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The Dangers of Taking a Cleaning Product as a Medicine #youtubeshorts #viral #trending #borax

12 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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YouTube short by Anne Truong MD addressing a viral TikTok claim that ingesting borax (a cleaning agent) treats or prevents multiple conditions. The speaker lists asserted benefits—preventing osteoporosis, easing joint pain, breaking down kidney stones, treating chronic fatigue, and boosting testosterone (helping erectile dysfunction)—and rejects these claims, noting there is no scientific evidence that borax treats these conditions.

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One widely circulating TikTok video featured a woman claiming that just taking a small amount of borax helped stave off osteoporosis, ease joint pain, break down kidney stones, and fight chronic fatigue and boost testosterone levels and men therefore helping with ed, among other things. However, there are no scientific evidence to show that borax, a cleaning agent, treats osteoporosis, joint pain, kidney stones, chronic fatigue, or even boosting testosterone level.