Too pure
Weeks after CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, brother of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, tested positive for COVID-19, he announced that his wife, Cristina Greeven Cuomo, tested positive as well.
Cristina Greeven Cuomo runs a health and wellness site called “The Purist,” where she blogged about her unusual regimen while battling the virus, including bathing in a bleach solution. She said she decided to give it a try as a “more affordable” alternative to an IV vitamin drip to purportedly “neutralize heavy metals” in the body.
Bleach is very affordable, that’s true, but it’s also very fucking toxic.
Also why do people with no actual medical training claim to teach “wellness”? I’m Googling her and all I see by way of training is
Her training is in Ayurveda, medical radiesthesia, radionics, energy healing, nutrition, herbal medicine and detoxification methods…
What is “medical radiesthesia”? It’s dowsing. I Googled that too, and it’s dowsing the body. “Her training” is in woo. She should no more be running a “health and wellness site” than Trump should be telling us to drink bleach. She and Gwyneth Paltrow should knock it off.
“While IVs are subject to cost and are not cheap (a vitamin drip ranges around $300 whereas a hospital will charge thousands of dollars for them and for medication that has no proven studies behind them), I wanted to try a more affordable way I heard about to neutralize heavy metals: take a bath,” Cuomo writes.
She writes that Dr. Linda Lancaster suggested a bath with “a nominal amount of bleach,” and explained that the idea is to “combat the radiation and metals in my system and oxygenate it.”
No no that’s not the way to do it, the way to do it is to make passes in the air with your hands, sprinkle sugar over your dog, and paint a hex on your roof so that the flying demons will reverse course.
Cuomo says since she had no sense of smell or open cuts, she decided to try it. “So, I add a small amount—1/4 to 1/2 cup ONLY—of Clorox to a full bath of warm water (80 gallons),” she writes. However, many doctors advise against trying this and warn in stark terms that it could be dangerous.
And I bet zero doctors advise for trying this.
In an email to CBS News, microbiologist Dr. Dean Hart said bathing in bleach is a bad idea.
“While [we] in science do not like to speak in absolutism, I have never heard, ever, of a bleach bath being recommended for the treatment of any disease,” Hart said. “Don’t do that. It is not a good idea, in fact, it’s a bad idea. It could hurt you. The air becomes toxic around a bleach or chlorine bath. This has the potential to be very harmful, whether you are observing through your skin or breathing.”
It’s a bad, dangerous, potentially lethal idea, yet there she is blithely advising it pn her health and wellness site called “The Purist.” Bleach makes you pure all right, pure and dead.
To “neutralize” heavy metals. To “combat and oxygenate” radiation.
I have a sneaking suspicion that she doesn’t actually know what she’s talking about.
Ben, to be scrupulously fair I think she meant to oxygenate her system not the radiation. Failed syntax but that’s almost an internet tradition now.
About 8-10 drops a gallon to suspicious drinking water can kill bacteria and other disease-causing organisms. That is commonly recommended by EPA, CDC, and others. It’s commonly used in the third world and other places where water sources may contain bacteria, flagellates, and such.
https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/emergency-disinfection-drinking-water
https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/pdf/emergency/09_202278-B_Make_Water_Safe_Flyer_508.pdf
https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/BePreparedBeSafe/SevereWeatherandNaturalDisasters/WaterPurification
That ratio works out to about 1/3 cup per 80 gallons. Cristina Cuomo’s bathwater is drinkable with that amount of bleach in it. It will do her no harm to bathe in it. It has nothing much to do with COVID or heavy metals, however.
I use bleach at about twice that concentration overnight to deodorise kitchen brushes and scrubbing pads. I wouldn’t soak my body in 1/10th of that concentration.
Also, neutralise heavy metals in my body…
The chemist in me is silently screaming.
Rob, I wouldn’t be terribly bothered about the danger involved in getting into a bathtub with a drinkable level of bleach (assuming I could get into a bathtub at all, which is a stretch). The greatest danger is that it would likely make you very itchy. Also, bathrooms can be quite close and the fumes do your lungs no good. A swimming pool should only be chlorinated at about 1/100 that level, and I wouldn’t like it much if it were higher. I assume the dingbat in question has an amply ventilated bathroom and uses expensive moisturizer to combat the itch.
I hope she doesn’t do that to her children. Honey, could you bleach the kids?
Her blog on the other hand… I regret clicking. That’s some Gwyneth Paltrow-level nuttiness. There’s a difference between healthy eating and orthorexia.
Papito, yeah I know. I don’t like being itchy and coughing. Half a cup in bath would be heinous.
Wow, ‘radionics?’ Look up Albert Abrams of San Francisco. The King of Quckery in post WWI America. You could send him a blood drop, or just your signature, on a bit of paper and he would diagnose and treat you with his magic radio machine. Of course he diagnosed a male hamster as suffering from ‘female trouble.’
And how do you know that hamster didn’t identify as a female? Are you guilty of misgendering a hamster? Shame on you.