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Muscle & Fitness, July, 2009 by Jim Stoppani, Mark Thorpe

This may be the last summer you spend worrying about malaria, West Nile virus and Lyme disease because you dislike using potentially dangerous insecticides. It appears that isolongifolenone--a natural compound found in the tauroniro tree of South America--repels mosquitoes, ticks and other blood-feeding anthropods as well as DEET does. The authors of the study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology point out that isolongifolenone is easily and inexpensively processed.

EDITED BY JIM STOPPANI, PHD, AND MARK THORPE