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arpinumtoday at 7:14 AM1 replyview on HN

Dose makes the poison. And some substances are beneficial at low doses and harmful at high doses.

Do you foreswear aspirin?


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jvicantoday at 7:25 AM

Agreed - it's all in the dose and the response. Not even mentioning the selection pressure for us to adapt to at least small amounts of alcohol in our diet, which has been present in basic things such as fermented fruits that we had to eat in our ancestral environment.