BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Bitter Orange, Counterfeit Medications, Dna Barcoding
6 Apr 2016
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Industry has no rules or few rules, people do anything to make extra money. Many natural supplements do not contain acive ingredient. They can sell the same material several imes: sell them the plant, product made from plant, extract, acive ingredient. Tea: tea contains cafeine, tea is the extract (use hot water on tea leaves), Natural materials can interact with pharmaceuicals: grapefruit not served in hospitals anymore, it inhibits liver funcion. Contains kevalactones which can damage your liver, health canada removed kavakava from market in 2002, sill available under the counter. Weight loss drugs do not burn fat: appeite suppressants, amphetamines (simulates ight or light response = supress digesions, ephedra is an amphetamine. Ater the irst 10 pounds, you stop losing weight. 100-200 people die every year from overcocnsumpion of these diet products. Ephedra banned in the u. s in 2003, sill available under the counter: some people use biter orange instead. Scieniic informaion/discoveries are oten twisted: ex.
