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Re: 'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online

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What makes you say it's LLM? > Every article you read here is written by university scholars and researchers with deep expertise in their subjects, sharing their knowledge in their own words. We don’t oversimplify complicated issues, but we do explain and clarify. We believe bringing the voices of experts into the public discourse is good for democracy.

> What makes you say it's LLM? Probably the usual "big words hard" mindset of people who aren't used to reading well-written prose.

Quite the opposite. It's the completely devoid of creativity section titles, the use of triades, and the general rhythm of the text. All of this garnered with the general sense of filler content...

Re: 'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online

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You’ve got to wake up.

I have a genuine fear that someone will stop me in the street one day, grab me by the shoulders and say > You have to wake up. Please wake up. We're all here at your bedside waiting for you to wake up. Just wake up. We love you. Please. And I'm convinced it's because of that episode.

My genuine fear is that you’ll just brush me off with a sensible chuckle and keep sleepwalking on down the street.

But seriously, I find that the one recurring theme in nightmares I have is that people simply won’t believe me.

Re: 'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online

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This is the original article and has better images IMHO. https://theconversation.com/mad-honey-that-can-stop-your-hea...

And can actually be read, the other is so as-ridden that I just gave up (I know I should probably install some blocker in my phone, but I'm lazy).

Re: 'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online

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> The problem is that the gap between a medicinal dose and a toxic dose is very small What's this claim based on? I don't think it's the rat study linked nearby. I looked through it and they didn't really compare doses. If it's a linear effect on dropping blood pressure, that seems like an overblown way to talk about it. If it's something else, I'd love to hear more.

I also wondered why, if it has this effect, it has not been purified to a standard concentration (or synthesized) and used to treat high blood pressure. Possibly because accidental overdose can be fatal?

There could be a case for doing it for people that will refuse anything but natural if it doesn't have other problems, assuming not synthesized, but there's a problem of funding the safety studies and standardization process if a patent is unlikely to result.

Re: 'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online

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You also don't want to burn poison ivy because the oil (urushiol) is not something you want in your lungs if you are reactive to it.

Florida's manchineel tree (with the tiny apples) is the OG wood you don't burn because it blinds you.

But you also don't touch it, eat it, or stand under it when it rains, so the opportunity to burn it by mistake is limited.
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