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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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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

Many of us approve of that.

Re: Tea as Hepatoprotective Agent: A Revisit

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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 r…

Well, what are you referring to? People's time is valuable, and figuring out some chemical puzzle for your amusement doesn't seem like a good use of it.

Re: Tea as Hepatoprotective Agent: A Revisit

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Black tea is consumed principally in Europe, North America, and North Africa. Totally left out East Africa,where Kenya is the world's 3rd largest producer of Tea,only a proportion of which gets exported.

Also, northern India and Yunnan province of China say "Hi we also drink black tea".

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Thanks for sharing. I’m a doctor. If you don’t mind sharing, out of curiosity how were you diagnosed with this? Not one of the primary immunodeficiencies I see tested, but I’m not a medical geneticist or pediatrician.

Hey doc. Well, I had consistently low WBC counts (leukopenia), skin infections, sinus infections, lung infections (and nodules), as well as recurrent fungal infections. Doctors offered no explanation. In 2014 I had my genome run on 23andMe and through digging and getting a second genome run I confirmed that I was homozygous for rs1049564 (and other SNPs) in my PNP gene. I was finally able to push for a PNP activity t…

Fascinating. Thank you for sharing. I’m glad you were able to arrive at a diagnosis. I’m sorry to hear it was such an odyssey. I wonder how many other patients like you we are missing.

Re: Tea as Hepatoprotective Agent: A Revisit

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

Indeed, iced tea is all over the U.S. South, where they put in enough sugar to blow out other organs, but at least the liver is saved.

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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?

There's a 2009 list of 2,096 banned sites posted by pg, along with general rationales:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498910>

I'm not aware of a more current list.

Re: Tea as Hepatoprotective Agent: A Revisit

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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?

I'd discussed HN's linking SciHub directly with dang back in 2016, at which time his response was "I think that degree of anthill-overturning would be past prudent."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11984443>

Apparently the anthill has been overturned for some time. No data on time/distance from prudent.

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