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[@Namelesspeiceoftoast]

"everyone's trying to sell happiness so they can buy their own" is such a raw line

[@i8chocolatecake995]

Frr

[@paviharnesberry9277]

So true

[@jasonares0111]

Bars

[@squibbelsmcjohnson]

So fucking true

[@ChiTheDemiguy]

​@ville__shut up

[@shethewriter]

The most disturbing part is you know some of these people are forcing their kids to use these totally unverified and often dangerous treatments

[@RandomLyneysimp]

I shudder at the thought

[@intensestare5027]

literally my mom

[@gabapentin.getaway]

this feels similar to in middle/high school my mom would make me put essential oils in my water, i feel like it made my stomach/health worse,, i always worry about all the kids that i know were/are in my shoes

[@Ace-zz8jw]

my mom is like this, I would get super bad ear infections as a kid and she would make me do the ear candles so much. Once my hair got singed..

[@AlaskaViolets_leftToeNail]

This isn't as dangerous as the ones in the video, but my mom pumps me full of electrolytes and vitamins, supplements I dont need. Its making me sick but she doesnt believe me and makes me take more💀

[@hotmilo]

I love it when people claim that a product or whatever will "kill all the germs in your body." Like bro, you NEED them to be alive.

[@Roanmonster]

I wonder how these people think humanity has survived until now

[@AdrianBarajas-px5ve]

if its a beverage that claims it does that, I avoid it at all costs because gut bacteria is so important for our digestive system. I took a strong antibiotic due to a dog bite to the neck, and my digestive system suffered so much I had to take probiotics and eat yogurt to fix it.

[@hotmilo]

@@AdrianBarajas-px5ve i had to do the same. I got so constipated that I couldn't poo for an entire week. I later couldn't eat anymore because I felt like I didn't have space to eat. Later I had to go to the ER because my colon ruptured. I'm now healthy so that's cool. I walked my mom's dwarf jack Russell and she got attacked by a pitbull. I intervened and almost got my hand bit in half. I suffered through PTSD for months but decided to try to work through it by working at a grooming parlour for dogs and it helped a lot. My parents wanted to sue the lady and unalive her dog but I refused because the lady left her gate open. I don't hold the dog accountable. The lady had to pay for all the expenses. She tried to play the victim but I stopped her and told her that because of her I had to deal with trauma and my mom's dog just recovered from a life threatening disease and almost had her throat ripped off her body. My mom's dog is already anxious so after that it got worse. I was 15 (now 20). Please note that this traumatic experience and how I dealt with it worked for me but may not work for others.

[@Pinkstarpirate]

​@@Roanmonsterhonestly, historically I think these kinds of people were weeded out by natural selection, but now our healthcare system keeps them alive (prolly to make a buck off of them) and they live on to share their idiotic revelations. One more reason to fix the healthcare system. Suggesting an edit to the Hippocratic Oath: I shall do no harm, but if the patient is harming themselves with pseudoscience, I'm just gonna let them be.

[@Dead_Again1313]

​@@Pinkstarpirate I've been telling my wife this. Society has become so weak because it's no longer a case of "only the strong survive". People with legitimate disability should be protected, but some others are just weak spirited idiots.

[@WeAreASecret]

Any product that claims to "suck" out earwax is a scam. The amount of suction needed to get that sticky stuff out would be enough to also damage your eardrums

[@missybuchanan9631]

Close, I routinely have to have mine cleared by an audiologist and it can get painful. They can get quite close to the eardrum, and really try not to touch it. Occasionally they do though, and you’re a better person than me if you don’t hit the roof when they do. Never had a perforated drum.

[@shadowsoulless6227]

​@@missybuchanan9631 see they go in and kind of do spot suction and I'm sure they have like a little camera on the vacuum they don't just stick it over your entire ear canal and suck. The ear candling is suggesting that it creates a vacuum strong enough in the entire ear canal at once that it just sucks all the earwax out...... So yes a vacuum can be used in the ear but it has to be specifically targeted on different chunks not just the entire ear canal. It's kind of like saying that whenever I was a child I had to have my ears irrigated to get wax out, then someone trying to claim that it's the same as taking a dip in the pool because water gets in your ears both ways. So when it comes to medical things nuance is incredibly important

[@water6006]

@@shadowsoulless6227also they do have cameras on the vacuum, there are videos uploaded that are recordings from the vacuum’s pov

[@farnregen]

I did go under that as a child... But i dont think it damaged smth... Dunno how often i had it tho. I think listening to loud music via my headphones (almost every day) damages my eardrums more xD

[@WeAreASecret]

@@farnregen Huh? I'm not saying it's going to damage anything, I'm just saying it won't actually do anything

[@Huhhuhwhuhuhh]

I'm an Herbalist. People assume I'm all for these things when they talk to me just because I have extensive knowledge of what herbs support the body and how to safely use them. It's pitiful. I've been treated terribly for simply saying someone should go to a doc for a massive infection/fever or not to put their children through ridiculous "parasite cleanses." Folk remedies are dear to my heart for many reasons and it is awful to see it be coupled with such by these TikTok creators. I'm glad you added the part about how medical care isn't affordable, etc. A lot of it is fueled by good health care being inaccessible and/or desperation to end pain, but a lot more of it comes from people who need yet another reason to feel superior, paying no mind to the damage they cause.

[@little_leo_john]

I totally understand! A lot of current medicine was derived from chemicals naturally found in a variety of herbs. There is a difference between drinking some herb tea when you get a cold, and trying to convince people with life-threatening diseases to switch their medicine for some fucking basil.

[@beep3242]

I seriously respect you for what you do! Are you an herbalist professionally or just on the side (I'm unsure how it works)?

[@bagandbroad]

I used to think it was all the same, and rolled my eyes about herbalism until I accidentally signed up for a class about it (I thought it was just about plants, I’m dumb). I’ve gotten really incredible results on some things that my doctors haven’t found a way to help me with. Utmost respect!

[@UnicornsPoopRainbows]

I live in Korea and oriental medicine is huge here, of course. Medical care is also affordable. Koreans have a pretty healthy mindset about it. Traditional/Oriental medicine is for minor issues and maintaining a healthy body. Western medicine is for acute issues. They definitely overdo it on the antibiotics but they also see the doctor and follow medical advice when it is needed instead of doing whacky stuff like drinking Borax!

[@no_where_land9947]

I grew up in a community and with a mom who treated some things with herbs and plants around us. But it was always with plants known for helping with certain things- ie centuries old remedies or scientifically proven. And when it came to more serious matters, j was treated with modern medicine. I really respect my mom for teaching me that you can use certain plants instead of expensive medicines that use the same base plant, while also using modern things like ibuprofen. When I mention some of these things to my friends however, I’m always looked at skeptically at first due to videos and articles like this popping up all over the place. It’s sad we as a society have stopped using our brains to do proper research before harming ourselves or others

[@feodorawicked5014]

Pro tip. If someone says "Its an ancient tradition" but never specifies how old or where it originated from, odds are, its not that old of a tradition.

[@katherinegriffin]

and if it IS an old tradition but they still don't know basic facts about it, odds are, they're not who you should take medical advice from

[@_Saturnly_]

That or it IS really old, and, extremely outdated, and will probably harm you more than it helps.

[@bbzellner]

If this keeps up Society is doomed

[@feodorawicked5014]

@@bbzellner Not really? There's been pseudoscience for thousands of years.

[@tokofukawap4055]

​​@@_Saturnly_lmfao just bc something is old doesn't mean it won't work. Most modern medicine and botanic knowledge came from the Native Americans, who still use those practices alongside modern medicine

[@damarakap9738]

I love the "detoxifying" part of the coffee enema.. THERES NO SUCH THING AS DETOXING YOUR BODY thats what your liver and kidney are THERE FOR!

[@Alice-ru6lb]

Also like... I think if any kind of enema reaches your liver you may need immediate medical attention.

[@confusedjello7292]

i read the words "coffee enema" without the context and my gay ass conjured up some not so fun images edit: oh nevermind people are as deranged as i thought what a terrible day to be alive

[@fcff28]

This myth is so widespread and every time there are people like you spittin facts, why do people still believe that **** 😭

[@silversmoke6]

​@@fcff28because people are fucking stupid. That is why.

[@jessicas2379]

THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes thank you for having a brain!

[@NicheNobody]

Can confirm, I used $77 to buy Baldurs gate 3 deluxe edition while sipping on dead, low vibe water. I’ve never been happier.

[@Tenderbones]

Fair

[@iminurwalls_]

Fun fact about the ear candle thing: It has been around for 3,000 years, and yet for some reason people still haven't realized it doesn't work.

[@msthecommentator2863]

You know it's bad when you look at WebMD for the proper way to clean out your ears and there's a whole section that just says "don't use cotton swabs, sharp objects, *or ear candles* to clean the ear canal"

[@triciad4100]

People keep telling them to stop but it's pretty hard to hear it with candles jammed in their ears

[@zavano92]

​@@msthecommentator2863I stand by ear knife being best way to remove wax. WebMD is a paid shill

[@KingOfGaymes]

Because humanity has a habit of not learning 😭

[@demo2823]

Brother in law swears by them. I tried one because I have bad tinnitus and a history of using cotton swabs in case I had some wax packed up against the drum like people warn they'll do. It wasn't even able to create a vaccuum in my ear canal to do its job, because guess what- ear canals are not perfectly round.

