Pharmacoconuts Safety Review Board

There are several cornerstones to health that are frequently overlooked by our modern healthcare system because they are dependent upon patient agency. Diet and Exercise are the two twin pillars that come to mind most frequently but equally important is your quality of sleep. Evolutionarily our sleep patterns have been regulated by the environmental factors of this world which were rather consistent for hundreds of thousands of years. The past century has dragged us violently into the future where our circadian rhythms are under a constant onslaught of artificial light, commercially available stimulants, and the otherwise general FOMO our 24/7 lifestyles create.

Cordyceps mushrooms have emerged into the mainstream recently thanks to The Last of Us on HBO. The show has its proponents and detractors but the science fiction angle of a fungus causing zombie-like aggression does have some grounding in reality. Cordyceps reproduce in ants by infecting them and hijacking their nervous system causing what are known as zombie ants. The ants slowly lose control of their motor functions as the new fungal operators force the ant to climb as high as possible in order to spread their spores in the wind.

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Although it is rare the eye can be a portal for systemic infections to invade. It is a long hard road through the tear ducts and nasal cavity, but it is possible. This is why all eye drops must be sterile. Occasionally a mistake gets made where a patient places ear drops in their eyes which can lead to issues because ear drops are not sterile. Eye drops can be placed in the ear, but ear drops should not be put in the eye. Sometimes this allows for cost saving alternatives when some antibiotic ear drops can be expensive brand names while their ophthalmic equivalent may be an affordable generic. There is no issue using a sterile product in an unsterile environment but flip that situation around and you can get burned.