Please comment by August 9, 2021 to tell HHS/WHO to please keep kratom legal worldwide. Politely share your kratom story here, make sure you get a confirmation email and tracking number, and under “What are you commenting about?” Select “International Government – I0037” https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/07/23/2021-15685/international-drug-scheduling-convention-on-psychotropic-substances-single-convention-on-narcotic?fbclid=IwAR1jTz7JSte491H5eTQBwjrivN4Y60s1t-kIPc1iy9UvnjfY2kkwHNFuBvM
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Today Dr. Jon and Brian look at a study from University of Science in Malaysia, testing whether kratom alkaloids can be “chemosensitizers”, in other words, help chemotherapy drugs in killing or slowing the proliferation of cancer cells. In this in vitro study on cancer cell lines, researchers found that a combination of the kratom alkaloids mitragynine and speciociliatine helped the chemo drug cisplatin in slowing and killing throat cancer cells. The research also showed that any combination of kratom alkaloids does NOT slow or kill cancer cells on its own. Plus, Dr. Jon talks about the latest on cancer and cannabis/cannabinoids. We end with talking about the HHS comment period and potential international controls on kratom in the future.
Study referenced in this podcast:
Domnic, G., Jeng-Yeou Chear, N., Abdul Rahman, S. F., Ramanathan, S., Lo, K. W., Singh, D., & Mohana-Kumaran, N. (2021). Combinations of indole based alkaloids from Mitragyna speciosa (Kratom) and cisplatin inhibit cell proliferation and migration of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell lines. Journal of ethnopharmacology, 279, 114391. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2021.114391
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make sure to be letting people know to also be backing up their formal comment/testemonial on protectkratom.org (aka site) as aka has discovered fda has no obligation to deliver ANY of the formal comments to the international organizations who are to consider this subject. they are going to make sure all get delivered in person to those organizations in case fda doesn’t deliver any. so comment both places—formal registry and aka’s site.