Health
Medical claims, wellness fads, and what the evidence actually supports.
In 2011, there were 400 people on the transplant waiting list in New Zealand.
HARDLY BS
In New Zealand, having fewer than 9 deceased organ donors per million people results in hundreds of patients dying each year while waiting for organ transplants.
TOTAL BS
There is a real, documented organ shortage crisis.
NOT BS
Pigs are currently the generally accepted source species for xenotransplantation into humans due to their physiological similarity to humans and the ability to scale production.
NOT BS
The study described in PubMed Central article PMC12952596 was a randomized clinical trial with a sample of 212 adults.
SOME BS
Most digestive enzymes produced by the small-intestinal wall are bound to the apical (brush-border) cell membrane of intestinal epithelial cells rather than being freely secreted into the intestinal lumen.
NOT BS
The human gut microbiome produces enough neurotransmitters to directly influence human personality traits and temperament.
TOTAL BS
The gut-brain axis is a real biological communication system between the gastrointestinal tract and the brain.
NOT BS
A cohort study of 382 adults younger than 60 years old, assessed 3 months after a first myocardial infarction and followed for 20 years, found that participants in the highest tertile of interleukin-6 had a 2.70-fold higher risk of heart-failure hospitalization than those in the lowest tertile (hazard ratio 2.70; 95% CI 1.32–5.50).
SOME BS
A prospective Fudan University study of 724 patients with recent myocardial infarction found that soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R) was an independent predictor of long-term major adverse cardiac events, reporting an unadjusted hazard ratio of 9.123 (95% CI 5.883–14.147) and an adjusted hazard ratio of 3.761 (95% CI 2.269–6.233) with p < 0.001.
NOT BS
Among patients 12 months after ST-elevation myocardial infarction, those with high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels greater than 26.4 mg/L had a 12% rate of major adverse cardiovascular events, compared with a 4% rate among those with high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels at or below 26.4 mg/L.
HARDLY BS
Eating chocolate cures depression.
TOTAL BS
Drinking coffee stains teeth yellow.
HARDLY BS
In humans, taste buds that detect sweetness are concentrated at the tip of the tongue.
TOTAL BS
Under normal conditions, only a very small fraction of dietary amino acids in the small-intestinal lumen are diverted by other substances or are consumed by colonic bacteria before being absorbed, so amino-acid loss is very low.
HARDLY BS
Most intestinal juice in the small intestine comes from the contents released when small-intestinal epithelial cells rupture and slough off, rather than from fluid actively secreted by intestinal glands.
TOTAL BS
After proteases finish digesting food in the duodenum, they move with chyme into the mid and distal small intestine and begin digesting themselves and other enzymes into amino acids.
MOSTLY BS
During acute stress, pulmonary blood flow increases mainly because cardiac output increases.
HARDLY BS
Physiologic stress can increase intestinal permeability by disrupting tight junctions between enterocytes, which increases translocation of luminal antigens and bacteria.
HARDLY BSNo checks match that verdict.