Word: calcium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...removing calcium† from the rotifers' water, he stretched out their lives. By adding calcium, he shortened them. Brief immersions in sodium citrate, which removes calcium, lengthened the life spans of aging rotifers...
...Doctors have known for 50 years that calcium accumulates in aging bodies; they cannot tell...
...around the barrier, thought Dr. Stern, why not inject medicines directly into the nerve centers in the brain? She first tried this dangerous experiment on dogs, got some astonishing results. Calcium solutions, injected into the blood stream in large doses, act as stimulants. When Dr. Stern injected a few drops of a calcium salt solution into a dog's brain, the effect was exactly opposite to the one expected: instead of being stimulated, the dog tottered, collapsed, in a few minutes fell fast asleep. When she injected potassium phosphate, the dog had a case of frenzied jitters...
...study of 300 starving natives of India. Most had excellent teeth (40% had no cavities; 95% of the well-fed U.S. population has cavities). Dentist Jay also drilled deep into another pair of common beliefs: 1) that milk is good for adults' teeth because it provides them with calcium; and 2) that a pregnant woman is vulnerable to tooth decay. Not so, says Jay: after tooth enamel is formed (in childhood), nothing can be done either to add to it or subtract from...
...operated, found a calcium shell an eighth of an inch thick enclosing the heart sac. This heart shell had to be cracked apart with forceps. Apparently the result of internal bleeding caused by an old baseball blow under the heart (calcium deposits are often found in scar tissue), the casing had prevented the heart muscle from growing, had restricted blood circulation. By starving body tissues, it had stopped the boy's growth...