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But I think chronic use is very bad from a cardiorespiratory standpoint.

So using it regularly, I think, is very bad.

Using it from like on a like acutely, we don't have the data to say that that has, you know, any significant negative downside.

It's not a carcinogen.

And I'm talking about like pouches, like like just nicotine.

I'm not talking about combustible pouches or patches.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Carcinogens and volatile organic organic compounds and the like.

There is some data like very tenuous at this point, data suggesting that nicotine might play a protective role against Parkinson's disease.

There is this weird, super paradoxical line of research linking cigarette smoking to a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease, which is very odd because smoking is a risk factor for everything else, pretty much Alzheimer's disease and the like.

But for some reason, smokers have a lower risk of Parkinson's disease.

And there have been some mechanistic like animal studies linking nicotine specifically to a sort of, you know, anti-inflammatory antioxidant ability in the brain that might help it, you know, in a way defend itself against toxic exposure.

We don't have like solid human data yet to say that with certainty.

So I want people to be really careful.

I'm not saying that nicotine is good for the brain.

We need more data to say that for sure.

And I do think that there are very significant cardiovascular downsides, like chronic use of nicotine

you know, increases heart rate, it increases blood pressure, you just don't want to do it chronically, I think.

And nicotine is a highly addictive chemical.