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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words
ID: #35294
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Aspirins
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Aspirin is a popular painkiller, and chances are you have some in your medicine chest right now. You might even have some in your flesh-and-blood, put-a-shirt-on-it chest. Because a new study suggests that humans can make their own salicylic acid, which forms the bulk of aspirin's active ingredient. Scientists at Scotland's National Health Service previously observed that people can have salicylic acid in their blood even if they haven't recently swallowed an aspirin. Vegetarians have really high concentrations, which makes sense, given that plants make salicylic acid, so fruits and veggies are full of it. But their recent study suggests that not all of the chemical comes from the diet, because humans can take a precursor molecule and turn it into salicylic acid.
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