@boontavistapod for the psa psegment
I would be a little skeptical about this, activated carbon is used to color black licorice, and if that made birth control pills not work I’m pretty sure it would be bigger news.
Some studies point towards activated charcoal interfering with medication.
As always, consult your doctor before consuming anything that could fuck up your medicine.
This seems to be about medical uses where the dosage is orders of magnitudes bigger than in food coloring
That’s true. In retrospect I also think I’m kinda comparing apples to oranges, since the drugs in those trials were also all administered intravenously so likely had a different rate of bioavailability when compared to your average prescription medication.
According to that study, activated charcoal seems to screw around with enteroenteric circulation, so I dunno if that might affect how well drugs that are taken orally are absorbed.
I might have a look further into this, see what studies I can dredge up.
If your dog eats chocolate though…
Getting blackout drunk then chugging a Sonic Blackout to pass the breathalyzer test
Unless someone can post the ingredient list that says activated charcoal this is probably not true.
