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Humans can handle 3 times more chocolate per KG of body mass than dogs so the risk is much smaller to us but we're still susceptible at the extremes.
Wow.. unusual case but perhaps black licorice needs to come with warning labels!
It does: it has a horrible, awful taste!
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It tastes absolutely horrible to me. I guess somewhere deep down, I knew all along that it's actually poison.
Poisonous like water, table salt and other substances that are lethal in excess and benign or even essential in moderation.
Another similar one is chocolate poisoning. Humans can handle 3 times more chocolate per KG of body mass than dogs so the risk is much smaller to us but we're still susceptible at the extremes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobromine_poisoning
A man eats an entire bag of liquorice. This is what happened to his kidneys. Hyperliquemia Hyper, meaning high. liqu, referring to liquorice. emia, meaning presence in blood. High liquorice presence in blood. https://www.youtube.com/c/ChubbyemuGames/videos
-em- (from haem-) just means blood. -ia should be interpreted as "condition". Presence isn't indicated.
I did some looking into what made black licorice taste so good and to see if enjoying it was genetic. I was surprised to find out it can be toxic. All of these years my grandfather and I have been poisoning each other. Guess we should celebrate we survived it with a pint of sarsaparilla.
It can also raise blood pressure.
I've been thinking I wanted to incorporate it into my next powerlifting meet as a game-day PED because I can absolutely notice my blood pressure going up while eating it. Great now I need to write a grant proposal for the study…