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Researchers Found Perfect Contraceptives In Traditional Chinese Medicine (inverse.com)
hackingbear writes:
Researchers at U.C. Berkeley found a birth control that was hormone-free, 100 percent natural, resulted in no side effects, didn't harm either eggs nor sperm, could be used in the long-term or short-term, and -- perhaps the best part of all -- could be used either before or after conception, from ancient Chinese folk medicine... "Because these two plant compounds block fertilization at very, very low concentrations -- about 10 times lower than levels of levonorgestrel in Plan B -- they could be a new generation of emergency contraceptive we nicknamed 'molecular condoms,'" team leader Polina Lishko.
Used after conception for emergency contraception but works by preventing the sperm and egg meeting, that is contradictory.
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Reading /. or Reddit? Living in your parents' basement?
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I read somewhere that ancient Egyptian women used crocodile dung as a contraceptive sponge.
Well, the actual paper was published very recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, which is reputable. They don't seem to be selling anything.
http://www.pnas.org/content/ea...
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But there are two plant compounds that can prevent sperm from doing this, no matter how valiantly they may try — lupeol, found in mango and dandelion root, and pristimerin, from a plant called the “thunder god vine,”
"Thunder God Vine" prevents pregnancy, but sounds like a great name for your penis.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
it is now illegal to grow mango and dandelions as well as a plant called the “thunder god vine." Raids on houses with dandelion infestations are expected to commence forthwith; with inhabitants potentially facing "growing dandelions with intent to distribute" for larger infestations. Right to Life organizations hail the new laws as a great step in protecting future unborn Republicans.
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I read the article. This works by preventing fertilisation of the egg. "Conception", if it is defined separately from fertilisation (often they are used as synonyms), is the implantation of a fertilised egg into the womb.
So this can't be used as an emergency contraceptive as weirdly claimed, and the excerpt of the journal that is reported in the article didn't claim it can. Seems the article author just made it up, to get more clicks.
What stage of grief is 'idiotic snark'?
Get on with it.
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The article claims it can be used as contraception "after conception," which is an oxymoron for a start. There's detail in there about how it stops sperm swimming, but nothing about the mechanism behind it stopping fertilized eggs from implanting, which is (obliquely) claimed.
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And we should trust them for birth control advice?
China had the one-child policy between 1979 and 2015. This was changed to become a two-child policy. Either there hasn't been much sex going on since 1979 or they have had to be creative.
Birth control pills are often taken not because a woman wants to prevent an unplanned pregnancy but because such hormones help deal with acne.
He failed at his own joke. What a nerd.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
And we should trust them for birth control advice?
None of the researchers are Chinese, either by ethnicity or nationality.
Someone swoop in there and patent it out from under the locals!
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This is another PR statement that inflates the actual findings so much that they become unrecognizable. For those interested in the details, the original article is here (it is paywalled). The TL;DR version of the original article is as follows:
These were the finding of the papers. Now look at the claims in the PR statement:
I wouldn't call forced abortions creative.
I'm dying from laughing. I really hope that's an AI bot. You wouldn't think penis jokes from a robot would be funny, but it is.
What stops them saying that anyways? Isn't that what they are already doing when selling that shit?
Birth control is best in layers, so socks and sandals, unkept beard while carrying a D&D rule book will do the trick for sure.
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The two-child policy was enacted due to the cultural issues surrounding having a daughter as your only child.
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It is not a chemical made from some pharmacy R&D department so the FDA will label it as not proper for use.
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Given the number of attractive female gamers I know, D&D has actually been good for my love life. But maybe that's just me...
I'd have settled for Jeff Foxworthy in a pinch, but Martin Sheen would be better.
I'd argue that my unkempt beard and fedora is far more effective, m'lady.
The pony tattoo helps in your case.
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So when I read "about 10 times lower than levels of levonorgestrel in Plan B"
This comes off as crap designed to flog 'information' to the the ignorant public. But (and someone please correct me) this statement is meaningless. Any medication has an effective dosage, and method of function. Levonorgestrel and the chemicals mentioned in this article don't function in a similar manner. To compare the concentrations is meaningless, and leads people to believe in some false metric between them.
Sort of like how anonymous cowards, and apt name, destroyed /. long ago.
How many times have we heard this one? Oh, nevermind.
It all depends on your compiler flags.
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But by the time she could see that we'd already be in my bedroom?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Just because someone sent you a ruler where he wrote "feet" on a piece of tape and tacked it to the place that read "centimeters" doesn't make it so.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
We only need look at the historical, empirical evidence of China's well-managed - nay, optimized - population to conclude just how perfect such traditional contraceptives are.
In the Materials and Methods part of the PNAS article (it didn't seem paywalled to me, but I use Umatrix so the paywall script may not have loaded) they make it clear that this test was all done by people performing tests on sperm samples obtained by masturbation and subsequently purified with the swim-up technique. They showed that adding the chemicals to the purified sperm prevented the calcium channel of the sperm from being activated by progesterone. They didn't show that there's some pill one could safely take that would effectively deliver enough of these chemicals to sperm to act as a contraceptive under circumstances not involved with artificial insemination. This may be the first step on the way to a contraceptive, but unless ejaculating in advance and then mixing chemicals with your sperm can be part of your normal contraception routine, this is not actually a contraceptive.
socks may have had contact with lead do not lick. made in china.
I'd have settled for Jeff Foxworthy in a pinch, but Martin Sheen would be better.
I'd go with Ron White; he'd have the right combo of wit and snark to really make it work.
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What stage of grief is 'idiotic snark'?
Get on with it.
Probably the one Trump voters will start with when they realize the jobs aren't coming back, their benefits are being cut and they'll lose their health insurance all; but at least they've done their part to "Make America Great Again." One of my favorite lines was the Congressman from Alabama that argued against the ACA by asking why should healthy people pay for people who make poor lifestyle choices; while representing a state that is leading or near the top in obesity, lack of exercise and smoking. He needs to tell his constituents that they'll lose benefits and pay more because they made lifestyle choices that are bad.
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