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(Note that you can drink a lot of pure heavy water without worrying about any health impact. I still wouldn't recommend it, but bad things would be unlikely to happen by accident.)



> You could consume a single glass of heavy water without suffering any major ill effects, however, should you drink any appreciable volume of it, you might begin to feel dizzy. That's because the density difference between regular water and heavy water would alter the density of the fluid in your inner ear

https://www.thoughtco.com/can-you-drink-heavy-water-607731


Cody's Lab where he drinks heavy water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXHVqId0MQc


My partner was part of breast feeding study where she had to drink some of the heavy water.

People, especially mothers were somewhat worried about magic heavy chemical water with different nuclear properties...


> magic heavy chemical water with different nuclear properties...

That seems a bit dismissive. I would naively assume that there have been exactly zero studies to see if there are any problems with babies drinking heavy water, beyond some LD50 extrapolation.


Your typical crunchy mom won’t know what any I’d these words mean, let alone randomised controlled trial. So yes I’m dismissive and sexist.

But there’s tons of inert things that we don’t need to study because it makes no sense.


It doesn't appear that heavy water is biologically inert:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Effect_on_biologic...

From reading that, it seems the mechanisms aren't really understood.


You would die if you drank heavy water for long enough. But it is very expensive, so you could not afford to buy that much.




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