is there anything poisonous in small amounts but if you consume enough you'll be ok?
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the internet
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Right. I have Things To Do. But Twitter. So. First I had to find out what Lidocaine is - Princess Bride, OK. https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/rq13v/can_you_really_adapt_to_a_poison_by_gradually/ … This put me in mind of my brother's friend who, erm, injects himself with snake venom: https://www.google.com/search?q=steve+ludwin+snake+man+injects … (for his health, of course)
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But the reddit sent me direct to drug tolerance association with Pavlovian conditioning - surely there's something in that? https://www.psywww.com/intropsych/ch05-conditioning/applications-of-classical-conditioning.html#tolerance … http://people.whitman.edu/~herbrawt/classes/390/Siegel.pdf …
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and that reminded me I wanted to reply to
@conways_law with cool stuff on parasites https://twitter.com/conways_law/status/1166060595386470401 … ...but perhaps there's something about exposure therapy for allergic reactions in the 'low dose kills, high dose heals' thing? -
anyway somehow then I was looking at plant life poisonous/irritant to humans growing near its own antidotehttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-incredible-coincidence-of-a-poisonous-tree-growing-next-to-its-antidote …
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(it seems true - in the Peak District town of my childhood, stinging nettles grew next to dock leaves. AND it's true stinging nettles don't sting if you're expecting them) ...the above led me to this *cool* maps thinghttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/maps-of-16th-century-mexico …
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so then I decided to stop farting around and go directly for stuff: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/event/documentset/120614l-p07.pdf … - this three year 800 study analysis shows hormones and endocrine-disrupting chemicals have both low dose effect and non-monotonicity...
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This asks your question - a good answer I suppose is 'antibiotics' https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/3711/are-there-any-substance-that-are-more-dangerous-at-low-dose-than-at-higher-dose … (NB also points to the EDC studies which, surprise! are controversial https://www.nature.com/news/toxicology-the-learning-curve-1.11644 …)
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