Fish Oil Fables
Even though people like to blame sugar for blood sugar issues, and many recommend fish oil as a miracle cure for diabetes (and a variety of other inflammatory conditions), lots of good science has...
Category: Anti-Inflammatory Fantasy
Metabolica Rheumatica
You don’t just get arthritis because it’s written in your genetic code, so that it suddenly kicks in on your 60th birthday. And it isn’t just a random event that lands on you out...
Aspirin! Because You May Not Need To F%#k Cancer After All.
There are lots of reasons to be angry about cancer, but when you find out just how effective aspirin is, as both a preventative measure and treatment (even cure), you might move from anger...
Flaming Depression!
Even though the idea that inflammation causes depression is reasonable and justifiable, things have a tendency to go off the rails when it comes to popular explanations for why it does, and what should...
Sugar Helps Medicine Go Down
Talking about the effects of a High Fat/High Carb meal (HFHC) on metabolic function, without considering the type of fat and type of carbohydrate involved, is about as meaningful as talking about the color...
Aspirin-By-Sea
‘I took a trip to Nurofen Near Aspirin-by-sea, And all along my journey There were many sights to see. Like Anadin, and Panadol, Two lovely seaside towns, And a place called Alka Seltzer Nestling...
Anti-Inflammatory Fish Oil Fantasy
Although one could be forgiven for laughing, the similarity between the omega-3 content of fish oil and snake oil has lead to recent suggestions that the latter be once again promoted as a ‘health’...
Doing Your Aspirin Drills
Although it is extremely common to hear people say that aspirin damages the intestines potentially causing stomach ulcers and intestinal bleeding, this idea did not arise until newer more profitable drugs came on to...
Fatty Fish Farce
Fish oil is not all that it’s cracked up to be. Although polyunsaturated fatty acids (pufa) have been shown to be more than problematic when consumed regularly by humans, fish oil is still commonly...