EinatYahav@lemmy.today to Skeptic@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago‘You’re gonna eat bugs’: Climate fears and conspiracies at Canberra renewables protestwww.theage.com.auexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareAndOfTheSevenSeas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoHumans and chitin do not mix well. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28251581/#:~:text=Chitin is sensed primarily in,recruitment%2C and alternative macrophage activation.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoThat’s about chitin in the lungs. The body can break down chitin in the stomach. Can it cause an allergic reaction in some people? Sure. Many foods can.
minus-squareAndOfTheSevenSeas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-210 months ago“Chitin is sensed primarily in the lungs or GUT”
Humans and chitin do not mix well.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28251581/#:~:text=Chitin is sensed primarily in,recruitment%2C and alternative macrophage activation.
That’s about chitin in the lungs. The body can break down chitin in the stomach. Can it cause an allergic reaction in some people? Sure. Many foods can.
“Chitin is sensed primarily in the lungs or GUT”