Most Delicious Poison
The Story of Nature's Toxins--From Spices to Vices
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ISBN-13:
9780316386678
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.11.2024
Seiten:
336
Autor:
Noah Whiteman
Format:
210x140x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
A deadly secret lurks within our spice racks, medicine cabinets, backyard gardens, and private stashes. Scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxglove leaf, a magic-mushroom cap, a marijuana bud, or an apple seed, and we find a bevy of strange chemicals. We use these to greet our days (caffeine), titillate our tongues (capsaicin), recover from surgery (opioids), cure infections (penicillin), mend our hearts (digoxin), bend our minds (psilocybin), calm our nerves (CBD), and even kill our enemies (cyanide). But why do plants and fungi produce such chemicals? And how did we come to use and abuse some of them? Based on cutting-edge science in the fields of evolution, chemistry, and neuroscience, Most Delicious Poison reveals:
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