1/n #Health: there are cretins, scammers & charlatans whose advice WILL likely kill you if you believe them. This one is one of those total idiots. A good spring-board to discuss about how to talk about science, scicomm, treatments for #COVID19, and #VitaminOverdose.
#Niacin
#Niacin
2/n Anyone who claims they can "eradicate" #COVID19 through some very easy way is *lying*. The only ways to eradicate COVID_19 are quite difficult, involving many hard mechanisms; e.g. massive test, trace & isolate, combined with closing borders, combined with face-masks, etc.
3/n Anyone who claims, as this total imbecile does here, that your health can be "restored overnight", with a *difficult* viral illness like #COVID19, is **lying** to you. Lying like a dog.
tl;dr: any promises of easiness are fake.
tl;dr: any promises of easiness are fake.
4/n #Niacin, a.k.a. Vitamin B3, is vital. But contrary to what that nitwit said, in big overdose it *isn't* safe. If you live in the USA, & eat cornflakes or bread, you're likely getting ALL the niacin you need, even a tad more (food manufacturers often add more than needed)
5/n Think this one through.
If #niacin cured #COVID19 so magically, then:
— just buy a few energy drinks or cornflakes, & — voilà! — you're cured.
Ha ha ha.
— Over 240,000 Americans dead of COVID_19, many of them must have eaten bread, or cornflakes, how come they're dead?
If #niacin cured #COVID19 so magically, then:
— just buy a few energy drinks or cornflakes, & — voilà! — you're cured.
Ha ha ha.
— Over 240,000 Americans dead of COVID_19, many of them must have eaten bread, or cornflakes, how come they're dead?
6/n And now, #VitaminOverdose:
you *need* niacin, BUT too much #niacin over a long time period WILL do nasty things to you.
— increases your risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes;
— can cause bad liver damage, or maculopathy in the eyes;
— can cause cerebral hemorrhage, strokes
you *need* niacin, BUT too much #niacin over a long time period WILL do nasty things to you.
— increases your risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes;
— can cause bad liver damage, or maculopathy in the eyes;
— can cause cerebral hemorrhage, strokes
7/7 This all, BTW, is just one of the reasons why I won't touch slogans like "Follow the science!" with a barge-pole. Unless you can think it through, the slogan's actually dangerous (as below). My main reasons are ninnies like Giesecke, Tegnell, Sikora, Sunetra Gupta etc.
Hmmm, I didn't know that, thanks. Then, if so, if someone goes around trumpeting niacin, suspect them of being a Scientologist; the Scientology freakazoids are long known for their duplicity and crank obsessions.
https://twitter.com/Melissa101897/status/1328344431691509760
Yes, this was exactly my point. Plus, most medical doctors aren't homicidal dunces; if niacin was such a wonderful cure, they would just shoot every COVID_19 patient full of the stuff. Most do try their best for patients.
https://twitter.com/ZetsubouNigga/status/1328349686076502023
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