supramolecular chemistry is intermolecular forces or molecular information that is in the space around molecules.

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