Yeah, she’s got the fancy pack where you click it to the right day and push that pill out. A lot of them are just blister packs with the days of the week on the top, but that’s hardly the only kind and it varies based on the type of pill.
I was about to say “who the hell uses ounces to measure liquids?” but stopped myself when I remembered that Fluid Ounces are a thing too. xD
Though in my defence, we (in the UK) use litres and millilitres for drinks (500ml is a common bottle size for individual soft drinks, or 2 or 3 litre bottles for quantity). Even the peeps who still use Imperial measures would tend to use pints instead.
Yeah, the U.S. played with metric for like, a week, then went back to being all “INDIVIDUALISM!!!” and using arbitrary things and making things “traditional” that started in like the 1950s
Conclusion — Joyce should invest in a Soda Stream!
David Alexander McDonald
An ExplodaStream? Jim Starlin was nearly killed by one of those things….
tunasammich
La Croix
AFriskyJacket
a single serving of Chick-fil-A (first result on google) Lemonade is 410g (14.5 oz) and has 55 grams of sugar. A 20 oz (556g) of sprite has 44 grams of sugar. Just to put those numbers in a kind of context, a single doughnut has about 15 grams of sugar in it.
AFriskyJacket
i should specify that its a glazed doughnut, not one of those sad unfrosted ones.
My wife liked tea. Hot or iced. She enjoyed going to places which served the latter as brewed real tea, with simple syrup so she could make it juuuuust a touch sweet.
I would certainly consider trying a restaurant which does this with lemonade.
SDRainbow
don’t you take diet soda away from me
the ultimate damn you, willis
Laura
Erithrytol’s not so bad. At least that’s what I tell myself. I like xylitol. You just take some yogurt or probiotics with it, it all, to mitigate (or enhance!) the digestive effects.
I like monkfruit. Reports on stevia are mixed (some folks say it causes liver cancer and reproductive effects) but it’ll do in a pinch. Allulose is pretty darn good. I used to use D-Mannose, but it’s got some side effects, maybe not too smart. Some folks stir L-Serine into coffee as a sweetener, although it’s got some risks and benefits too. I like wildflower honey as a sweetener and to calm down allergies and asthma. And molasses is good for anemia. So there’s lots of non-sugar sweeteners that can actually have beneficial health effects when used in moderation.
I like the ready-to-drink Orgain plant shakes. Those have about 50% of your USRDA of iron per little drink.
Regret
I think cooking in cast iron pans has helped me get enough iron.
laura
Great idea! I have to start doing that too. Thanks!
bemisawa
Some of those, xylitol especially, can be fatal or harmful for dogs though. (Not sure about cats.) FYI.
Laura
True. Ya gotta be careful.
Taffy
Good point. I’ll try not to be a dog next time I drink a diet soda.
Sajuuk-Khar
Goddamn inconvenient curse of lycanthropy
Masumi
Honey and molasses are just standard sugar with some extra good stuff mixed in though. (not that that makes them bad, in moderation, but my inner jackal felt like throwing that out XD)
And a lot of the others are actually also sugars, just different ones that we can’t digest. Our gut bacteria, however, can. And we don’t really understand the consequences of that, yet. So still a good idea to not get used to high doses of those.
laura
Yeah, you’re right. That’s why I take the yogurt or probiotic foods when I have foods containing sugar alcohols or other resistant sugars. I figure the resistant sugars are just prebiotic food for the good bugs. “Eat up, little buggies!”
Michael Lanting
I can’t do stevia. It leaves a very nasty aftertaste even if there’s just a little bit of it in there. I never hear other people complain about it, so it’s probably just some weird thing in my tongue.
not someone else
Some fake sugar is worse than others for some people, too… Aspartame actually sends me into a crash spiral most of the time.
DailyBrad
And too much xylitol can give a lot of people the shits, which is why people sometimes have theorized the gum in army rations is a laxative. (It isn’t, but it does have xylitol in it, I believe, so yeah, overdoing it can lead to a bad time.)
Regret
And then there is the addiction issue: You’re not addicted to sugar, you’re addicted to sweet tastes. In that sense all sweeteners are bad for you: They form the habit of eating and drinking everything as sweet as possible.
Salt is similarly habit-forming, FYI.
Suet
well we can’t replace it with *shudders* LaCroix!
but what do I know, Joyce’s peppy energy is powered by 38 grams of sugar!
