Flame away and have fun.
RFK Jr said folks were a lot healthier when his uncle was prez.
Eggplant would be cheaper than a nicotine patch.
“What’s that on your shoulder?”
What about tomacco?
Cubed, seasoned and salted deep fried egg plant is pretty tasty.
As is a saute of roasted red peppers and eggplant with garlic, cheese and olive oil. Great on toasted garlic bread.
Might explain the nicotine found in mummies.
Sort of like vanillin being found in old world food when the vanilla bean is a new world food.
Vanillin is found in all sorts of things like oak. So aging wine in a oak barrel would impart vanillin into the wine without the need of vanilla bean.
(yes, I know. I am a history and food nerd. Y'all will just have to learn to live with it.)
I’ve read several times that nicotine inhibits alzheimers. I will not take up cigarettes, but the patch? Maybe.
On the flip side, I remember this college student who stated that if she was drinking coffee while studying for an exam, she had to drink coffee DURING the exam to remember all the information she stored while studying. I just could not resist responding: “So, if I drink a bottle of scotch while studying, I need to drink during the exam?” She did not appreciate it. Oh, Well
Well, I guess I better eat some eggplant when I have one of my three cigarettes today. Never have been able to totally quit that dirty, nasty, stinky habit of smoking. But like Earl Weaver said something to the effect that ‘everytime I don’t have a smoke between innings the other team scores and we don’t’. Baseball historians may have to correct me slightly on that one.
” the Dr. stated that all her fellow students in medical school either smoked or wore nicotine patches, because it helped their cognitive ability.”
The studies are hard to find these days but nicotine has been shown to improve reaction time. Not much but just outside the statistical noise factor.
So if you are a pro baseball player and it improves your batting average from .200 to say .215 that’s a few more $$$$ and another year or two playing. For shortstop maybe a few more diving catches.
Nicotine has a stronger attraction to the Ace2 receptor cells which blocks the spiked proteins from Covid-19. This is why spiked proteins cause high blood pressure and nicotine can lower it.
Also, nicotine modulates mRNA and protein expression levels of genes involved in glutamatergic transmission.
Nicotine exposure decreases likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 RNA expression
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-29118-6
Nicotine upregulates ACE2 expression and increases competence for SARS-CoV-2 in human pneumocytes.
Who’d a-thunk it!
I’ll stick with my vape and homemade juices. MUCH cheaper.
Which country was that?
All Nightshades contain nicotine, which is nature own pesticide.
Tobacco the most, the eggplant, tomato, potato, peppers.
Nicotine in low doses per se is not really harmful, and it is used in many medicines. It is also used in most synthetic pesticides.
The main problem is, that it is addictive and it’s traditional delivery method, tobacco smoke, contains a lot of harmful substances.
I’ve been listening to Dr. Lee Merritt MD: talking about the benefits of nicotine and I did not know that it has healing properties. Of course, there was a reason God made it originally.
There is an alternative that people like Tucker Carlson use, nicotine pouches. You put them under your lip colors and impart nicotine into your system. You can get them in as little as 3 mg pouches. Thinking about getting some just to have in my medicine cabinet.
Tucker developed his own brand because the major brand gives to liberal causes so I would assume he likes nicotine a lot.
How to use nicotine
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I9te2Fi4vaZsg8YpRUtoT3GGmPYN-3Sm/view
One of the links from the above:
SARS-CoV-2 spike ectodomain targets α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(23)01735-0/fulltext
I grow 5 or 6 different types of eggplant and then bought more in to freeze dry for later.
My favorite is the long thin Chinese type.