[@mythcat1273]

I find the "eating borax causes reproductive issues" thing extra funny because that lady literally said that it cured male impotence and increased testosterone

[@ViperFang139]

Also she said it helped with pcos which is a condition that is caused by to much testosterone lol really shows that they have no idea what they are talking about.

[@neurdogic8909]

​@@ViperFang139 hello! PCOS-haver here. youre very close, but it should be said that PCOS isn't caused by too much testosterone, it's thought to be caused by an imbalanced level of androgens (which includes testosterone, but it also includes other hormones too!) and not enough estrogen. the symptoms can also come from a result of insulin-related issues. professionals still don't know exactly why it happens, but this is the best guess theyve got so far. it also has a strong genetic correlation. but yeah :3

[@SleepyVampArt]

its crazy that people these days are scared of not having enough testosterone because of alpha male podcasts. high T does harm too

[@ViperFang139]

@@neurdogic8909 oh ok thanks for the info I actually got diagnosed recently and that's how my gyno explained maybe because that was the highest one for me idk I was just happy to even get a diagnosis tbh it was a pain having a gyno who didn't even care about my symptoms in the first place.

[@whatever3145]

Lol as a chronically ill person in Oklahoma, a "no abortion no matter what -we dont care if your dad raped and impregnated you or if you die" state, maybe ill try this. Id love to be sterile now that I no longer have rights over my own body tbh

[@xiaomeijin7461]

"Hey Doc, my nose hurts real bad" "Yeah I can help with that. " *shoves garlic up your nose*

[@Burningtimetraveller]

Bad day to be a vampire

[@baffledbat]

@@Burningtimetraveller On man, my nose was sore :C

[@JAIL_FACE]

In first grade I was like really pale and was complaining about the heat. Some BITCH who I partialy knew said that "it's actually pwetty cowld out". I said "no, it's not, I'm like burning out here". This went on for a few days. Then he says the 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞. He calls me a 𝔇𝔞𝔪𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔯 (a cross between a person and a vampire) and he must've rolled a nat frickin 20 on persuasion or whatevs because I believed him!

[@321hackertime5]

@@JAIL_FACE 😭😭??

[@JAIL_FACE]

​@@321hackertime5I STILL HATE HIM!!!

[@Wild_Child189]

I am SO TIRED of companies telling people that whatever expensive thing they’d selling is “detoxing”. Like, YOU DON’T NEED TO BUY THAT. That why your bladder exists! You don’t need to waste money on something you were born with!

[@hugosenet]

Yup, the liver does most of the job of destroying toxic things and the kydneys get it out of our body, we can detoxify ourselves most of the time

[@Estarile]

This is liver slander that you didn't mention it.

[@ravenouself4181]

Just drink Beer, it makes You piss more often and is far less dangerous than fucking Borax.

[@water6006]

⁠@@Estarilewhat about the kidneys?

[@Estarile]

@@water6006 Liver Slander does not preclude additional kidney slander.

[@libbysatire803]

“It gets rid of parasites” ma’am if you have parasites please seek medical attention from a licensed professional

[@chdest4550]

That's the problem though, unfortunately these people seem to think that doctors are part of the Illuminati or something.

[@REXY_DRAGONS]

Frr

[@hallway_revenant7919]

BROTHER AN ENEMA GOES UP YOUR ASSHOLE, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS HAPPENING

[@mariespence2980]

It's almost like we have meds that WILL actually help 😂

[@Sharp_Shark25]

I think the main problem is that people CONSTANTLY forget that our bodies NATURALLY cleanse ourselves. The only reason we should ever intervein with that process is when it is something we cant control which is what DOCTORS are for.

[@Izzy-cp8yt]

I mean, arguably there are often times when, particularly in the US, people either can't access professional medical advice, or their concerns and problems aren't taken seriously, in which case they're often forced to take their health into their own hands. That said, everyone I know has been forced into such a situation have also put in a significant amount of research into recommended home treatment options to do their best to avoid causing harm. But we can't ignore that there's a very really middle ground between "dangerous load of tiktok bs" and "exclusively doing what the doctor tells you".

[@mangobango280]

i hate people who say its different because of all of the “crap” we eat today and we aren’t eating what are bodies are intended to consume like food from the stone age… THATS WHAT MODERN MEDICATION IS FOR 💀

[@ot7biasedmashups]

That's true but we've already been so indoctrinated to believe that our bodies need all kinds of products in order to not be disgusting. Like, obviously a lot of those things are useful but most are just a massive rip off, especially if you add gendered products to it.

[@gymnasticsgirlie0647]

@@mangobango280 Medication isn't a cure-all. It often comes with many uncomfortable and even dangerous side effects and for narcotics, the risk of addiction. There are also many conditions that cannot be treated by medication. Most doctors will tell you that diet and lifestyle are just as important for maintaining health as medication. Western medicine is good for emergencies, Eastern medicine is good for preventative measures. We need both to survive.

[@nidhi2693]

@@gymnasticsgirlie0647 not all western medication is addictive. there are some dangerous ones out there that can do harm if not monitored properly. but, eastern/traditional medicinal practices are not always good either. some treatments rely on traditional lifestyles that we don't live by anymore. additionally, combining the two needs a lot of research. western medicine tries to reduce/stop symptoms while trying to cure/prevent. whereas eastern medicine typically requires more long-term efforts that facilitate "slowing" down the symptoms. Ultimately, , but make sure you do your before implementing a major change.

[@Hbear114]

“Alive” water sounds like the exact opposite of what I’d want to drink - I was picturing algae filled green swamp water lol

[@Macaromi02]

Ikr

[@DogMechanic]

It's funny you say that, because alkaline water is commonly found in fens (a type of wetland like a bog or swamp).

[@flyingstonemon3564]

I'd drink algae water, if it tasted good and wasn't harmful, I'd probably try.

[@NationalOrangeJuiceDay]

@@flyingstonemon3564yeah im willing to eat grass if it tastes good, so :)

[@TomMinnow]

My cat loves alive water, she's always trying to drink out of my fish tank, maybe I should try.

[@Shelly-woman4]

What to do with borax: -LAUNDRY -SLIME I think that's it.

[@DunkinCrew]

And attack Leviathans (Supernatural)

[@bobbywamsley4828]

Borax is also used as far as I know as a flux in blacksmithing to keep oxygen from your forge welds. Do note, I've only really done some research into the craft but never actually done it so take it with a grain of salt.

[@TheMessCalledJess]

Kills ants too, google Terro 😉

[@sunarintarou4494]

@@DunkinCrewFinally another fan in the wild! Gotta love a 15 season emotional rollercoaster!

[@Palmtop_User]

Also glazing for ceramics

[@isaacplayzbc360]

7:52 fun fact:your bloodstream is slightly basic and if it did neutralize the ph of your bloodstream, you would die.

[@elliottlupin]

Yup, your blood pH stays between 7.35 and 7.45, anything outside of that and you die

[@supper-girl7405]

It's not an immediate death when blood ph reaches 7, but it is extremely dangerous and needs to be treated in the hospital *immediately*

[@fatherpleasereturn2088]

damn i was hoping my bloodstream is a bit quirky instead

[@SpicyButterflyWings]

Not to mention that if your blood pH is too high, that's very dangerous as well. You don't want acidosis or alkalosis and fancy high pH water isn't gonna make much of a difference.

[@beaoloan1800]

My in laws have bought the kangen water in the UK cause a pharmacist friend of theirs was selling it. The AMOUNT of misinformation that was fed about pH. I think I was offered 14 pH level water about three times all of which I refused cause I said I didn't wanna die lol

[@SkyeSoleil]

I’m a millennial and when the Tide Pod trend happened I always said that every generation would have done it because that’s just how kids are. Now that people of all ages are ingesting Borax of their own free will, I’m proven right

[@amethyst1062]

I saw that once when I was 7 I was like why would these idiots want to eat a house product? It would taste disgusting and have toxic effects like dying I also was adamant about not putting hand soap on my face since my hands were tougher and if I put hand soap on my face I would look like an ogre forever I was kinda smart

[@karinalumen9722]

Heres the thing, they didnt eat it! If you look at the videos of it, it only became “popular” after the media reported on it and most were making jokes about it

[@fossilfightersfanforever7243]

i think also what happened with the Tide Pods was adult youtubers with child audiences were making and eating FAKE tide pods to like entertain and scam the kids or something for clickbait idfk. that's why it's always been so awful when some millennials call gen z the "generation who ate tide pods" like yeah bc those kids were like 10 and the 30 year olds showed them how to do it and pretended they were safe to eat 😭😭

[@lethfuil]

​@@fossilfightersfanforever7243 Except a couple of TEENAGERS endet up in hospital for eating them. 10 is already plenty old enough to not eat cleaning supplies, but I'd let it slide. Teenagers though...oh boy. You'll have to hear that for a while, I'm afraid. :P

[@lethfuil]

​@@amethyst1062 Eh, handsoap on the face isn't much of an issue. At all. Just don't go too rough, don't use too much and... don't use bad, or heavy duty one. Then you're perfectly fine.

[@lauraholmes2402]

Fun fact on the Borax subject: the Victorians used to put it in soured milk because they thought it converted it back into healthy milk… it made it LOOK like healthy milk but the bacteria was still there. They fed it to babies. Then they stopped doing it when they realised the harm it was causing

[@yolosucker]

God, humans are stupid😭

[@mathematicallymade]

Oof, that's rough. Interesting!

[@crunchybones3899]

Ah yes, cow tuberculosis. I thought is was baking soda?

