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Would eating raw human brains make you high? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7156263

With all the hormones and whatnot inside. Dopamine, adrenaline, melatonin, whatever. Also, there's this Hunter S. Thompson bit on the.. pineal gland?

If it had an effect on you, wouldn't it be a really messed up high, all over the place? With uppers, downers etc mixed? (Not including the emotional implications of eating raw human brains.)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t this how mad cow disease started? Cows eating cow brains…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Basically, it's a prion disease and you never want a prion disease because it leads to death 100% of the time I believe. It also looks like a brutal way to go...