On Cilantro

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11 points·huhtenberg··7 comments

Very interesting read. Thai cuisine contains a lot of cilantro and I can eat bunches of it. However my wife sounds a lot like the author. She can't even stand the smell of it.

Fun fact: Eating large quantities of cilantro is said to remove toxic metals like mercury from the body.

I would like to know the source of this as well. I'm not to big on large quantities of cilantro, but I'm game if it can remove heavy metals from the body.

Aside from looking totally unreliable: http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/new/9steps.htm

>Because cilantro mobilizes more toxins then it can carry out of the body, it may flood the connective tissue (where the nerves reside) with metals, that were previously stored in safer hiding places.

>This process is called re-toxification. It can easily be avoided by simultaneously giving an intestinal toxin-absorbing agent. Our definite choice is the algal organism chlorella. A recent animal study demonstrated rapid removal of aluminum from the skeleton superior to any known other detox agent.

A recent animal study demonstrated rapid removal of aluminum from the skeleton superior to any known other detox agent.

This gives me an idea for defeating Wolverine at last! Finally world domination is within my grasp.

Said by whom?

Ha Ha. I love cilantro, called coriander here in the UK, but I hated it as a kid.

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