Health
Medical claims, wellness fads, and what the evidence actually supports.
During an acute stress response, splanchnic vasoconstriction reduces gastrointestinal perfusion and prioritizes blood flow to the heart, lungs, and skeletal muscle.
HARDLY BS
Reduced perfusion of the small-intestinal mucosa can impair enterocyte renewal and contribute to villous blunting (villous atrophy), reducing absorptive surface area.
NOT BS
Consuming sugary drinks before midnight makes babies hyperactive and less likely to fall asleep at their usual bedtime.
TOTAL BS
During emulsification in digestion, each microscopic fat droplet contains only lipids inside, bile salts form an outer coating with their hydrophobic ends facing inward and hydrophilic ends facing outward, and water surrounds the droplet outside this coating.
HARDLY BS
Pancreatic proteases such as trypsinogen and chymotrypsinogen are synthesized as inactive zymogens and are activated in the duodenum by an intestinal enzyme (enterokinase/enteropeptidase), which helps prevent autodigestion of the pancreas.
NOT BS
Creatine supplementation improves brain fog in humans.
SOME BS
Creatine supplementation reduces S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe) demand by decreasing endogenous creatine synthesis.
NOT BS
COVID-19 vaccines did not help contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
TOTAL BS
Cashiers are at increased risk of disease due to exposure to chemicals from handling thermal paper receipts.
SOME BS
Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) has anti-inflammatory effects in humans.
HARDLY BS
Genetically modified (GMO) foods are dangerous to human health because DNA modification in the food can harm human health.
TOTAL BS
Organic fruits are healthier than non-organic fruits.
SOME BS
A meta-analysis published in 2023 found that taking 3,200 to 4,000 International Units (IU) of vitamin D daily is associated with a higher risk of hypercalcemia.
NOT BS
Taking 5,000 IU of vitamin D daily does not cause side effects for most people.
HARDLY BS
In humans, when not eating, the entire esophagus is completely closed along its full length, so water cannot drip down into the stomach on its own.
MOSTLY BS
Fever can sometimes cure cancer.
SOME BS
A height of 6 feet 2 inches is approximately the 95th percentile for adult male height in the United States.
NOT BS
Salivary amylase cannot break down starch into glucose because the enzyme molecule is too large.
TOTAL BS
Sugar-free soft drinks sweetened with non-sugar sweeteners (for example, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar) are as harmful to teeth as sugar-sweetened soft drinks.
MOSTLY BSNo checks match that verdict.