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> magic heavy chemical water with different nuclear properties...

That seems a bit dismissive. I would naively assume that there have been exactly zero studies to see if there are any problems with babies drinking heavy water, beyond some LD50 extrapolation.



Your typical crunchy mom won’t know what any I’d these words mean, let alone randomised controlled trial. So yes I’m dismissive and sexist.

But there’s tons of inert things that we don’t need to study because it makes no sense.


It doesn't appear that heavy water is biologically inert:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Effect_on_biologic...

From reading that, it seems the mechanisms aren't really understood.




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