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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

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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...

Yes but I'm just looking to be a little more focused on tedious tasks, not hang out with the machine elves.

Re: Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

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post #4

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?

Modafinil? Ritalin? The latter is great for tedious tasks.

Re: Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

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Paradoxically, 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

Re: Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

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post #23
post #18

Paradoxically, 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

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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And the implication is they can modify tomato's DNA to produce nicotine, just like Tomacco from The Simpsons. The Simpsons always predict everything.

I came here to find someone saying this.

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

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post #23

Earlier 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.

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Re: Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

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post #22
post #4

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?

Modafinil? Ritalin? The latter is great for tedious tasks.

“1 hour, full power” is the dream. Something where I could get those last things done in the evening without disrupting my sleep.

Chemically possible? Why not?

Re: Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

#29
post #4

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...

Interesting that some acacia produce nicotine and dmt..

Re: Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

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post #24
post #23

Earlier 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.

Inhaling? We're talking about a compound here, not tobacco.
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