Originally, Coca-Cola was available at your local pharmacy because it was mickeyed with cocaine, the Coca part (The Straight Dope: Is it true Coca-Cola once contained cocaine?). Then, after the prudes got involved and ruined everybody's fun, Coke made a big show of leaving the narcotic out. Did Coke ever sneak the cocaine back into the super-secret recipe? One of my IBM clients, an insurance agency, had a company lunchroom which featured a small dispenser with Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew and Fanta Orange soda, from which the employees were free to indulge themselves, pretty much without limit. According to the office manager, running of the latter three brands was no problem; those who drank those three sodas took the temporary loss of their favorite pop in stride; but … run out of Coke and the Coke drinkers, within minutes, turned into addicts in cold-turkey delirium and rage. OK. Just an anecdote.
My sources, however, told me that Stepan Chemical imported tons, literally, of coca leaves much of which was processed for clandestine usage in Coke … which would explain the insurance agency shooting gallery scenario … and, uh, my own bout with a nasty Coke habit … 2 6-packs/day. Now, of course, the two links below provide two more devils in the Coke. Good thing I swore off before HFCS and Coke in plastic.
High Fructose Corn Syrup Even Worse than We've Been Told
Url: http://articles.mercola.com/
Could Bisphenol A Cause Women Infertility?
Url: http://articles.mercola.com/
This a similar problem as that described in the previous post re: Pogo's warning, namely, the addition of adjuvants in vaccines which effectively mimic substances that naturally-occur in the human body. BPA mimics bodily hormones, that is, BPA has a molecular structure that fools receptors in cell walls to permit BPA to be inserted (as a ligand, which is like a key that fits into a receptor) as though it were a natural hormone. Since BPA, once inserted into a receptor, does not behave like the natural hormone, cellular function is, obviously, thrown off, that is, free radicals may be produced, directly or indirectly, by cells in response to the faulty signals caused by BPA. See, e.g., The Technology of the Original Sin posting for the consequences of too many free radicals.
BPA doesn't provoke an immune response directly, but free radical production does; thus, BPA, in a 2-step process, may eventually bring about a so-called autoimmune cascade. Since the human body has the capacity to "learn" how to fight off specific conditions, an habitual supply of BPA may trigger the "autoimmune" response to the hormones that BPA mimics. So, infertility, as shown by Dr. M's list of health problems caused by BPA, is only one of many caused by BPA confusion.
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