#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. 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #activated charcoal #blood filter

[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.

#autumn #fall #halloween #charcoal #activated charcoal #charcoal in food #disability #disabled #actually disabled #chronic illness #actually chronically ill #the post i saw about this was inaccessable

[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).

#ask #purplek1w1 #tw drugs #cannabis #activated charcoal

[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!!

#led zeppelin #robert plant #jimmy page #classic rock #70s #rock and roll #60s #based off your fav lz member #john paul jones #bonzo #smoothie #healthy smoothies #strawberry banana smoothie #mango lassi #peanut butter banana smoothie #peanut butter #activated charcoal

[morethansalad]

Blueberry Popsicles (Vegan)

#vegan #snacks #popsicles #blueberries #coconut cream #plant milk #coconut water #blue spirulina #activated charcoal #agave nectar #💙

[haootia]

The Truth About Activated Charcoal

You may have seen a post going around warning people to avoid foods colored with activated charcoal because it can interfere with certain medications. This is well-meaning advice, but the facts about what activated charcoal actually does have been muddled. FIRST: Activated charcoal only affects the gastrointestinal tract. That means:

If you take long-acting birth control via injection, or have a birth control implant, activated charcoal will not interfere with that medication. AC can only interfere with birth control that is taken orally, i.e., the pill.

If you take hormones via injection, or by applying it to your skin (as a gel, dermal patch, et cetera), activated charcoal will not interfere with that medication. 

If you take insulin via injection or a subcutaneous pump, activated charcoal will not interfere with that medication. 

Activated charcoal works exclusively within the gastrointestinal tract. It adsorbs (different from absorbs) chemicals that are dissolved into liquid form and which the AC makes direct, physical contact with. It cannot affect anything that doesn't go through the gastrointestinal tract! Medications (or drugs, or poisons) that you take as injections, inhalants, vaginal suppositories, and/or topical treatments cannot be affected by activated charcoal.

SECOND: Even if you take your medication orally (or through a tube that enters the stomach or intestines, or as a rectal suppository) it may not be chemically able to be adsorbed by AC. Activated charcoal does not significantly affect:

Metals (incl. lithium; iron, calcium, or zinc supplements)

Electrolytes (incl. magnesium, sodium, or potassium supplements)

Alcohol

Furthermore, AC loses effectiveness if taken more than one hour after a substance is ingested, and even with very high doses or delayed-release drugs, four hours is the limit for it to be considered to have any clinical effect at all. If you take medication (or drugs) more than four hours prior to ingesting AC, the vast majority of the chemical will have already been absorbed through the stomach/intestinal lining and into the bloodstream before the AC has a chance to reach it.

Also, this is considering activated charcoal at maximum pharmacological efficacy -- at the strength it is used in emergency rooms. Charcoal purchased at craft or food supply stores, or online, may not be nearly as potent as the medical-grade stuff hospitals use to treat poisoning. It may not be "activated" at all! Activated charcoal is made through a special process of heating charcoal in high-temperature, low-oxygen environments and then mixing it with other chemicals to eliminate any remaining contaminants. It's very likely that the "activated charcoal" on store shelves is just normal charcoal, aka "burnt plant material." 

There are other reasons not to use AC as a food additive (constipation, teeth staining, dehydration) but it will not magically render all your medications null and void, and it certainly won't "flush out" hormone replacement therapy -- even if it inhibits your body's absorption of oral HRT medications like estradiol, it absolutely will not affect any hormones that have already entered your bloodstream. Consider that people have never worried about AC interfering with natively-produced hormones. There is no mechanism by which activated charcoal, or any substance, can differentiate between which hormones your body made on its own and which ones were taken as HRT. Again: activated charcoal does not have any effect on hormone levels in the blood. It is entirely limited to the gastrointestinal tract.

Please try and take a moment to fact-check any post you see that makes any claim about medication interactions, contraindications, overdoses, or side effects. Even if the post seems to be offering well-meaning "better safe than sorry" advice, this is a serious, delicate subject, and misinformation about medicine can have disastrous consequences (I'm looking at you, horse dewormer)

The main source of this information is this article from StatPearls. Information about potential side effects of activated charcoal consumption comes from this article by INTEGRIS.

#i dont have any expectation that this will ever outpace the 81k note original post but it would be cool if ppl reblogged it. thanks #charcoal #activated charcoal #activated carbon

[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.

#food science #safety #science #activated charcoal

[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.

#activated charcoal #food #hipster #hipsters

[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.

