EGCG in green tea was reported to dock with COVID proteins. EGCG dose and bioavailability can be optimized by selective sipping.
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Can Chocolate Cure COVID? Part II
Contradiction of a covid tea cure relied on flawed logic. So the theobromine there and in chocolate is still interesting.
Can Chocolate Cure COVID?
New anti-COVID drug EIDD 2801 has similar tautomeric H-bond-switching to theobromine. So … can chocolate cure COVID?
On Viruses and Centipedes
It’s been 96 days since my last post, roughly the period since the new revolution in U.S. health policies. I won’t make excuses. Ironically, since before any of this started, I’ve been trying to find a literary agent for my debut novel (upmarket thriller) about a race-to-the-cure for a pandemic, by a drug developer who …
Food Proteins: Mixed Reviews
Lectins are in many foods at low levels. Once in the gut, they act as signals that may alter the microbial ecology there, or alter hormone communications. Then they bind to tissue surfaces, and get leaked into the blood, where they continue to mess with hormones. Thus, they can mimic insulin, form clots, escalate cell growth, and trigger immune responses.
Platelet Food Fights
Earlier this year I discovered that binges with Diet Dr. Pepper were dropping my platelet counts. I needed the caffeine and didn’t feel the dropped count physically but did feel stupid about overdoing it. After dipping into 6 or 8 potential blogs’ worth of background, I’ve since realized that food effects on platelets are varied …
Foods that Boost Drug Potency
Recently I wrote that the body’s rapid excretion of quercetin leaves far too little time for the clear medical activity detected in test tubes. But it turns out there’s a much deeper irony. Even during its short stay quercetin enhances the bioavailability of other medicinal compounds. The technical term is “bioenhancer” and numerous other compounds …
Ask the Sage – The Pendulum Swings Back for Thujone
Now that thujone has been vindicated, interest grows in sage tea as a true medicinal substance.
Quercetin: Waiting for the Right Moment
Coming-of-age stories can be brutal critiques of parents. Speaking as someone with grown kids, I notice these things. At this point in life the young-adult tales that resonate with me have a loving parent out of sight, giving the fledgling liberty to try out their wings. And at some point along the way, the young …
Discovery and Climate Change
During grad school (late 1980s) I attended a lecture by a visiting pioneer of climate science. I’ve forgotten his name but it made a huge impression when he said climate models were a work in progress: at one point the field realized they’d omitted the oceans as a reservoir for dissolved CO2. Leaving out the …
Circling-V ™ 