True Survivor
The biochemistry behind them is fascinating though. I also find the mere idea of artificial sweeteners sort of inspiring. It means that as a civilization we are at the point were we can not only design and mass manufacture artificial molecules, but that we have so much food that we have to come up with ways to stop ourselves from over indulging to death. Now if only those of us at the middle and top could stop stuffing our faces long enough to get those conditions to apply to all of America and the world.
BarerMender
Fake sugars are the most researched food additives ever. They won’t hurt you. The acidity of soda pop isn’t good for you, though, in any quantity.
HueSatLight
All that phosphoric acid and I’d be growing crystals.
That’s funny, since my calcium is actually so high that there were calcite crystals growing inside the Gamma Nail when the removed it to keep me from setting off metal detectors at the courthouse and airports. They were the cutest things coming up from the bone deposits inside the metal holes. Now I have to worry about atypical kidney stones about the size and shape of TicTacs, only brown. The only way I know I passed one is I feel pressure inside and it makes a clink against the inside of the toilet or urinal. Otherwise I have no dietary restrictions until they start hurting to pass, then it’s bye-bye to dairy.
JohnnyO
When I was diagnosed as diabetic I was told the best thing is to just avoid carbonation altogether, the CO2 is bad for your pancreas or something.
As a lifelong soda drinker, I found it easier to switch to water than diet soda. If you’re really acclimated to sugar, I can guarantee that the aftertaste of diet sweeteners is akin to having a dead rodent curled up on your tongue.
i try to cut back on sodas for weight and teeth reason, if more sodas tasted like diet, easier to do so because the after taste was always weird, zero sugar is a bit better tho i’m sure there’s artificial stuff in there
A lot of the internet tends to meme on/hate sparkling water but there is one brand of it i like (sparkling ICE), tho we don’t buy it in bulk/always have the flavors i usually get but it’s pretty decent and the serving size is good too, but i do also like the carbonation sometimes/helps settle stomach versus just flat water
Stop you’re giving me flash backs to the Glycolysis pathway and Citric Acid cycle in Biochemistry. Its the one part of that course I did not do well in and it haunts me. Also, why do we need to memorize one pathway? I mean a map of the metabolism of humans alone looks like MC Escher spent 100 years designing a nightmare city while on acid. Memorizing one pathway won’t help with that – learning from one example pathway how metabolism works will.
I studied the simplified Krebs Citric Acid Cycle in fundamental biology and in detail in more advanced classes, and also the adenosine diphosphate-adenosine triphospate cascade in detail, but no one ever asked me to memorize them. I thought it was just to give me an appreciation of how complex biological chemical processes are.
Is this the part where she expects praise and adulation for a completely normal thing she’s doing because she’s breaking free of another fundie boundary?
No i think this is the part where she’s just happy because she’s breaking free of an irrational fear drilled into her by a cult and is taking big steps forward for both her mental and physical health
Diabetes doesn’t correlate to weight gain, though??
Masumi
But both can be caused by a high sugar intake.
Is really interesting actually – sugar spikes insulin, which essentially is a signal to all cells to take in and store energy, both in form of fat and sugars. Which makes it easier to store fat in your fat cells (that’s the reason you shouldn’t eat carbs and fat together if you want to lose weight) and sugar in muscles and liver and other cells. But, if a cell’s storage is full of sugar already, taking in more would be toxic – so the cell refuses by becoming more insulin resistant. Keep doing that for a couple years, bang, you got diabetes.
Fascinating! Now what I want to know is, just how much sugar and how frequent of an intake is needed to significantly increase risk of developing the disease. Sources optional but appreciated!
Masumi
I think the WHO recommendation for ‘daily added sugar intake that probably won’t give you diabetes’ is 20g per day. Not sure what cutoff probabilites they used (if they go too low in their recommendations nobody will listen, so I suspect this is the high end).
After I learned that, I spent a good amount of time checking all the beverages in our local convenience stores, and came to the conclusion that none of those even count as beverages ><
Sajuuk-Khar
Oh, for sure, I’m not arguing that Type-II and weight gain aren’t linked at all, just they’re not *intrinsic*. You can be fat and non-diabetic; you can be diabetic and non-fat; you can be both.
