{"id":1164395,"date":"2023-07-24T18:54:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T22:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1164395"},"modified":"2023-07-24T18:54:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T22:54:13","slug":"borax-is-the-new-tide-pods-and-poison-control-experts-are-facepalming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1164395","title":{"rendered":"Borax is the new Tide Pods and poison control experts are facepalming"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> A box of borax\u2014not for eating. (credit: Getty | Lauren A. Little<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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In the latest health fad to alarm and exasperate medical experts, people on TikTok have cheerily “hopped on the borax train<\/a>” and are drinking and soaking in the toxic cleaning product based on false claims that it can reduce inflammation, treat arthritis, and “detoxify” the body.<\/p>\n

The troubling trend harkens back to both the Tide Pod Challenge trend<\/a> of 2018, in which teens chomped down on detergent packets on camera, and the infamous “Church of Bleach<\/a>,” a faux religious organization that sold industrial beach as a “miracle” solution that could cure a variety of serious diseases when ingested. (The family was recently found guilty of fraud<\/a> and now awaits sentencing.)<\/p>\n

Like the bogus trends that came before them, the new borax enthusiasts have drawn on well-worn conspiracy theories and dubious data to support their poisonous practice. In one video, a TikTok user explained that she put borax in her smoothies because “they are spraying us with chemtrails<\/a>.” Others have suggested borax’s unproven health benefits are being purposefully stifled by Big Pharma in a conspiracy to keep people paying for more expensive (and regulated) pharmaceutical products\u2014a common refrain among people peddling unproven health and wellness products.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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