Nicotine the Miracle Drug

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The irony -- should nicotine be able to do everything that it is now claimed

Did you know that nicotine has "anti-cancer" properties?
See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3113800/

I was casually talking with my dentist, and he brings up the fact that nicotine is used to treat overdosing of certain heart/blood pressure medication. He told me a story that there is a yearly event in Texas, a context like a rodeo to de-venom rattle snakes, and that all the collected snake venom is bought by a pharmaceutical company that makes this heart medication from the venom. This common drug lowers blood pressure I believe. One of the contestants was bitten during the contest, and nicotine was used to save her life.

The story went in one ear and out the other, until I listened to Tucker Carlson's interview of Andrew Tate
https://twitter.com/Mengoli/status/1684474931772280833?s=20
Near the end Tate mentions that he smokes cigars because of the "known fact" that nicotine increases testosterone levels. Hmmmm

Then I am told by a friend that the fact that nicotine benefits Parkinson's patients made national news, and she thought 'everybody knew it." See this forum post for details on Nicotine for Parkinson's
http://vitamincfoundation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15453&p=62754#p62754

What I learned from these links is that nicotine is NOT addictive !?! Last link in that topic I believe covers animal studies where they couldn't create a nicotine addictions in lab animals. They also point out that these nicotine patches have a high failure rate, and most people restart smoking. (It seems likely that something else in cigarettes is creating the strong addiction.)

My wife has Parkinson's and other "memory" issues, which I think I have been slowing improving following the Medical Mediums Brain Saver "heavy metal detox" protocols. I asked her neurologist about nicotine, and she hadn't heard about it either.

Last week I bought some nicotine patches (and gum) and the effect on her mind was startling and almost overnight. The first night (after chewing the nicotine gum on the way home from a store) we had a normal conversation in bed like the old days. We hadn't conversed in that way for at least five years. She was lucid. No hesitation in her speech, etc. She remembered several details in a movie we had watch two days prior. (storage/recall of long-term memories is her biggest problem outside of Parkinson's)

Unfortunately, this was just after a change (increase) in her Leva/Dopa Parkinson's medication, so it was hard to know for sure what happened. And with her newfound awareness of her surroundings, "Why doesn't my right had work?" she wanted to get up and start doing things (like cooking). Unforunately, her Parkinson's has yet to improve so her body isn't letting her do what her mind now wants to do. She can't sit still, is fidgety, After consultation with the neurologist, we decided to stop the nicotine and focus on how she reacts top the medication change.

Again, the change was like day and night after discontinuing the nicotine. The next morning she was "dazed and confused." She kept saying "I'm confused.." "I can't do that.." etc. The fidgeting was less, but it was still hard for her to sit still, like she has for years.

We have currently reset her Leva/Dopa dosage to what she had been taking for over a year. And as I told the neurologist, at some point we will be restarting the nicotine because she is much more of a partner with a mind improved by the nicotine patch. Memory, yes. So far, motor skills, not so much.

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I researched this for myself a couple years ago and was pretty astonished to come up with a favorable view of tobacco and I posted something here awhile ago with someone asking about nootropics and nicotine was one. Some books I used in my research:

Smoking is Good for You Dr. William Whitby
https://cfrankdavis.wordpress.com/2015/ ... d-for-you/

The Health Benefits of Tobacco William Campbell Douglass
https://www.scribd.com/book/234972062/T ... te-Smoking

Whitby's books you can find as a free download.

Glad to hear your wife did better cognitively with the patch, it has been studied to help cognitive function in Downs syndrome I think that is in Dr. Davis's book. My thing is I remember what I was taught about tobacco growing up that upon reflection seems to me somewhat political in nature and if you read Whitby there was some global warming-esque vehemence to the anti-smoking campaign that makes me suspicious. And it's also pretty clear that the famed smoking lung cancer link was actually really not that solid. It might be today since additives in cigarettes etc. I dunno.

Lots of interesting things about tobacco yes including that prehaps the apparently infamous I think 1964 Phillip Morris report to congress that nicotine was not addictive but simply an accustomed habit was perhaps accurate and scientifically sound.

I experimented with smoking a half pipe of organic tobacco once every other day then cut it down to once a week or less. I personally find that I think it is pleasant but I can take it or leave it and miss days weeks months without smoking and not feel compelled to smoke. At least one other pipe smoker I know has reported the same thing. That is contrary to my lifelong view of tobacco that I would become rapidly addicted and even inhaling it second hand is dangerous.

Dr. Levy says smoking disrupts your oral microbe balance so theres that. I do oral sanitation and take extra vitamin C for the smoking--C depletion of what 65 mg or something I recall.

