Posted on 08/30/2019 10:41:42 AM PDT by Morgana
The dried flesh of dead infants appears to be the not-so-secret ingredient in a health supplement that is reportedly being smuggled out of China.
The performance-enhancement pills, touted for increasing vitality and sex drive, have been found in the luggage of tourists and in international mail, according to South Korean authorities.
They said they had confiscated nearly 17,500 of the human flesh capsules since last August, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
South Korean authorities warned that the pills could be dangerous to human health.
"This is gross, as well as creepy," said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who consults regularly with the Centers for Disease Control.
"We have no idea how this material is processed and under what circumstances," he said. "If it's not done in a hygienic fashion to make assurances infections are excluded, it could contain viruses as well as bacteria."
The dried human tissue may also not have been sterilized, according to Schaffner. "It's an extremely dubious for an operation like this with the potential for infection complications."
It is not known whether these pills made of human flesh have appeared in the United States.
"Our experts in global health haven't heard about this subject," said Arleen Porcell, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Customs officials in South Korea are beefing up efforts to stop the alleged smuggling, apparently by ethnic Koreans living in northern Chinese cities.
Chinese folklore promotes the belief that a human fetus can cure disease and help with circulation and sexual performance.
Last year, the South Korean television station SBS aired a documentary that accused Chinese drug companies of collaborating with abortion clinics to produce the pills from dead fetuses.
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Then again...I did not say human after birth!!!!
My Asian (but not Chinese) wife makes a lot of really great food, and a few really weird, almost “creepy” foods.
Not this weird.
Customs officials in South Korea are beefing up efforts to stop the alleged smuggling
There was also a Korean movie on the subject where a Chinese woman peddled the stuff, and as it turned out was immortal.
Except long term use makes you stink like rotten fish.
I’d read somewhere ingesting adrenochrome was linked to psychotic behavior, so I can see that connection...
I wouldn't doubt it. Does psychotic behavior cause/enable taking adrenochrome or vice versa?
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