Cannabidiol is everywhere. I’ve even seen gas stations with big signs outside advertising their CBD products. But there’s an elephant in the check-out line: almost nobody lists the amount of CBD on their labels. There are reasons for that. First, the purified material is still shockingly costly. Thus, many sellers add the minimum to qualify …
Monthly Archives: August 2019
Bacteria as Drug Factories
If organic chemistry had an Olympic event, it would involve finding the easiest way to synthesize natural drugs. Some routes have 30 or 40 steps, and the yields are horrendous because of side reactions all along the way. Various chemists have become organic rock stars by streamlining a synthesis to only a dozen or so …
Medicine in Transition: Fecal Transplants
My parents grew up on rural farms. One day as a kid I was having a grand old time on a hulking fertilizer cart in a granddad’s barnyard. Mom came out of the house and was – to say the least – distressed. It turned out the cart’s technical name was “manure spreader”. Mom had …
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Micronutrients in the Staples
The World Health Organization uses the term “hidden hunger” to describe a condition that affects a third of the world’s population. Victims of hidden hunger aren’t necessarily starving (though they may be) but they’re undernourished from a dietary deficiency. And that poses health risks. A recent international study addressed this by spraying a cocktail of …
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