If you'd like to borrow Dr. Davis' pdf book I can email it to you if you're strapped for the $5 or so it costs I hope he wouldn't mind.

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Thanks for these pointers. I am not promoting smoking, per se, and it must be something else in the average cigarette causing what is the strongest addiction known. And if not cancer, there are other serious lung issues, e.g. COPD .But it was a surprise the isolated nicotine is not addictive and has so many beneficial health effects, probably from interacting with the brain's dopamine receptors.

And we are lucky these nicotine patches are available over the counter.

Another point is that when they were looking at smokers trying to link lung cancer to smoking epidemiologically, the fact that smokers had far less Parkinson's disease "popped out."

What is the natural brand of pipe tobacco?

My son found a "natural" brand of cigarette that he smokes occasionally, and has not felt any addictive pull what-so-ever. I'll edit with the brand.

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American Spirit brand has an organic tobacco that is just organically grown leaves no preservatives or additives so they say. You can also buy organic whole leaf tobacco. I grew some in the garden and it was pretty good though I am not sure how to dry or cure it.

I am not sure about smoking either but according to Dr.Douglass, pipe and cigar where you do not inhale are safer than cigarette with the paper, and water pipe is above pipe and cigar in terms of health. Again, not sure it's 100% healthy but it is interesting that people like the UN are still incredibly against it and trying to eliminate tobacco use compared to their other health-related priorities.

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American Spirit is the brand my son smokes. I'd be tempted, but its just not not inhaling, its creating what amounts to air pollution you are breathing. All the smoke in the air.... your own private Canadian smoke.....

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Yeah, there's charcoal filter pipes charcoal filter after water pipe probably near top of reducing pollution but dunno how much toxins you are getting even then.

Thought you might be interested in this document "Big Drug's Nicotine War" by Wanda Hamilton it deals with the history of the nicotine patch and has a very interesting section on "Nicotine: The Wonder Drug." Some implications in there for post-covid or shot problems I venture to say also mental health. Can email it it won't let me attach it nor can I find a link to it

Nicotine: The Wonder Drug

"The importance of nicotine's safety, especially its long-term safety, is related not only to its role
in the cessation of smoking but also to its potential role in the treatment of many clinical
conditions."

Alexander Glassman, M.D., Book Review of Nicotine Safety and Toxicity, Ed. by Neal L. Benowitz,
NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1998, in The New England Journal of Medicine, 2/18/99.
Some of the already established pharmacologic applications of nicotine include: pain relief, relief of anxiety
and depression; improvement in concentration and performance in those with attention deficit hyperactivity
disorders; relief of some of the symptoms of acute schizophrenia; relief of some of the symptoms of
Tourette's syndrome; relief of some of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease; and relief of some of the
symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.

New, cutting-edge research indicates even greater medical applications for nicotine:
"This study demonstrates that nicotine stimulates recovery from brain damage and the results
are discussed in relation to neural mechanism and potential applications." (Brown RW, Gonzalez
CL, Whishaw IQ, Kolb B, Nicotine improvement of Morris water task performance after fimbria-fornix
lesion is blocked by mecamylamine, Behav Brain Research, Mar 15, 2001.)

The research, involving animal studies, showed that the nicotine agent created more new
blood vessels in blocked arteries than any other known growth factor. The new agent could be
used to treat failing hearts and limbs with poor circulation. It holds the potential for nonsurgical
heart by-pass procedures. (Company Press Release, Research Indicating That Nicotine Holds
Potential for Non-Surgical Heart By-Pass Procedures Honored by the American College of Cardiology,
3/17/00)

Nicotine might be a surprising alternative someday for treating stubborn forms of
tuberculosis The compound stopped the growth of tuberculosis in laboratory tests, even
when used in small quantities, said Saleh Naser, an associate professor of microbiology and
molecular biology at UCF.... Naser said nicotine worked better than about 10 other substances
also tested. ( Shocker: Villain nicotine slays TB, Robyn Suriano, Orlando Sentinel, 5/22/01).

In addition, nicotine can exert a neuroprotective effect by attenuation of AA-induced
upregulation of nNOS metabolism. These data may have therapeutic implication for the
treatment of acute spinal cord trauma. (Toborek M, Garrido R, Malecki A, Kaiser S, et al, Nicotine
Attenuates Arachidonic Acid-Induced Overexpression of Nitric Oxide Synthase in Cultured Spinal Cord
Neurons, Experimental Neurology, 161(2), Feb 2000).

According to a new study, nicotine may reduce cramping and other symptoms of colitis, a
painful intestinal disease that affects hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. and millions
around the world. The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (Mar 1, 1997),
could lead to better treatment for the estimated 320,000 people who suffer from ulcerative
colitis in the US. (AP, Mar 1, 1997).

