#activated Charcoal

[reality-detective]

Active Charcoal Purifies the Blood...

Activated charcoal can help us all every single day. We can use it in our gardens and even for our pets! Its very low costing and its super natural. Its a no brainer!

1 - 400mg capsule per day. 🤔

[gay-jewish-bucky]

IMPORTANT PSA

As we approach spooky season and you start seeing food coloured black, remember that foods with activated charcoal can be very dangerous if you take medications, because it reduces or completely counteracts the absorption of prescription drugs into your system, this is why it's commonly used in the medical field to counteract orally ingested poisons.

[is-the-post-reliable]

Does your post about charcoal mean it doesnt work for drugs smoked?

Marijuwana

Hi! Activated charcoal mostly works on ingested drugs. It may have some affect on other drugs that aren't ingested but enter the stomach due to enterohepatic circulation.

After a quick search, THC from marijuana does enter enterohepatic circulation, so theoretically could be reduced by activated charcoal. This study suggests that activated charcoal may reduce the amount of THC derivatives in enterohepatic circulation, but the abstract doesn't clarify whether the cannabis was ingested or inhaled in this study. I've requested a copy of the full papaer from the authors, so I'll update this if I do get access!

In short, activated charcoal may affect inhaled/smoked marijuana, but likely wouldn't be as effective compared to ingested marijuana (edibles).

[spacedocmom]

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom This is your friendly neighborhood Space Doctor reminding you that activated charcoal can negate a lot of medication including birth control, some anti-depressants, and some cancer meds. Do not eat activated charcoal as black food coloring, not even in small amounts! emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon 6:00 PM · Aug 30, 2024

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[morethansalad]

Blueberry Popsicles (Vegan)

[marshmallowwitharubberband]

It's that time of the year again, the time for the PSA that spooky foods tinted black with activated charcoal WILL RENDER MEDICATIONS USELESS. All of them.

Which should be obvious considering activated charcoal is regularly used to treat poisoning for that very same reason: it absorbs the poison and flushes it out of the body. Charcoal can't tell which substance is which, because it's not sentient, so consuming it will do the same to any foreign substance in you, including medication.

There was a time, –before avocado, hialuronic acid, and micellar everything– where activated charcoal was THE detox fad and every beauty product under the sun contained it for its cleansing and chemical-absorbing properties.

The whole shtick of activated charcoal is to absorb shit and flush it out.

So yeah, not great for people on any kind of medication.

[p1nkshield]

🎃HEY👻

YEARLY REMINDER!

As spooky season approaches treats with activated charcoal are cool looking but render some medication less effective or ineffective! 🦇

Don’t get got😗

[another-little-hippie]

thanks @chromations for the suggestion!

the smoothie id make for you based off your fav lz member

Robert

Mango Lassi (more of a dessert than a smoothie, but it was too perfect to pass up on)

Jonsey

Strawberry Banana 🎀

Bonzo

Peanut Butter Banana (w whey protein ofc)

Jimmy

Activated Charcoal (it’s black… like his soul 😒)

okay, that was fun, but now im craving a smoothie!!

[johnnycrass]

okay maybe its MY turn to invent the next fake and made up beauty craze

[bpdnchill]

Because Spooky Season is close at hand I have a gentle reminder that Activated Charcoal is NOT your friend if you are on ANY medication. It will mess the efficiency of EVERYTHING up, be it Birth Control, antibiotics, psych meds, you name it.

In some cases, it can even turn your lifesaving medication into a useless sugar pill.

So if some cool holiday goodie has Activated Charcoal as an ingredient and you are on ANY medication, it may be best to pass.

[pruning-the-minds-garden]

Activated Charcoal

My brain isn't letting me focus long enough to do a longer explanation on it, but since I have seen a few posts about activated charcoal I will make a few notes here:

Most preparations of food with activated charcoal in it are probably safe for you, especially if it is not something you make yourself but something you buy premade

If your medications are already in your bloodstream or working their way through your colon (i.e. you inject your HRT, or you took those pills several hours ago) then the activated charcoal you swallow and that winds up in your stomach isn't going to do anything to them. It can only adsorb what it is physically in contact with. It will not, it cannot, pull things out of your bloodstream.

There is also rarely a reason to ever use it (edit: as an additive in food. For other uses it is absolutely stellar at its job.). The only reason it is safe in the above circumstances is that it has already adsorbed stuff from your food that you would have otherwise tasted and/or enjoyed. That is, adding it to food will EITHER make it blander/taste nasty or make it dangerous to consume, or both.

Don't use activated charcoal. There are better black food dyes if you really want that effect. Hell, even Carbon Black is a better one and it is almost the same thing just processed in a different way. Or, there's squid ink. Although it probably won't kill you or even hurt you, there are cases where it might and in other cases it will just make your food less good.

[tchaikovskym]

Love that activated charcoal is labeled as "dietary supplement". It's like saying a sponge is a water supplement.

[projecthipster]

Activated Charcoal Food

The Author and brother-in-law experiencing the pure black void in 2018. Note that our respective glasses and beard add up to one complete platonic ideal hipster if combined.

That was a weird trend, wasn’t it? More like a series of isolated instances than a trend though, because I’m not familiar with anywhere that you could actually get the stuff consistently. I’ve had one encounter with activated charcoal food in real life, at my city’s big summer fair in 2018. I shared a bowl of jet-black soft-serve with my sister and her partner. It was…  fine. It tasted like regular ice cream, maybe with a bit of graininess.

Very, very hasty "research" (two minutes of googling) tells me that the main purpose of activated charcoal is to filter water. I suppose the implication is that it might be “filtering” your insides or something, which doesn’t make much sense considering that you’re swallowing the filter as well. I don't know that many ever made that excuse though. It’s clear that the purpose of this food was to show off on Instagram. And for that purpose, it works. It does look neat. It’s minimalism, modernism ultima, applied to food, something which rarely gets that treatment. Colour is bourgeois ornament (no one has ever suggested that, but we're being conceptual.) It’s the opposite of rainbow “unicorn” foods, which, don’t worry unicorn lovers, are also on the lists. And on a conceptual level, it does change the eating experience. Mixing a tasteless blackness into otherwise ordinary food, with all its ordinary tastes and textures, makes for an intriguing disconnecting of the senses, severing our sight-experience of food from the textural and gustatory experiences that the sight-experience readies us for. I get the idea. It’s neat. But once you’ve done it, there’s no reason to do it again, which is why this trend quickly fizzled out.

I give this Hipster food trend three perfectly symmetrical Instagram posts out of five.

Project Hipster is a futile and disorganized attempt to dive into the world of things that the internet has at some point claimed "are hipster," mostly through ListChallenges search results.

This review comes from the third list, Hipster Food Trends.

Stay deck.

[morethansalad]

All Hallows' Cheese Board (Vegan with plant-based cheese)

[tigertaurus22]

Just realized I forgot to make shiny versions of my Alcremie variants.

So here you go!

I imagine they’d taste/smell the same, if a little bit more earthy or smoky from the activated charcoal.

[fashionmantras]

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