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Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects

 
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28 September, 2012
Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects
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Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can ‘cure’ chemical weapons effects
It’s a somewhat ironic decision by a country that vowed to spend $54 million on anti-tobacco advertising campaigns this year.
The Pentagon’s research branch, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), awarded $2.7 million to Kentucky Bioprocessing, LLC to research the rBuChe protein, which is found in the Nicotiana benthamiana plant, Wired magazine reported. Washington hopes the research will yield pre-treatments containing the protein that can be given to troops pre-deployment, in case they face a chemical weapon attack.

The rBuChE protein is also found within the human liver, where it is thought to be a ‘bioscavenger’ that waits in the bloodstream to attack harmful agents. According to the grant proposal, the aim of the project is to produce enough rBuChe to create “a drug that can protect the war fighter from chemical threat agent exposures.”

When a nerve agent enters the body, it stops certain enzymes from working, including the ones that break down the nerve-signaling molecule acetylcholine. When acetylcholine levels get too high, the entire nervous system shuts down.

The symptoms are ugly and painful – ranging from diarrhea, nausea, irregular heart rates, convulsions and even death. At present, there is no way to prevent these symptoms; medical professionals can only treat the damage after the fact.

But if scientists’ hypotheses are correct, the rBuChe protein will attack nerve gas and other nerve agents when they’re enter the body. Once the protein detects a harmful substance, it binds to it and breaks it down into sub-particles before it can attack the nervous system.
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Melatonin has been shown to help prevent lethal toxins from anthrax exposure. (1) It boosts glutathione levels during sleep.
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The anthrax bacterium's toxicity emanates from its ability to kill macrophage cells which are part of the immune system. Studies have shown that sulfur-bearing antioxidants (alpha lipoic acid, N-acetylcysteine, taurine) and vitamin C, which elevate levels of glutathione, a natural antioxidant within the body, counters the toxicity produced by anthrax. [Molecular Medicine, November 1994; Immunopharmacology, January 2000; Applied Environmental Microbiology, May 1979]
Melatonin, a sleep-inducing hormone available at most health food stores, has been shown to help prevent lethal toxins from anthrax exposure. [Cell Biology Toxicology, Volume 16, 2000].
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To understand how nicotine works, remember that melatonin first inhibits DHEA, then participates in DHEA release when melatonin declines.
Nicotine mimics melatonin. The structure of nicotine is very similar to melatonin; so are caffeine, cocaine, methamphetamine and, seemingly contradictory, so are narcotics.
Nicotine is proven to stimulate DHEA ("The New England Journal of Medicine" 318: 1705). In the case of nicotine, I suggest people first use it like melatonin, to block the stimulatory effects of DHEA. They use it to relax.
I suggested it is the loss of melatonin that triggers the appetite for nicotine.
I did the experiment. I took a small amount of melatonin, along with my regular DHEA, during the day. Of course, it may be my expectation, but I perceived an increase in awareness and activity.
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Re: Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects
So, I can start smoking again?
"When tyrants tremble in their fear, and hear their death knell ringing,
When friends rejoice both far and near, how can I keep from singing"

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Re: Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects
So, I can start smoking again?
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See this: Thread: Nicotine, DHEA, brain and fat metabolism and ageing
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Re: Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects
So, I can start smoking again?
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See this: Thread: Nicotine, DHEA, brain and fat metabolism and ageing
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Posted this on other thread-

But what about all the crap they add to cigarettes? I think tobacco/nicotine have little adverse affects in moderate amounts, but there's all kinds of junk added to cigarettes these days.

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Re: Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects
So, I can start smoking again?
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See this: Thread: Nicotine, DHEA, brain and fat metabolism and ageing
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 32571011


Posted this on other thread-

But what about all the crap they add to cigarettes? I think tobacco/nicotine have little adverse affects in moderate amounts, but there's all kinds of junk added to cigarettes these days.

scratching
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Roll your own from the pipe tobacco.
Its extremely cheap and all of the brands taste the same which either means they use the same chemicals or no chemicals at all.
I would guess its so cheap it would cost too much to add chemicals to it.
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bumpafrobump

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Simple pharmacology. Nicotinic and muscarinic receptors....that's how chemical warfare works. Competition for receptors.
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Re: Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects
WHAT HAPPENED THE 5200 PERSONELL THAT WERE WATCHING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY?
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Re: Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects
So, I can start smoking again?
 Quoting: INK3


See this: Thread: Nicotine, DHEA, brain and fat metabolism and ageing
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 32571011


Posted this on other thread-

But what about all the crap they add to cigarettes? I think tobacco/nicotine have little adverse affects in moderate amounts, but there's all kinds of junk added to cigarettes these days.

scratching
 Quoting: Ollo


it's not just what they add to the tobacco [and paper]

they use phosphate based fertilizers to greatly increase tobacco yields. the only thing about that is how those phosphate fertilizers have a tendency to contain various heavy metals like cadmium and uranium.

guess what happens when you smoke cadmium and uranium over a long period of time.
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Don't use chemicals and you don't have to worry about it.


But who follows the Geneva Convention any longer?



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Others have posted on the benefits of nicotine. Bump for more info.
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So, I can start smoking again?
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Re: Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects
Bump for all of us cutting edge health researchers. This is not that new, I have read some very interesting posts here on glp about the positive effects of nicotine. Please repost them if you have them handy.
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Re: Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects
WHAT HAPPENED THE 5200 PERSONELL THAT WERE WATCHING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY?
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Oh shutup mud hut. That was to make you fap out then. This is now. Don't talk, listen.
(LOT of dumbazz going to have to do that, when they have been used to people humoring them and pizzing around with em)
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Covid, fake riots, communist organizers - keep your powder dry America. This was not the disease or the riots, those both are still on down the line.
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Re: Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects
Bump for all of us cutting edge health researchers. This is not that new, I have read some very interesting posts here on glp about the positive effects of nicotine. Please repost them if you have them handy.
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So they should all load up on muscarine too...like iodine in the gland?
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"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind"

Covid, fake riots, communist organizers - keep your powder dry America. This was not the disease or the riots, those both are still on down the line.
Garden garden grow spices and medical plants too.

I am a VeterAid volunteer for Arrogant Mushroom Healers of Alamogordo.
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Re: Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects
Guess the atropine was too hardcore?
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Re: Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects
It's been discovered that nicotine may help with several health issues.

I began smoking clove cigarettes much later in life than most people start smoking. This is actually odd for me considering how "prim" I am when it comes to substances. I don't even drink coffee, yet I smoke.

I truly believe I was self-medicating, and here's why.

I picked up smoking around the time I was put on a medication with a high fluoride content that turned out to be bad for me due to crossing the blood-brain barrier, then learned much later that nicotine neutralizes the effects of fluoride on the brain.

Still I kept smoking, but then found out that nicotine also helps with another health issue that runs in my family (and that cloves might also provide some benefit). I only found this out years after I smoked my first clove cigarette.
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Re: Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects
As with most things they want to ban the plant and modify the active alkaloids making them prescription only so big pharma can cash in while others lose access to another God given herbal plant. They did something similar with banning NMN Nicotinamide Mononucleotide. Screw the FDA and screw big pharma!
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Re: Pentagon hopes nicotine plant can 'cure' chemical weapons effects
WHAT HAPPENED THE 5200 PERSONELL THAT WERE WATCHING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY?
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ummmmmmm.......





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