Banana skins have high levels of dopamine
 

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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I wonder if dietry dopamin does cross th Blood Brain Barrier to the brain?

Now that is interesting
 

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...:D

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.

I wonder if you can smoke them? :D

Yeah, but it is kind of like tequila - when you finish the bunch you have to eat the tarantula. :D

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.......:D

or we could try drying and smoking the skins........:eek:

sorry steve, you got there first!

Rick and Lindy..Sometimes you just have to think outside of the box :D:D:D

And how about a banana colada to beat this 100 degree Texas heat?

Nasal delivery system
 

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.

Oh you are actually all serious about the banana peels! I must be getting old. In the 60's there was a banana summer when people dried the interior side of banana skins and smoked them, sitting on the stairs of the police station, daring the government to make bananas illegal,
Maybe there really is something to it.

You gotta love the babyboomers....they have provided more information about drugs, both then and now and provided so many drug czars with yachts...always popping or smoking something to help humanity:(

i'm happy to know about the banana. I eat one almost every day. but the skin? Why is the healthiest part always the skin?

paula

You ain't seen nothin' yet. About 8 million American boomers will have PD, and they are going to cause quite a ruckus once they discover the dysfunctionality and general uncoolness of the PD scene. Be prepared to be overwhelmed! "By the time we got to sinemet, we were eight million strong...
and we've got to get back to organic smokeables; we are star-dust, we are always On..."
China heading fast into old age; one neuro in China predicts they will have 30 million PWP. They have built the largest sinemet factory in the world, and are opening PD clinics and increasing the research. The doc i met worked entirely on PD research - for the Red Army Military Hospital. Serious people.
And we, of course, in isolation from them
and them from us.
Do we even know what research is going on around the world?

it is all in the skin
 

It makes sense, as the skin provides the main interface with the environment. My wife makes excellent jam from oranges skin. I will need all my wits to convince her not to throw away the banana peel! :D

No, I was kidding about smoking banana peels, but in all seriousness, they dont look very appetizing

This posting/thread makes me smile
 

Dear LindyLanka,
If you have that recipe for banana peels from SE Asia I would love to get it and by the way are you from Sri Lanka? Thanks:hug:

Mucuna Update
 

Hi. I've been away for quite some time and now am ready to rejoin the group. Assuming there are no objections, I was wondering if there is any new news, from patients, media, pharm's, testimonials, and so on regarding Mucuna.
I know it has been discussed at great length in the past. Just wondering if anything has changed or improved the case for its use? Or worsened the case for its use?
Thanks for any light you can shed on this. Reverett123, I think that on
Neurotalk, you were on the front line of this item. Any comments or thoughts?
kk13

I have been remiss in my research here and have nothing new to add. But ain't "remiss" a great word??!:D

But seriously, there are a number of threads that need to be picked up. Mucuna, of course, but also dextromethorphan and turmeric, for example. Those interested should review the archive here and figure out where to jump in.
-Rick

Banana peels
 

VICTORIALOU - said "I'm going to go dig out that banana peel I just threw into the garbage."

Funny you should say this, as I was just thinking about a Sunday School teacher at church who must have made quite an impact on me. We were discussing how we measure "wealth" differently in various cultures. Then she painted with words the most vivid picture of what it is like to see starving people in third-world countries. She said that while visiting there she saw these kids going through the trash. They would diisappear by crawling into overturned trashcans. When they finally re-emerged, they wwould have discarded banana peels, raking them against their bottom row of teeth to get all of the "lining.' I could literally taste those bitter banana peels!

One's trash is another's treasure.
peg