Anything is poison in a high enough quantity.

Our superpower is sweating.

My masturbation has become poison?!?

I think another quirk is that we study our species and make a judgement on an entire group of people from those studies. Most of those studies:

• Have a percentage of people it helped or hurt, you may not be in the larger percentage that decide what the study says.
• It may get it wrong because our make up could be different because they studied a different gender, racial body type, etc.
• Are paid for by the companies that make the "cure"

I'm glad we have the studies and all, but we have to talk to our doctor like they're AI, because they might be. Find out the percentages and discuss how you may or may not be part of the "groups" they're judging your illness on.

Phew! That's a load off...

This isn't exclusive to humans. Tons of animals actively seek out and consume mind altering substances that are generally poisonous. Elephants eat rotting fermenting apples to get drunk, monkeys steal alcoholic drinks from beach resorts, cats inhale cat nip, big cats like lions like to eat psychedelic mushrooms, and dolphins prick themselves with puffer fish poison spines

We're not fast but we can run for a long time. Don't have natural weapons but can make them. Then there are people who voted for trump 1-3 times. And other countries that see how the USA is doing and are trying to copy it. I'm not sure where I'm going with this. I hate it here

I mean, there are various other animal species that specialize in eating so much poison that they become poisonous themselves, so we're not very impressive in this regard.

In D&D dwarves have resistance to poison damage and advantage on saving throws against poison, so they would be the ones with food no one else could eat safely.

To everyone else, dwarf food seems bland. Since the dwarf cooking it couldn't add any of there normal spices. "Can humans eat rocks? I don't think so, better skip them." (Then skips the salt)

That or salt. Which goes well with the stable bond of two of the most reactive substances in the universe, that makes up 90% of our body.

Elephants eat rotting fermenting apples to get drunk

That was a hoax by some nature documentary channel back then.

...but there is a critter specialized in digesting high amounts of alcohol from fermenting fruits. Also has a boozers nose.

And monkeys do like fermented fruits too.

Fun fact; you shouldn't swallow pebbles. You can digest them, but they are rich in toxic minerals, to the point that your kidney gets overwhelmed.

And throwing.

Seriously. Our bodies are more than half poison, by OP's metric

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna16614865

Fucking hell. What a tragic story.

What about boulders?

HumanityFuckYeah is a genre that is basically this, although it's most often in a scifi setting.

Usually depicting humans reaching the wider universe and baffling/overcoming large more advanced galactic empires due to Earth effectively being a death world where everything is trying to kill us.

I’m so glad I learned that I could digest rocks as an adult. I don’t think the second part of that warning would have been enough to deter me as a kid.

To be fair, most of the people who want more of what trump’s offering could probably still figure out how to make a wooden spear.

Not all of them, and I wouldn’t go as far as to say they could make and use arrowheads, but still.

Somehow that has me imagining Japanese dwarves being especially fond of that one pufferfish dish that's toxic unless cooked just right.

Birds like getting drunk off of fermenting berries and fruit

I can't function without my morning cup of pesticide.

Yet, we drink from a mountain stream and we shit ourselves until we dehydrate and die.

Don't forget how we've been partying by getting absolutely smashed with a large variety of poisons for fucking millennia. We make alcohol out of plants, honey and even milk.

Earth effectively being a death world where everything is trying to kill us.

I'd be chill with that, but my experience with r/HFY was mostly humans being more amazing than aliens in every way for no apparent good reason. Just so weird.

Is this about capsaicin? Because that's not a poison by any definition of the word.

The morning necessity is probably caffeine.

But capsaicin is a neurotoxin, and high enough doses absolutely can be dangerous and even fatal. The pain involved long before those doses are reached keeps most sensible people safe.

If it fits, it shits?

Isn't there an annual "man vs horse running race" where, once every decade or so, someone actually beats the horse?

Tbf dwarven religions are like "my ancestors carved these rules with their hands to guide us forward" and elven religions are like "my ancestors got intimate with a fae, starting our race. Also their firstborn is still alive."

Meanwhile human religions are like "here is a horse that's made out of all living beings, with a woman's face too. Mortals who mount it can go to heaven for 5 seconds."

Mythology Reference.

afaik it's not exactly the science it's always made out to be, you just remove the poison gland, you know, the part with all the poison

People beat horses on the regular. The "man vs horse" race balances the course to try to make it equal. Horses will trounce people on courses under 3 hours or so. Humans do better with steep terrain. So humans will crush a trail endurance race over longer distances. We will lose badly on short, flat courses.

Interestingly dogs are the other species that can really hang with people in endurance runs. We will eventually leave them behind as well. They can outrun us in sprints and courses under a few hours. They can't keep pace at 4+ hours.

Fugu.

I don't feel alive unless the threat of death is constantly looming over me. That's why I eat shrimp fried ricin.

We take common food stuffs and feed it to yeast until the yeast dies in it's own excrement and then drink that poison. Usually to celebrate. As long as we moderate and allow the body to recover from the poisonings, we're good, more or less.

we call it a poison, not nature;) no such thing as poisons except what humans use to taxonomize

tbf making things alcoholic is not really difficult, if you can seal things air-tight.

oh btw there's these clay eating people all around the world.

they're eaten for various reasons, sometimes because of health benefits (de-tox) or due to lack of proper food.

Impact on health

Clay minerals have been reported to have beneficial microbiological effects, such as protecting the stomach against toxins, parasites, and pathogens.[43][44] Humans are not able to synthesize vitamin B12 (cobalamin), so geophagia may be a behavioral adaptation to obtain it from bacteria in the soil.[45] Mineral content in soils may vary by region, but many contain high levels of calcium, copper, magnesium, iron, and zinc; these minerals are critical for developing fetuses, which may explain cravings by pregnant women to chew metallic objects, soil, ice cravings. Pregnant women may also experience ice-chewing cravings or drives towards specifically cold food to trigger vasoconstricting, which increases brain oxygen levels by restricting neck veins; both cravings, soil and ice, may have familial and environmental links.

actually, mountain streams are mostly safe because the water is in constant movement, and also as it's on a mountain, that typically means that the source is not that far away and so the water didn't have a lot of time to stand around and get infected with all kinds of stuff.

slowly-flowing or standing water in the plains is what gives you the diarrhea of your life.

yeah i remember some exotic frogs intentionally eat poisonous stuff sothat they get poisonous themselves to deter predators that would otherwise eat them

Yup, that's thought to be one of the main reasons we domesticated dogs. They could keep up, so they earned their keep, and because we anthropomorphize everything it was obviously only fair we share with them.

I used to work as a safety officer for a mountain ultramarathon race. The shortest course was 8 miles, the longest was 100. We have humans that can run 100 miles in a day and a half. I don't think any other land animal can do that. Hell, I'm a human, I can't do that.

True, but that's not just humans. We just drink less poop water so we're behind on the immunity.

Structure of the clay: maybe beneficial

Toxicity: small amounts

How many of those species poisoned the entire ecology so they could accumulate said poison inside themselves no matter what they ate? (microplastics)

Humans, fuck yeah!

We're still nowhere near these guys:

a decrease in the size of the biosphere of >80%

Life as we know it exists in their post-apocalypse.