Dry January: is giving up booze beneficial?
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Can Alcarrel Be a Substitute of Alcohol?
We think that what we're doing targeting the gabber system minimizes, I can't say it completely eliminates but we think it will minimize risk of dependence. And presumably because there isn't that cumulative effect with dose it's less likely that someone would become hooked on this. The plan is to have and I have a bottle of it here and a synthetic molecule which we call Alcarrel. It's a direct pun on candor, Alcanderrel was a molecule developed to give you the pleasure of sugar the sweetness without the calories. We see this as being an ingredient that can be used extensively as an alternative to alcohol.
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