A study published in The Lancet dealt a hefty blow to one of the popular go-to medications for pain relief.

Acetaminophen (also known by the band name Tylenol®).

Apparently the study, which included information from 74 trials published between 1980 and 2015 involving over 58,000 osteoarthritis patients, found that acetaminophen was only slightly better than a placebo.

Plus it was stated to play no role in treating osteoarthritis, regardless of dose, because osteoarthritis is an inflammatory condition and acetaminophen is not an anti-inflammatory.

Just the icing on the cake

The fact that acetaminophen is only a smidgen more effective than a sugar pill for inflammatory pain is just the icing on the cake.  Here’s more:

Most people are very well aware that chronic, ongoing stress is not a good thing.  But unfortunately, it turns out that it’s even more harmful than we originally thought.  Here’s what I mean:

The spring allergy season is upon us, and each year seems to be outdoing the prior one in terms of severity. 

Milder winters have created very healthy root systems in trees…so these root systems are pumped and ready to release pollen earlier.

 

I saw a recent Wall Street Journal article that mentioned how “new” research has begun to “unravel the mystery” of how an unhealthy gut microbiome caused by poor diet or lack of sleep can lead to disease. 

I don’t mean to sound cynical, but where have they been?

Three out of the top four best-selling drugs of 2015 were medications that treat autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

At this stage of our scientific evolution, you would think that the human body would be pretty well mapped out by now and there are no surprises left in terms of how we’re put together. Well, you would be wrong. Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered that your brain is directly connected to your immune system by lymphatic vessels that were previously thought not to exist. This stunning discovery actually...