Re:Green tea supplements ruined my liver
by bentona on Thursday October 25, 2018 @09:29AM
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> Everything that's not a food is a drug.
And also some food is a drug :)
Pedantic, I know, but I think the parent's real point (pay attention to what you put in your body) is only strengthened by the fact that this line is blurry.
Re:Green tea supplements ruined my liver
by logfromblammo on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:29AM
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"Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food." --Hippocrates
"Walking is man's best medicine." --also Hippocrates
There's a syllogism in there somewhere. Probably about soup made from worn-out shoes.
Re:Green tea supplements ruined my liver
by bunderbunder on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:39AM
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I'm envisioning an offshoot of Paleo where you really do spend all your time hunting and gathering.
Re:Green tea supplements ruined my liver
by logfromblammo on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:59AM
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Paleo Survival MMO game. All players are required to use an omnidirectional treadmill for movement control, and your nutrition for the day is determined by the resource nodes you harvest. You have to form raid parties and take down whales, mammoths, bison, razorbacks, or aurochs in order to get larger quantities of meat. If you die in the game, you are required to donate one unit of whole blood, and will suffer a crippling movement speed malus every time you log in, until you do. (So don't die more than once every two months.)
I should stop now, before someone starts thinking this might be a good idea.
I get the sentiment, but it's not quite that simple. For example, certain kinds of red yeast rice are banned for sale in the USA because they contain medically significant amounts of lovastatin.