beeble
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stella41b wrote: The active agent in venom are things known as enzymes. This is the same active agent in stuff such as washing powder and soap. This is found in bacteria in the alimentary canal which breaks down food in the stomach, and intestinal tract. There are more enzymes in shit than you can shake a snake at. Whoa, there. An enzyme is just a protein with a specific chemical process. Saying that `X contains enzymes' is like saying `X contains acid'. If it's a concentrated strong mineral acid, you really don't want to drink it; if it's dilute acetic acid, it's just plain old vinegar and it won't harm you unless you drink a large amount. Likewise, there are enzymes all over the place. There are enzymes in spit that start to break down starch in your food into simpler sugars. Does that mean that spit is poisonous? Hell, no. quote:
If you ingest enzymes from someone else - you die. It's that simple. That's plain not true. Well, except insofar as everybody has to die eventually. If you've ever kissed somebody, you've ingested enzymes from their spit. If you've ever given anyone oral sex, you've ingested enzymes from them. More importantly, if you've ever eaten any plant or animal or fungus, you've ingested enzymes from a whole different species. (You've not been eating people, right?) Now, eating other people's shit is a really bad idea, but my understanding is that this is because you're likely to pick up any diseases they might be carrying (even if without symptoms) and there might be problems with ingesting other people's gut bacteria. But this has nothing at all to do with enzymes. I am not a doctor. This is not medical advice. beeble.
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