[@katiek.6333]

yup! It made it a brighter white and not taste sour anymore and house keeping books had like recipies for "unspoiling milk". What a time to be (briefley) alive

[@midnightdemon2112]

Not surprised, the Victorians were all silly

[@1127snowbunny1127]

These are the same adults who think that autism is cuased by parasite and cured with drinking bleach.

[@FirstnameLastname-jd4uq]

The worst part is a lot of autistic people dont want to be “cured”, like me.

[@Crazed-Rat]

@@FirstnameLastname-jd4uq Dont see how thats the worst part, autism may very well be the future as it has its benefits.

[@FirstnameLastname-jd4uq]

@@Crazed-Rat i was saying that because the parents are trying to “cure” their children but a lot of autistic people dont want to be “cured”.

[@briansullivan5908]

Drinking bleach is a sure path to dying painfully.

[@LuigiFan77]

*extremely sarcastic* isn't autism caused by vaccines?

[@evelyncortus6357]

As a woman with PCOS, it infuriates me that they mentioned PCOS and menstrual irregularity as improved with Borax. People with PCOS have so much bullshit shoved in our faces. PCOS is painful and sometimes disabling! So people know they can make money off us saying they have the cure. It makes me so mad

[@lesboobas]

the worst part about it is that they're actively preying on women who cant afford/are having a hard time getting treatment/diagnosis. i agree that women's reproductive health is VASTLY understudied in the medical industry but that isnt an excuse for these bogus (and even dangerous) medical life hacks to be risking the lives of these women just to sell their shit. its really infuriating.

[@ZeldasSword]

Don’t even get me started on the PCOS fertility bullishit

[@aprettygothichick]

I have PCOS and a nurse tried to tell me once that I was making it up for attention because according to her PCOS isn't real. She claimed that if it was real their would be no way anyone with it would be able to get anything done with that much pain. Meanwhile I was laying in a hospital bed due to being in crippling pain from my PCOS

[@Isabel-sr8ep]

As someone with PCOS I stand by this!

[@S3lkie-Gutz]

As someone with endometriosis and possible?? Hyperthyroidism associated with it I agree, way too much snake oil bs being shoved in our faces and people not taking us seriously even tho I know people with endo who have had endometrium growing on their intestines and lungs sometimes

[@snailveon]

I used to make the joke of “oh, the government tells you that drinking the chemicals under your sink is dangerous because they want the spicy juice all to themselves”… I did not expect to hear a middle aged woman saying the exact same thing except unironically Truly mind boggling

[@DancingPanda625]

My former boss claimed the government puts chemicals in water to stops people from connecting to each other, and when she does acid, it removes that blockage. Then she went on to say everyone should do acid.

[@CompanionBeans]

@@DancingPanda625 LMAO Acid People(not to be confused with people who do acid)are wild. It's definitely not for everyone...

[@ohnowhyamihere]

​@@DancingPanda625 I mean. If she was gonna give me free acid... I'm listening.

[@FlowersGrace2010]

honestly! i wanna tell them "didn't mommy and daddy teach you to not eat the pretty cleaning powder?"

[@yondermileslimpey3892]

A very peridot thing to say

[@snoot_mcgoot]

as someone who HAD to give themselves enemas regularly when I was younger (yay IBS!) I genuinely cannot understand WHY anyone would EVER willingly do this without a genuine medical need. Not only is it INCREDIBLY uncomfortable and unpleasant, but overusing enemas can also cause a ton of health complications, and can strip out your natural gut flora and bacteria, which are super important to healthy digestion.

[@manimanibooboo]

I have had to do prep for a colonoscopy and yeah, it was no fun.

[@gwennorthcutt421]

i hate to be this person but it's often used to prepare for anal. i guess that could count as a medical need, to prevent mess and thus infection? you're right that it shouldnt be done too often.

[@UnicornsPoopRainbows]

I have IBS and I'm so glad this wasn't even mentioned since it is pretty mild. I've had a colonoscopy and while it isn't fun, the worst part was drinking the actual liquid. If they developed an enema that would work for colonoscopy prep instead of liters of nasty fluids, I'd be all for it but only as necessary!

[@kaylee1769]

Exactly!!! I have a stomach disease and I use enemas as a last resort because they’re horrible. Last resort as I’m waiting for over two weeks without pooping because it’s that bad. So uncomfortable and painful

[@grimalice63]

Also enemas can't do what people who use them in this sense are claiming to do. It can not reach your liver and it can not clear out toxins. Also not anti parasite. You shouldn't even be using anti parasitc medication or treatments often anyways because you should not constantly have a parasite in your body.

[@Scrambles-qk2un]

A couple years back I had such a bad earwax buildup in one ear I had gone essentially deaf on that side. Now I knew shoving q-tips in there would only make it worse (and had probably contributed to the problem in the first place.) But my canals were itchy, I couldn't hear people, and I was desperate to get it clear. So when one of my more gullible relatives suggested the ear wax candle, I tried it. I proceeded to set my shirt on fire.

[@upsidedownandbacktofront_]

If you're struggling with it you can actually talk to a doctor about it. They can do a flush of your ear canal it helps and it's a lot safer than trying to fix it on your own.

[@ZlatkoTheGod]

I ran into a similar problem about a year ago. I thought my ear was just a little clogged so I shoved a cotton swab in there and accidentally plugged my ear canal to the point where I was also practically deaf in one ear. I tried a bunch of things from trying to clean harder to putting chemicals in there that are supposed to dissolve earwax but it didn't help. In the end I just went to a doctor, she flushed my ears, got everything out and my hearing was better than before. The whole procedure took like 5 minutes. My point is don't be a dumbass, go to a doctor (if you have the means) that's what they're for.

[@ca3neus115]

​@@upsidedownandbacktofront_i had to do this a couple times!!! my doctor told me to take the corner of a towel and clean out my ears after a shower instead of using q tips. like you can wipe your ears off as far as something like the corner of a towel or a piece of toilet paper will allow without damaging your ear. its definitely helped! you can also buy kits to get the wax out of your ear, not just go to the doctor (if its frequent, but i would understand wanting the doctor to do it though!) its such a niche problem but its sooo fucking itchy and ive also lost my hearing for a period of MONTHS from it

[@LackaDrones]

Doesn't borax literally say "do not ingest" and has a literal guide on the ingredients of what to do if you happen to accidently breath it in?

[@BwooHuraca]

Something-something all scientists everywhere are evil moustache-twirlers for no reason.

[@Yoongisgreyhairs_]

Yes it does and it did peel off my cousin’s skin on her fingers when she made slime that’s why you shouldn’t touch it without gloves

[@erisplaneta8]

thats why you cant buy it here in my country

[@demonixxluks]

My mother was almost in on the borax craze. Luckly the supermartkets weren't selling them anymore due to people trying to eat it. Mum was convinced it was a conspiracy to stop people from accessing the health benifts of it and be "stuck needing help from big pharma"

[@BwooHuraca]

@@demonixxluks Is she aware that borax was added to milk in the Victorian era? That same era still believed in miasma theory, added plaster of paris to bread, cleaned their garments with gasoline, put lead makeup on their faces and in their paint, and even had a disease made famous by Alice in Wonderland due to unregulated exposure to mercury. There's a reason we shouldn't be doing those things anymore.

[@Chocolate_sims]

As soon as I hear an influencer say “detox” I immediately thing it’s a scam lmfao

[@fhey7903]

It pretty much always is. You're body already does a perfectly fine job of getting rid of toxins; if for whatever reason it doesn't than the person to see about that would be a doctor, not random tiktok influencer pounding bleach shots.

[@Mrs.Hernandez42]

The only time I’ve accepted it was when one girl said she’s ‘detoxing’ her ex from her life. 😂

[@greeny3637]

@@fhey7903 dont forget that "toxins" is just a buzz word because anything can be toxic, it just depends on how much you ingest of that thing. too much water? death. too much vitamin c? death. too much caffeine? death i can go on for ages but you get the point, everything can be toxic but it depends on how much you ingest of it

[@cattherat-ss4kv]

And like shampoo. I trust my detoxing shampoo.

[@Natasha-bf6yk]

omg yes!!! I wish more people knew this😭 that word is all over everything!!!

[@himalia7884]

The borax water is honestly giving radioactive water that people thought was good for you but eventually ended up making your jaw fall off

[@Saki-Malo]

Oh shoot I completely forgot about that! It was called radithor or something like that right?

[@cassie.m.0723]

It's gonna be the radium girls all over again

[@Mitzthatonekid]

​@@Saki-Maloyep! Who knew something with a long half life would be highly dangerous and destroy cells!

[@Saavik256]

@@Saki-Malo yeah, and some dude drank so many bottles of Radithor his lower jaw literally rotted off and when he bought the farm, he had to be buried in a lead-lined coffin because his remains were so radioactive.

[@xcyan_lilyx5788]

We literally use borax to kill bugs. I doubt it does anything good to people

[@ARandomPersonHereToExist]

As a resident of Oregon… the tap water may be clean but it’s still just gross tasting tap water

[@ThatGuyRNA]

Correct, After you drink filtered you just can’t go back

[@Kenziesodd]

FR but my ego is pretty boosted knowing my tap water better /j 😈🙏🏻

[@Kenziesodd]

Is better* now that sounds weird

[@ARandomPersonHereToExist]

@@Kenziesodd Fr tho

[@emmalarsen8446]

I live in Oregon and I live more out in the country side and sense we don't have clean water pumping to us we have to filter our TAP water

[@Xzana13]

My sister is on a "i don't trust doctors" kick and she brought home a box of borax the other day and I was horrified that maybe she'd start ingesting it.... Luckily it's just being used for laundry but man... the fear was there.