#Pokémon #fakemon #milcery #alcremie #shiny pokemon #Magia region #harry potter crossover #activated charcoal

[fashionmantras]

Best 5 Sneaker Ball Reviewed: Which Ones Really Work?

If your shoes or gym bags smell worse than a high school locker room, you need sneaker balls. So let’s look at Top 5 Sneaker Balls. These ingenious inventions fight smells by absorbing moisture and suffocating stubborn odors. But with loads of options out there, how do you pick the best sneaker balls for freshening up your funky footwear? In this blog, we cut through marketing claims to…

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#Activated Charcoal #Athletic Shoes #Best Shoe Fresheners #Diatomaceous Earth #Footwear Fresheners #Glovestix Sneaker Balls #Gym Gear #Long-Lasting Freshness #Lumi Outdoors Natural Shoe Deodorizer Balls #Moisture Wicking #Odor Absorption #odor control #Odor Eliminator #Shoe Deodorizer #Simply Genius Deodorizing Shoe Balls #Sneaker Balls #Sof Sole SneakerBalls #Sweat Absorbers #Zeolite #Zero Odor Shoe Balls

[6-phds-and-no-sense]

really my takeaway is like. just don't buy activated charcoal health or hygiene products because they are a scam. i do officially endorse activated charcoal based filtration methods for both air and water. please only consume activated charcoal on the instructions of a medical professional. thank u for ur time.

#activated charcoal

[lizhi-art]

Idk if this is something people discuss and I’m just not in those circles but I feel like the lack of public awareness about the usage and effects of activated charcoal, especially with all these new health and beauty “hacks” and such, is like—genuinely unethical?

Bc like, if you take any medications whatsoever then activated charcoal is going to Fuck You Up. Activated charcoal binds to toxins and drugs and prevents them from being absorbed by the stomach lining, allowing them to pass through the body less harmfully. It’s used when someone has ingested some poison or overdosed on a drug and they need to prevent it from being absorbed before they can start other steps to save someone. Other than that, it doesn’t really have any benefits.

So if you’re on any medication at all, activated charcoal will suck that up and prevent it from actually doing it’s job. And I think it’s so crazy that so many of these health products and recipes that advertise the “benefits” of activated charcoal never mention that it can be harmful.

#activated charcoal #not art #health #activated charcoal powder #activated carbon #random rant #like really random #I do not usually post about the dangers of activated charcoal #so if you want more of that don’t follow me #but if you like art….

[boredbyler]

hey guys so hypothetically what would I do if I was forced to inhale the contents of a hand warmer packet and I could hypothetically no longer take full breaths and every cough is a wheeze what would I do then hypothetically thank you

#what should I even tag #maybe one of you will have the answer #science #i have no fuxking idea what to tag #activated charcoal #health hazard #doctor #help #what the fuck #my stomach hurts #hypothetically

[ippinka]

This Exfoliating Body Scrub is certified cruelty-free, vegan, palm oil-free, and fragrance-free.

#product #product design #industrial #industrial design #body scrub #coffee #activated charcoal #crueltyfree #vegan #palm oil free

[morethansalad]

Black Mocktail (Vegan-Adaptable)

use a vegan food coloring or activated charcoal

#vegan #drinks #mocktails #halloween #cherries #pomegranate #lime #sparkling water #agave nectar #activated charcoal #🖤

[torturing-characters-101]

When they pump your stomach or use activated charcoal, is it sucking out the contents? Or is it forcing you to throw up?

It's sucking out the contents.

(we used to have a really great post about what happens when someone gets their stomach pumped, but I can't find it on either this blog or my main @macgyvermedical - let me know if you can!)

Activated charcoal (AC) works because it attaches to chemicals in the stomach, so if there's a poison in there, the poison attaches to the activated charcoal, and the poison-AC combo can't absorb into the body as well, making it less toxic.

"Stomach pumping," also called gastric lavage, can be done with or without activated charcoal. Generally they put a tube in the person that goes from their nose to their stomach, then instill a water and activated charcoal mixture through the tube, slosh it around, then pull it back out. They may do this multiple times (all through the same tube), either with water or AC, until they're reasonably sure that there's nothing left.

The reason we don't use emetics (like syrup of epecac) anymore to make people vomit poison is that caustic chemicals can cause more damage on the way back up, and there's no way to know you got rid of everything. Plus, if the poison puts someone at risk for changes in their heart rhythm, throwing up could trigger a bad heart rhythm that might lead to death. If the poison caused a decreased level of consciousness, they might breathe in the vomit too, which can cause pneumonia.

#whump reference #writing reference #stomach pumping #poison #activated charcoal