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sigh - in mice.

• donkey_brains 4mo ago
  This explains a lot about that mouse who got a cookie and subsequently wanted a lot of other food
• ck2 4mo ago
  well they have to start somewhere, bringing new medical drugs to market is a decade long project and even worse it has to be profitable even if it works to make it to production I searched clinicaltrials.gov for geraniol and there is sadly nothing I'll have to try to email the researchers to see what they are up to next Maybe geraniol can be extracted from other plants that are not on any federal drug schedules, that would change everything and allow it to be marketed as a food supplement which would effectively not have any regulation at all ps. chatgpt says Geraniol is abundant in rose oil, palmarosa oil, citronella oil, and lemongrass oil which gives other legal OTC options it also points out they used a MASSIVE dose in the mice to get just a few hours of pain relief there is also a legally prescribed medication called Istradefylline that does the same thing as Geraniol pps. ChatGPT also says Palmitoylethanolamide is likely far more effective than Geraniol (and Palmitoylethanolamide is already legal as OTC supplement)
  • jfengel 4mo ago
    It's literally named after geraniums.