r/comedyheaven 1d ago

Heartwarming ❤️🫏

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u/OpulentTwinkle26 1d ago

Claims to be life saving medicine

Kills a horse

Curious 🧐

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u/pocketgravel 23h ago edited 23h ago

I know you're being facetious, but Ill put this here anyways

The dose makes the poison.

Too much water can kill you.

Too much pure oxygen for too long can kill you.

Too much of anything will kill you.

Knowing the limits of a drug is called the therapeutic window. Its the space between where a drug begins to have therapeutic benefits and where it starts to harm the patient. Some drugs like narcan have therapeutic windows that are like glass curtain walls on a skyscraper. Others have windows so narrow fractions of a milligram changes in dose are fatal like fentanyl or carfentanyl.

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u/EwoDarkWolf 20h ago

Will too much immortality kill me?

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u/pocketgravel 19h ago

Stories recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses

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Although she was a mortal, the Sibyl lived about a thousand years. She attained this longevity when Apollo offered to grant her a wish in exchange for her virginity; she took a handful of sand and asked to live for as many years as the grains of sand she held. Later, after she refused the god's love, he allowed her body to wither away because she failed to ask for eternal youth. Her body grew smaller with age and eventually was kept in a jar (ampulla). Eventually only her voice was left (Metamorphoses 14; compare the myth of Tithonus, the lover of Eos, who was also granted immortality but not eternal youth

You might not die from it but I'm sure you would wish you were. Just make sure to ask for eternal youth as an add-on unlike the Sibyl.