2) neurotransmitter - aspartame breaks down into PEA (phenylethylamine)?
- Claytons Kola Tonic seems to be doing same - thing - I'm quite high. But is this just sugar and caffeine? Doesn't feel like it.
What's difference between Phenol and phenyl?
Phenol is also known as Phenylic Acid
More on the debate
Chocolate, after all, is the nearest thing to a drug you can legally buy if you're eight years old.
It contains three psychoactive chemicals - caffeine, theobromine and phenylethylamine - as well as a variety of sugars. Sugar gives a sudden charge of energy while caffeine's mild amphetamine rush is well known. Theobromine is one of nature's Prozac replacements and phenylethylamine is a mood enhancer. It's the theobromine and the phenylethylamine which give rise to the rumour that chocolate simulates love. They are suspended in a fat, cocoa butter, which is the only stuff in the world that melts at exactly body temperature. The moment you put chocolate in your mouth it spreads out softly, delivering little packets of sugar, caffeine, theobromine and phenylethylamine right into all those pleasure receptors on your tongue. No wonder we love it.
D-phenylalanine (DPA), can be synthesized artificially. D-phenylalanine can be converted only into phenylethylamine.Guess what - Kola nut contains Caffeine (alkaloid) and phenol, too -
On the other hand, many studies and research works made on kola products proved that its beneficial action was due not only to its caffeine content but also and more particularly to the combined form in which this caffeine is present therein, as it constitutes an unstable association of alcaloids and phenol compounds.
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