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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
Many of the drugs used by neuroscientists are derived from toxic plants and venomous animals (such as snakes, spiders, snails, and puffer fish).
The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.

