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Chris McCandless with Blair Braverman

You're Wrong About

CHAPTER

Is It Into Thin Air?

In 2007, John Crackower wrote that the problem with wild potato seeds was a toxic mold growing on them. A new theory emerged in 2013 about an experiment at a Nazi concentration camp where Jewish prisoners were fed bread made from the seeds of the grass pea. The lab found 0.394% odap by weight, which is enough to be toxic. Odap causes latharism for men between the ages of 15 and 25 who have been eating a very limited diet,. well being very physically active.

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