An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
EPHEDRINE
ephedrine
(noun) white odorless powdered or crystalline alkaloid from plants of the genus Ephedra (especially Ephedra sinica) or made synthetically; used as a bronchodilator to treat bronchitis and asthma
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ephedrine (countable and uncountable, plural ephedrines)
(uncountable) An alkaloid, found in some species of Ephedra shrubs (or prepared synthetically).
(countable) A medication whose active ingredient is ephedrine, used as a sympathomimetic drug.
Source: Wiktionary
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