Justeserm

Justeserm t1_j6bgeat wrote

God, no. I like drinking it because it has like no taste and I only have to use a little.

From what I read, acetone can be dried by baking Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate?) to dry it and then adding acetone. I think then it's supposed to be frozen and the acetone can be poured off the top. I was thinking of trying it with ethanol, but using a natural salt that forms a hydrate and (hopefully) isn't a laxative, not that it should dissolve.

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Justeserm t1_j6atwqp wrote

Has anyone tried marketing a pure 100% ethanol drink?

I personally drink Everclear, and it's 190 proof, or 95% ABV. From what I can tell alcohol with water forms an azeotrope and has a lower boiling point than alcohol without. I would suspect that when alcohol is distilled some flavors may come with the water that evaporates with it.

I was thinking about trying to distill my own "dry" alcohol. If you add certain dried salts that form hydrates I think you can "soak up" the extra water and be left with basically pure ethanol, except for some of those other things you mentioned.

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Justeserm t1_j29zjs7 wrote

Your body is constantly breaking itself down, catabolism, and building itself up, anabolism. Your body breaks down its own, endogenous, collagen and builds it up. By consuming collagen, your body can break it down rather than breaking down your endogenous collagen. The metabolites may or may not be used to build new tissue, but the benefit from it is supposed to be by decreasing catabolism without affecting anabolism.

I thought something similar, but with amino acids. I thought they would be directly used to make new proteins. After me wasting ten minutes of class time arguing with my teacher, this is how she explained it to me. The end results of metabolism may be used to build new amino acids, or in this case collagen, but the value comes from decreasing catabolism.

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