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.