[@xeldrine66]

The only thing I use borax for is homemade ant traps. I don't want to even think what ingesting it would do to my body if it can kill a whole bunch of ants.

[@Kane42069]

my grandma died from stomach cancer recently, it wasn’t caused by it but she was drinking alkaline water like it was liquid gold when she got diagnosed.

[@kingazoltowska520]

Huh

[@Kane42069]

@Daboypurplhart I’m doing alright, I was kinda prepared for it. She had been going downhill for a couple years and I kinda knew even if it was subconsciously that she wasn’t going to make it.

[@verskudoesthings]

im sorry for your loss

[@MaggiesMakeupMedley]

Health trend TikTok just makes me think of those weird tips from old magazines that are like, “Got a headache? Try a spot of heroin. Stomach pains? Add a little mercury to your dinner.” It’s strange, it’s funny and it definitely should not be followed.

[@DG_Toti]

Wanna lose those five pounds? Ingest these tapeworm egg pills! Wanna make your skin clear with that natural youthful glow? Use this topical radium ointment! …wait, who the heck is Marie Curie??

[@Nikki_the_G]

Well...the heroin *would* help with that headache, tho.

[@Neamhain]

They're really just brining back the Victorian health mentality of "There's ghosts in your blood, go do some cocaine and it'll clear them right out!" lmao

[@Faucetofstone]

Say what you will about heroin it actually WILL take the headache away.

[@supershepherd]

These people want radium in our food and face creams again.

[@sunnywme]

15:10 who would you rather trust? the highly trained doctor who spent twenty years in med-school, who posts on tiktok to help others benefit their health cheryl who works at a gas station with thirty followers on tiktok

[@swag.realll]

“Honey!! Your just out for our money.. I’m over here with my cheap 5,000$ alkaline water and eating borax with no health benefits other than potential organ damage, using the candle method to get wax lodged in my ear, sticking coffee up my ass, and put garlic cloves in my nose to help the sinus infection by blocking off my sinuses even more!! You see.. the government doesn’t want us to know the secret ability of all these items so they can earn money… SCREW THE GOVERNMENT!!”

[@Ipossiblyexist]

Fun fact: Alive Water comes from Southern Slavic Mythology (as far as I know) and we call it Zhiva voda. It is supposed to be water untouched since the creation of the cosmos and you are supposed to go through a lot of impossible challenges to get it (fighting an evil dragon, helping sentient ant civilizations, etc) and it can cure every disease (magical or not), it can also bring people back to life. But it can only be used once, after that it becomes "touched" and "polluted" and doesn't have the same properties any more.

[@mariuchiha4664]

That’s really interesting.

[@unavoidablycanadian397]

And when you finally find the water, tell everyone "ne valja ništa"

[@batzdites]

oooh!!! this is super cool

[@Ipossiblyexist]

@@unavoidablycanadian397 Oh, really? From where I am from (Bulgaria) I don't think we say anything when we get the water, just get it and go to be the 100 village boy marrying the kingdom's princess.

[@TrashPanda12]

​@ville__ lol you have no content and you're getting roasted in one of your posts. I'd have to disagree.

[@IronWangCreates]

Apple seeds and almonds are amazing natural snacks. I’ve been on an apple seed and almond only diet for a month now and I can really feel the toxins leaving my system in the form of a white foam that I’ve been coughing up

[@healthycathy9782]

lol

[@wolfclawwolf577]

That cyanide must be hitting different, huh?

[@IronWangCreates]

@@wolfclawwolf577 obviously, it’s an all natural antioxidant!

[@tiggeez]

You should try the ground up peach pit diet……

[@_Saturnly_]

​@@tiggeezadd cherry pits to that! Works great, it worked so good I had to go to the hospital to study me to figure out how I got in this condition!

[@Trashsuit]

Just because something says it's natural, it does NOT mean you can eat it

[@kitty79er]

facts, poison ivy is natural, but you don't go randomly eating it

[@pepperonigorlpointblankper4178]

Poop is natural lol

[@moonie6171]

Or stick it up your ass.

[@jondw]

Yeah, the "It's totally natural" and "based on recent scientific breakthroughs" were common taglines for a bunch of radium based products. Technically they weren't wrong about it being natural or being based on recent scientific breakthroughs however, said "recent scientific breakthroughs" was that radiation is a thing that exists. Let's just say alot of people who swore by these products had early closed lead coffin funerals.

[@emilybarker3240]

Exactly. Things that are also natural: opium, uranium, lead.

[@suspicious_fishes]

my mom made me wash my hands after touching borax as a kid, and there are people out here drinking it? how are people this gullible?!

[@crusher9z9]

its an alkaline salt, its not a problem unless you soak your hands in it for like hours.

[@nightmarecastni]

@@crusher9z9 the hand washing was likely so a child, as OP said they were, didn't then ingest residue from their hand

[@oofypaintsstufffz4909]

You know its a good day when funkyfrogbait posts.

[@alicebthegachaweirdo8378]

Yes

[@blueangel2006]

love your pfp❤

[@greenleafgacha4969]

Yessssss

[@Mono_very_evil_witch]

very much

[@stan_lego_eda]

YEAHH

[@sabrexi7228]

I find the Borax trend so funny. While some minerals are great for you, they need to be done in incredibly small amounts and specific conditions. “Hey guys! Did you know eating screws is super healthy cuz it gives you a bunch of iron!”

[@unavoidablycanadian397]

Be sure to eat only metric sizes. The SAE sizes are full of incongruent fractions that harm the sacred geometry of your aura.

[@SteamPunkPrince]

i ate a whole iron horseshoe because im iron deficient!

[@HoneyDragon]

I like your cow (Pfp)

[@Mitzthatonekid]

Things I'd never suspect other adults would do but here we are!

[@ptorq]

You think you're being funny, but grind up some cereal "fortified with iron" sometime and run a magnet through it.

[@chromachan]

Having been a chronic pain patient for over two decades, you can trust me when I say I understand the desperation to make it stop. I feel badly for the people who are caught up in these scams. I feel it’s a combination of misinformation, lack of education, lack of support in the medical community and lack of access to decent pain medication. It’s really sad.

[@mx.menacing]

I have chronic pain and my mom has fibromyalgia, and I do sadly understand too. My mom has fallen for many scams in the past as well.

[@bellabean7]

Med student late to the party here - all of these are painful to watch. You don’t want your blood to be alkalinized, you don’t need to put coffee up your butt to get rid of parasites (these most likely haven’t been exposed to any parasites in the first place), and the borax thing is crazy - you make a claim that product can increase testosterone levels but also help with PCOS? Those are inversely related issues. It’s so frustrating that these people are weaponizing medical buzzwords and the general lack of health education in society in order to take advantage of people who are legitimately struggling with their health. I’ve only seen it get worse as everyone, no matter their credentials, can have a platform.

[@Mikesquealer]

The borax trend honestly shocked me the most, did no one else learn about the poison squad in school? Chemicals like borax was put into food in the 1900s and the study was literally about how it was poisoning people 😭

[@Anna-fs6bz]

I didn't even learn about that in school and yet i have enough common sense to not eat borax 💀💀

[@nomollyshere]

I still remember when my mom would use borax in sugar water as an ant killer at home🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

[@UnicornsPoopRainbows]

I did not learn about the Poison Squad in school. I learned about it a few years ago from YT edutainment creators. It is a disservice that we never learned about them in Health Class!

[@aurorarose8174]

I remember the squad and no most people don't learn em

[@prettyevil6662000]

Never learned about this poison squad, but I'm a country girl and borax with some sugar is pretty much the go-to for any bug or rodent infestation. If it can kill a roach, I don't think I should eat it in any quantity.

[@Weirdcorepuppet3344]

As a person who lives in Oregon, to see people pay 88 DOLLARS A MONTH for our tap water is hilarious and absurd! I don’t even drink the tap water my sink..

[@donghye1004]

LMAO it turns out your local water has been worth more than you think 😭

[@msthecommentator2863]

Right?? We have a Brita so the water in our fridge is probably more pure than their "alive" tap water 😂

[@dionysus_adores]

Yeah you can get a good filter for that price. Just get that if you're worried.

[@yourbiologicalmom7608]

As someone who doesn’t even have to pay 2 dollars for a thousand liter of water, it’s kind of weird how people fall for that bs. Even if I didn’t have that much access to tap water. I WOULD buy bottled at my local store, than paying more than 30 dollars for water.

[@cedrus.forest_.]

i have well water here where i live in oregon, damn ppl crazy lol.

[@ladyredl3210]

I’m a docent at a museum, and my live history character is one of those women who was selling health water. That was in the 1860s. This shit truly never goes away.

[@Owenvaughncoldcocoa]

Tiktok gave me an ed. Three times. And then they had the audacity to say you weren’t healthy if you didn’t STARVE yourself 😭

[@fr0stra1d]

This is the only creator I know that has the will and the lack of a filter to be sponsored by a toy company. I respect that a lot.

[@clutterbot7279]

i keep seeing this sponsor everywhere recently! Anna marie was sponsored by them too...

[@jujubesification]

The speech prof was also recently sponsored by a toy company.

[@-kanju-]

Dinobunny did it too lol

[@thevirtualtraveler]

You aren't watching the right creators.

[@elzebub5]

you arent watching the right people then.

