I wonder. There is an FDA Office of Women’s Health, but I don’t know what input or how much impact they’ve had in this debacle.
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The article is good. The comments… shudder I know the normal rule is “don’t read the comments”, but if you want insight into how people can cling to irrational beliefs, look no further. It’s as much a cult as anything you can imagine.
https://undark.org/article/food-grade-hydrogen-peroxide-cancer/
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I didn’t know concentrated hydrogen peroxide could cause bubbles in the bloodstream (air embolism, or I guess oxygen embolism in this case), but then I never really thought about it. It makes sense. But an air embolism can be as disastrous as a stroke, blocking blood vessels to the brain or elsewhere. Geez.
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“food grade hydrogen peroxide”
WTF???
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All those adolescent snarky remarks about “drinking bleach” make more sense now.
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That’s marketed as “miracle mineral solution.”
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The sodium hypochlorite kind is also a thing, shorn of the metal (chlorine dioxide) :
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That’s kid’s stuff. The real men drink HCl.
Amazing that people will do this. How about Drano? Is that still on the market?
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Snake handling is probably getting expensive. The poison aspect has to be part of the fetish.
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It’s perfectly safe… at a couple of drops per gallon of water.
The dose really does make the poison.
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So… quite an improvement on snakes!
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Pfft. Amateurs. If you’re hard core you drink pure hydrofluoric acid.
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I think it would cause reflux.
That column is hilarious, BTW!
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Giving new meaning to toxic masculinity.
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Putting this here because the way we treat fat people in our society (especially those who exist in more public spheres) is literally deadly.
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Mama Cass had some pipes on her. A seriously underrated artist, whose career and life were cut tragically too short.
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