Call me a skeptic but I’m not gonna take a picture with text and no source as gospel, especially when they have words in all caps Lol. People who use all caps like that are often insane as I’m sure most people have noticed
Now some of the papers I stumbled upon were looking at using Chitin and Chitinase as therapeutics against fungus but the papers also raised concerns about inflammation and cancer. Nothing causative on cancer, but given that there were cancer risks in the lab controlled settings, wholesale consuming of chitin should raise some red flags rather than, "Eat ze bugs."
That said, the first link is probably the most interesting of them. They talk a lot about immune responses both negative and positive (especially positive for vaccine manufacturing) and then in the conclusion more or less say, "Getting this stuff out of the body is really hard and exposure really is not well understood. Please more people research what this actually does, especially since it is very hard to purify these substances."
Call me a skeptic but I’m not gonna take a picture with text and no source as gospel, especially when they have words in all caps Lol. People who use all caps like that are often insane as I’m sure most people have noticed
I'm going to add to what u/Questionable did but throw in research papers (Pre-2020, really hard to trust the much after that).
Chitin and Its Effects on Inflammatory and Immune Responses https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680136/
Role of Chitin and Chitinase/Chitinase-Like Proteins in Inflammation, Tissue Remodeling, and Injury https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3864643/
The role of chitin, chitinases, and chitinase-like proteins in pediatric lung diseases https://molcellped.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40348-015-0014-6
Now some of the papers I stumbled upon were looking at using Chitin and Chitinase as therapeutics against fungus but the papers also raised concerns about inflammation and cancer. Nothing causative on cancer, but given that there were cancer risks in the lab controlled settings, wholesale consuming of chitin should raise some red flags rather than, "Eat ze bugs."
That said, the first link is probably the most interesting of them. They talk a lot about immune responses both negative and positive (especially positive for vaccine manufacturing) and then in the conclusion more or less say, "Getting this stuff out of the body is really hard and exposure really is not well understood. Please more people research what this actually does, especially since it is very hard to purify these substances."