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*looks up if there are animals with gut bacteria that might plausibly metabolize nightshades* https://t.co/xSspVlmZp5
It seems the flower in Tomb Raider can also be construed as a 'moonflower'."were dubbed nightshades because several of them — night-blooming jasmine (Cestrum nocturnum) in particular — bloom at night" https://t.co/GGgLZtEejfhttps://t.co/m2NgjkjVvDhttps://t.co/nqblNG0er5
"As far as humans are concerned, these alkaloids can be desirable, toxic, or both, though they presumably evolved because they reduced the tendency of animals to eat the plants."https://t.co/jVVj4MOpknhmmhttps://t.co/AHwWWHJ3ZV
🤔😂https://t.co/y7wE7oDFtR
I bet there is a way to produce safe to eat 'raw' potatoes using fermentation methods. Might help with vitamin production, removing toxins in the skins, and reduce cancer causing factors found in high-heat cooking.https://t.co/5EmoynmzF1
"Leaching is a process of removing potassium from food by extracting and dissolving it in a liquid."https://t.co/ChexFdlWCFThis gives me bad ideas.
"found that a simple measure of pre-soaking potatoes before frying can dramatically reduce the formation of acrylamide and may therefore reduce any subsequent risk"https://t.co/7HvO6PEdwENice.
Whoa"The potato was used as a natural remedy in traditional medicine for centuries before it was eaten as a food. A substance in the common potato, the investigators found, prevents invading bacteria from latching onto vulnerable cells in the human body"https://t.co/45AL1hpwsF
Potatoes are weird in how they can be propagated with water + light. My family seems to have GI issues with any green or eyes on the potato. We just cut them out and its fine.Makes me wonder if there are different medicinal aspects depending on the stage of growth.
Interesting idea:If the trajectory of the potato plant's chemistry is a response to soil properties & soil microbes, there might be a way to have the plant produce chemical ratios specially tailored to fight pathogens spiked into the soil.
Potato plants are neat. They live in the dirt.https://t.co/lJKCxFUDQz
"The message of our paper is that domestication has hidden costs, [...] When plants are selected for a small handful of traits like making a bigger seed or faster growth, you can lose a lot of important traits relating to microbes along the way."https://t.co/sY4Zr6Cu26
Have you ever wondered if potatoes can be turned to wine like grapes?https://t.co/cHzipYtA4M
How much are we overlooking because of a bias in how our cultures treat food norms?https://t.co/7Ybgybem0y
If you wanted to grow a potato in the sun and in the shade, and see how different temperatures impact it's taste... and had a history of using foods as medicine.What would you do?https://t.co/yLVkfbrYOl
Impressive:"ruins of Moray are not quite like the Inca ruins we usually encounter – Houses, temples, fortresses… In fact, It is believed that Moray was used by the Incas as an agriculture research station. It is at least the most widely accepted theory" https://t.co/kUJ8jpV8jf
Thinking about nitrogen sources as a means to promote microbiota health and synergies with growth of (or on) plants.https://t.co/KWLh8ogEDl
"He published this book at the age of 75, in the year of 1949. One of the reviews from 1949 describes this book as "unusual and vastly interesting book which took nine years to write, and a lifetime to prepare" combining genetics, history, and archaeology"https://t.co/j1rmzxNjDe
I found this book in a presentation talking about how funny to come across a 500 page book on the social history of the potato. Turns out it's more like 750 pages and now I wanna read it to find out how poisonous potatoes are. https://t.co/UpSeTxd0yL
The joke: learning how to kill people with laughter, the best medicine.https://t.co/HQDIg7rZrd
In researching some of the references in the talk, I learned that Britney Spears was in jackass 3d, but was cut for time.https://t.co/K1DpSLmw9e
I was going to make a joke about how she must have eaten some bad potatoes, but then I remembered she was basically imprisoned for going on an alcohol bender.I like ruining jokes by ignoring the benignity of humor and instead twisting it to make them sad.
