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Tea as Hepatoprotective Agent: A Revisit

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Re: Tea as Hepatoprotective Agent: A Revisit

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Post by darkclouds »

FollowingTheDao wrote: post #12
jerry1979 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What will happen if someone tries this?

Taking beta-alanine will increase Carnosine synthase activity and probably lead to a depletion of magnesium and/or manganese since they are the co-factors for the enzyme. So this effect will differ based on genetic and nutrition. https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/A5YM72/entry

It will increase carnosine in the body, more if you exercise than are just sedentary, but beta alanine is concentrated in places like the olfactory bulb so will increase your sense of smell amongst other things, but its still not what I'm referring to.

Side note: If the aim is to increase carnosine in the body, I'd do carnosine as its better absorbed than beta alanine according to some studies, and then there's the remyelinating effect of histidine on the nervous system amongst other things, which is beneficial for some types of mental acuity, useful if you want to be a stand up comedian or some other verbally quick witted individual.

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Post by cypherpunks01 »

dredmorbius wrote: post #18

Meta: I'd not realised that Sci-Hub was a permitted site on HN. It appears that it has been since at least 2019 looking at the site submission history link. I'm not in the least displeased to learn this.

What are the non-permitted sites? Spam or other abuse, or consistently poor quality news sites?

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Post by fernly »

CodeSgt wrote: post #22
dredmorbius wrote: post #18

Meta: I'd not realised that Sci-Hub was a permitted site on HN. It appears that it has been since at least 2019 looking at the site submission history link. I'm not in the least displeased to learn this.

Just curious, why did you think it wouldn’t be?

"Sci-Hub is a shadow library website that provides free access to millions of research papers, without regard to copyright,[4] by bypassing publishers' paywalls in various ways."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

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Post by the-printer »

jeffbee wrote: post #25
dredmorbius wrote: post #18

Meta: I'd not realised that Sci-Hub was a permitted site on HN. It appears that it has been since at least 2019 looking at the site submission history link. I'm not in the least displeased to learn this.

If this is the meta-thread ... this presentation is horrible for mobile and defeats HN's forewarning about PDFs.

With regards to mobile browsers, this can be mitigated with charitable practices similar to paywall avoidance, where a considerate user could reply with the direct link to the PDF. This is not necessarily easy on sci-hub (you have to do some poking around with your browser's dev tools), but can be useful if the DOI is queried in Anna's Archive.

This specific paper isn't available on AA, but to whom it may intrigue I think this works:

https://sci-hub.ru/downloads/2019-02-19/0c/10.1016@B978-0-12...

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Post by mock-possum »

gumby wrote: post #27
azeirah wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't know any stats from the top of my head, but I recall that oesophageal cancer is caused by drinking _hot_ tea, not by drinking tea per sé.

> drinking hot tea, not by drinking tea per se. It is unclear to me that there is any way to drink tea than other than piping hot. I have heard horror stories that suggest people have attempted to drink cold tea but I figure such tales are merely intended to provoke disgust.

Cold tea infusion my boy - a nice strong ice tea on a hot summer day is one of life’s little pleasures. Splash of lemonade optional. Sugar very much optional.

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Post by senectus1 »

russh wrote: post #40
qzw wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cold tea does indeed provoke disgust. Iced tea, on the other hand, is quite its own art form.

As a programmer, every hot drink is only hot for the first few sips; all others range from lukewarm to room temperature.

grab yourself one of these: https://www.nespresso.com/au/en/order/accessories/original/t...

This has been the most successful keep hot mug I've ever bought (and I've bought a lot). This thing can keep a hot drink hot for a looooong time.

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Post by graphe »

gumby wrote: post #3

I've been a dedicated tea drinker since my teens, so this is great news. OTOH what I worry about is oesophageal cancer. Not sure of the prevalence.

What of the fluorine in it? Blank tea has more than 6x as much as fluorinated water, with white and green tea having the least.
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