“People think they’re full of parasites. I want to ask if they have worms coming out of their butts, but I don’t want to get banned from the group.”

"We need to thank Alice Catherine Evans for convincing us to pasteurize milk. She demonstrated that raw milk contained Brucella abortus, which causes undulant fever.

Pasteur invented the technique, sure. Alice Evans convinced us to use it, which is why you’ve never heard of that disease."

"I was in labor for six hours, and when my water broke, the baby’s heart rate crashed. I was whisked away for an emergency C-section. All I could think was, what if this happened at home? I wouldn’t have known his heart rate crashed, and he would’ve died inside me before I ever made it to the hospital. He’s 9 months old now, and I’m so grateful for modern medicine."

"I saw protein instant potatoes and it made me so mad."

"Looking forward to a fibermaxxing trend next though."

"Popular manosohere influencer Clavicular claims he made his chin and jawline more chiseled by using a hammer on his face to cause micro fractures to grow bigger bones."

"I'm an endocrinology nurse practitioner in the Midwest, and the number of patients who tell me their obesity, fatigue, high blood glucose, etc., is caused by parasites is astounding and disheartening. It's definitely not the five bottles of soda and daily fast food. Nope, gotta be the parasites."

"Ketamine, in the style of ketamine clinics, is heavily regulated, monitored, supervised, and counted. And ketamine is actually a pretty great drug for neuroplasticity in drug-resistant depression. Can ketamine be abused? Yes."

"Castor oil packs are more of a natural remedy than a pseudoscience trend. Castor oil is a laxative when taken orally.

Castor oil packs are said to be a gentler way to improve digestion and reduce inflammation. They are more popular in some cultures, but there is limited research that supports their efficacy."

"I know people who do this, it's fucking batsh—. They also do watermelon diets and parasite cleanses, and take Kambo — [frog secretion] burned into the skin. I was going down the woo-woo path myself for a while, but I think the drinking pee and only eating a raw vegan diet is what got me out of that circle of people."

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