Elixir of the Toxic Frog

i want this frog as a pet. it looks really cool. the segment was also very interesting

Hi Mariana, Queen of the Jungle!!! This is another one of your wonderfully produced videos with a moral message. Save the Rain Forest and the creatures within it. Thank you so much for your fine work. I watch your movies daily on Vanguard Current and pray for your safety. When are you going to settle down and have a baby? You will be a wonderful mother. I am praying also for you and your videos to be shown on the cable TV channels such as Discovery, Science Channel, Fox, etc. I praise God that your videos are mostly clean and educational and that you are so beautiful, compassionate, courageous, and intelligent.

I love the idea of people going into places like the rain forest where there are thousands of undiscovered species and just running in there and searching for them. Keep up the work one day we will find what we are looking for there and the non believers will be shut down completely.

love it!

pods like these is why i love current. great job!

I really enjoyed this piece. I'm glad you were able to report on the rapidly depleting amazon ecosystem. Keep up the good work!

as always...nothing short of excellence from you! I love your work...keep it up guys!
I also happen to agree with Luckasa...animal species are only half the story when it comes to the amazon.

thanks again for everything you guys do!

Current must discover the rainforests of Belize.
you must get DOn Elijio on camera.. he is a hero.
and interview him. Also Rosita Arvigo.
ask yourself this.. why don't they teach this in medical schools?
and when you read what happened to DOn Elijio's wife.. you will be shocked..
the only time Don Elijio let another person take care of his wife.. he brought her to the hospital.. -- that was the last time.. becasue she died.
not becasue of his rainforest medicine.. but she died in the care of white people medicine.
fact..
read this book.
GO THERE..
report on it.
please.
i want to see it so bad.
i'd go myself.. but no cash.
and no digital cam-corder..
cause if i went,, i would record it all, and post it on current..
but you could go.
you are interested in this stuff too.
please...
i am begging you.

THis is as close as you will get to a cure for cancer without going there yourself.

I can tell you some things.
About the rainforest,, and cures.
Example, the first man documented as the human to be the FIRST to cure cancer was Don Elijio. He is a Maya Healer.. one of only a small handful left.
He resides in the rainforest of Belize.
If you spent time looking at that frog..
you need to go find Don Elijio...
his wealth of information is outstanding.
Rosita Arvigo went there to study him,, and record much of his information... and translated his language to English.
Rosita Arvigo was born in Chicago and trained in the United States as a doctor of naprapathy. In addition to her natural healing practice in Belize, Arvigo is the founder of Belize's six-thousand-acre Terra Nova Medicinal Plant Reserve, the founder of Ix Chel Tropical Research Foundation, the cofounder of Rainforest Remedies, and the creator of the Panti Mayan Medicine Trail, a popular and educational tribute to Don Elijio
You can read about it in her book...
where she lists the names of plants and what they do..
they even speak of a cure all.
these are very serious things... that actually work..
not make you sick.. liek that frog.. then you feel good and strong,, because you did not die.
that is not medicine.. -- that is thanking GOD you did not kill yourself.
you said it yourself.. it gave you a sick feeling.
medine takes away the sick feeling.
I understand.. in a lab.. they can make good things with it..--
but you probably walked past 10 medicinal plants and trees that you had no clue to study.
--
read this book.. it is 183 pages of simple reading..
I read this one,,and cannot say enough good things about it:
Sastun: One Woman's Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer

please invistigate this emaill.
liek if Current pays for you to do things.. this ought to make the top 5.
it has the potential to stop rainforest logging around the world.
the medicine is out there. and this is the proof.
actual documented proof.. that you can go there and discover for yourself.
-- i don't want them to touch the Brazil forests either.. and this will help with that. many of the same medicinal trees and plants and vines may be there.
from:Lucas James Xavier Kolasa

i can't understand why there aren't more people studying the rainforests while they're still here...

could have said it anybetter yoopernewsman.
viva the unknown!

Bravo to the Brazilian scientists!
Mankind commits suicide every time we cut down more of the Amazon.
Each Amazonian axe slices veins that hold the lifeblood to our future.
Mariana van Zeller and the producer Darren Foster tell an important tale of humans at their best - and at our worst.
I have a new love for spiders and snakes - and what a rush doing research at night surrounded by poisons that could eventually save lives.
Wish I could have been on this journey, but watching it on Current was the next best thing.
This is a must-watch for those who care about the Earth and the future of human life.
Hopefully our species will change from tyrant rulers who are squandering resources and lording over the jungle - and before it?s too late - get back to the basics - and return to the ABCs of respect for God's Earth - becoming the Amazon's Benevolent Caretakers.

there's so much to still be learned. awesome pod!

As a high school gifted teacher and father of two kids in elementary school, I found this piece to be amazing and thought provoking. We were all in shock that this possible research gold mine is being destroyed for pasture. What can we do to stop it?
Thank you for this great work and for risking your lives to bring it to the masses.

Great piece Mariana! I never would have made it past the SPIDERS!! Did anyone see the size of some of those things!!

Yet another great piece. You guys are fantastic. Glad to see Darren's debut, finally! Well done, buddy.

While commercialization of biodiversity COULD help preserve rare ecosystems, it is far more likely to destroy them. More attention needs to be paid to the downside. Recall the fate of the lightning bugs.

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Great hair, Mariana, both sporty and spicy. Its bothering you though, seems.

Fly photography, Darren, incredible close ups on snake.

Intellectual spin with the pharmy references...

Awful music at the beginning...rock is wrong preditor.

Thankfully you finally made Darren a subject good to see him.

Faire de Lance is as bad mother, hung with them in cenotes in Yucatan.

That hook at the end, 'will they find it' is too heavy handed. we like things more subtle in postmodernity, preditor.

Brilliant work...