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"These frogs were compared to frogs not getting GTH. At 14 months, 91% of the frogs getting GHT were alive compared to 46% of those not given GTH. When the GTH was stopped at 26 months, the survival rate of the remaining frogs plummeted. Obviously, GTH is important in longevity. This experiment marked the first in which a vertebrate animal's life was prolonged by taking antioxidants. Healthy individuals who have reached age 80 or more all have very high levels of glutathione in their blood." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"In another study she and her colleagues found that tadpoles took longer to turn into frogs when they lived in water tainted with small amounts of the antidepressant. Even when she reduced the level of Prozac to the minuscule amount that scientists have found in the nation's rivers, the frogs swimming in it were significantly smaller than those in clean water. If the growth of frogs is being stunted and male fish are producing eggs, could far more subtle changes be occurring in humans? And what other environmental consequences may await us?" - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"These frogs were compared to frogs not getting GTH. At 14 months, 91% of the frogs getting GHT were alive compared to 46% of those not given GTH. When the GTH was stopped at 26 months, the survival rate of the remaining frogs plummeted. Obviously, GTH is important in longevity. This experiment marked the first in which a vertebrate animal's life was prolonged by taking antioxidants. Healthy individuals who have reached age 80 or more all have very high levels of glutathione in their blood." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.) "A research project in Spain discovered some important data. frogs were given glutathione (GTH) along with substances believed to prolong the effect of GTH. These frogs were compared to frogs not getting GTH. At 14 months, 91% of the frogs getting GHT were alive compared to 46% of those not given GTH. When the GTH was stopped at 26 months, the survival rate of the remaining frogs plummeted. Obviously, GTH is important in longevity. This experiment marked the first in which a vertebrate animal's life was prolonged by taking antioxidants." - James A. Howenstine, MD, A Physician's Guide To Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"We've got studies showing carbaryl is not lethal to frogs. It can't be our fault." And indeed, a number of studies showed that if you take, for example, a gray tree frog, and put him in a lab and expose him to the concentration of carbaryl he might normally come in contact with in a natural waterway, he doesn't die. But here's the thing. Gray tree frogs—and other amphibians—are extremely sensitive to predator cues. They notice when something that's likely to eat them is within a hundred yards." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "But when the frogs are stressed, something happens to their internal environment and the carbaryl becomes much harder to handle. In two of the six species Relyea tested, carbaryl became much more lethal when combined with predatory stress—up to forty-six times more lethal in some cases. It wasn't stress that was killing the frogs. And it wasn't carbaryl. It was the combination. But synergy also has a tremendously positive face. In fact, the whole concept of synergy is essential to the paradigm of natural medicine. Acupuncture needles in the ear, for example, won't cure addiction." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Some time ago, it came to the attention of people who notice these things that frogs were dying at an unprecedented rate, and environmentalists and other concerned citizens were convinced that a prime cause was a particular insecticide called carbaryl that was making its way into the waterways. The folks who manufactured carbaryl said, "No way, Jose. We've got studies showing carbaryl is not lethal to frogs. It can't be our fault." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Even when she reduced the level of Prozac to the minuscule amount that scientists have found in the nation's rivers, the frogs swimming in it were significantly smaller than those in clean water. If the growth of frogs is being stunted and male fish are producing eggs, could far more subtle changes be occurring in humans? And what other environmental consequences may await us? Already scientists have traced a widespread ecological disaster of a different sort to a prescription drug. In 2000 Dr. J." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Marsha Black, a professor of environmental health at the University of Georgia, has studied in the laboratory what happens when fish and frogs swim in waters tainted with antidepressants. She found that mosquito fish, small and hardy creatures, became uncoordinated and lethargic when they swam in waters infused with low levels of Prozac. In another study she and her colleagues found that tadpoles took longer to turn into frogs when they lived in water tainted with small amounts of the antidepressant." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"It wasn't stress that was killing the frogs. And it wasn't carbaryl. It was the combination. But synergy also has a tremendously positive face. In fact, the whole concept of synergy is essential to the paradigm of natural medicine. Acupuncture needles in the ear, for example, won't cure addiction. But when coupled with other treatments, they offer a significant benefit beyond what's accomplished by the other treatments alone, particularly in the area of easing withdrawal symptoms." