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Sharks Rule, Rule (slrpnk.net)

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

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I actually fact checked this and it's true.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A family member once had to resort to traditional chinese medicine so solve an issue - and it acctually worked, I will admit upfront - but I kept hearing how shark cartilage capsules was the best to reinforce joints and one day I just snapped and replied along the lines of "by that same logic, to obtain insulin we should be grinding pig pancreas into pills for insulin".

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

we used to use cow pancreas to get insulin actually. fortunately bioreactors exist and some clever people figured out how to gmo bacteria to make insulin