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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
by 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 agoYour 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 agoIt 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 agoYou would die if you drank heavy water for long enough. But it is very expensive, so you could not afford to buy that much.