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In uk.rec.gardening Oz wrote:
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Er, surely a toxin is only a toxin if our digestion can't cope with it
and it poisons us. Anything we can successfully digest and either
metabolise or excrete is, almost by definition, not a toxin.
How very wrong can some people be?
... I don't know, care to explain?
1) Many toxins are highly biodegradeable. Cyanide, for example is broken
down in a few tens of seconds. Pity you get to die first.
2) Many toxins get broken down by the gut, you just have to worry about
the bit that you get to absorb before it's broken down.
3) Many toxins get excreted, often damaging the kidneys and causing
kidney failure (some mushroom toxins being the best known).
4) Many toxins form the basis of vaccinations though admittedly after
they've usually been deactivated.
--
Malcolm