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People will do anything for vanity. Botox is contains one of the most potent toxins known on earth, and people will happily inject it directly into their face just for the chance of a slightly smoother face.
And fentanyl can kill an entire city, but hospitals still keep it around for pain control. Diphenhydramine will make you hallucinate spiders everywhere, while you slowly die. But you can buy it over-the-counter to treat allergy symptoms. The foxglove flower can cause you to go into heart failure… But we use it to treat heart conditions.
Dosis sola facit venenum, as the medical world likes to say. “The dose makes the poison.”
I don't want to lose weight for vanity. I want to live beyond my 50s.
I feel it. Living in an industrial society you really need to go against the grain to do it. As someone who has experienced substance dependency, it really is the same lizard brain urges. Avoiding hyperpalatable foods really helps. I cannot over eat oatmeal and yogurt, but bacon and hash browns absolutely. Carb portion control is really important for me, because I was eating easily over 400 calories of starches in a meal not counting anything else.
I forget the exact statistic, but it's like a spoonful of botulism toxin can kill millions of people. It really is potent.
But the difference between poison/toxin and medicine is often just dosage. There are myriad, countless medicines to discover in toxins. The toxin of an animal for instance a snake, is not one toxin, it's hundreds, each with individual action.
There is a reason the ancient greek symbol for medicine has two snakes on it. Anyway here's an old article on it in case anyone is interested.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-harnessing-the-powers-of-venom-could-lead-to-new-medicines
*This is not the article I originally read as that was easily ten years prior but search engines and enshitified and have decided this is the closest they will give me.
There's only one snake on the medicine symbol. The two snake version is the one that represents Hermes. Everything else you said is correct though
Yes but these same people are often scrutinizing vaccine ingredient lists.
The trick to staying young is to never move your face muscles, and use lotion. Can’t get wrinkles if you don’t wrinkle your skin 🧠
And sleep hanging upside down so the fat deposits in your face don't drop downwards.
That’s how I get my sexy thick neck
avoiding the sun is more important than lotion
But if the lotion has SPF
It’s what skin craves.