(All of these cases are people who should have your empathy, they’re not gross weirdos, please be kind. Not that people here are being unkind but like.)
thejeff
It’s not directly linked, as others have said, but people think it is, so if she does gain a lot of weight they won’t be saying “she’s too young”, but “because she’s fat”.
Even though both would be wrong.
Bittersweet
I think the diabetes and the weight gain here would both correlate to drinking a whole 2 liter of soda every single day (which is a wild assumption for me to make, but if she’s just taking a huge swig then I don’t see why a little bottle would matter).
Also, being overweight and type two diabetes *are* correlated. You don’t need the former to have the latter, but having the former over a long period of time affects insulin resistance and can lead to the latter. There’s a strong genetic component in my family (on my dad’s side everyone has diabetes either type one or two), but the general consensus is that our larger figures isn’t helping, considering everyone who is overweight got it in their 40’s and everyone who is not developed it in their 60’s (or has type one which they’ve had since childhood).
Freemage
She is chugging the whole bottle–she has to, because she’s dissolving the pill in it.
I would strongly suspect that it’s more “a diet which causes many people to gain weight also contributes to type II diabetes”. That’s the case for a lot of illnesses that are blamed on weight- conditions that can cause them (i.e. a high-fat diet and not much exercise = heart disease) can also cause people to gain weight.
Sirksome
The funny thing about this article you linked is that it says both. Type 2 can be caused by weight gain and also by drinking sugary beverages like soda even if you don’t gain weight. I only know this cause my grandma had type 2 and she only weighed like 120lbs at her heaviest. She was a very small woman and the doctors were just like “whelp, change your diet I guess.”
not someone else
I’m pretty sure current science is that diabetes can cause you to gain weight, not the other way around as people assumed, but…
I’m pretty sure diabetes can cause sudden weight loss too?
Slartibeast Button, BIA
At least in some circumstances. I recall some ghastly thing about a variant on eating disorders where diabetics skip their insulin so they pee out their sugar and thus lose weight, or at least not gain it.
Which is BAD, but hey, being thin is more important than your health, right?
? mercy…. that must be a DISASTER for the urinary tract
JBento
Not really. The thing that makes sugar a big thing for weight gain is that it’s water soluble, so if you’re storing energy in the form of sugar (instead of fat) you’re ALSO storing high amounts of extra water. If you’re peeing all that sugar, provided you’re also intaking high amounts of water, it shouldn’t really have much impact on the urinary tract. It just fucks up a lot of other stuff, including your brain (which can ONLY run on sugar, because fats can’t get to it).
Chris Phoenix
The brain can also run on ketones.
Bittersweet
Being overweight can cause type two diabetes because larger fat deposits can mess with hormone production which can create conditions which encourage insulin resistance. This then creates a circular issue where it’s hard to lose weight because of insulin resistance, but the insulin resistance exists because of the original conditions that allowed it to form.
I’ve never understood why people have trouble with swallowing pills, unless they are large which is true for some. Can someone explain it to me? Is it a reaction to it not being chewed? Or is it a mental hurdle?
224 thoughts on “Glug glug”
Ana Chronistic
half-surprised the whole thing of pills doesn’t tip in
(I used to use the kind you punch out of the cardboard backing)
Axel
I think it twists so the arrow points to the right day, then one pill comes out?
pope suburban
Yeah, she’s got the fancy pack where you click it to the right day and push that pill out. A lot of them are just blister packs with the days of the week on the top, but that’s hardly the only kind and it varies based on the type of pill.
Ana Chronistic
Huh. I was wondering how Robin “refilled” the pack
(CW: alt-universe)
Yet_One_More_Idiot
I was about to say “who the hell uses ounces to measure liquids?” but stopped myself when I remembered that Fluid Ounces are a thing too. xD
Though in my defence, we (in the UK) use litres and millilitres for drinks (500ml is a common bottle size for individual soft drinks, or 2 or 3 litre bottles for quantity). Even the peeps who still use Imperial measures would tend to use pints instead.
Ana Chronistic
Yeah, the U.S. played with metric for like, a week, then went back to being all “INDIVIDUALISM!!!” and using arbitrary things and making things “traditional” that started in like the 1950s
‘Murika
The Wellerman
? Well, she does need sugar to replace the blood lost from endometriosis, I guess. It also looks like she’s got her morning energy back.
