Smoke Your Way to Good Health
My lifelong cigarette hobby finally looks like paying off: "Nicotine may be suggested as a potential preventive agent against Covid-19 infection."
My lifelong cigarette hobby finally looks like paying off:
Nicotine may be suggested as a potential preventive agent against Covid-19 infection. Both the epidemiological/clinical evidence and the in silico findings may suggest that Covid-19 infection is a nAChR disease that could be prevented and may be controlled by nicotine.
Nicotine would then sterically or allosterically compete with the SARS-CoV-2 binding to the nAChR. This legitimates the use of nicotine as a protective agent against SARS-CoV-2 infection and the subsequent deficits it causes in the CNS.
â€The research echoed similar findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine last month...the theory is that nicotine could adhere to cell receptors, therefore blocking the virus from entering cells and spreading in the bodyâ€https://t.co/tZifefsPLN
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) April 23, 2020
Thus, in order to prevent the infection and the retro-propagation of the virus through the CNS, we plan a therapeutic assay against Covid-19 with nicotine (and other nicotinic agents) patches or other delivery methods (like sniffing/chewing) in hospitalized patients and in the general population.
Screw that. Go for the rapid and health-maintaining nicotine delivery method known as smoking.
UPDATE:
Smoking may greatly reduce the chances of becoming infected with coronavirus, according to a French study https://t.co/PVC0HxTjrG
— The Times (@thetimes) April 24, 2020
UPDATE II. Neil the indented troll keeps trying to pick fights with fellow readers – and then he wonders why he’s always getting thrown out of here.
These comments were all knocked back:
Mark A
I wouldn't tell that to my kids
Doc Bud
That's not exactly a funny comment
Doc Bud
I don't really see any humour in your remark
He’s a male version of Meddlesome Ratbag.