continuation from old board...groundhog musings on nicotine
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:22 am
and the mysterious workings of that devil of a drug .
I think on the other board I'd gathered, bit by bit, info about nicotine...that users have less parkinson's, ulcerative colitis, celiac, seems like there might have been one more thing...someone mentioned they'd run across something about schizophrenics believing they might have better symptom management if they use tobacco...I haven't read that one myself, yet...but gosh it sure fits my musings...i.e., if you'll recall (do you even WANT to... ), in a nutshell, that it seems from casual thinking and recalling things I've come across, that somehow, nicotine in the body interferes with the assimilation of the gluten protein???? Just a groundhog wondering, here, and as we all know by now, groundhog is no scientist -- has no scientific background whatsoever, rather just your average ordinary..er, um, groundhog thing type person, ya know , but these are my thoughts that I'm sharing with no scientific backing, other than matching up snigglets I've read that ARE scientific studies in bits and pieces, matching those up with other UNRELATED studies and bits and pieces of what I know of gluten problems...and then using a little groundhog glue to see if the pieces will stick together long enough to hold water...
you know...IF it does hold water...it's a hypothesis...in groundhog thinking
Anyway, if you kept up with this drama (and if you did, boy do I feel for ya ) on the other board...you'll remember of course, all of us having excellent memories...you'll remember that I intend to look some stuff up to help find that glue to see if these thought will in fact stick together...well...have NOT had time to do any real searching YET -- --but I will!!!
For now...I did find one thing on Google I thought was very interesting, and could function as one more glue molecule...and that was...there have been several reports of people stopping smoking and then finding they start getting frequent canker sores...BINGO...on the money... --at least one cause of frequent canker sores is well-established...you guessed it...all together now...GLUTEN INTOLERANCE!!!
So...maybe you've studied Gray's Anatomy...well, in a nutshell, there is a Groundhog's Physiology manual...but it's pretty short....I'll include it here:
Inside the brain there are buttons and toggle switches that cause disease. Eating wrong foods usually pushes buttons...stop eating wrong foods stops the button pushing and symptoms go away.
Sometimes, doing something wrong for your particular set of toggle switches (scientists would call 'em genes...groundhogs call 'em toggle switches ) will trip a switch to ON....and it might be stuck on permanently. Whatever tripped the lever...changes things forever...and other buttons must be accommodated respectively to obtain good health.
Remember...I am not quoting scientific, double-blind, peer-reviewed studies repeated across the world...just pulling together tidbits from existing studies here and there (some well-established, but some only done a time or two, probably) which I have run across and applying the groundhog glue to see if things fit or don't fit. Sometimes they may appear to fit for a while...and then fall apart. I highly respect the lessons in Schroedenburg's (sp.?) Cat and the Butterfly Effect (the idea, not the movie)...so...chaos might be the end result of all of our efforts to think, even scientists', not just groundhogs'.
I'll leave it at that for now .
I think on the other board I'd gathered, bit by bit, info about nicotine...that users have less parkinson's, ulcerative colitis, celiac, seems like there might have been one more thing...someone mentioned they'd run across something about schizophrenics believing they might have better symptom management if they use tobacco...I haven't read that one myself, yet...but gosh it sure fits my musings...i.e., if you'll recall (do you even WANT to... ), in a nutshell, that it seems from casual thinking and recalling things I've come across, that somehow, nicotine in the body interferes with the assimilation of the gluten protein???? Just a groundhog wondering, here, and as we all know by now, groundhog is no scientist -- has no scientific background whatsoever, rather just your average ordinary..er, um, groundhog thing type person, ya know , but these are my thoughts that I'm sharing with no scientific backing, other than matching up snigglets I've read that ARE scientific studies in bits and pieces, matching those up with other UNRELATED studies and bits and pieces of what I know of gluten problems...and then using a little groundhog glue to see if the pieces will stick together long enough to hold water...
you know...IF it does hold water...it's a hypothesis...in groundhog thinking
Anyway, if you kept up with this drama (and if you did, boy do I feel for ya ) on the other board...you'll remember of course, all of us having excellent memories...you'll remember that I intend to look some stuff up to help find that glue to see if these thought will in fact stick together...well...have NOT had time to do any real searching YET -- --but I will!!!
For now...I did find one thing on Google I thought was very interesting, and could function as one more glue molecule...and that was...there have been several reports of people stopping smoking and then finding they start getting frequent canker sores...BINGO...on the money... --at least one cause of frequent canker sores is well-established...you guessed it...all together now...GLUTEN INTOLERANCE!!!
So...maybe you've studied Gray's Anatomy...well, in a nutshell, there is a Groundhog's Physiology manual...but it's pretty short....I'll include it here:
Inside the brain there are buttons and toggle switches that cause disease. Eating wrong foods usually pushes buttons...stop eating wrong foods stops the button pushing and symptoms go away.
Sometimes, doing something wrong for your particular set of toggle switches (scientists would call 'em genes...groundhogs call 'em toggle switches ) will trip a switch to ON....and it might be stuck on permanently. Whatever tripped the lever...changes things forever...and other buttons must be accommodated respectively to obtain good health.
Remember...I am not quoting scientific, double-blind, peer-reviewed studies repeated across the world...just pulling together tidbits from existing studies here and there (some well-established, but some only done a time or two, probably) which I have run across and applying the groundhog glue to see if things fit or don't fit. Sometimes they may appear to fit for a while...and then fall apart. I highly respect the lessons in Schroedenburg's (sp.?) Cat and the Butterfly Effect (the idea, not the movie)...so...chaos might be the end result of all of our efforts to think, even scientists', not just groundhogs'.
I'll leave it at that for now .