I guess a little too much sugar is a fair price to pay for two big steps in the right direction. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Wellerman
(now if only she can switch in a Diet Sprite at least every other morning)
David M Willis
fake sugar isn’t great for you either!
The Wellerman
Yeah you’re right. You think she’d be able to stomach bottled lemonade?
Kimi
Since it might be the carbonation that helps, maybe not?
The Wellerman
Conclusion — Joyce should invest in a Soda Stream!
David Alexander McDonald
An ExplodaStream? Jim Starlin was nearly killed by one of those things….
tunasammich
La Croix
AFriskyJacket
a single serving of Chick-fil-A (first result on google) Lemonade is 410g (14.5 oz) and has 55 grams of sugar. A 20 oz (556g) of sprite has 44 grams of sugar. Just to put those numbers in a kind of context, a single doughnut has about 15 grams of sugar in it.
AFriskyJacket
i should specify that its a glazed doughnut, not one of those sad unfrosted ones.
The Wellerman
https://www.carbmanager.com/food-detail/md:f4f78d830e6520903cc20b42c7d76281/minute-maid-lemonade-20-fl-oz-bottle
Hence why i said bottled lemonade.
ValdVin
My wife liked tea. Hot or iced. She enjoyed going to places which served the latter as brewed real tea, with simple syrup so she could make it juuuuust a touch sweet.
I would certainly consider trying a restaurant which does this with lemonade.
SDRainbow
don’t you take diet soda away from me
the ultimate damn you, willis
Laura
Erithrytol’s not so bad. At least that’s what I tell myself. I like xylitol. You just take some yogurt or probiotics with it, it all, to mitigate (or enhance!) the digestive effects.
I like monkfruit. Reports on stevia are mixed (some folks say it causes liver cancer and reproductive effects) but it’ll do in a pinch. Allulose is pretty darn good. I used to use D-Mannose, but it’s got some side effects, maybe not too smart. Some folks stir L-Serine into coffee as a sweetener, although it’s got some risks and benefits too. I like wildflower honey as a sweetener and to calm down allergies and asthma. And molasses is good for anemia. So there’s lots of non-sugar sweeteners that can actually have beneficial health effects when used in moderation.
The Wellerman
(:o) Molasses is good for anemia? Source please?
Laura
1 Tblsp of molasses contains 20% of your US RDA of iron.
https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/benefits-blackstrap-molasses
Laura
I have an iron deficiency so I try to get iron however I can.
The Wellerman
Hey me too! Thanks so much, now I have reason to start cooking more breakfast foods! ?
Laura
Other high-iron foods:
https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/foods-high-in-iron
I like the ready-to-drink Orgain plant shakes. Those have about 50% of your USRDA of iron per little drink.
Regret
I think cooking in cast iron pans has helped me get enough iron.
laura
Great idea! I have to start doing that too. Thanks!
bemisawa
Some of those, xylitol especially, can be fatal or harmful for dogs though. (Not sure about cats.) FYI.
Laura
True. Ya gotta be careful.
Taffy
Good point. I’ll try not to be a dog next time I drink a diet soda.
Sajuuk-Khar
Goddamn inconvenient curse of lycanthropy
Masumi
Honey and molasses are just standard sugar with some extra good stuff mixed in though. (not that that makes them bad, in moderation, but my inner jackal felt like throwing that out XD)
And a lot of the others are actually also sugars, just different ones that we can’t digest. Our gut bacteria, however, can. And we don’t really understand the consequences of that, yet. So still a good idea to not get used to high doses of those.
laura
Yeah, you’re right. That’s why I take the yogurt or probiotic foods when I have foods containing sugar alcohols or other resistant sugars. I figure the resistant sugars are just prebiotic food for the good bugs. “Eat up, little buggies!”
Michael Lanting
I can’t do stevia. It leaves a very nasty aftertaste even if there’s just a little bit of it in there. I never hear other people complain about it, so it’s probably just some weird thing in my tongue.
not someone else
Some fake sugar is worse than others for some people, too… Aspartame actually sends me into a crash spiral most of the time.
DailyBrad
And too much xylitol can give a lot of people the shits, which is why people sometimes have theorized the gum in army rations is a laxative. (It isn’t, but it does have xylitol in it, I believe, so yeah, overdoing it can lead to a bad time.)