[@isabellevkd]

Bruh, those borax folks are wild. In Victorian England, they used borax (and other things) to adulterate flour and bread, and it led to numerous health issues and casualties. We came full circle in the worst way 💀

[@isabellevkd]

For clarification, it was to save the money on flour, as well as make loaves heavier and whiter. Gotta love capitalism babyyyyy

[@Man-ej6uv]

i used to make slime using borax. definitely should eat that

[@truecrimefan1433]

​@@Man-ej6uvsame hahah me and the kids struggled to find it at first to be honest and then we made sooo much slime , I could not imagine eating that 😮

[@laerin7931]

@@isabellevkd I think it was also used as a way to mask the taste of milk that has gone off.

[@isabellevkd]

@@laerin7931 That too!

[@Sp00kystone420]

When I was a kid, I got a lot of ear infections and my mom would use those candles. It makes sense why I kept getting them💀

[@chocolateaddictedartist5924]

Nah that shit fueled the cycle 😭

[@beauuuuu5874]

I also had a lot of ear infections as a kid… my mom has become infatuated with colloidal silver, now.

[@drlnielsen]

In re: ear candle popularity/debunk cycle: these were popular in the 1800s. When people had long hair and used hair oil. It also makes me very happy to hear of people who drink alkaline water with lemon. Lemon, an acid, which neutralizes the alkaline.

[@Reverend_Salem]

from what i can tell, lemon being considered alkaline is due to the ash it produces after being burned being alkaline. so the lemon being alkalizing it's not entirely based on bs. There is actual science behind it. (Granted that science also indicates that alkaline diets at best don't do anything for you, and i doubt that eating a lemon would make your diet more basic because of how the body processes food vs what happens when the same thing is burned.)

[@sinfulpuritan3430]

Don't coffee enemas come with the risk of like... RUPTURING YOUR COLON? That was one of the first things my medical teacher (who was a registered nurse) told us when a classmate asked about coffee enemas. The high amounts of caffeine getting absorbed into the colon makes it so irritated, it can rupture during the process.

[@indigo2322]

My crazy step "mom" told me she knew two women who were doing this and claims that it cured their cancer....I wish I were joking, I wouldn't be surprised if she started doing this

[@epkoda]

the caffeine getting absorbed is probably what makes them feel better afterwards... not any of the "health benefits" they claim it has. also, like, imagine them getting addicted to caffeine through this method, without realising it, and getting withdrawals when they don't do it... they might think it's the "toxins" built up in their body making them feel bad, when actually they're just addicted to caffeine :/ scary stuff

[@amethyst1062]

The ppl who do coffee enemas for “health benefits” need to just drink a moderate amount of coffee and stop the coffee enemas. Sorry, my dog needs some rubs

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

⁠@@amethyst1062her dog probably needs some rubs too. Then again it probably gets too many

[@octosquid48]

Wait so it basically just straight up *kills your colon?!?!?!*

[@robinoconnor553]

As goofy as these are, we need to remember just how powerful the placebo effect is. There's extremely impressive data on why so many tests use the double blind method where neither the participants nor the providers know who is getting the real medicine and who is getting the sugar pill.

[@toxihex876]

I was just thinking that a lot of the symptoms they list are symptoms of high stress, and believing you're getting solid help surely would remedy that. I mean, you would get health problems from drinking detergent but then again there was an episode of my strange addiction where a lady literally drank literal gasoline for the longest time and didn't feel any effects yet (there were, she just didn't feel them yet). The human body is a baffling thing.

[@thebadpoet]

Research specifically into the placebo effect is actually not strong. When researchers try to prove it exists, they come up empty. Double blind testing is important for a lot of reasons, having a control is the core of scientific experimentation. But when the numbers are actually crunched there isn’t strong evidence for a measurable placebo effect

[@swarnaaa]

Placebo effect is no doubt a thing but that doesn't mean people should be absolutely freaking stupid and drink detergent.

[@fionatastic0.070]

@@thebadpoetIt’s even slightly more complicated than that because there is the possibility that placebo is effective, but in order to know whether or not placebo worked as a treatment for a certain symptom, you would need three groups: the treatment group, the placebo group, and the group that changes nothing. We only do two though so it’s hard to say.

[@melissaherrera940]

@@fionatastic0.070most studies usually do two because even with the placebo effect, if the treatment you’re testing is effective, you should still see a big enough difference between the treatment and placebo. If a treatment isn’t much different than the placebo regardless of the placebo effect, it’s clearly not effective. Studies care more if the drug works, not if the placebo is doing anything, it’s just a group used for comparison.

[@michaelvickers5560]

fun fact: the alive water brand was started by the guy who made the dumpster fire that was juicero.

[@alirosekitty]

I KNEW HE WAS SELLING WATER, I COULDN'T REMEMBER THE NAME! THIS IS GOOD INFORMATION! (/GEN FOR ALL OF THIS)

[@emilyrasputin]

Oh my God, he actually found a way to get people to pay for overpriced branded garbage after all that 🫠

[@kjaxthegrate]

I KNEW THAT LOOKED FAMILIAR

[@nothinghappens9811]

I remember Charlie losing his shit about that dumb Juicero gadget back in the day. What a blast from the past.

[@alchemicmercury]

Wtf is Juicero?

[@rosesigner]

My ex-husband used these ear candles 25 years ago. Lol His mother also collected her toenails in coffee cans so...

[@SavySniff]

And you...willingly married into that family? I hope you're doing better now

[@rosesigner]

@@SavySniff Thanks for asking, yes I'm OK now, I just had to fake that I had terminal throat cancer and then said I had to move away to get treatment. Then I faked my death.

[@updated_autopsy_report1]

Is that why he’s an ex now?

[@rosesigner]

@@updated_autopsy_report1 LOL, that was one of the things that had me running and screaming to get away, yes. 😆 🤣 😂

[@ashv9565]

I had a coworker try to sell me a 3k water alkalizer. She was a bit offended when I couldn't stop laughing.

[@FortheLoveofBees]

Should’ve stayed serious!! You could be the next millionaire-to-be as a part of her “high ticket affiliate marketing” downline. Kangen is an MLM

[@Partyhatpossum]

Ahhh Kangen. My micro prof and I were on a research excursion at a river and they had a rep there saying their water was more pH balanced than other water. Prof obviously asks to use her professional pH probe to prove her wrong. The rep was humbled that day.

[@mish6900]

Fun fact about the borax: you NEED calcium not only in your bloodstream, but in your bones. If one is unbalanced, it will steal calcium from the other. Calcium is REQUIRED for muscles to move. Without the calcium ions, there's no muscle movement. If the borax "gets rid" of the calcium, your bones are not only going to get weaker, but so is the control of your muscles.

[@geministrial950]

Shhh. Let natural selection do it's thing.

[@melissaherrera940]

It’s giving osteoporosis/osteopenia and cardiac arrest

[@WooffzTheCoon]

Why would you try to get rid of calcium 😭😭 Did none of these people get told “milk makes your bones strong bc calcium” as children? Because I thought that was a universal thing

[@looseleafteabutworse]

Ohhhhhh. If that's the case, it actually might be real that some people experience less pain. Theyre probably literally not putting as much stress on painful joints. Not that it's a good thing, obviously, but I can see why it might genuinely have some effect. As an arthritic person, I really feel for anyone desperate enough to do that.

[@crusher9z9]

no joshaunda it makes you absorb more calcium and incorporates into bones reinforcing them, fluoride enbrittles bones in high quantities but in low quantities it can increase the durability, boron does the same thing but with less side effects etc. you also aren't replacing your calcium because you added some boron in, like 1% not even of your calcium? that doesn't sound like removing calcium, nor is it preventing you from having calcium, you can absorb calcium anyways they even said it helps absorption of calcium, well there is some evidence for that its still spun. remember borax is only 11.3 boron.

[@avatarninjacat]

I'll never forget when, in one of my Child Development college classes on health and safety of children, this woman raved about essential oils. Now if that's what she wants then fine. The PROBLEM was here telling people to put essential oils in empty capsules and consuming them. She was also giving her infant and toddler pure essential oils; like actually FEEDING them essential oils. Our professor was in shock and had to make a public post in our online page about this warning people to never ever do that. The woman dis-enrolled from the class like the next day. Some people shouldn't be parents.

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

That's horrifying. I say that as someone who loves using essential oils. I use lavender on my sleep mask, it helps me feel relaxed. I make wintergreen oil balms for my headaches and my mum's rheumatoid arthritis aches and pains and it helps a LOT. I make and have sold balms with sweet orange and chamomile for eczema and everyone has raved about how well it's helped their skin. I inhale eucalyptus and peppermint oils in hot water for congestion. They're great for many things. THEY CAN ALSO BE DEADLY AND NOBODY SHOULD EVER CONSUME THEM. The woman giving them to her child should no longer have custody of that child, she was risking that child's life. Absolutely horrifying.

[@kathryn924]

my grams sells doterra products. one thing doterra does is encourages people to consume most of their products. she's put essential oils in food she serves us instead of idk putting the ACTUAL HERBS IN. not only does it taste nasty, it's also extremely concentrated and can be toxic even in small amounts. i don't have sensitive skin but i broke out when i put some cassia (basically cinnamon) oil on my hand once. do NOT ingest it and ESPECIALLY don't feed it or even use it at all on a BABY.

[@angelacrabtree2847]

Never ingest essential oils. While some can be helpful because they contain scientifically proven compounds like menthol in the case of Peppermint and what ever it is in eucalyptus which has to be used in extremely small doses like in mentoliptuse cough drops or inhalation most don't Follow the science. Stick with proven remedies. If you want to drink something natural for pain get willow bark. It contains salicylic acid from which aspirin (acitasalicylic acid) is made. Again, science.

