Re:Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that mo...
by ornornor on Sunday August 09, 2020 @11:52AM
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Sure, if you’re dehydrated, your liver and kidneys will probably have a hard time doing their job. But drinking more water than you need, drinking magic teas or vitamins, etc does nothing more than what your liver and kidney normally do in a healthy body.
See https://duckduckgo.com/?q=detox+fallacy for more in depth explanations.
Healthy skepticism that this makes a difference in day to day human health may be warranted, but skepticism that the claim is even meaningful in the first place is not. Your body does routinely contain a lot of toxins, and it has mechanisms to clean them out. “Polluted” is not a binary yes/no attribute anywhere else in the world and it hits not binary in your body either; it gets more or less polluted as it excretes less or more waste.