Then I try to make it a joke again..."wouldn't it be funny if it was actually vodka?"and then... I learn things. https://t.co/hzfprvRmQw
So that article says dextromethorphan cause people to hallucinate."Dextromethorphan-induced changes in brain 5-HT metabolism could arise from the inhibition of the re-uptake of 5-HT into neurons." [1975]https://t.co/eW3WuZxz8U
Apparently 30 mg daily doesn't actually have an antidepressant effect?oh, and combining it with fluoxetine is probably bad due to CYP2D6 inhibition.https://t.co/fzTwLTGSIy
So now I'm looking up serotonin regulation in plants.I can't find if Datura hits 5-ht... But I did see this weird thing about serotonin being conserved in plant growth. What happens if you give fluoxetine to plants. Does it make them happy or sad?https://t.co/YjidZOcZaI https://t.co/VzRQYdEMGF
I did find that a datura extract might have anti-inflammatory effects?"This work suggests a possible anti-inflammatory role of daturaolone; however, detailed mechanistic studies are still necessary to corroborate and extrapolate the findings." [DEC 2021]https://t.co/o8YcpXssMP
So a class of plant used medicinally, one that can cause all sorts of weird ass effects (its called "zombie weed" for a reason), has more useful chemicals in it that we realized, and we're only just now uncovering them."Angel’s Trumpet"https://t.co/oupElUPO5Q
We give these plants really funny names.https://t.co/oEWKunBRuV
Wow. Datura species are wild.https://t.co/3MNSCCFcg4https://t.co/sJZGcWmnCT https://t.co/sbg79vIiLH
"Researchers long assumed alcohol impairs memory because it kills brain cells. Indeed, long-standing alcohol abuse can damage nerve cells and permanently impact memory and learning. It is unlikely, however, that brain damage is behind acute blackouts." https://t.co/kYnWfotpP0
That 2018 Scientific American article says neuroscientist are still unclear.Yet... There's a paper from 2011 that fingered NMDA / Glutamate activity and hippocampal pyramidal neurons right on the nose.https://t.co/sZebYBAVpi
These ideas are a joke.https://t.co/vY4ReaN3xE
"these previous findings have implied that the actions of hallucinogens such as psilocybin might be due to a mixture of actions on both excitatory (e.g., pyramidal) and inhibitory (e.g., GABA-ergic interneuronal) neuronal circuits"https://t.co/RxQdrcvvZChttps://t.co/KZ0utR2RWA
For the record, Britney Spears would not have been in the Porta Potty unless she was strapped in like Steve-o. That was a gag to promote the show.https://t.co/TXCoVlrYhn https://t.co/ZG8NNHpRsX
The porta-potty scene was also a callback a bit in the first jackass episode. You can see it at the 16m08s mark here https://t.co/HhJtE3FizU
Good chance we're going to try this in a month or two once the candida infection goes away. GF keeps saying "I do like potatoes" and giggles at me.A family member donated a CGM for testing food stuff too, so we can see what happens!https://t.co/GnN3qcvPjh
Are you interested in RESEARCH? Do you like POTATOES? Do you want to EAT NOTHING BUT POTATOES FOR 4 WEEKS AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR MIND AND BODY????? 🥔🥔🥔 If so, this is the blog post for you! Recruiting now for potato diet. Please RT! https://t.co/jsrJofUW9Z
I bought an air fryer and a thing that can slice potato into chips.We gonna fight some fascism by eating acrylamide <3https://t.co/bVRFfMd5i4
Speak truth to power.https://t.co/MqevoMcvsp
@MineralChief @RobertKennedyJr "L. acidophilus and B. longum demonstrated the highest reduction ability and they exhibited comparable [acrylamide] reduction abilities in food matrices (9.45–22.15%) and in food matrices under a simulated digestion condition (10.91–21.29%)." https://t.co/8GfyH1mECa
A grain mill to make powdered bread, an air fryer to make potatoe chips (and to roast coffee beans) and a scale to make sure i'm being scientific about it. https://t.co/fT2khrQWjB
Recreating the foundation of civilization by putting some red ocher into a weird looking beer. https://t.co/EB7xKiu7SF
Herbalism? Don't talk to me about herbalism.https://t.co/TywGOpciEW https://t.co/xOLfvFy6uz
