Caffeine Is A Strong Antibacterial Agent

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As such, it may be useful instead of antibiotics or in addition to the carrot salad and/or charcoal for the purposes of clearing up SIBO and other stomach problems.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125025

"...Caffeine and aminophylline had the ability to inhibit many strains of pathogenic bacteria."
 

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Is that why Coke can be left at room temperature and never spoil, despite it being mainly water and sugar?
 
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jyb said:
Is that why Coke can be left at room temperature and never spoil, despite it being mainly water and sugar?

That, and probably its phosphoric acid content as well.
 

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According to the figures in the study the concentration necessary to inhibit growth of bacteria is 10 mg/ml. Is this achievable in the gut?

A previous study has shown that purine compounds have both in vitro and in vivo efficacy in inhibiting a special group of skin pathogenic fungi (dermatophytes).
This could be interesting for people with fungal infections of the skin or nails (or hair).
 
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According to the figures in the study the concentration necessary to inhibit growth of bacteria is 10 mg/ml. Is this achievable in the gut?


This could be interesting for people with fungal infections of the skin or nails (or hair).

It's one of the reasons I added caffeine to Oxidal. Given that both are very good anti-fungal and anti-viral agents, it should be useful for fungal issues like athletes foot on skin and nails. That concentration is too high to achieve in vivo, but the methylene blue is strong enough and even a little extra caffeine helps. Aspirin and its metabolite benzoic acid (which is also in Oxidal) is also a strong anti-microbial agent and apparently it is the main defensive hormone in plants against fungi, bacteria and viruses. See below.
Salicylic Acid: A Plant Hormone - Springer
Salicylate, A New Plant Hormone
Salicylic Acid, a Plant Defense Hormone, Is Specifically Secreted by a Molluscan Herbivore
http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/02/28/jxb.err031.full
 

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