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"These frogs were compared to frogs not getting GTH. At 14 months, 91% of the frogs getting GHT were alive compared to 46% of those not given GTH. When the GTH was stopped at 26 months, the survival rate of the remaining frogs plummeted. Obviously, GTH is important in longevity. This experiment marked the first in which a vertebrate animal's life was prolonged by taking antioxidants. Healthy individuals who have reached age 80 or more all have very high levels of glutathione in their blood." - James A. Howenstine, MD, A Physician's Guide To Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"If the growth of frogs is being stunted and male fish are producing eggs, could far more subtle changes be occurring in humans? And what other environmental consequences may await us? Already scientists have traced a widespread ecological disaster of a different sort to a prescription drug. In 2000 Dr. J. Lindsay Oaks, an assistant professor of veterinary medicine at Washington State University, began investigating a mysterious 95 percent plunge in the number of vultures in Pakistan. Three years later he had his answer." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"We feel angry, slighted, and, deep inside, inadequate—because we think we must be ugly frogs down to our bones or else we would have fairy-tale partners who treat us like royalty. One way you can improve relationships and diminish emotional hunger is to get real about your relationships, including about your expectations of others. First you have to accept your own faults and realize that they don't add up to the entire you, and then you have to accept that your partner has faults that most likely comprise only part of the picture of who he or she is." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"With the darkening, the tree frogs' song turned shrill. Mosquitoes circled, smelling our blood. After a night of strange dreams, at least for me, we continued talking. "If medicine disappeared," Fran said, "there are some things we wouldn't miss." "Such as..." "Such as fatal reactions to prescription drugs." A trip to the library revealed some amazing stuff. In 1999, there were in hospitals about two million serious adverse reactions to correctly prescribed drugs, which killed an estimated 106,000 patients, amazingly, the fifth leading cause of death in the United States." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"It impacts reproduction in frogs. Atrazine is banned in France, Germany, Sweden and Italy. In a healthy body, antioxidants and a gamut of other defense systems prevent the number of carcinogens present in the body and work to prevent and repair the damage they cause. However, when these carcinogens are in the grass our children play in, in our homes and in our rivers, it can be hard to win the battle against them. What Prevents Cancer?" - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Another toxicologist subsequently discovered that low levels of Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, and Celexa cause developmental lags in fish and in frogs.91 Traces of Prozac and Valium were also reported to have been found in Lake Mead, the Nevada reservoir that supplies drinking water to Los Angeles and Phoenix.92 (One wonders if this extra supply of antidepressants explains why the citizens of those cities have a reputation for being particularly laid-back and mellow.) It's a situation that would have made the late physician-novelist Walker Percy very unhappy. Well, actually, proud and unhappy." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Remember dissecting frogs in school? These chemicals are linked to allergies, chest pain, chronic fatigue, depression, dizziness, ear infections, headaches, joint pain, and loss of sleep and can trigger asthma.1213 They can weaken the immune system and cause cancer.14 Diazolidinyl urea and imidazolidinyl urea are used in many skin care and hair care products. Quarternium-15 is used as a preservative in many skin and hair care products. PETROLATUM AND MINERAL O I L (LIQUID PETROLATUM) Petrolatum is mineral oil jelly." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"In the dusky eve, tree frogs began their noisy chant. Less poetically, it might have been an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine. 1 To mark the beginning of the third millennium, the editors of that prestigious, Harvard-based journal, had looked back on medicine's history. We didn't take too seriously their claim that "medicine is one of the few spheres of human activity in which the purposes are unambiguously altruistic." That type of self-serving ideology is pretty typical of any profession—our own included—and easy to dismiss." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The epicenter of this olfactory swamp seems to be a corner where crates of eviscerated frogs are piled next to barrels containing thousands of squirming crabs. The sharp odor of the splayed amphibians, their steaming organs perfuming the night air, mingles with the decomposing crabby emanations to create a stench nobody should ever have to experience again. A smiling man chopping chilis gives me a moon fruit—a flat, yellow persimmon-like fruit that shoppers smell to block out the market odors." