and that kids, is not how you treat iron deficiency.
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Fun fact: people in Brazil used to cook black beans with an iron nail inside the pot to treat anemia and iron deficiency. They removed the nail before eating, in case someone is wondering. Some people might still do it.
Another fun fact: I remember a research concluding that it's actually effective.
I guess it's similar to cooking in cast iron - it's effective, just not a be-all-end-all solution.
I guess it’s similar to cooking in cast iron
It'd have to be unseasoned bast iron. The polymer seasoning resists coming off and contains very very little iron.
We put ferrous iron in cereal; most supplements use iron salts, though. The metal salts are generally FAR more available for the body to take up.
There are products available that are meant for exactly this purpose, without being nail-shaped. It emulates the effects of cooking in a cast iron vessel. Seems pretty neat.
Liver is an excellent source of iron, for the animic people
Hmm, would you consider this an iron overdose instead?
Requires medical attention and all ;)
Metallic iron isn't very bioavailable
It's almost certainly an extreme case of Pica, accumulated over an extended period of time.
Either that or he was convinced he was some kind of magical guru godman, impressing people and gaining a following with 'impossible' feats that he can perform thanks to his spiritual enlightenment.
That's as common, if not more common than preachers in America that run prosperity gospel scams, or believe that they are modern day prophets, talking directly to or for God, or both.
EDIT: Ah, schizophrenic.
The man was suffering from schizophrenia and had swallowed the nails over a period of time.
Anyone who claims they can talk to or for God, or believes they have magical superpowers is schizophrenic in my book, but if you're able to make money doing it, well then that's fine, because it doesn't harm your ability to participate in society and thus isn't a mental disorder.
Hooray for basing mental health conditions and healthcare on how they impact your economic productivity!
You can meet lots of gods on Discord if you know the cool servers.
But all of those are so complex!
Uh, that's what Pica is, eating stuff that's not food.
Yes, that's what people with Pica do.
Obviously you commented a refutation without understanding what they said, and didn't bother to type the word in Google, but I'm curious what you thought they said. Did you think they were saying they grew nails in their stomach or something? Obviously they ate them. How else would you think they could be there?
Pica is the medical term for eating things that aren't food. Nails, rocks, dirt.
Pica seems a reasonable assumption
The alternative is that he ate them as a performance, but he must have performed a lot
Is it necessary irony that a person saying someone doesn't know what they're doing will also show a knowledge deficient?
I think you didn't see what I replied to. The comment, which is now gone, implied the person above said they didn't eat it.
I think last year I saw this story of someone going to an MRI with a buttplug which then "transformed into an anal railgun"
I think it waa more like "personal heater" I'm not sure.
But I remember seeing that yeah.
Oh no yeah you're right, "dragged through her body"
Apparently she thought it was 100% silicone but it actually has a metal core. Even if the package on her toy had mentioned it (doubtful but probable) who reads those.
So she's not as big of an idiot as one could think.
anal railgun
great trash metal band name
Someone let the US Navy know they've cracked the system
I’d like to know more about the situation. Did he eat them all at once? Was it years of “I’ll bet you I can eat this nail”? Was it intended as some weird health thing?
He was trying to get past the bouncer at the Salty Spitoon
Metal removing imaging
And I get an upset stomach if I eat too much cabbage.
The Human Claymore
when I was a kid, I ate an L shaped nail.
it came out straight.
it had dissolved into a rusty spot the next day.
am I a superhuman? no, because apparently gluten is worse for me than nails...
Did it really dissolve into rust, or did your parents secretly throw away your poop nail in the middle of the night?
An MRI would have been faster, just sayin
That's the joke
Scroll down on the image
I didn’t even see the second part till I read the comments
Shoot me either