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: Fish Oil Fiasco
‘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...
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 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’...
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...