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Friends claim influencer injected himself with gold to gain “superhuman” powers before his death (townflex.com)

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Gold is famously inert and biocompatible. That wasn't the cause.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Cardiac arrest from blockage seems like a real possibility if he put enough of it in or whatever he was using as a solution base wasn't safe.

edit: Wholly Shit. Gold poisoning is a thing.

According to Androgenic, Murphy later began injecting gold into his body.

“A few weeks later he started the experiment, he was injecting gold…He was just crazy. He was covered in discoloration from gold poisoning,” he added.

https://www.dovemed.com/diseases-conditions/gold-toxicity

Gold Toxicity long-term effects may include liver inflammation, blue-grey skin color, and mouth ulcers. There can also be bone marrow suppression resulting in frequent infections

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Stopping or discontinuing the use of gold therapy is the first line of treatment for Gold Toxicity. The treatment for arthritis using gold may be resumed, if the side effects improve and go away

Huh. I looked it up after reading this, and "gold salts" are used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (intramuscular injection or orally).

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Gold injections are a scam.

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We don't know how much he was injecting, the body's not exactly designed to remove grams of solid metal from the blood.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Or for how long. Gold is famously inert except when it isn't.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Only as a metal. You generally can't inject it, so it was probably in a chemical compound, after which it would no longer be inert.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Gold is made into microspheres and injected as colloidal gold. Bullshit treatment for joint inflammation.