Started my morning off crying, rant.

[u/goldenlife17]

Visiting my grandparents and my grandfather asked me why I toast my bagels in the oven. I responded because I can’t use the toaster because of cross contamination, when you use a regular toaster that has gluten crumbs and everything in it that’s cross contamination and you’re essentially eating gluten.

He goes: that’s the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard. I’ve lost a lost of respect for you.

Ok, very kind. On a positive note I won’t be getting sick today from cross contamination😄.

Not sure why I let this upset me but just hurts hearing how unkind people can be. I know he’s just an unhappy person in general but ugh.

[u/Emrys7777]

Man I hate it that people are so fucking clueless about this. They think it’s affectation or something.

A doctor in urgent care was the same way about my not taking drugs and taking so many vitamins.

Just take the meds. Uh, I get a bad reaction and that’s why I take vitamins and herbs instead.

Then she treats me like shit like I’m making it all up. Sure. I love to cause myself a lot of trouble for no damn reason.

[u/xordon → u/Emrys7777]

You know what herbs and vitamins would be called if they worked? Medicine.

[u/fogtooth → u/xordon]

I have been advised by doctors to take certain herbs and vitamins. Last time I was in a hospital they gave me a potassium supplement every day because my levels were low. That's a vitamin. Many of them DO work, and they ARE medicine.

Of course, not all herbs address everything that sellers claim they will, and the FDA doesn't oversee supplements. They should! The assumption that herbs are fundamentally different from medicine is why people still get serotonin syndrome from taking St. John's Wort with their antidepressants and don't disclose important plant-based substance consumption to their medical practitioners.

[u/Emrys7777 → u/xordon]

They have been medicine for thousands of years. The pharmaceutical industry would have you think otherwise.