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Minute Amounts of H2S Can Postpone Cell Death

12/29/2014 12:17 PM

Sewer gas is way too strong for this. And I wouldn't want anybody to have to put up with that. But I found it interesting that when tiny amounts H2S are administered to a patient it will actually suspend the consumption of oxygen in human brain tissue momentarily which has the effect of preserving the brain after the heart has stopped beating.

Not something that I want to play with, but this really is interesting news. I suggest you do your own searches about saving lives with H2S. I just think it is funny how as usual certain things, in moderation, are actually good for humans.

The problem seems to be that it is so hard to find volunteers who are willing to be clinically dead for 15 to 20 minutes before being revived.

Perhaps death by heart attack will become a thing of the past in the next decade.

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Re: Minute amounts of H2S can postpone cell death

12/29/2014 12:50 PM

Maybe some car dealership will become the next Lourdes.

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12/29/2014 1:23 PM

"I just think it is funny how as usual certain things, in moderation, are actually good for humans."

Exactly right. Both arsenic and strychnine are included in certain medicines. Explosives such as TNT (trinitrotoluene) and amyl nitrate are used as a heart stimulants.

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Re: Minute amounts of H2S can postpone cell death

12/29/2014 1:52 PM

I agree, like Cassava a root crap, tapioca it's powdered form, contains a little cyanide. If not well prepared, it can poison anyone or form goiter.

Saying goes, "the thing that does not kill you makes you strong"

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12/29/2014 1:27 PM

monkeys and rats were gonna be the first to be tested.

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Re: Minute amounts of H2S can postpone cell death

12/30/2014 9:38 AM

So we are doing the testing on the custodial crew and management first?

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12/29/2014 5:36 PM

If we could just incorporate all of those wonderful remedies for all the diseases we have, all the diseases we imagine we have, all the diseases the drug manufacturer's tell us they've just discovered a name for, and now a cure for, that we didn't even know we had, we'd probably live forever.

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12/30/2014 6:54 PM

I'll drink to that!

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12/29/2014 7:27 PM

Some people around for ever? Hmmmm

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