Biohacking Lite

Re:Biohacking Lite by gdebel on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:45PM (#23502984)

I can eat a spoon of salt, or yeast. It is not particularly good but I know what it is, and I know the toxic dose. I won't eat a spoon of sodium benzoate or E324 or I don't know which food additive, I can't buy it in a food store, it is not "food" by itself. So I don't eat it :-)

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Re:Biohacking Lite by shawxe on Friday June 12, 2020 @03:55PM (#23503128)

I'm not sure a big spoon of salt will make you any less sick than a big spoon of sodium benzoate, but that's fair. I definitely agree that people should avoid eating things they do not understand; I think most of my disagreement with your original post is semantic, but I do still appreciate it. :-)

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Re:Biohacking Lite by saagarjha on Friday June 12, 2020 @04:17PM (#23503418)

Sodium benzoate is limited in concentration by the FDA to about 0.1% (by weight), so there is certainly not a spoon of sodium benzoate in your food.

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