How unhealthy is it to eat chitin?
chitin causes stomach and bowel cancer
>>16292426So why are scientist suggesting that everyone should be eating more of it?
>>16292426Then why are mushrooms like shiitake considered healthy?
>>16291822parasites are made out of chitin so it sets off an immune response in most people
>>16292426https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9323176/The actual relationship is very confusing. Chitin triggers inflammation. But small particles of chitin are instead anti-inflammatory because they indicate that chitin has been broken down. Inflammation can be good or bad for cancer depending on the stage that cancer is in. The main effect here seems to be that the inflammation triggered by chitin supports the epithelial to mesenchymal transition of cancer tumors.
>>16291822Chitin is the mushroom/insect equivalent of keratin. It’s not going to hurt you any more than eating a fingernail much less cause cancer like what >>16292426 is saying. Humans have two chitinase enzymes specifically for digesting it. Hunter gatherers have been eating bugs and mushrooms for millennia, they’re still going strong. Does that make bugs particularly appetising? No
>>16293045because they make massive profits off treating stomach and bowel cancer
>>16294223Also liver and kidney disease.>ew gross that bread has mold on it, I'm not eating that>ew gross that fruit has bugs in it, I'm not eating that>OMG CHITIN!!! BILL GATES SAYS ITS GOOD FOR ME OM NOM NOM NOM NOM>I hate billionaires btw
>>16291822That chart makes no sense.
>>16295456>I am too low IQ to understand a basic chartthanks for letting us know
>>16296763Do you know what a prion is?
>>16295454
>>16296847Obviously he does not, lol.
