This episode covers topics from the pharmacy to the farmyard, with lots of tangents. Experience the music of felines before you learn just how sneaky supplement companies can be. Then, fix yourself a PB&J sandwich while you learn all about goat reproduction. Also, electron cliches.

• 6:15 – Balance D by NeuroScience’s Pamphlet Citations:
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• Hauser, RA. “What is the recommended dosage for levodopa and a dopa decarboxylase inhibitor in the management of Parkinson disease (PD)?” Medscape.com 8/29/2019
• Supplementary Supplement Research:
  • Adebowale YA, Adeyemi A, Oshodi AA (2005), Variability in the physicochemical, nutritional and antinutritional attributes of six Mucuna species. Food Chemistry 89:37-48.
  • Adebowale YA, Adeyemi IA, Oshodi AA, Niranjan K (2007), Isolation, fractionation and characterisation of proteins from Mucuna bean. Food Chemistry 104:287-299.
  • Ejere VC, Ugwu GC, Chukwuka CO, Nnamonu EI (2015), Effects of aqueous extracts of Mucuna sloanei (Fabaceae) seed on haematological parameters of albino rats (Rattus novergicus). African Journal of Biotechnology 14:2088-2094.
  • Ezeagu I, Maziya-Dixon B, Tarawali G (2003), Seed characteristics and nutrient and antinutrient composition of 12 Mucuna accessions from Nigeria. Tropical and subtropical Agroecosystems 1:129-139.
  • Firth J, Teasdale SB, Allott K, Siskind D, Marx W, Cotter J, Veronese N, Schuch F, et al. (2019), The efficacy and safety of nutrient supplements in the treatment of mental disorders: a meta‐review of meta‐analyses of randomized controlled trials. World Psychiatry 18:308-324.
  • Rayman MP (2012), Selenium and human health. Lancet 379:1256-1268.
  • Rushworth GF, Megson IL (2014), Existing and potential therapeutic uses for N-acetylcysteine: the need for conversion to intracellular glutathione for antioxidant benefits. Pharmacol Ther 141:150-159.
  • Schmitt B, Vicenzi M, Garrel C, Denis FM (2015), Effects of N-acetylcysteine, oral glutathione (GSH) and a novel sublingual form of GSH on oxidative stress markers: A comparative crossover study. Redox Biol 6:198-205.
  • Spencer JP, Jenner P, Daniel SE, Lees AJ, Marsden DC, Halliwell B (1998), Conjugates of catecholamines with cysteine and GSH in Parkinson’s disease: possible mechanisms of formation involving reactive oxygen species. Journal of neurochemistry 71:2112-2122.
  • Stansley BJ, Yamamoto BK (2015), L-Dopa and Brain Serotonin System Dysfunction. Toxics 3:75-88.
• 28:15 – Study of sexual behaviours with different types of estrus synchronization protocols in Boer goats (Salleh, Basri, & Yaakub, 2021)
• 53:40 – Our Parents’ Lives p. 141 (Cowan, 1989)
• Outro song: Mikey And His Uke Production of Ramones ‘Bonzo goes to Bitburg’ Cover – Feat: Offspring, Millencolin, Interrupters, Flatliners, etc.

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