Not always. Insoluble fiber won’t break down, and it’s common for whole seeds and fruit skins and other tougher materials to remain whole all the way to your poop.

For complex proteins, taking oral supplements of something like collagen probably doesn’t do much. There is little scientific evidence to show that it helps, and most of those studies are funded by the companies trying to sell you the supplements.

Best thing you can do for your skin long-term is avoid sun damage by wearing SPF.

iPads are great if you have the Pencil. I personally use a Wacom Bamboo tablet because it’s a lot cheaper for someone who just draws occasionally and has no other use for a smart tablet.

The waterways get "algae blooms" where all the extra nutrients from the fertilizer helps algae grow rapidly. However, this algae all dies fairly quickly and becomes food for a lot of microbes which breath oxygen just like us, releasing carbon dioxide. So those herbivores/decomposers end up using all the oxygen and the fish die as a result. So it's not the plants/algae that deplete the oxygen, it's the herbivores and decomposers that can grow rapidly from having a huge food supply.

Fraser was effectively blacklisted from Hollywood for a while after accusing a high-up person in the industry of sexually assaulting him. This was before the Me Too movement when accusations like that were not taken seriously and folks were shunned for talking about it. Additionally, he was injured after the Mummy 2 which made stunt-heavy action movies difficult, and he also went through a rough divorce. Took him a while to recover from all that, but I'm glad he's back in the spotlight!

"Unhealthy" foods are generally very high in fat, sugar, and starches. In other words, they are full of energy. That's not necessarily great when you eat a lot of that food and don't exercise much. But in the past, energy-rich food was scarce and very valuable to survival. So our bodies crave it and get a big rush of happy brain chemicals when we eat it. Evolutionarily, "unhealthy" food was actually really healthy food if you could get your hands on it - again, because it was usually in small amounts and really gave you a survival benefit.

Electricity interrupts nerve impulses, which isn't helpful for microorganisms without nerves. It could help with nematodes and some some other animal pathogens. But water isn't a very good conductor of electricity and it would be hard to ensure that it's effective at killing everything rather than just some/most things.

Another way electricity kills stuff is by heating up the organism enough to cause severe tissue damage, but this is difficult to do with water and will take a lot of energy. Boiling has the same effect.

There isn't really a conclusive scientific explanation, because the brain is weird and complicated and we know very little still about the actual mechanisms behind mental illness. Basically everyone normally experiences some symptoms of neurodivergence/psychosis once in a while, and the problem is when someone has those traits scaled way up and it's affecting their day-to-day experience of life and relationships with other people.

Intrusive thoughts are a particularly interesting example though, because (and I'm speculating here but I think some folks would agree) they could be a way to imagine potential future scenarios, elicit a fear response, and plan accordingly to avoid harm. So you might be thinking "what if I did that" and you get temporarily fixated on that idea, but your brain may actually be trying to get you to take care to avoid a dangerous/deadly outcome.

Nice! I also encourage you to draw less "pretty" noses, which will give you more range and realism with portraits.