Possible use of nicotine in the prevention of classical Kaposi's sarcoma with KS herpes virus
infection. (Goedert J, Vitale F, Lorenzo G, Romano N, National Cancer Institute, Classical Kaposi's
Sarcoma With KS Herpes Virus Infection: Reduced Risk with Cigarette Smoking, Proceedings of the
American Association for Cancer Research, Vol 42, March 2001).

Treatment of clinical depression. That could mean a whole new arena for new antidepressant
drugs. It's quite possible you could make derivatives of nicotine that wouldn't have the
medical complications of nicotine but could prove very useful in the treatment of clinical
depression. Dr. Alexander Glassman, chief of clinical psychopharmacology at Columbia University's New York State Psychiatric Institute (quoted in Kicking Habit Kicks Up Depression, Neil Sherman, HealthScout,
6/19/01).

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Wow!

I may have mentioned elsewhere that the effects on my wife (she has some memory/cognitive difficulties in addition to the motor problems caused by Parkinson's) is IMMEDIATE. After one day, it was like her mind turned on. No delay. And when I stopped the patch, the next day her mind turned back OFF.

It was very encouraging to read the research summaries above. Thank you! (At some future point I may focus more on nicotine. At this point, there are bigger fish to fry, e.g. Myocarditis! And figuring out how to keep my company in business with the hyper inflation that seems to be hitting us.)

I know that we are sticking with the Nicotine patch, and thanks to the ancient science, I know the memory and Parkinson's are caused by "heavy metals" in the brain (not viruses) which interfere with the electrical nature of the brain.

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Yeah, tough times financially wish you the best, having struggles myself with not much income and grocery store eating up everything. Yeah myocarditis is problem, my "new" idea of things is that based on interview I heard with market research guy Edward Dowd on Dr. Drew that the health claims in England are exploding but supposedly all with -itis. That is, inflammation--IMO caused by foreign proteins etc. in different body systems. And the biggest category is "hematological" with some 500% increase over the other at "only" 150% or so. Which is consistent with a) Dr. McCullough calling covid a "blood disease" that can leave something behind to cause "post covid" and b)the persistent spike protein hypothesis as Dr. McCullough says "cannot be broken down with human enzymes." So ATM I'm thinking this is what the problem is whether due to the probable bioengineered virus or the vaccine, the graphene etc. hypotheses there is not this much great evidence for I am thinking. So, "Base spike detox" with special emphasis on anti-inflammatory w/ blood cleansing and blood renewal are the features that seem to be desirable and a pretty good fit for what is happening. High dose C of course too. Just my inexpert opinion really wanting a certain answer and less speculation as to nefarious probabilities which may be true.

From Dr. Douglass' "Health Benefits of Tobacco" might be relevent as to your experience even though its for Downs syndrome:

Effects of Transdermal Nicotine on Cognitive Performance in Down's
Syndrome http://193.78.190.200/13/tlj.htm
We investigated the effect of nicotine-agonistic stimulation with 5 mg
transdermal patches, compared with placebo, on cognitive performance in
five adults with the disorder. Improvements possibly related to attention and
information processing were seen for Downs syndrome patients compared
with healthy controls. Our preliminary findings are encouraging. More
benefits of nicotine. Of course, it is politically incorrect to say that this is a
benefit of smoking - only of the pharmaceutically-produced transdermal
nicotine, the one that is terribly addictive if delivered through cigarettes, but
not addictive at all, and even beneficial, when delivered through patches..
Antismoking nonsense aside, nicotine gets into the body regardless of the
means of delivery. And more evidence about the benefits seems to emerge quite
of-ten, though the small size of this study cannot certainly be taken as
conclusive.

Another thing Dr. Douglass mentions elsewhere for cognitive improvement is the Indian herb Bacopa. Anyway, interesting stuff.

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Reversing Parkinson's, Type 1 Diabetes, Brain Tumor Growth, Myocarditis - Dr. Bryan Ardis
https://rumble.com/v2yeft0-233-reversing-parkinsons-type-1-diabetes-brain-tumor-growth-myocarditis-dr..html

This is a great overview of Nicotine, and its role in health. Dr. ARDIS's theory is the COVID is really derived from snake's venom. CoVID could itself be a flu-like virus for transmissibility and everything in this video could still be true. Especially the part about the spike protein being identical to snake venom neurotoxin. Good information about the safe nicotine patches (Rugby and Lucy?)

I'll post this same post in other related topics.

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George Burns "15-20 cigars a day.. my doctor is dead"

youtube direct link
https://youtu.be/1kAxWFju4EY