Dr. Craig Slattery

And they basically have little pellets which have been dried out and they're applied directly on the damaged skin.

So the idea is, and the claims here are that there are bioactive peptides, which are basically little chunks of protein, which...

Once you apply them to the burnt area, they can get into the bloodstream and get around the body and do various things.

And they begin this process of, this is why people think it's cleansing and detoxing, because you'll almost immediately have gastric issues, won't you, like vomiting and diarrhoea?

Yeah, and...

For anyone who's interested, there are lots of videos online of people going through this, and it's quite horrific.

I mean, as you say, and quite often with these sort of cleansing, purging claims, they will tell you to expect violent vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, and they will, again, frame that this is part of the process.

It's the body getting rid of bad things, which...

the first thing to say is that's utter rubbish.

Anywhere where it's being framed that vomiting and diarrhea is normal and part of the therapeutic process is way off base.

So as a result, of course, you become dehydrated almost immediately and then all of the associated problems you're at high risk of then, like damage to your kidneys and your liver and so on.

Exactly, yeah.

Again, we'd call it hypovolemic shock, so you're basically losing fluid from the system really dramatically.

It happens within minutes of applying this poison.

A clinician looking at a patient would probably describe it as an anaphylactic shock, a hypovolemic shock.

That's what the body's going through because you're losing fluids.

You're not just losing fluids, you're also losing all the really important ions that are in the system like salt, like potassium, and

Our system has evolved, the human body has evolved to have quite a tight rein on these really important molecules and on the amount of water that's in the system.

And particularly at the moment with the warm weather, everybody's being, you know, it's being stressed how important it is to stay hydrated.

So when you rapidly force the body to dehydrate, you know, you're basically putting the cardiovascular system under massive pressure.