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• The drug arrives in a foil pouch, not a refrigerated
box.
• It’s stable for months, not days.
• It can be grown and packaged locally.

The logistics monopoly starts to dissolve.

In its place, new models emerge:

• Local health centers act as direct distribution points.
• Pharmacies retool as therapeutic education and
monitoring stations.
• Even community gardens or micro-farms become
production and access points for basic biologics.

Instead of centralization and control, we see flexibility and
proximity.

The Throughline: From Complexity to Commonsense

The disintermediation of these three pillars doesn’t mean
chaos—it means reconfiguration.

• Doctors don’t vanish—they become guides in a less
procedural system.
• Clinics don’t collapse—they evolve into support
hubs grounded in outcome-driven care.
• Pharmacies don’t die—they become nodes in a
distributed network, curating care instead of
bottling it.

The edible biologics movement is a rare moment in
medicine where delivery, access, and ethics align. But for
that alignment to take root, these institutions must let go of

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