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07-03-2011, 02:03 PM | #1 | ||
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Has anyone looked into banana skins as a source of dopamine?
“Banana contained dopamine at high levels in both the peel and pulp. Dopamine levels ranged from 80−560 mg per 100 g in peel and 2.5−10 mg in pulp, even in ripened bananas ready to eat.” See "High Content of Dopamine, a Strong Antioxidant, in Cavendish Banana" Kazuki Kanazawa* and Hiroyuki Sakakibara Laboratory of Food and Nutritional Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe University, Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan J. Agric. Food Chem., 2000, 48 (3), pp 844–848 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf9909860 John |
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07-03-2011, 03:13 PM | #2 | ||
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I wonder if dietry dopamin does cross th Blood Brain Barrier to the brain?
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07-03-2011, 03:19 PM | #3 | |||
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And worth knowing for hard times. It also gives a clue to the urban legend of getting high off them.
For comparison, mucuna runs about 7% or 7 g per 100. If these numbers hold up we are looking at a half gram or so for the best banana. 560 mg is respectable and I bet a Junior Birdman could quickly figure out an automated extraction scheme. If only we knew a chemist or two... Quote:
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07-03-2011, 04:41 PM | #4 | ||
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Banana skins are pretty interesting things.Rub the skin on a wart and it will get rid of it quicker than anything the doc gives you.
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07-03-2011, 05:08 PM | #5 | |||
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I wonder if you can smoke them?
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07-03-2011, 06:13 PM | #6 | |||
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Yeah, but it is kind of like tequila - when you finish the bunch you have to eat the tarantula.
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Born in 1953, 1st symptoms and misdiagnosed as essential tremor in 1992. Dx with PD in 2000. Currently (2011) taking 200/50 Sinemet CR 8 times a day + 10/100 Sinemet 3 times a day. Functional 90% of waking day but fragile. Failure at exercise but still trying. Constantly experimenting. Beta blocker and ACE inhibitor at present. Currently (01/2013) taking ldopa/carbadopa 200/50 CR six times a day + 10/100 form 3 times daily. Functional 90% of day. Update 04/2013: L/C 200/50 8x; Beta Blocker; ACE Inhib; Ginger; Turmeric; Creatine; Magnesium; Potassium. Doing well. |
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07-03-2011, 06:58 PM | #7 | ||
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you can of course make banana cake, or perhaps a sweet desert wine, and there is a green banana variety called plantain grown and eaten in the caribbean and in south east asia, skins are also used to make a spicy savoury dish, very nice. skins are also good as a deterrent on the way to patent offices for those wishing to tie up all creative use as with mucuna and basmati rice....
hurry we might be able to synthesize a mellow medicinal compound faster than it takes to get a treatment to market....... or we could try drying and smoking the skins........ sorry steve, you got there first! |
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07-04-2011, 08:53 AM | #8 | |||
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Rick and Lindy..Sometimes you just have to think outside of the box
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07-04-2011, 08:57 AM | #9 | ||
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And how about a banana colada to beat this 100 degree Texas heat?
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07-04-2011, 09:23 AM | #10 | |||
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And if there is an issue with passing the blood brain barrier- there is snuff and snorting and smoking. Ive heard good things about nasally administered drugs- now I'm going to go dig out that banana peel I just threw into the garbage.
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