jdarg said:
I go outside and enjoy the fresh air for awhile, get everyone settled with ice cream (we were fresh out of penis cakes)- and now we have switched to hot dogs? I hate hot dogs! My family likes them and I about gag if I have to get them out of the package and touch the disgusting hot dog juice.
There. Now y'all know my biggest phobia- hot dog juice. That nasty, watery, hot doggy smelling stuff that they use to float the winners in the package. Gotta go puke now.
Can we PLEASE go back to penis cakes now?
Whoa a minute! SJ is on to something. Big health news today about a main ingredient in hot dog juice.....
Sept 6 (Washington) Reported today from the National Institutes of Health
Could the salt that preserves hot dogs also preserve your health? Scientists at the National Institutes of Health think so. They've begun infusing sodium nitrite into volunteers in hopes that it could prove a cheap but potent treatment for sickle cell anemia, heart attacks, brain aneurysms, even an illness that suffocates babies.
The scientists are so convinced of nitrite's promise that lead researcher Dr. Mark T. Gladwin says the government will pursue drug development on its own if necessary.
"We are turning organs into hot dogs," Gladwin jokes. Then he turns serious: "We think we stumbled into an innate protection mechanism."
If it works, "this drug would be pennies to dollars per day," says Dr. Christian Hunter of California's Loma Linda University. By January, Hunter hopes to begin studies of nitrite treatment for babies with an often fatal disease called pulmonary hypertension. "It's so easy to use."
Gladwin and Cannon injected sodium nitrite into healthy volunteers. Tiny doses almost tripled blood flow. Moreover, when people exercised, nitrite levels plummeted in the muscles being worked - the body was using it.
The researchers were stunned.
"This has led to an avalanche of work," says Gladwin, who this week hosts an NIH meeting where scientists will compare nitrite research.
"We were surprised at how complete the protection was, and with no toxicity that we identified," Oldfield says. "The beauty of sodium nitrite is it seems to interact with the hemoglobin in a way that permits it to be released only where it's needed."
"The idea it's bad for you has not played out," he says. "The fact it was linked to hot dogs gave it a bad name."