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I'm also making a decompiculture kit, a cocktail of capsules that contain Infinity Mushroom spores and other elements that speed decomposition and toxin remediation.
So far, this is enough toxin to cover the face of Lake Erie a foot deep.
There was another kind of cell that actually was sending out a toxin and contributing to the death of these motor neurons, and you simply couldn't see it until you had the human model.
"How could all that toxin have gotten into that wound already?"
It's harmful because it produces a toxin, and that toxin is released when the organism gets into our intestinal tract.
So what happens, if you've got an organism, it produces a lot of toxin.
If the organism produced a lot of toxin, you might find 10 million, or 100 million.
If it didn't produce a lot of this toxin, then you might find a smaller number.
And so, with funding from the Bosack-Kruger Foundation, I got a lot of strains from these different countries and we measured their toxin production in the lab.
They evolved to produce less toxin.
You see, hypertension is actually treated regularly with a medication that has been developed from the toxin that is produced by a South American viper.
People that have type 2 diabetes can be monitored using, actually, the toxin produced by a lizard from North America.
And in hospitals all around the world, a new protocol is being developed to use a toxin from a marine snail for anesthetics.
And the very first day that this fellow, John Allen, walked in, to spend a couple of days in there with all the plants and animals and bacteria that we'd put in there to hopefully keep him alive, the doctors were incredibly concerned that he was going to succumb to some dreadful toxin, or that his lungs were going to get choked with bacteria or something, fungus.
So, it seemed that the toxin that was killing the gharial was something in the food chain, something in the fish they were eating.
And, you know, once a toxin is in the food chain everything is affected, including us.
They're being watched everyday as we speak, to try to find out what this mysterious toxin is.
Sure there is a pseudo-original twist in that the guy kills people because of a toxin and not because of a disease, but that is a very minor twist.
But, a lunatic government agent (are there any other kind?) decides to spray the area with an unproven toxin to kill the pot & oh, and if it makes the pot growers sick, who will care?
She also interviewed a scientist, previously employed by the vinyl industry, who agreed with the contention that, yes, PVC is a potential toxin.
In this uninspired, made-for-television, buddy picture, James Whitmore, Jr., and Tom Selleck portray two U.S. Army/Air Force officers ordered to destroy a winery in France that conceals a laboratory for the development of a lethal toxin that could wipe out half of the world in six months.
A common story, still repeated by Shiva, is that GM corn with Bt toxin kills Monarch butterflies.
In attempting to explain this phenomenon, scientists observed that most of the island’s inhabitants ate cycad seeds, which contained beta-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA), a toxin that interferes with the nervous system’s functioning.
But the islanders carefully cleaned the seeds to remove the toxin before eating them, and they did not consume large enough quantities to cause damage.
The imported racist ideology that promoted hatred and enabled genocide was a toxin deliberately injected into Rwanda’s bloodstream.
Litvinenko never visited any of these three places, where the assassins apparently disposed of the unused toxin.
Perhaps, then, an environmental toxin is causing an epidemic outbreak of autism.
Most complications of diphtheria – such as myocarditis (inflammation of the middle layer of the heart) and neuritis (inflammation of a peripheral nerve or nerves) – are attributable to the effects of the toxin.
In other words, we don’t see a completely linear relationship between the dose of the potential toxin and a deleterious effect; rather we see a distribution that looks something like a “check mark,” with concentration on the horizontal axis and some measure of damage on the vertical axis.
For example, the biologist Paul Z. Myers of the University of Minnesota has described an animal study in which fish embryos experience non-linear toxicity from alcohol, a toxin that causes severe deformities in zebrafish embryos at high doses and prolonged exposure.