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Biotech / Medical : Mining Cholesterol
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To: Yorikke who wrote (282)3/15/2007 1:54:09 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 356
 
I will bet you can't hear the dead rats sneaking up on you with that papaya in your ear. There are some benefits to GMO foods.

I don't know about corn killed rats. I know you have to be careful with comparing substances that mediate lipid metabolism as rats do not metabolize fats the same way humans do.

In experiments done on rabbits in the 50's, doctors (Hoffman was the leading researcher) fed rabbits cake to induce artherosclerois in the animals. It worked like a charm to induce a form or artherosclerosis. There is a difference however, as the rabbits got plaque all over their circulatory system in the veins and arteries when taken off their natural vegetarian diet. The more omnivorous humans only get plaque on their arteries and in the high speed turbulent portions that are closest to their heart. The therapy which successfully "cured" the rabbits of hypercholesteremia was niacin or vitamin B3. Despite the fact that the mode of hypercholesteremia in the animals was different, the therapy that was effective in the rabbits also worked on the human form of disease.

For many years, niacin was the preferred anti-cholesterol drug, and it still associated with the greatest longevity amongs people with atherosclerotic problems.

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