‘Leaky Gut’ & The Stress Matrix.
If you believed what you read on Wikipedia, you’d probably think ‘Leaky Gut Syndrome’ was a bunch of pseudo-science woo woo, promoted by alternative health zealots with silver foil wrapped around their heads. And...
Category: Fish Oil Fiasco
Flaming Depression!
Even though the idea that inflammation causes depression is not without validity, things have a tendency to go off the rails when it comes to popular explanations for why this might be the case...
Sugar Rush
When information is repeated often enough – even if it is illogical, misleading or simply lacking in evidentiary value – it can begin to form a part of people’s belief systems and as time...
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’...
Essential Fatty Acid Conspiracies
Fish oils (and other highly Polyunsaturated oils), rather than sugar, have been experimentally demonstrated to promote symptoms of type II diabetes. “Omega-3 fatty acid treatment in type II diabetes leads to rapid but reversible...
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...