Nicotine - The antibacterial side of things

I regards to the positive effects from Nicotine and posts that have been coming up lately - I've always found this aspect (antibacterial) interesting in correlation with benefits people see.

Keep meaning to post on this to make others aware that aside from immune system/inflammation effect it may actually be working via another route... but again I'm all over the bacteria argument or bacteria side of things, haha...

Zinc ties into this to.. adding the two together. Zinc prevents certain pathogenic bacteria from being able to access manganese required to infect humans. I think there was an article on this tonight somewhere but I forget where I read it. Anyway:

Example:

Antimicrobial effects of Nicotine against a spectrum of bacterial and fungal pathogens
jmm.sgmjournals.org/content/49/7/675.long

transdermal = the boob patch

Haha.. to funny.

I tried the patch once but it was super itchy on my upper body so I moved it to my butt as well... or sometimes on my leg. That might be his reason to, or well, we're both weird...

There's a few other studies on this as well. On here, in past discussions and posts it was always about the effects on Seratonin and 5HT receptors etc..

www.academia.edu/2939817/Antibacterial_activities_of_Nicotine_and_its_Zinc_complex

There's a some others that equate it (the patch nicotine) being akin to IV antibiotic type thing - or blood route antibiotic.

Great post! There are 2 aspects to nicotine which correlate to the 2 aspects of the disease (as I see it - and I'm no expert- based on what I have read). There is the immune component and the microbiome component, and the two interact with each other. It appears that nicotine has antibacterial properties as well as the ability to modulate the immune system. See: [url]http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/documentStore/n/a/m/nam25c00/Snam25c00.pdf