[@antimonia]

@@kathryn924doterra is such a predatory mlm; i hope your grandma gets out of it!

[@flyingstonemon3564]

Essential oils are literally poison and can kill babies because their skin will absorb It and she's feeding that to her toddler? O_0

[@Fran_Glass]

BUT IT'S IN A PRETTY BOTTLE Dating myself here, but there was a couple "addicted" to coffee enemas on My Strange Addiction. It was disgusting..

[@reservedsillygoose]

seeing people shove coffee up their back door is the worst thing that ever happened to me

[@wrenthewretched3433]

The thing that gets me is that coffee is a natural laxative, so it's not even necessary to put it in backwards, drinking it like a normal person would be much better for people

[@kiratastic7048]

With the alive water I was like “yeah so you’re basically just paying for the jugs, right?” THEN you said there was an extra fee for the jugs and I was FLOORED

[@cassie.m.0723]

I'm pretty sure those jugs are plastic, too, not even glass

[@PokingAngel]

The line about "This is the generation that made fun of us for the Tide Pod challenge" made me laugh hard. Funny how that works 🤔

[@Spooduken_13]

Honestly just found out Funky was they/them,all I have to say is good for you I support❤

[@anothergeekychannel8384]

"concrete enema" sounds like a band name

[@NocturnalTyphlosion]

one that could only ever be written in those fucked up spikey metal band letters

[@FirstnameLastname-jd4uq]

Apparently someone actually did that and had to go to the hospital

[@hallway_revenant7919]

Dude, the only thing a coffee enema is gonna make you do is shit liquid and give you the biggest coffee high ever

[@scout-ik5rn]

I remember watching a Dr. Phil clip in high school about a guy who was convinced his wife was trying to poison him with borax. If only he’d known about all those health benefits.

[@Chordata7]

The only sane borax drinker

[@cornelius-vampire]

woahhhhh

[@Tyler-he4pf]

The “he no longer has an joint pain!” After eating Borax made me laugh so hard. Like no duh Janet, he’s dying. You just poisoned him.

[@properantagonist]

For real. Even if it did work as pain relief, it wouldn't work for long due to the toxicity

[@alishabusbridge1447]

😂😂😂😂

[@limlimainoue1131]

I've seen somewhere a girl describing her breafast as a glass of alkaline water with a spritz of lemon juice. Girl paid extra for alkaline water just to neutralize it with acid lemon juice.

[@farfetchdthegamer3810]

The woman who said that she drinks borax/baking soda/ sea salt is hilarious. Like, does she realise that all she’s ingesting is a whole lot of sodium salts?

[@Marzi29]

Right... and it takes surprisingly little salt to overdose and pass away! Only a few tablespoons can put an adult in the hospital. There have sadly been a lot of cases of salt overdose, mostly with elderly or disabled people mistaking salt for sugar.

[@paulinemoira8442]

Reminds me of the people who go "I don't consume any sugar because that soo toxic. If I want something sweet I just eat honey."

[@zakbets]

It is kinda scary when you do meet those people. I had a classmate who mom was on the borax train and and made her drink one cup a day. Luckily my classmate just faked drinking it. And this is only the tip of the iceberg of things her mom did.

[@DraconicDuelist]

_To the tune of Manuel's Gas Gas Gas!_ "Salt Salt Salt!"

[@jobivuvuvfvi605]

Not to mention borax is toxic and shouldn't be ingested in even moderate amounts. I'm just shocked this is even a trend because it's a well established fact. Like my grandma taught me to take borax baths (which is fine though I'd always consult a doctor and do your own research before blindly listening to people). However, she always taught me to never put the water in my mouth or anything like that.

[@riverrile]

- Growing up in an east Asian household, my mom had a miniature spoon for earwax. She would make me lay on my side, shove the spoon down my ear, and dig out the flakes (it's just as uncomfortable as it sounds). I'd rather go through that ten times over in one sitting than use a candle. - Oh god, I thought the live water trend died out years ago. - Really cool to see pH color changing drops in action. - Well... that's one way to get rid of nose vampires. - How do you transition from "making out with the dog" to "espresso up my butt"????? - The Borax is giving me "drink bleach to kill COVID" flashbacks...

[@headlessharry40]

same here with the East Asian household thing, except we also used the ends of our plastic glasses to dig in far and it was absolutely disgusting, there’s no way that could have been safe or sanitary. Don’t get me wrong it did the job and it did it well but the stuff that our parents come up with is scary most of the time.

[@crowemoji]

The "making out with the dog" part is definitely just there to catch you off guard. It's bait. It's a trap. They want you to comment about it on their post to drive engagement. No other reason. That's why that part was so short.

[@lichtsprecher]

You could be the gross country uncle that grows out your pinky nail to scoop your ear 😅

[@mmmmmmmmaria]

@@headlessharry40that sounds absolutely dangerous, i’m glad your eardrums are intact 😨

[@s7z7gy]

SAME i got it at the doctor tho it feels so weird

[@angelawintering6201]

The Borax "trend" (as if it was something quirky) is the one that flabbergasts me the most. The only context I've ever used borax was when my roommate's cat in college had fleas, and we then proceeded wash all of the blankets and sheets we had with borax because, if you didn't know, the tiny crystal structure of Borax particles are *said to be* sharp enough to actually kill the fleas. Whether or not that's actually how it works, it worked for us then, and I don't exactly want to be drinking something that has that perception around it.

[@CeeGeeFursuits]

It's also used to kill ants so like???

[@tashlester7783]

I'm sat here like this 😮 learning that americans are eating washing powder 😅

[@ashrowan2143]

There are countries that basically have borax banned for consumer purchase it's so dangerous WHY would some ingest it willingly

[@themiasmastream]

It's literally part of laundry detergent and it's other major use is ant killer. If you're stupid enough to drink it, when it's well known that it poisons humans, I guess we just call that natural selection.

[@teresitaperegrina3741]

Diatomaceous earth can be used this way as well, it’s basically silica (they make food grade) and the structure of the powder attaches to bugs with exoskeletons and kills them. It’s great for roaches!

[@MorbidlyObeseChell]

i imagine these trends come from frustration, you work your whole life do everything right but still you can't afford to see a doctor. these scams exist probably because a $4000 machine is cheaper then a doctor ignoring your issues and telling you to lose weight or drink more water

[@Just1Nora]

The trouble is that all of these treatments start with some grain of truth that can be pointed to as "evidence" of their claims. Things get really warped, though. People think things make sense if they don't truly understand how they work. If they're not doctors they likely have little to no true understanding, which is okay, that's why doctors exist, but once people are hooked by the placebo effect and half-truths it can be nearly impossible to open their eyes. Generally, most people do need more water, more fiber, less meat, and to lose weight, but that's just modern lifestyle stuff. The important thing is for doctors to not dismiss people's symptoms and concerns simply because these conditions are present. They aren't the sole causes of people's problems. I think that many doctors have gotten burnt out, and it's easy to suggest the most simple changes first, but if the patient says that they've tried those things with little to no success, then the doctor needs to come off autopilot and consider other possibilities.

[@FirstnameLastname-jd4uq]

Yea a lot of these people are just really desperate

[@YokiDokiPanic]

My favorite aspect of your videos is the nuance. Because you're absolutely right! If everyone had equal access to good, affordable/free healthcare, no one would listen to these clowns!

[@Roanmonster]

I live in the country that is generally seen as a healthcare utopia and people do this shit here as well. And it's generally done by people who would actually be able to afford the treatments and meds they need. Some people are just spoiled by modern medicine and don't realize that if there was some cure-all treatment Big Pharma would not be squeezing every last penny out of it.

[@SecureBirch410]

Nah they probably still would tbh though. We had totally free COVID vaccines here in the UK for example but still lots of people thinking they were injecting us with microchips or something

[@FF999VGMP]

And we don't

[@Laslus_]

I think so too but its also a lot about science education and logical skills. some health issues aren't solvable or the solution for it sucks balls, so even if we had global perfecft free healthcare there would still be snake oil. I think it needs to walk hand in hand with good science education in class, good math (yes, math, i know, but it takes math to do science) and good reading/logic compression. I like in a country with free healthcare that, although not perfect is really good, and we still had people believing that vaccines are a scam to steal your money. they are free. all vaccines are free here. idk.

[@OatCakes101]

Naw my dude. Im in Canada and we all have healthcare, but i know a TON of people who buy into all this crap

[@jmarshal]

As a chronic pain sufferer I totally get the feeling of wanting that miracle cure, especially when you’re being ghosted by medical professionals, gaslit by your doctors and pharmacists, and straight up called a faker or a liar by your loved ones. Then if you’re lucky enough to get a team handling your pain issues, it still doesn’t make them go away, often doesn’t even make them much better, but if you don’t participate in whatever nonsense they’ve decided is important this decade then they will take away what little access to actual pain relief you have. But the answer is not drinking fxcking laundry detergent or worse.

[@JayMoore-e8o]

I tried mushrooms not too long ago after two years of constant pain. That was my first and last secret cure the government didn't want me to know about.

[@S3lkie-Gutz]

Yeah like the lady in riverside California who went to the ER slathered in DDT and ended up gassing the entire ER because it interacted with the resuscitation paddles?

[@Zeroshiki]

Same here, there's no cure for the rare congenital condition I have that caused temporary paralysis and permanent nerve damage, but I've just learned to accept that. Most doctors know nothing about the condition I have, down to the point of Googling it in my hospital room, and I've mostly given up on wasting time trying to ask them to find something that helps.

