Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Mechanism five, calming neuroinflammation.

A 2017 study in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology found that Bacopa extracts reduce the release of inflammatory signals like TNF-alpha and IL-6 from microglia, the brain's resident immune cells.

Chronic, low-grade inflammation in the brain is increasingly linked to cognitive aging.

So this is a meaningful pathway.

A 2012 systematic review in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine looked at trials in healthy adults using 300 to 450 mg of Bacopa extract daily.

Bacopa improved performance on 9 of the 17 tests of free recall, remembering information without prompts, but there was little evidence of improvement in other areas of thinking.

A 2014 meta-analysis in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology pooled nine trials with 518 participants, all lasting at least 12 weeks.

Bacopa shortened time on the trail-making B test, a measure of attention and mental flexibility, and reduced... choice, reaction, time.

I just couldn't get past his rate of speech and then the barefootedness.

He was a Harvard ethnobotanist and he presented a pharmacological case for zombies in a 1983 article in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology and later in two popular books, The Serpent and the Rainbow and Passage of Darkness, the Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie.

You've heard the notion that zombies were poisoned to the brink of death and then brought back.

I briefly mentioned it but this is the guy who really pushes this idea into the forefront.

[laughs] Yeah.

Um, which actually I read a paper in The Journal of Ethnopharmacology, which I don't really know how trustworthy it is.

[laughs] Um, but it was about a team of Polish researchers trying to recreate theriac, which apparently was, like, quite the ordeal.

Apparently they got, like, all their credit cards, like, information stolen trying to order, like, random resins from Indonesia-

Its extract promotes pro-collagen production and inhibits matrix... problems in human skin fibroblasts.

Look at the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Volume 119.

Also look at the effect of amla fruit on blood glucose and lipid profiles.

That means cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, fibrinogen, and other fats.