We put on creams that blocked the enzyme that made it, we injected things. We couldn't turn off the nitric oxide.

Now, imagine we thought bruises were the problem, and we evolved a giant medical establishment and a culture around treating bruises masking creams, painkillers, you name it, all the while ignoring the fact that people are still banging their shins into coffee tables.

So with my trusty little steed, my Nokia 6234 cell phone I didn't have a laptop, I didn't have Internet much, except for the 20 rand an hour Internet cafe I did research on Wikipedia, on Google, about lotions, creams, the compositions, the melting points, the toxicities I did high school science and I wrote down a little formula on a piece of paper, and it looked like the KFC special spice, you know?