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To: cyborg

Yoo hoo! Over here! ;)


2 posted on 05/19/2004 5:48:08 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick ("If I could shoot like that, I would still be in the NBA" -- Bill Clinton, circa 1995)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

If it will give me a flat stomach and small bum then I'm all for it :)


19 posted on 05/19/2004 5:56:40 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: NYC GOP Chick
Better article on it at Wired.com
Hence a mid-'80s research push at the University of Arizona to attack the problem from inside. Being tan is healthy; ironically, people who work outdoors and see the sun every day are at low risk for skin cancer. But getting tan is where the danger lies. The faster it happens - worst case: a tanning booth - the more harmful it is. The U of A team, which included endocrinologist Mac Hadley and dermatologist Norman Levine, came upon a synthetic hormone a thousand times more potent than the body's own tanning triggers. They called it Melanotan and pinned high hopes on its sunless ability to protect, beautify, and gently fleece the pale peoples of the world.

But that was only the beginning: The molecule turns out to activate five different chemical systems throughout the body. It's a potent anti-inflammatory, and in 1996 further tests of the drug showed that it also promotes sexual arousal. Not simple vascular stimulation, as with Viagra, but a direct action in the hypothalamus, the brain's emotional switchboard. Impotence is largely an organic, mechanical problem, but here was something that could potentially address the murkier issues of frigidity, and even that old-time marriage killer: simple lack of enthusiasm. (On Melanotan, female lab rodents triple their levels of courtship behavior.) And as if that weren't enough, the molecule also targets an appetite-suppression receptor popular with the makers of weight-loss drugs.


50 posted on 05/19/2004 7:23:14 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (That which does not kill me had better be able to run away damn fast.)
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To: NYC GOP Chick; cyborg; presidio9; Constitution Day; Tijeras_Slim; martin_fierro; Owl_Eagle; ...
PING to the newly created REOPUBLICAN PARTY REPTILE ping list, named after our spiritual founder, P.J. O'Rourke. What is the Republican Party Reptile? It is a creature of the eighties. It’s neoconservatism with its pants down around its ankles, the Rehnquist Supreme Court on drugs, a disco Hobbes living without shame or federally mandated safety regulations. The Republican Party Reptile supports a strong defense policy, but sees no reason to conduct it while sober. The RPR believes in minimum government interference in private affairs—unless the government brings over extra girls and some ice. In short, the RPR is the new label that our political spectrum has been crying out for—the conservative with a sense of humor and a healthy dose of depravity.

To be added or removed, just say so. :o)

58 posted on 05/19/2004 8:06:22 PM PDT by TheBigB (Jaime Pressly: proof that God does indeed exist.)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

My goodness!

It does all this:]

1) Anti-inflammatory--takes away those little aches and pains, that can be distracting...

2) Gives you a nice tan...

3) Surpresses the appetite...

4) Gets you in the mood without those pesky blood pressure side effects...

What's the catch?


62 posted on 05/19/2004 8:37:03 PM PDT by Judith Anne (HOW ARE WE EVER GOING TO CLEAN UP ALL THIS MESS?)
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