German's testing an anti-stupid pill

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:08 pm

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German scientist has been testing an "anti-stupidity" pill with encouraging results on mice and fruit flies, Bild newspaper reported on Saturday.

It said Hans-Hilger Ropers, director at Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, has tested a pill thwarting hyperactivity in certain brain nerve cells, helping stabilise short-term memory and improve attentiveness.

"With mice and fruit flies we were able to eliminate the loss of short-term memory," Ropers, 62, is quoted saying in the German newspaper, which has dubbed it the "world's first anti-stupidity pill."

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chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:10 pm

So we won't have stupid flies anymore?

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:14 pm

chonsigirl wrote: So we won't have stupid flies anymore?

Smart mice, too, it seems.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 2:19 pm

*rats*:)

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:14 pm

Clancy wrote: I think they've been on the go for a while. I've been getting my multi vitamin pills from Berlin for over a month.

......I can play the piano now, and I'm thinking about joining in with political debates in here

.:wah: :wah: Cheers x

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:49 pm

Can we put this in the water supply? The way they add flouride? PLEASE?

koan · Post by **koan** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:42 pm

If you're after memory improvement, that's what ginko biloba is for.

Otherwise:

Cognitol is made from Celastrus paniculatus oil, a cold-pressed raw herbal oil expressed from the seeds of Celastrus panuculatis, a shrub native to India

improves intelligence with the added benefit of aphrodisiac.