Notice he said as long as he doesn't breath it in it's not going to hurt him. There's a difference between eating it (like fish) vs breathing it vs literally injecting it into your veins. There's also the matter of organomercury vs inorganic, with the former being the most toxic (and used in vaccines). They can't conclusively say it's safe because they don't even know what reactions cause the neurotoxicity in the first place. So of course in snake wording that means there's "no evidence" that it causes brain damage (because they don't know under what conditions it causes brain damage in the first place, they just know that it can).
Also, there are many people who live off sea food exclusively, historically. My bet is if you look into it he was literally just eating one or two types of fish every day, Tilapia is the chicken of the sea and very high in mercury content while other types of fish are very low. A lot of health problems in general are caused by lack of variety in diet, like in the US for most people it's basically just beef, chicken, pork. Period. There are civilizations that lived entirely off meat but they were eating a huge variety.
It's a really weird balancing act with just about everything
In 2004, a widely-cited study found the levels of PCBs, a potentially carcinogenic chemical, to be ten times higher in farmed fish than in wild-caught fish. That sounds pretty scary, but the amount of PCBs in the farmed fish was still less than 2% of the amount that would be considered dangerous. The differences may also have been exaggerated. Subsequent studies found PCB levels in farmed fish to be similar to those of wild fish.
The other contaminant that most people worry about with fish is mercury. The fish that present the biggest concern (swordfish, king mackerel. tilefish, shark, and tuna) are all wild-caught. The most common farm-raised fish (catfish, tilapia, and salmon) all have low or very low mercury levels.
Another example is water. If you drink distilled or reverse osmosis water, you're filtering out the minerals which the water saps from your body on the way out. If you're catching rain water you're getting little to no minerals (and drinking whatever is in the atmosphere, which can be good and bad). Then obviously if you're drinking tap water you get minerals but become a gay frog.
I think people focus on the wrong thing, like making sure everything is completely perfect in every way, instead of the biggest takeaway, the human body is extremely resilient. So as long as you're not just constantly barraging certain organs of your body non-stop and giving them time to recover, you'll probably be okay. Just like any other defense system.
Even then, think about smokers. If you're smoking 2 packs a week, that's about 160 cigarettes a month, 1,920 cigarettes a year, and this is considered very low. a pack a day would be 6,720 a year. The fact that there are any smokers at all that die of old age is absolutely insane when you start crunching the numbers.
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tanukihat ago
G-guys?
Trash_Panda ago
Notice he said as long as he doesn't breath it in it's not going to hurt him. There's a difference between eating it (like fish) vs breathing it vs literally injecting it into your veins. There's also the matter of organomercury vs inorganic, with the former being the most toxic (and used in vaccines). They can't conclusively say it's safe because they don't even know what reactions cause the neurotoxicity in the first place. So of course in snake wording that means there's "no evidence" that it causes brain damage (because they don't know under what conditions it causes brain damage in the first place, they just know that it can).
trevmon ago
jeremy piven ate fish every day, got mercury poisoning
Trash_Panda ago
Nick Mitchell drank 25 Red Bulls and Monsters in 6 hours, almost died.
trevmon ago
lol what a dumbass
Trash_Panda ago
Also, there are many people who live off sea food exclusively, historically. My bet is if you look into it he was literally just eating one or two types of fish every day, Tilapia is the chicken of the sea and very high in mercury content while other types of fish are very low. A lot of health problems in general are caused by lack of variety in diet, like in the US for most people it's basically just beef, chicken, pork. Period. There are civilizations that lived entirely off meat but they were eating a huge variety.
trevmon ago
yeah mediteranean diet is the best. but nowadays fish are really polluted
Trash_Panda ago
It's a really weird balancing act with just about everything
https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/healthy-eating/farm-raised-vs-wild-caught-fish
Another example is water. If you drink distilled or reverse osmosis water, you're filtering out the minerals which the water saps from your body on the way out. If you're catching rain water you're getting little to no minerals (and drinking whatever is in the atmosphere, which can be good and bad). Then obviously if you're drinking tap water you get minerals but become a gay frog.
I think people focus on the wrong thing, like making sure everything is completely perfect in every way, instead of the biggest takeaway, the human body is extremely resilient. So as long as you're not just constantly barraging certain organs of your body non-stop and giving them time to recover, you'll probably be okay. Just like any other defense system.
Even then, think about smokers. If you're smoking 2 packs a week, that's about 160 cigarettes a month, 1,920 cigarettes a year, and this is considered very low. a pack a day would be 6,720 a year. The fact that there are any smokers at all that die of old age is absolutely insane when you start crunching the numbers.
trevmon ago
don't trust those numbers. even one tiny piece of PCB is too much