109 - Remedies: How Carrots Won the War

Episode 9 - Remedies

Nola Nerdcast

Lemon Juice
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/howthingswork/a/aa101203a.htm
http://www.popsci.com/why-does-sunlight-lighten-hair-but-darken-skin
http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Ge-Hy/Hair-Dyes-and-Hair-Treatments.html

Cranberry Juice Cures Urinary Tract Infections
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cranberry-juice-and-uti-no-evidence_us_56be2ce6e4b0b40245c67ea3
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2015/10/can-cranberry-juice-stop-uti/

Skunk Tomato juice
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/skunk-spray-tomato-juice1.htm
http://users.humboldt.edu/wfwood/chemofskunkspray.html
http://sciencenetlinks.com/science-news/science-updates/skunk-removal/
Partridge Family clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4TiusoElHM

Carrots and eyes
Kids more prone than adults to turning orange: http://uamshealth.com/healthlibrary2/medicalmyths/medicalmythscarrots/ 
Inuit or Eskimo? https://www.uaf.edu/anlc/resources/inuit-eskimo/

Chicken Pox oatmeal
http://dailyburn.com/life/health/benefits-vitamin-b-complex/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oat (lots of good cites sources here)

Ginger Motion sickness
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92775/

108 - Body: Cracking Knuckles and Power Licking

108 - Body: Cracking Knuckles and Power Licking

Wittenberg to Westphalia: Wars of the Reformation, Ben Jacobs

Cracking Knuckles
1998 - Dr. Donald Unger
Does Knuckle Cracking Lead to Arthritis of the Fingers? Journal Arthritis & Rheumatism

1990 paper studied 300 outpatients, same result
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crack-research/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3IYmdy6d4Y

Tongue strongest muscle
https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/muscles.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-the-tongue-is-the-strongest-muscle-in-the-body/
Insured tongue: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/4957333/Costa-Coffees-taster-has-tongue-insured-for-10-million.html

Shaving hair
1928 Study (NIH Link)

Blue angel
Fire fart recipe http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fire+Fart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WotaR41P

Baldness from mother’s father
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122393553747430381

Can men lactate milk?
http://www.livescience.com/45732-can-men-lactate.html
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/11/why-do-men-have-nipples/

107 - Drugs: "Butt Hash"

Weed overdose
http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.additional-resource.php?resourceID=191
https://weedpress.wordpress.com/science/studies/ld50-of-cannabis/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-denver-deaths-tied-to-recreational-marijuana-use/

Not your grandpa’s weed
http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.additional-resource.php?resourceID=191
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2015/03/23/pot-evolution-how-the-makeup-of-marijuana-has-changed-over-time/#36a916635579

Ecstasy holes in brain
http://www.drugscience.org.uk/drugs-info/mdma/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0006899388904519
http://thedea.org/technicalFAQ.html
Oprah Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_-CI1Py-Gg
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22664303 - Seratonin and spinal fluid

LSD flashbacks and psychosis
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0063972
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-08/fyi-can-acid-trip-really-give-you-flashbacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P11OyNylbI NSFW AS FUUUUUUUUU

Toad licking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_toad
http://www.vice.com/video/the-toad-prophet-464

Jenkem
2 TV stations in Jacksonville, Florida did a piece on Jenkem, referring to it as “Butt Hash”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UsNbsjpuLc (Butt hash)
2009, Bettendorf, Iowa amended city ordinance
http://qctimes.com/news/local/article_d3d96d82-9b5a-11de-81bb-001cc4c002e0.html
Zambia-Narcotics: 'Huffing and Puffing' to a new High". Inter Press Service. August 26, 1995.