There's something to be said about HN, the supposed rationality and intelligence of the forum, and the massive blind spot posters have about anything medical or otherwise biological.
replyThere is no scientific consensus on it!
Although I doubt there's any harm in eating more fruit.
There is some actual science here, just the studies aren't great. I have floaters and stumbled on research out of Taiwan related to this. Mostly out of Tiawan. There is some possible confirmation from Italy, but the study was a cocktail treatment, so you can't isolate the bromelain effects.
replyWhat I haven't seen is any properly controlled study proving it false. Just a cluster of researchers in Tiawan with flawed study construction.
One can always get the surgery, where they vacuum them out..doesn't seem worth the risk to me, even if they annoy me.
replyI believe there’s a laser surgery to break up the big ones that’s would have far less adverse side effects (though, I suppose maybe the chance of something even worse).
replyInteresting. This is from personal experience? Has anyone else eaten pineapple and had a similar experience?
replyApparently the subject of some small studies, could do with some replication
replyhttps://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-and-nutrition/pinea...
Interesting. Summarizing: pineapples contain a compound which breaks up collagen. No proof it does that to the human body, or floaters specifically.
replyBut if it did, I’ve got terrible collagen and so I won’t be eating pineapple everyday, regardless of what the Taiwanese pineapple council would like me to do.
Pineapple contains enzymes that digest flesh. I don't know if that's relevant here, but it seemed worth mentioning.
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