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Do You Eat Dirt? Eating dirt is is not just for little kids anymore. Eating dirt and other non-typical food items may have some health benefits.   What I'm Really Taking About Activated Charcoal   Background In a crazy test, Professor Touery drank strychnine combined with activated charcoal and lived.  Strychnine poisoning is a horrible way to die, and he performed this feat in front of his colleagues.   How It Works I've used activated charcoal for decades while working in the emergency department.  Having encouraged or down right forced patients to drink it after suicide attempts.  Charcoal works by binding to toxins such as drugs or other chemicals.  The toxic substance sticks to the charcoal (adsorption) and then passes through the GI tract and exits the body. The body can't digest charcoal and it passes out the body into the toilet. The theory is that by binding various toxins in the gut, charcoal can detoxify the body.  Note that certain substances are n