How to guarantee you’ll get cancer
I think it’s safe to say that most people are hoping their number doesn’t come up in the cancer lottery. So they dutifully get their pap smears and PSA tests, mammograms and colonoscopies, slather themselves in sunscreen, watch for changes in moles, and keep their fingers crossed.
- Tags: Cancer, Healthy Eating, Immune Health, Inflammation
The 10 worst inflammatory foods you should avoid
Don’t do this for chronic pain—it can kill you!
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:
- Tags: General Health, Inflammation, pain relief
Newly discovered harmful effects of stress
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:
- Tags: Immune Health, Inflammation, Stress
Your #1 protection against early death and disease
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?