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"These frogs were compared to frogs not getting GTH. At 14 months, 91% of the frogs getting GHT were alive compared to 46% of those not given GTH. When the GTH was stopped at 26 months, the survival rate of the remaining frogs plummeted. Obviously, GTH is important in longevity. This experiment marked the first in which a vertebrate animal's life was prolonged by taking antioxidants. Healthy individuals who have reached age 80 or more all have very high levels of glutathione in their blood." - James A. Howenstine, MD, A Physician's Guide To Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.) "At 14 months, 91% of the frogs getting GHT were alive compared to 46% of those not given GTH. When the GTH was stopped at 26 months, the survival rate of the remaining frogs plummeted. Obviously, GTH is important in longevity. This experiment marked the first in which a vertebrate animal's life was prolonged by taking antioxidants. Healthy individuals who have reached age 80 or more all have very high levels of glutathione in their blood." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Burr also discovered electrical fields around all sorts of organisms, from molds, to salamanders and frogs, to humans,m Changes in the electrical charges appeared to correlate with growth, sleep, regeneration, light, water, storms, the development of cancer - even the waxing and waning of the moon.'5 For instance, in his experiments with plant seedlings, he discovered electrical fields which resembled the eventual adult plant." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Almost overnight the landscape turns green as grass sprouts, crops grow, and trees acquire new foliage. frogs croak day and night, animals breed, farmers plant their crops, and life begins anew. The summer monsoon is the epitome of Indian life, an experience both intensely personal and deeply spiritual, the source of human existence itself. Each year the monsoon not only brings the fullness of harvest but creates life from desolation, hope from despair." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Colombo alkaloids are said to act as a CNS paralyzing agent in frogs and palmatin has the same effect on mammals. No further information is available. INDICATIONS AND USAGE For subacidic gastritis, dyspeptic disorders and chronic enterocolitis. PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS Health risks or side effects following the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages are not recorded. Higher dosages of the drug may trigger vomiting and pains in the epigastrium. OVERDOSAGE According to older sources, very high dosages can also lead to signs of paralysis and unconsciousness (Lewin)." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"In a study of children ages nine through eleven, 94 percent knew that Tony the Tiger sells cereal and 81 percent knew that frogs sell beer. Slogans were also well recognized; 80 percent knew the "What's up Doc?" Bugs Bunny slogan, 73 percent recognized the "Bud-weis-er" frogs' slogan, and 57 percent the Tony the Tiger "They're Grrrreat" Figure 5.1 Banned slogan.30 Thirty percent of three-year-olds and 91.3 percent of six-year-olds were able to match Joe Camel to a cigarette.31 An experiment with eight-year-olds asked, "Who would you like to take you out for a treat?" - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"Yes to products that are safe for the fish, the frogs and all the species of the planet. Yes to cosmetics that are 100% free of toxic chemicals linked to birth defects, cancer and learning disabilities. Yes to gathering together in communities and building political power to change the rules so that any of us can go into any store, any time, and buy any personal care products without having to worry about whether they are safe for our families." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"Experiments carried out on frogs demonstrated that prurieni-nin slowed down the heart rate, lowered blood pressure, and stimulated intestinal peristalisis. The reduction in blood pressure was caused by the release of histamines, and the spasmolysis of smooth muscle was caused by indole bases. INDICATIONS AND USAGE The drug is used externally for rheumatic disorders and muscular pain, and internally for the treatment of worm infestation." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"So do dogs, cats, cows, birds, frogs, snakes, and salamanders. Just because drug companies have figured out ways to shut down acid production with medications such as omeprazole (Prilosec), lansoprazole (Prevacid), and esome-prazole (Nexium) does not mean this is the only way to combat heartburn. Stomach acid is essential for digesting food and facilitating the absorption of certain nutrients. The acid environment in the stomach also creates a barrier against infection. We swallow germs every day from our food and other sources." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Experimentally, anethole and fenchone have been shown to have a secretolytic effect in the respiratory tract in frogs, and aqueous fennel extracts raised the mucociliary activity of the ciliary epithelium. INDICATIONS AND USAGE FENNEL OIL ¦ Cough ¦ Bronchitis Peptic discomforts, such as mild, spastic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, feeling of fullness, flatulence; catarrh of the upper respiratory tract. Fennel honey is used for catarrh of the upper respiratory tract in children." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

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