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Drink tonic water. Quinine’s close enough.
by brians 7y ago
Drink tonic water. Quinine’s close enough.
- QuantumGood 7y agoYou would have to drink about two liters of tonic water a day to consume a day’s dose of quinine in pill form. Which is doable, but exposes you to quinine side effects. Antimalarial compounds quinine, chloroquine and mefloquine affect the electrophysiological properties of Cys-loop receptors and have structural similarities to 5-HT3 receptor antagonists. So they might act at 5-HT3 receptors. In 2006, the FDA banned sale of unapproved drugs containing quinine because of the risk of serious side effects or death.
- chiph 7y agoI now have a good explanation for the boss why I'm drinking gin & tonics at work.. James Burke covered this in Connections² : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLa_IrAj-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLa_IrAj-o
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y agoConnections was- and probably still is- my favorite show I've ever seen. I watched it when I was very young and it really shaped my view on the world and helped me learn to love history and the stories in it. Also made me realize that originality and ownership of ideas is way more complicated than i'd thought.