Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more
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#2That particular combination reminds me of https://www.tumblr.com/nudibranchparty/188803422027/fun-fact...
Re: Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more
#3Can I take a capsaicin and a mint supplement together? Is that enough to get the effect?
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#4So ... mint chutney, anyone?
Re: Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more
#5Can I take a capsaicin and a mint supplement together? Is that enough to get the effect?
No, the article title is misleading. This is in-vitro research only.
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#6The article title is super misleading - this is about measurements of inflammatory markers in vitro and explicitly does not generalize to food intake.
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#7Pretty interesting. In homeopathy mint is considered one of the most potent antidoting substances which is something that neutralises or cancels the action of another homeopathic remedy. Maybe a comment like this activates chimp brain downvote circuits in HNers but a lot of medicines start from these folk traditions and then make their way into regular medicine.
Re: Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more
#8Pretty interesting. In homeopathy mint is considered one of the most potent antidoting substances which is something that neutralises or cancels the action of another homeopathic remedy. Maybe a comment like this activates chimp brain downvote circuits in HNers but a lot of medicines start from these folk traditions and then make their way into regular medicine.
Homeopathy is not a "folk" tradition, it is simply an insane concept.
Re: Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more
#9Can I take a capsaicin and a mint supplement together? Is that enough to get the effect?
It is funny how that is the thing people turn to rather than just eating food. Let me eat junk and be happy while taking supplements.
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#10This is one of the things that’s deeply challenging for biology and biochemistry - it’s extremely resistant to the sort of reductionism that works so well for other fields. It’s rare to find a single compound, a single species, or a single pathway that’s responsible enough for an effect to show up in studies of the sort of power that one can muster without a ton of time and money, and as soon as you try to capture synergistic effects, you hit a combinatorial wall quickly. In microbiology, for instance, colonies of different bacterial species are the norm, not the exception, and metabolic pathways that span multiple species are common to the point that trying to isolate a given species’ contribution can miss the effect entirely.