It would be great if they could improve upon it. I find nicotine to be an underperforming chemical, despite its popularity. A bit more of a cognitive kick would be nice. Know what I mean?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Acacia_species_known_t...
Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine
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Re: Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine
#22It would be great if they could improve upon it. I find nicotine to be an underperforming chemical, despite its popularity. A bit more of a cognitive kick would be nice. Know what I mean?
Re: Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine
#23Paradoxically, nicotine has some medical use in e.g. displacing viral debris and autoantibodies from nAChR (nicotinic acetylcholine receptors) due to having highest affinity to these receptors, which seems to help with (long) Covid; "smoker paradox" in lower covid-related hospitalizations.
CIGS are bad, nicotine is pretty neutral to good,
as a lozenge or patch or gum.
Edit: Nicotine can be way more medically relevant than “less bad”.
Not sure what the person replying to me is even on about, tbh
Re: Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine
#24Paradoxically, nicotine has some medical use in e.g. displacing viral debris and autoantibodies from nAChR (nicotinic acetylcholine receptors) due to having highest affinity to these receptors, which seems to help with (long) Covid; "smoker paradox" in lower covid-related hospitalizations.
Great to see this here. CIGS are bad, nicotine is pretty neutral to good, as a lozenge or patch or gum. Edit: Nicotine can be way more medically relevant than “less bad”. Not sure what the person replying to me is even on about, tbh
Pretty much every other form of tobacco that is not cigarettes is less bad.
Re: Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine
#25And the implication is they can modify tomato's DNA to produce nicotine, just like Tomacco from The Simpsons. The Simpsons always predict everything.
I swear we are heading toward McKenna's Peak Novelty in this timeline.
Re: Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great to see this here. CIGS are bad, nicotine is pretty neutral to good, as a lozenge or patch or gum. Edit: Nicotine can be way more medically relevant than “less bad”. Not sure what the person replying to me is even on about, tbh
Really inhaling something burning is bad. Pretty much every other form of tobacco that is not cigarettes is less bad.
Re: Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine
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#28It would be great if they could improve upon it. I find nicotine to be an underperforming chemical, despite its popularity. A bit more of a cognitive kick would be nice. Know what I mean?
Modafinil? Ritalin? The latter is great for tedious tasks.
Chemically possible? Why not?
Re: Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine
#29It would be great if they could improve upon it. I find nicotine to be an underperforming chemical, despite its popularity. A bit more of a cognitive kick would be nice. Know what I mean?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Acacia_species_known_t...
Re: Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great to see this here. CIGS are bad, nicotine is pretty neutral to good, as a lozenge or patch or gum. Edit: Nicotine can be way more medically relevant than “less bad”. Not sure what the person replying to me is even on about, tbh
Really inhaling something burning is bad. Pretty much every other form of tobacco that is not cigarettes is less bad.