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(Note that you can drink a lot of pure heavy water without worrying about any health impact. I still wouldn't recommend it, but bad things would be unlikely to

• dzhiurgis 5y ago
  My partner was part of breast feeding study where she had to drink some of the heavy water. People, especially mothers were somewhat worried about magic heavy chemical water with different nuclear properties...
  • nomel 5y ago
    > magic heavy chemical water with different nuclear properties... That seems a bit dismissive. I would naively assume that there have been exactly zero studies to see if there are any problems with babies drinking heavy water, beyond some LD50 extrapolation.
    • dzhiurgis 5y ago
      Your typical crunchy mom won’t know what any I’d these words mean, let alone randomised controlled trial. So yes I’m dismissive and sexist. But there’s tons of inert things that we don’t need to study because it makes no sense.
      • nomel 5y ago
        It doesn't appear that heavy water is biologically inert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Effect_on_biological_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Effect_on_biologic... From reading that, it seems the mechanisms aren't really understood.
  • ncmncm 5y ago
    You would die if you drank heavy water for long enough. But it is very expensive, so you could not afford to buy that much.
• 323 5y ago
  > You could consume a single glass of heavy water without suffering any major ill effects, however, should you drink any appreciable volume of it, you might begin to feel dizzy. That's because the density difference between regular water and heavy water would alter the density of the fluid in your inner ear https://www.thoughtco.com/can-you-drink-heavy-water-607731 https://www.thoughtco.com/can-you-drink-heavy-water-607731
• aunty_helen 5y ago
  Cody's Lab where he drinks heavy water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXHVqId0MQc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXHVqId0MQc