{"id":1048,"date":"2004-04-02T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2004-04-02T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T17:25:00","slug":"biochem-is-neat-or-just-enough-knowledge-to-be-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/02\/biochem-is-neat-or-just-enough-knowledge-to-be-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Biochem is neat&#8221; or &#8220;Just enough knowledge to be dangerous&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, while <a href=\"http:\/\/shimmeringjemmy.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">shimmeringjemmy<\/a> is recovering from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/shimmeringjemmy\/423966.html\">tonsillitis<\/a> I have been taking on the role of caregiver. She is now happily on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/shimmeringjemmy\/424435.html\">vicodin<\/a> for the pain.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I woke her at 8:20 to make sure she took her meds and let her get back to sleep. It&#8217;s not that she isn&#8217;t capable of taking care of herself, I just want her to relax and heal. I told her the time and got her meds for her. Sadly, I was unaware of the fact that she&#8217;d woken up at 5:00 and taken them then. Okay, two vicodin doses in 3 hours. Oops. I went to webMD. The sight has a javascript glitch. So I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erowid.org\/\">The Valuts of Erowid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After wandering around the site I discovered some really bizarre information that my utter minimal amount of Biochem knowledge found intriguing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more See now the connection between amphetamines, meth-amphetamines, chocolate, and caffiene!-->See now the connection between amphetimines, methamphetamines, chocolate, and caffiene!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the info<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Ampetamine<\/th>\n<th>MethAmphetamine<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img src=\"http:\/\/www.erowid.org\/chemicals\/amphetamines\/images\/archive\/amphetamine_3d.jpg\" height=\"150\"\/> <\/td>\n<td><img src=\"http:\/\/www.erowid.org\/chemicals\/meth\/images\/archive\/methamphetamine_3d.jpg\" height=\"150\"\/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td><img src=\"http:\/\/www.erowid.org\/chemicals\/chocolate\/images\/archive\/theobromine_3d.jpg\" height=\"150\"\/> <\/td>\n<td><img src=\"http:\/\/www.erowid.org\/chemicals\/caffeine\/images\/archive\/caffeine_3d.jpg\" height=\"150\"\/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Theobromine<br \/>(Chocolate)<\/th>\n<th> Caffeine <\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>(note: white = hydrogen, grey = carbon, blue = nitrogen)<\/p>\n<p>Now, what I find stunning is that in both sets, the differentiation  (from left to right) is the replacement of a hydrogen bonded to a nitrogen with a carbon bonded to that nitrogen with 3 more hydrogen. Now of course my chem is so lacking that I don&#8217;t quite remember what CH<sub>3<\/sub> is. CH<sub>4<\/sub> is methane. What&#8217;s even more interesting about caffeine is that if you reverse the CH<sub>3<\/sub>  on the other ring to H, the Caffeine becomes Theophylline, found predominately in tea.<\/p>\n<p>So whereas the addition of methyl compounds to amphetamines make meth-amphetamines&#8230; Apparently, caffeine is Meth-Chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone for a chocolate easter bunny?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1048\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/02\/biochem-is-neat-or-just-enough-knowledge-to-be-dangerous\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1048\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/02\/biochem-is-neat-or-just-enough-knowledge-to-be-dangerous\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-1048\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/02\/biochem-is-neat-or-just-enough-knowledge-to-be-dangerous\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/02\/biochem-is-neat-or-just-enough-knowledge-to-be-dangerous\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, while shimmeringjemmy is recovering from tonsillitis I have been taking on the role of caregiver. 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