Talk:Casomorphin
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Do casomorphins have an opiate effect in humans? This is a claim I've seen in some vegan sources (most notably from Morgan Spurlock's girlfriend in "Super Size Me", who says that it's why cheese is addictive), but I haven't seen any scientists verify that this is so. --207.47.0.242 (talk) 18:22, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I appreciate the article since I'm learning about possible effects of casein on autistic behavior. I'm an amateur about milk chemistry, but isn't whey one type of protein, and casein another? The first sentence makes it sound like casein is a component of whey.
Also, it might be good to state that casomorphins are also a byproduct of human milk (and probably any mammalian milk)- according to the abstracts I've read on Pubmed. Because of the different amino acid sequence in Cow's milk, Beta-casomorphin 7 is much more potent than in human milk, according to Pubmed abstracts.--Hudej 07:04, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
- I too must say the first sentence currently makes no sense in my eyes: Casomorphin is a peptide sequence that is found in whey protein called casein, [...]...? --Abdull 12:07, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Some leads...
This might prove helpful:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1374738&dopt=Abstract
Scatterwaul 15:55, 28 July 2006 (UTC)Scatterwaul
[edit] A concerned reader =
This is an extremely and alarmingly bad addition to the wikipedia. It is as presented (and as noted by the addendum "entries-with-no-citations") pathetic: it guns for pathos, i.e. our emotions -- we all want safe food for ourselves and our families.
But we also want reliable information from our wikipedia. A minimal demand of such information is that we can follow its paper trail. There are two outcomes of this insistence: (1) the author gets kudos for clever summarization and/or building and/or critique upon previous work or (2) the writer is exposed as not understanding what has come before.
In the absence of engagement with previous literature, a reasonable reader can only assume that they are dealing with dilettantes.
In short: I know squat about casein. But I do know that this wikipedia article amounts to a soapbox (while nonetheless hoping they it can be supplied with motivation for any claims that are made in the existing article). Keeping this article as is radically diminishes the wikipedia.
