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- noun Plural form of
exorphin .
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Examples
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BCM7 has been shown to cause reactions in gut cells (The influence of casein-derived exorphins on mast cells in rodents M. Stępnik, M. Kurek, Journal: Revue francaise d'allergologie et d'immunologie clinique, ISSN: 0335-7457, Vol: 39, Issue:, Date: 1999, Pages: 57-59).
More A2 Milk Nonsense Steve Carper 2008
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Back to Turkey … in the process of my search for citations of Wadley and Martin's article linking cereal and milk exorphins to the rise of both farming and civilization I came across some interesting data I thought might be of interest, from an anthropological survey of dental health in Anatolia from hunter-gathering times to the present that also happens to cite Wadley & Martin Koca et al., 2006.
Nutrition and health in agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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That's the intriguing idea that the exorphins dietary opioids present in cereals and milk may be a key to explaining both the origins of agriculture and of the behavioural changes that made civilization possible:
Nutrition and health in agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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Thus major civilisations have in common that their populations were frequent ingesters of exorphins.
Nutrition and health in agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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Klee, W., 1979, Opioid peptides derived from food proteins: the exorphins Journal of Biological Chemistry 254: 244S9.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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These ‘exorphins’ are not of carbohydrate origin but of protein origin instead, resulting from proteins that are not completely digested.
Nutrition and health in agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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Klee, W., 1979, Opioid peptides derived from food proteins: the exorphins Journal of Biological Chemistry 254: 244S9.
ARCHAEOLOGY POETICS 2009
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Though it was, we suggest, the presence of exorphins that caused cereals and not an alternative already prevalent in the diet to be the major early cultigens, this does not mean that cereals are ‘just drugs’.
Help with your Christmas shopping | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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People who succeeded in eating sizeable amounts of cereal seeds discovered the rewarding properties of the exorphins contained in them.
Help with your Christmas shopping | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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Wheat, for example, produces two or three potent exorphins that can have an opiate-like effect.
Eades/Cordain Tahoe picnic | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
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