Regret
And then there is the addiction issue: You’re not addicted to sugar, you’re addicted to sweet tastes. In that sense all sweeteners are bad for you: They form the habit of eating and drinking everything as sweet as possible.
Salt is similarly habit-forming, FYI.
Suet
well we can’t replace it with *shudders* LaCroix!
but what do I know, Joyce’s peppy energy is powered by 38 grams of sugar!
True Survivor
The biochemistry behind them is fascinating though. I also find the mere idea of artificial sweeteners sort of inspiring. It means that as a civilization we are at the point were we can not only design and mass manufacture artificial molecules, but that we have so much food that we have to come up with ways to stop ourselves from over indulging to death. Now if only those of us at the middle and top could stop stuffing our faces long enough to get those conditions to apply to all of America and the world.
BarerMender
Fake sugars are the most researched food additives ever. They won’t hurt you. The acidity of soda pop isn’t good for you, though, in any quantity.
HueSatLight
All that phosphoric acid and I’d be growing crystals.
Opus the Poet
That’s funny, since my calcium is actually so high that there were calcite crystals growing inside the Gamma Nail when the removed it to keep me from setting off metal detectors at the courthouse and airports. They were the cutest things coming up from the bone deposits inside the metal holes. Now I have to worry about atypical kidney stones about the size and shape of TicTacs, only brown. The only way I know I passed one is I feel pressure inside and it makes a clink against the inside of the toilet or urinal. Otherwise I have no dietary restrictions until they start hurting to pass, then it’s bye-bye to dairy.
JohnnyO
When I was diagnosed as diabetic I was told the best thing is to just avoid carbonation altogether, the CO2 is bad for your pancreas or something.
Freemage
As a lifelong soda drinker, I found it easier to switch to water than diet soda. If you’re really acclimated to sugar, I can guarantee that the aftertaste of diet sweeteners is akin to having a dead rodent curled up on your tongue.
anon
i try to cut back on sodas for weight and teeth reason, if more sodas tasted like diet, easier to do so because the after taste was always weird, zero sugar is a bit better tho i’m sure there’s artificial stuff in there
A lot of the internet tends to meme on/hate sparkling water but there is one brand of it i like (sparkling ICE), tho we don’t buy it in bulk/always have the flavors i usually get but it’s pretty decent and the serving size is good too, but i do also like the carbonation sometimes/helps settle stomach versus just flat water
True Survivor
Stop you’re giving me flash backs to the Glycolysis pathway and Citric Acid cycle in Biochemistry. Its the one part of that course I did not do well in and it haunts me. Also, why do we need to memorize one pathway? I mean a map of the metabolism of humans alone looks like MC Escher spent 100 years designing a nightmare city while on acid. Memorizing one pathway won’t help with that – learning from one example pathway how metabolism works will.
BarerMender
I studied the simplified Krebs Citric Acid Cycle in fundamental biology and in detail in more advanced classes, and also the adenosine diphosphate-adenosine triphospate cascade in detail, but no one ever asked me to memorize them. I thought it was just to give me an appreciation of how complex biological chemical processes are.
Nono
Is this the part where she expects praise and adulation for a completely normal thing she’s doing because she’s breaking free of another fundie boundary?
Decidedly Orthogonal
No Nono. No, some people can actually just share in each other’s days without it being emotionally manipulative toxic abuse.
And right now she’s high on endorphins.
zee
No i think this is the part where she’s just happy because she’s breaking free of an irrational fear drilled into her by a cult and is taking big steps forward for both her mental and physical health
Amós Batista
Hey, I wanted some of that! Someone praising me for drinking, going for parties and stuff…
Sirksome
Joyce is too young to get diabetes….is what everyone will say when it happens.
The Wellerman
Depends on how much weight she manages to gain from all that extra sugar.
Sajuuk-Khar
Diabetes doesn’t correlate to weight gain, though??
Masumi
But both can be caused by a high sugar intake.
Is really interesting actually – sugar spikes insulin, which essentially is a signal to all cells to take in and store energy, both in form of fat and sugars. Which makes it easier to store fat in your fat cells (that’s the reason you shouldn’t eat carbs and fat together if you want to lose weight) and sugar in muscles and liver and other cells. But, if a cell’s storage is full of sugar already, taking in more would be toxic – so the cell refuses by becoming more insulin resistant. Keep doing that for a couple years, bang, you got diabetes.
