Medicine is in the dose. If you take enough ibuprofen it will kill you beside your pain. Lithium is a useful and powerful mood stabilizer, but take just a tiny bit more, and it’s deadly poison
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rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
But does it also not kill the rest of the person? A bullet will kill cancer calls in lab conditions.
Zeusz13@lemmy.world 4 days ago
MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Sure, but there are far more things which will kill the entire person at the same dose they’ll kill the cancer than things which can be carefully controlled by choosing the right dose.
These studies which claim to kill cancer in a petri dish usually turn out to be the former, because not killing the host is the difficult part
Zeusz13@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s fair. But imo if it kills cancer cells, it’s worth investigating
Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 days ago
❌ Bleach
❌ Hydrochloric acid
❌ Lava
❔ Yellow cakeTollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 days ago
we got alot of medications from fungus, like some antibiotics, immunosuppresants(some came from bacteria too)
fartographer@lemmy.world 4 days ago
If you swallow a bunch of gunpowder, drink gasoline, fill yourself with nitroglycerin, and then slam yourself on the floor—sure, you’ll get hired by the talent agent, but then you have to reveal that you can only do the trick once.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 days ago
No amount of bullet will safely treat cancer in vivo
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Wait. I know how to cure the MAGA’s.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 days ago
The old cure for fascism.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 days ago
Egyptian curses?
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Close, the Ark of the Covenant