  Heavy hadron molecules were first theorized from a crude analogy with the
deuteron and the nuclear forces binding it, a conjecture which was proven to be
on the right track after the discovery of the $X(3872)$. However, this analogy
with nuclear physics has not been seriously exploited beyond a few calculations
in the two- and three-body sectors, leaving a great number of possible
theoretical consequences unexplored. Here we show that nuclear and heavy hadron
effective field theories are formally identical: using a suitable notation,
there is no formal difference between these two effective field theories. For
this, instead of using the standard heavy superfield notation, we have written
the heavy hadron interactions directly in terms of the light quark degrees of
freedom. We give a few examples of how to exploit this analogy, e.g. the
calculation of the two-pion exchange diagrams. Yet the most relevant
application of the present idea is the conjecture of exotic nuclear landscapes,
i.e. the possibility of few heavy hadron bound states with characteristics
similar to those of the standard nuclei.
