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Hur hårt sliter efedrin på levern?
'Ephedrine is not very toxic...' - Chen & Schmidt, 1924
'Even in such large doses [ephedrine] did not do much damage, if any,...' - Chen, 1926
'Different workers agree that ephedrine has a... wide margin of safety.' - Chen, 1930
'Prolonged [use of ephedrine] has no cumulative effect...' - Martindale, 1993
Even a report from the U.S. government found that ephedrine was safe when given to animals in large doses on a long-term basis. Mice and rats were given large doses of ephedrine (equivalent to 1-9 times the maximum dose used by humans) for 2 years. The researchers' conclusions were:
There were no signs of long-term toxicity.
Animals given anything less than a lethal dose fully recovered with no ill effects.
There was no decrease in life span in ephedrine-fed animals; in fact, ephedrine increased the survival of female rats. (After 2 years 78% of female rats given ephedrine were still alive vs. only 54% of the control group.) It is also interesting to note that the ephedrine-fed animals maintained body weights that were 5-18% less than the controls. Ephedrine was an effective diet pill in these animals also. Ephedrine and caffeine certainly appear to be the 'ideal diet pill.'
Larry Hobbs writes a monthly column called 'Fat News' for Muscular Development magazine and a newsletter called Obesity Research Update. He is the author of several books including Ephedrine & Caffeine: The Ideal Diet Pill? The newsletter can be ordered from Pragmatic Press, PO Box 5777, Irvine, CA 92616, (800) 454 -1974, (714) 854-1549 fax.
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