The Wellerman
Fascinating! Now what I want to know is, just how much sugar and how frequent of an intake is needed to significantly increase risk of developing the disease. Sources optional but appreciated!
Masumi
I think the WHO recommendation for ‘daily added sugar intake that probably won’t give you diabetes’ is 20g per day. Not sure what cutoff probabilites they used (if they go too low in their recommendations nobody will listen, so I suspect this is the high end).
After I learned that, I spent a good amount of time checking all the beverages in our local convenience stores, and came to the conclusion that none of those even count as beverages ><
Sajuuk-Khar
Oh, for sure, I’m not arguing that Type-II and weight gain aren’t linked at all, just they’re not *intrinsic*. You can be fat and non-diabetic; you can be diabetic and non-fat; you can be both.
(All of these cases are people who should have your empathy, they’re not gross weirdos, please be kind. Not that people here are being unkind but like.)
thejeff
It’s not directly linked, as others have said, but people think it is, so if she does gain a lot of weight they won’t be saying “she’s too young”, but “because she’s fat”.
Even though both would be wrong.
Bittersweet
I think the diabetes and the weight gain here would both correlate to drinking a whole 2 liter of soda every single day (which is a wild assumption for me to make, but if she’s just taking a huge swig then I don’t see why a little bottle would matter).
Also, being overweight and type two diabetes *are* correlated. You don’t need the former to have the latter, but having the former over a long period of time affects insulin resistance and can lead to the latter. There’s a strong genetic component in my family (on my dad’s side everyone has diabetes either type one or two), but the general consensus is that our larger figures isn’t helping, considering everyone who is overweight got it in their 40’s and everyone who is not developed it in their 60’s (or has type one which they’ve had since childhood).
Freemage
She is chugging the whole bottle–she has to, because she’s dissolving the pill in it.
Sirksome
Diabetes isn’t necessarily caused by weight gain. You can still get it if you’re thin. There are multiple types and it depends on the human.
The Wellerman
AFAIK Type I diabetes is caused by genetics, Type II isn’t caused directly by too much sugar but you’re more likely to get it if you’re overweight.
S.R.
I would strongly suspect that it’s more “a diet which causes many people to gain weight also contributes to type II diabetes”. That’s the case for a lot of illnesses that are blamed on weight- conditions that can cause them (i.e. a high-fat diet and not much exercise = heart disease) can also cause people to gain weight.
Sirksome
The funny thing about this article you linked is that it says both. Type 2 can be caused by weight gain and also by drinking sugary beverages like soda even if you don’t gain weight. I only know this cause my grandma had type 2 and she only weighed like 120lbs at her heaviest. She was a very small woman and the doctors were just like “whelp, change your diet I guess.”
not someone else
I’m pretty sure current science is that diabetes can cause you to gain weight, not the other way around as people assumed, but…
The Wellerman
I’m pretty sure diabetes can cause sudden weight loss too?
Slartibeast Button, BIA
At least in some circumstances. I recall some ghastly thing about a variant on eating disorders where diabetics skip their insulin so they pee out their sugar and thus lose weight, or at least not gain it.
Which is BAD, but hey, being thin is more important than your health, right?
The Wellerman
? mercy…. that must be a DISASTER for the urinary tract
JBento
Not really. The thing that makes sugar a big thing for weight gain is that it’s water soluble, so if you’re storing energy in the form of sugar (instead of fat) you’re ALSO storing high amounts of extra water. If you’re peeing all that sugar, provided you’re also intaking high amounts of water, it shouldn’t really have much impact on the urinary tract. It just fucks up a lot of other stuff, including your brain (which can ONLY run on sugar, because fats can’t get to it).
Chris Phoenix
The brain can also run on ketones.
Bittersweet
Being overweight can cause type two diabetes because larger fat deposits can mess with hormone production which can create conditions which encourage insulin resistance. This then creates a circular issue where it’s hard to lose weight because of insulin resistance, but the insulin resistance exists because of the original conditions that allowed it to form.
Van Jealous
“One Flew Over The Sucrose Nest”!
Van Jealous
…or… “Come A-1-C With Me!”
Kyrik Michalowski
I’ve never understood why people have trouble with swallowing pills, unless they are large which is true for some. Can someone explain it to me? Is it a reaction to it not being chewed? Or is it a mental hurdle?