BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, Ginkgo Biloba, Genetically Modified Organism
29 Aug 2016
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No rules to follow, sold as foods. People move to these due to distrust of big companies and government. Sold for 200 years, original ingredient in snake oil: sold as treatment for arthritis. Aldophus hohensee: garlic clensing, garlic inserted in the rectum, garlic breath the next day release of toxins . Plants store alliin and is converted by alliinase into allicin, this is the antioxidant. Very unstable and spontaneously fragments into other compounds. Allicin in the body gets converted into allyl mercaptan and allyl methylsulfide, gas exchange in the lungs. Does work in the case of mild depression. Grape fruit inhibits the function of the liver, get larger dosage of the drug into. Can affect as much as half of all medications the body. Contain kevalactones, extremely toxic to the kindney: strong electrophiles. Accelerator for fight/flight and break for maintenance systems like digestion. Bitter orange new appetite suppressant: contain amphetamines. With natural health products dealing with the placebo effect.
