With all the hormones and whatnot inside. Dopamine, adrenaline, melatonin, whatever. Also, there’s this Hunter S. Thompson bit on the… pineal gland?
If it had an effect on you, wouldn’t it be a really messed up high, all over the place? With uppers, downers etc mixed? (Not including the emotional implications of eating raw human brains.)
Often takes years or even decades for symptoms to appear after exposure
Oh jolly, everything about this resembles the Mad Cow Disease
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The epidemic likely started when a villager developed sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and died. When villagers ate the brain, they contracted the disease and then spread it to other villagers who ate their infected brains.
Jolly
It’s a prion disease. Mad Cow, Creutzfeldt-Jacob, Chronic Wasting (so far only seen in deer), and Scrapies (known of for a long time and so far limited to sheep and goats) all start with a misfolded protein and gradually break down the brain till it looks like a sponge.
Specifically a spongiform encephalopathy. Completely incurable and universally fatal. If you contract a prion disease medical science can only ever prolong the inevitable, and it is extremely unlikely that will ever change barring some unknown hyper futuristic nano-machine technology.
And Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in cervids such as deer, moose, and elk, which thankfully has not been shown to be transmissible to humans yet. Prions are the stuff of nightmares.
Oh, and Fatal Familial Insomnia.
As part of mourning people would eat parts of dead family members.
Also alot of people who find out about this think you’ll get it from eating just anyone’s brain but the chance of developing the initial desiese is literally one in a milion, not that you should go around eating brains
It resembles mad cow disease because they’re both prion diseases, which are more or less only spread by consumption of brain.
Some of the other nasty ones that keep my a little freaked out are Chronic wasting disease, aka the zombie deer disease and Fatal Insomnia , which just sounds like something straight from a horror film.
Risk factor: cannibalism Prevention: Avoid cannibalism
That sounds too difficult
Even if it was legal and ethical, don’t eat far-left’s. You’ll be so woke you will regret it.
Having absolutely no formal knowledge, I doubt it. The brain afaik is mostly fat…We also evolved eating animals we hunted and we didn’t just eat the meat. We ate the organs, liver, brain, etc. The liver is really full of that stuff and doesn’t make us high.
Why would you think it’s appropriate to comment if you’re just guessing? This is not a question where random guessing is appropriate.
Your reasoning is correct in that we do eat brains, and of course they don’t get us high.
You’re wrong is the fact that brain is mostly fat. That’s incredibly misleading. The brain is entirely nervous tissue plus supporting things like vessels. It does contain lots of myelin which serves to insulate axons, since nervous tissue is electrical. Myelin happens to contain a lot of fatty acids, but it is in no sense “fat”.
Nah, it’s the other way around, you’d have to be really fucking high to wanna eat human brains
As far as the pineal gland goes, a book written in 2000 (DMT: The Spirit Molecule) declares the pineal gland produces enough DMT (Dimethyltryptamine) to experience hallucinogenic effects but this has not been confirmed, trace amounts of DMT has been found in the pineal glands of rats, but not humans. If there was enough DMT in a pineal gland and you ate it, you would also need to inhibit certain enzymes that break it down, namely, Monoamine Oxidase.
that is a common story that most people know
i bet a lot of people know more than you due to the question that you asked being very far off base from how anything actually works
brain when consumed digests so if any chemicals were still there theyd have been metabolized into something different including dmt probably but im not sure if dmt is bioavailable in the stomach
