I don't know how it started, but it ended in mirth when this savings psychology dude went up and down this thread aggressively raging about how he's too smart to have mental health issues.
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It just stops the body from trying to reabsorb that bone. Your body likes to reuse things if it thinks it needs it, so it sees all that sweet juicy bone that's going to waste because there's nothing there that it needs to support.