Alkaloids are organic molecules containing at least one nitrogen atom in their structure, which is essential for their interaction with body proteins.

“So alkyoid is a organic molecule that has at least a nitrogen in its structure. So it it has to be nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen. It can or cannot have oxygen. Um, but those are essentially the the template for what we would define as an alkyoid. And then there's various classes of alkyoids. Um, many things that people are familiar with. Dopamine, serotonin, these are alkyoids. Um, but we could go further. We just talked about caffeine. Caffeine's an alkyoid. Uh cocaine's an alkaloid. Morphine's an alkyoid. Um, so all of these molecules contain a nitrogen um that that is core to part of their activity. What we believe is essential for them to interact with the proteins in the body.”