“Alpha-gal syndrome is triggered when a tick bite causes a person’s immune system to develop an allergic reaction to meat, including beef, pork or lamb.”

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      17 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s becoming more common as the carrier ticks are able to expand due to climate change and more people are outdoors. There isn’t a good solution/treatment yet either, and it effects people differently. For some it’s a 3 month allergy, for many, it’s permanent.

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        18 minutes ago

        I would kill myself if I couldn’t eat meat anymore, that or opt for a feeding tube and using up my insurance in a psych ward.

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          15 hours ago

          Sunlight is a class 1 carcinogen

          almost everything causes cancer, just stop worrying about “carcinogens” and youll be so much happier

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            13 minutes ago

            100% better off not worrying what causes cancer BUT that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t stop try to actively prevent the odds of it happening like wearing sunscreen, using tick protection OFF Bug Spray (has 25% Deet) or grilling your food on a propane grill.

            Of course the obvious not smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and avoiding ultra proccessed foods but in the US there’s at least one of the three in use at all times so… fart noise

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            14 hours ago

            Yes it does. But thats also a strawman used by large corpos to pour Roundup into our groundwater. Well guess what, we are paying for it now.