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[–] otto_von@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Maybe they made multiple X rays and looked at how much the iron in his body decreased

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Or maybe, and this may sound a little crazy but maybe the guy didn't eat an airplane

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6259445/

Iron toxicity from a patient that literally just took too many supplements.

You know how they say everybody has about a nail's worth of iron in their body?

It turns out that you definitely don't want a pound of it in your stomach.

Also turns out that a lot of other metals are the same kind of thing. Not gold though, it's generally not chemically active, so eat all the gold you want.

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

So what you’re saying is it was a gold cessna