[@Zeroshiki]

​@@JayMoore-e8oWeed is the only thing that gives me temporary relief and makes me feel comfortable in my body for a few hours, but you have to pay for a medical card, anyway, so there's no point in bothering with doctors anymore when it's legal now lol.

[@tezzanoia]

​@@S3lkie-Gutz it was more complex than that, there were several things that had to happen in a certain order for this to end up the way it did. But it is a very unfortunate case that shows 1. what people desperate to find something to help them with their issues, or even to give them a chance to live, are willing to try and 2. how dangerous that can be, sometimes not just for themselves, but also the people around. I honestly feel sad for her, her family but also the people at the ER that also suffered because of this, because iirc there was at least one person from the medical staff with longterm issues

[@ri0tgh0ooul89]

As someone who's parents made them drink silver water as a teen to help with my PCOS and "mental problems," I can confirm that I probably have too many metals in my body and I am still autistic & constantly in pain because my ovaries look like Akira during the mutation scene

[@diediedice]

nOT THE AKIRA REFERENCE HELP. I'm so sorry😭💀

[@ninabrown8475]

I'm so sorry that happened to you, but that Akira reference took me out 🤣😭

[@oxytociniv404]

they really tried to cyborg your ass for being overstimulated sometimes 💀 im so sorry

[@Ginnilotta]

OH MY GOD THE AKIRA REFERENCE TOOK ME OUT- ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT TETSUO?? I’M ROLLING- I’m definitely going to reuse that comparison

[@tianaruby4997]

6666 hi​@@ninabrown8475

[@LucydDev]

The reason why the coffee enema people "feel so good" is because they are literally boofing caffeine

[@mask938]

I once heard a story about a guy who used an experimental medicine called Radithor, which was composed of radium and water (literally just a bottle of radioactive water), to help with pain that he’d been having after injuring his shoulder. At first, it worked really well. Not only was his shoulder pain gone, but he was feeling better overall. He continued to take the prescribed dosage (a small teaspoon of Radithor) daily, but at one point, he decided to start taking more than the prescribed dosage. He took more and more of the medicine until the point where he was drinking 3 bottles of Radithor a day. He was feeling amazing and everything was going well, until one day, where his jaw fell off and he ended up having to get his entire lower jaw surgically removed, as well as part of his upper jaw. The radiation from the medicine had destroyed the chromosomes in his body so much that his cells couldn’t reproduce themselves anymore and his body began to fall apart. At the end of his life, parts of his skull had even collapsed inward, exposing his brain. He was buried in a lead coffin, and when scientists exhumed his body many years later to see how much radiation was present in his body, they discovered that his body was still just as radioactive as it was when he’d died.

[@NightshadeReaper66]

I've heard of that story! The other nasty thing about radium is that it's absorbed into your bones a lot like calcium, so it can weaken the bone over time. It replaces the calcium and releases radiation into you over long periods, which is why internal radiation doses are more nasty (you're exposed to way more radiation because it's inside of you). This is probably also why the guy's jaw fell off. The guy likely felt better because the radium stimulates your bone marrow to produce more red blood cells, which makes you feel good short term, but it puts a ton of strain on it long term and it expedites the tissue breakdown. I believe this happened in the 1920s, which is around the time the Radium Girls started having similar issues from the radium in the paint they were using to make watch dials glow in the dark. Edit: Fixed grammar

[@mask938]

@@NightshadeReaper66 I've heard about the Radium Girls too! On top of all their health problems, the company that put them in that state didn't even face any legal consequences. The company deliberately delayed the trial as long as possible, hoping the women would die before they could actually convict the company of any wrongdoing.

[@NightshadeReaper66]

@@mask938 I believe they actually were successful with their legal action in the end. The book "The Radium Girls" goes more into depth on the case, you might find it interesting. Edit: Yea, it took many years for anything to happen. Big corporations suck.

[@octosquid48]

*Jesus Christ what the fuck*

[@octosquid48]

Ok so I found the guy's name: Eben Byers

[@ursadabear2810]

11:15 I really hate to mention this but ‘concrete enema’ is a frequent enough reason for hospital admissions that an entire conspiracy has evolved around it.

[@clownmonomaniac2630]

WHAT 😭

[@ianianio]

what........ 😢

[@L3NORE.RAWR.X3]

😦

[@ItsCherrySoup]

So your saying they're at.... Rock bottom?

[@Blackcat.therian.]

😰

[@Evelyn_2401]

I run an educational and advocacy group for my genetic disorder - Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and I see this stuff all the time when it comes to our disorder. I hate it!. It's so dangerous, and it's pulling in poor people who are desperate for relief. Thank you so much for covering this

[@Marzi29]

Yep, it's a common thing with any incurable disease/condition. I see the same rubbish in my alopecia groups.

[@Eosinophyllis]

I’ve got fibromyalgia and while I am not part of any group you need not look further than how these groups advertise themselves to know they attack people with fibro. Nothing can cure us and barely anything can help us, so they lie to us. It’s disgusting

[@thegracklepeck]

As someone who likely has Ehlers Danlos but isn't yet diagnosed, that's terrifying that people are advocating these kind of things as a treatment/cure for a genetic condition! It just screams ignorance. I get that not everyone has access to good medical care but some of these things are downright dangerous!

[@sly2280]

I have EDS too, how can i find your group????

[@funyarinpamaster]

OH MY GOD I HAVE EHLERS DANLOS!!!! I cant tell you the amount of times that when I was homeschooled being pre-diagnosis I was told to just slap some essential oils on my joints by other people’s moms. Nowadays I have the diagnosis and still don’t know what to do (hopefully my upcoming PT and OT appointments will help with that) so I just take incredibly strong painkillers every day just to be able to make it

[@HermansMummy]

In Europe there is food grade Borax but it’s called Natron and mostly used for baking. Similar to baking powder (which is also used). Natron starts it’s reaction (which makes the cake airy) when heated where as baking powder can start its reaction before baking, depending on which ingredients are used. If the recipe calls for acidic ingredients for example, the recipe often calls for Natron as well as baking powder (or just Natron). You can also use the food grade Natron mixed with water for Heartburn. It’s not recommended for daily consumption though.

[@Hlessirah]

Maybe it's TMI but I have a recurring issue where my body overproduces earwax until, if left untreated, I can go temporarily deaf due to the blockages. I've been to different doctors multiple times for this, and it always goes like this: they deny that's possible, they look in there and see that it's actually happening, they try to blame me for the problem and insist I'm using q-tips (I'm not), I go through a humiliating and painful procedure where a nurse flushes an insane amount of wax out, etc... Then when I ask "how can I prevent this from happening again?", they just say "don't use q-tips" and "idk, your body is supposed to take care of it naturally" and send me home. Their dismissive attitude was why I tried candling at all, because the doctors weren't helping. But it didn't work. Don't worry, I found a solution that actually seems to work long term so I'm good. My point is, I think a lot of people fall for these because of an earned distrust of doctors who don't help them with their legitimate concerns. I feel angry at the people who take advantage of this to sell scams, and sad for the people who, like I did, try these scams out of a sense of having nowhere else to go.

[@666kittycat666]

I think that’s a part of it but I also think a lot of it is just straight up anti-intellectualism. Most of these people don’t have chronic pain issues, or other similar chronic issues. Things like MMS for example is touted as a cure all but the thing that shot it to Facebook mainstream was first where they pretended it was a cure for malaria and then a cure for autism. There were parents giving their children bleach enemas to cure them of their autism.

[@kerisaltchannel3817]

Im so sorry they treated you like that

[@chronicallygothic]

what solution did you find that works long term? im having the same issue :(

[@eclecticraeen]

THIS...i dont truat doctors at all in fact im deeply into holistic medicine but their are two types of people like me...those who have mental health issues and are obsessed and those who take what works and still go to the dr because i know u am not a dr and i cannot cure myself with hacks alone.i feel sorry for ppl because I know they have trauma from Drs but not all 9f them are bad and feeling that will only cause you ti harm yourself especially if you just refuse to trust one evet again. And these people have children and ...yeah the cycle goes on and then they dint get vaccinated...these scammers are killing people and children 😢 Sorry for the errors my phone is cracked can't see everything

[@saraheb5080]

Pleaseeee tell me what works. My ears are seriously crazy and I literally wake up with my ears wet as if someone spit into them.

[@arsenicthearsonist]

Ear candling thing reminds me of this things old women used to do to their kids. They’d cook oil and pour it into the child’s ears when they’re sick.

[@anglepsycho]

Weirdly enough there is a profession, but you have to go to an actual professional, not a fatherless woman that makes over half the modern LGBT normal in comparison. (Nonbinary woman enjoyer speaking)

[@rachabonespittz]

@@anglepsychowtf are you on about?

[@RosemaryAmey]

Unfortunately, there are still alternative mamas trying this and other "natural" folk remedies.

[@klownofkether6996]

@@anglepsychocalling someone “fatherless” as an insult is cruel and bizarre, let’s maybe dunk on people for stuff they have control over, like their behavior. Not make fun of their assumed childhood trauma like psychopaths

[@Atlasintokyo]

@@anglepsycho hey have you ever thought of shattering your phone and not coming online again not even because of you saying you're non-binary because me too but like you're disrespectful asf

[@Unicornguy]

When I was a kid we used to mix honey and borax together to kill ants that would invade our house every spring.

[@WeAreASecret]

Hahaha now that is actually a neat trick that takes advantage of the toxic properties of borax

[@reachandler3655]

I feel the need to clarify, for the benefit of those who'd consider following tiktok advise, it's not the honey that kills the ants.

