Posted on 07/27/2009 6:53:51 PM PDT by Flavius
A common and safe blue food dye might provide the best treatment available so far for spinal cord injuries, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
Tests in rats showed the dye, called brilliant blue G, a close relative of the common food dye Blue no. 1, crossed into the spinal fluid and helped block inflammation, Maiken Nedergaard of the University of Rochester Medical Center and colleagues reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
SAFETY PROFILE Questionable carcinogen with experimental neoplastigenic and tumorigenic data. Mutation data reported. When heated to decomposition it emits very toxic fumes of NOx, Na2O, and SOx.
http://www.lookchem.com/FD-C-BLUE-No.-1/
Good news if it works. However, since it is cheap and readily available, don’t look for it to be a big hit among the drug makers.
Where was this when McCain needed it?
but will it grow spines?
Eat blue M&Ms!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1202623/The-blue-M-M—A-magic-pill-spine-injuries.html
I had a broke neck and paralysis, though I recovered. Would have saved me a lot o heartache fer shure.
We need a lot of them blue dye for RINOS and libtard Dems.
He’s Mr. Blue. woe oh oh woe...
I broke my neck also, but got real lucky that the people that picked me up knew what to do. I hope this helps some people out.
I thought these food dyes were supposed to be inert... but they can medicinal/drug effects?? Thats actually a cause for concern.
Is -10bama now going to advise us to use only blue dyes, over the red dyes now too?
“Where was this when McCain needed it?”
Bullseye!
Unfortunately to pay for the treatment you'll have to work the rest of your life in a traveling percussion musical comedy group.
Just recently there was a thread on FR about the use of methylene blue to treat malaria. Apparently it was an old reliable treatment, abandoned because it turned the whites of the eyes blue, and urine green...
NEVER EVER BELIEVE THE MEDIA. "A close relative" is not the same as "the very same" and is sometimes a poisonous relative of a common vegetable/fruit.
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I often wonder why there’s no blue food. Every other color in well represented in the food kingdom. And don’t bother me with blueberries; they’re purple. The same is true with blue corn and blue potatoes. They’re purple. Blue cheese? Nice try. It’s actually white cheese with blue mold. Occasionally, you might run across some blue Jell-O in a cafeteria. Don’t eat it. It wasn’t supposed to be blue. Something went wrong.
-George Carlin
Blueberries reverse the aging process. They rebuild the nervous system. (Google it.)
The Japanese did the study. After they published the study, it was impossible to buy a blueberry plant in the U.S. (We tried. They were all sold out - to Japan)
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