[@superfangirl_gachalife1236]

The thing is with tea, you’re using flowers and plants so you have to make sure they’re edible, not poisonous, using the safe parts, using a specific amount, etc. That is a safe natural remedy

[@just_em99]

15:27 I AM GENUINELY CONCERNED FOR SOME OF THE COMMENTERS. THEY SAID “Just remember folks, another lost patient is just another lost customer”. LIKE THAT IS NOT OK. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND

[@chellechanel]

FOR REAL, ARE THEY SICK IN THE HEAD

[@gabimckowen9104]

“They say it’s a detergent cause they don’t want you to take it” No ma’am I just think they don’t want you to ingest detergent chemicals.

[@I_AM_HYDRAA]

They say it is detergent bc it is

[@crusher9z9]

​@@I_AM_HYDRAAso is baking soda.

[@oilshlick1927]

My dad knew of a holistic "doctor" who claimed her coffee enemas cured cancer. One of her clients quit chemotherapy because of this and ended up passing away. The "wellness doctor" ended up cutting and running because the family wanted to sue her for malpractice.

[@Meowmao7745_]

You know when it sounds too *good* to be true, it usually *not* .

[@rockercaterrorencountered4924]

I'm chronically ill and I have a potential explanation for this: people are terrified by the randomness of disability. I developed CFS/ME after getting COVID. I was the healthiest I had ever been, making an effort to eat right and exercise, and I suddenly crashed and needed a powerchair to get around and probably will for the rest of my life. All because my body reacted badly to a virus I got. That's fairly existentially terrifying. Rather than face it, some able-bodied people try to take control of their health in with weird unproven/dangerous "health" shit like this. Surely chronically ill people are sick because we don't see a chiropractor once a month or because we don't drink the right concoction of herbs or whatever? Surely disability isn't random, right? Surely *I* can't become disabled, right? edit: typo

[@S3lkie-Gutz]

Yeah it's ableism eugenics and able bodied supremacy straight up, they treat us disabled and chronically or terminally ill folk like we carry the bubonic plague. Also have cfs/me and long covid I feel you brother 😔🤝

[@gemstone4264]

Seriously, this is absolutely a part of it. Disability is seen as a moral failing. My sibling and I both have EDS/POTS and hers got so much worse after she caught COVID. Every single time it's brought up, people constantly ask if we've tried x/y/z. Yeah, we have. Yeah, still rolled snake eyes on a genetic lottery and now my collagen resembles SillyBandz. We're trying. Still never going to be healthy and normal.

[@melissaherrera940]

@@gemstone4264that’s the problem with stigma against chronic illness and disability. Healthy people equate being healthy with normal because it’s all they know (and take for granted). They can’t accept that a reality that isn’t there could possibly be normal for someone else. And if they develop a chronic illness or disability later on, they can’t cope if they keep aiming to go back to “normal” aka being healthy, instead of accepting their new normal.

[@ASHE_ATTACC]

Front row seats

[@ItsSnoozeeJB]

real

[@SanrioSweetheart1]

​@kamkaee yass got drinks too

[@66Yuri66]

Someone make some popcorn!!!

[@hatgremlin..]

Can I have pretzel sticks please

[@yukiisagoob]

blep

[@AoiYukinoMisharu]

Even worse about Kangen: It's a MLM! So not only is it a scam product based on pseudo-science, but also sold by one of the worst kinds of businesses! Layers of awful

[@Kat-of-the.wood5]

"Alive water" No thanks. I bottle my own tears for the mineral boost.

[@NissaMaezHartman]

'and this is the generation who warned us against eating Tide Pods. Look who's getting snacks from the laundry now, grandma!' best line this week 💀

[@atherwitch]

I can confirm that ear candles have been around since at least the early 90s. I was about 5 (93-94) and I remember walking through the mall with my Mom and outside of a natural health store 2 people were having it done to them as a demonstration. That memory is burned so deeply into my psyche because the sight of 2 people sitting in such an awkward position with giant flaming sticks sticking out of their ears, talking nonchalantly, disturbed my 5 year old brain to such a massive extent. I couldn't get that image out of head for months! 😂 I can't believe they still sell that garbage.

[@amethyst1062]

You can use ear candles for birthday cakes or anything legal that doesn’t involve putting it anywhere near your body!

[@mommy2libras]

My aunt was convinced that every sniffle, itch or cough with my cousin was like death waiting around the corner and had a million of these "cures" she did for everything. This was in the early 80s and yes, one was ear candling.

[@storyranger]

One of the big name MLM girlies was insisting coffee enemas could cure cancer about 6 months ago and while on the one hand, it's heartbreaking and terrifying to be facing a diagnosis like she was, on the other hand, I couldn't get over how incredibly irresponsible she was to promote something like that to her followers.

[@wingsablaze8386]

Jessie Lee, and well, she died cause she didn't go to a doctor. I feel horrible for the people she left behind that all just essentially watched that happen

[@storyranger]

@@wingsablaze8386 I was avoiding mentioning her name because I didn't want her stans invading Funky's comments, but yes, that's who I was talking about. Death is unfair, etc, but in this case it's doubly unfair because we all just stopped talking about her batshit bananas Colombia trip where she, in the most generous interpretation, bait-and-switched her team and less generously, kidnapped them 😬

[@spleenforsoul]

Oh damn, I just came across a reddit about her the other day. I sat and read for hours. I was so intrigued. The people obsessed with her already know about the reddit so I'm not giving anything away...but yeah I would love to see a documentary come out about all that and what's going on still now.

[@vcvcvc9216]

13:17 couple of weird borax facts: 1. They used to bake it into bread to make it whiter for cheap, this practice is part of the reason that we know so much about the negative effects of consuming borax. 2. Boric acid, which is related to borax in some way (don’t ask for specifics I’m not a scientist) is actually used as a vaginal suppository to treat yeast infections resistant to azoles (anti fungal treatments). This one legit gets the conspiracy part of my brain buzzing because I have read academic articles saying boric acid should only be used as a last resort because of “negative effects” and “better results” with azoles, but they don’t state what the negative effects are, or the studies showing those negative effects (and they only briefly mention that boric acid is effective against over 90% of yeast infections, while azoles only treat specific kinds.. it’s been a while but I believe it was 70%?). If anyone sees this and wants the source lemme know. For whatever reason very few scientific tests have been done on the effectiveness of boric acid,. And of course I can’t forget the kicker: boric acid treatments cost cents to make yourself, but they’re so effective you can buy them in the pharmacy as a pre made vaginal suppository (for a 1000% markup). Im currently using an azole treatment, and with two kinds of coverage that both cover 80% of medicine costs (meaning an initial 80%, then take the remainder and cover 80% of that) I still had to pay $20, I’m still using it because my doctor said to do so before trying boric acid and I respect his expertise, but COME ON.

[@taylorbug9]

12:03 "Look who's sneaking snacks from the laundry room now, grandma?" 🤣🤣🤣

[@HidingMonkeyCatNinja]

here in scotland we have really good water cleaning processes and it's something we're really proud of. we drink straight from the tap without a second thought. whenever i see water "brands" with fancy labels all over it, it makes my head itch. water is water, the most you need is a water filter and ur good to go

[@gemh89]

Oh man, I moved down to North Wales for 10 years after being spoiled with Scottish water for 21 years. I never got used to it, it reeked strongly of chlorine and I'd have to leave it to sit out for a night in the fridge for it all to dissipate before I could drink it

[@SarastistheSerpent]

“Unless that coffee is being made by a bisexual with a nose ring, I don’t want it anywhere near my mouth or my butthole.” This is going to be my new line whenever I go to a coffee shop

[@Bat3-ez3sz]

my rule for Q-tips is “use it in circular motion and all will be well”

[@nicolakatt04]

As a graphic design major, 5:35 actually killed me 😭😭

[@FaeALDC]

It’s so ugly 😂

[@Lord_Violet_Blackwell]

As a fashion design major, it killed me too.

[@Blueberyrock]

100th like I HAVE THE POWER

[@Just1Nora]

Oh goodness it's SO BAD! Somebody learned basic Javascript in 1994 and decided, "Yup! That's how I'm doing it!" 😂

[@lifewithlynn8137]

The Borax craze is insane, someone in my life has Lichen Sclerosus, which is a rare chronic skin condition that affects mostly the genital region. We quickly found out that in many LS support groups women are told constantly to ‘sit in borax baths’ to help clear it up. Safe to say this was never attempted by my friend and instead she told her LS specialist who was - very rightly so - appalled and basically just replied; omg don’t do that!

[@wb624]

Not exactly the same thing, but I've heard people get prescribed to take bleach baths to clear up chronic eczema. I think the proper ratio is like .25 or .5 cups of bleach to the whole bathtub full of water. I suppose if its pure chlorine bleach it would be similar to chlorine in a swimming pool?

[@SleepyBlanketDemon]

12:18 dude I put borax in slime as activator ain’t no way I’m eating/drinking that sh*t

[@IrregularityRowan]

Same :⁠'/

[@livelaughfeet]

Just commented about that lmao 💀

[@Plush_Master_08]

Words can not describe how surprised I am that you didn’t censor that 3:43

[@SpAc3_h3ArTs]

She hasn't showed them before but i think she has permission?

[@レーバーマ]

maybe because it’s just a toy for pleasure? seriously bro grow up

[@Scene_babies]

@@レーバーマpleasure?that sounds nasty even to me who is 18.its fucking gross.