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Can COVID Vaccines Trigger Gout? An Evidence-Based Appraisal of Gout, Fertility, Autoimmunity, and Breakthrough Infection
COVID vaccination may act as a short-term trigger for flares in a small proportion of people with gout, but that does no…
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Can Dementia Be Prevented? The Limits of Evidence on Exercise, Lifestyle, Supplements, and Treatment
Practical dementia risk management is not about pursuing a miracle ingredient. It requires distinguishing association fr…
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Can Gymnema Sylvestre Restore Pancreatic Function? Interpreting the Evidence from Sweetness Suppression to Diabetes and Cholesterol
Suppressing sweetness is not the same as treating diabetes, and a pancreatic mechanism observed in animals is not equiva…
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Can “Mind-Control Drugs” Really Make People Completely Obedient? The Evidence on Scopolamine, Datura, and Jinguangdang Scam Legends
The scopolamine found in Datura is not a fictional drug. It has legitimate medical uses and can cause temporary impairme…
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Cannabis: The Evidence-Based Boundaries of Medical Use, Recreational Use, and Health Risks
“The human body has cannabinoid receptors” does not mean that “smoking cannabis is a treatment.” Any sound interpretatio…
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Can New Therapies Be Trusted? An Evidence-Based Appraisal of Weight Loss, Immunotherapy, and Gene Editing
Time-restricted eating, cancer immunotherapy, bacteriophages, exosomes, umbilical cord plasma, CRISPR, and roller-coaste…
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Can Organic Fruits and Vegetables Lower Cancer Risk? Evidence on Pesticide Residues, Nutritional Differences, and Cancer
“Organic food has fewer pesticides,” “organic food differs in composition,” and “organic food prevents cancer” are three…
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Can Too Much Sex Harm Your Health? Evidence on Ejaculation Frequency, Prostate Health, and Cardiovascular Risk
There is no reliable evidence that “too much sex harms the body.” Higher ejaculation frequency has an observational asso…
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Chinese Medicine, Folk Remedies, and Health Claims: Where In Vitro Research Ends and Clinical Evidence Begins
Professor Ching-Shun Lin has long reminded readers not to translate an ingredient, a proposed mechanism, a cell experime…
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Can Chocolate and Cocoa Really Protect the Brain, Heart, and Blood Sugar? An Evidence-Based Review
"25 grams of cocoa a day prevents Alzheimer's disease," "a brain 20 years younger" — do these too-good-to-be-true headli…
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Cholesterol and Heart Disease: The Evidence on Diet, Blood Lipids, Eggs, and Lipid-Lowering Therapy
Wood ear mushrooms cannot replace cardiovascular treatment, and eggs are not a miracle food for preventing heart disease…
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Cholesterol and Eggs: An Evidence-Based Roundup on Good vs. Bad Cholesterol, Egg Yolks, and Statins
Cholesterol is not more dangerous the lower it goes, and eggs are no monster either. Separate "dietary cholesterol," "bl…
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Colds, Influenza, and the Novel Coronavirus: Can Vitamins, Zinc, and Supplements Really Prevent Illness or Shorten Its Course?
Vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, and β-glucan have all been studied, but a signal of benefit is not the same as proven effica…
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Does Oral Collagen Really Replenish Your Skin? An Evidence-Based Myth-Busting Roundup
Collagen gets digested, so eating it is pointless? Professor Lin's mechanistic caution is still worth remembering, but t…
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Consumer Product Safety: How to Read “Toxic” Warnings About Teflon, Magic Erasers, Baby Bottles, and Dishwasher Detergents
“A substance was detected” does not mean that harm has been demonstrated, while “no direct harm has been observed under …
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COVID-19: An Evidence-Based Review of Drugs, Vaccines, Prevention, and Misinformation
From ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vaccine benefits and adverse effects to chlorine-based disinfection, masks, antibod…
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COVID, Vitamins, and Supplements: From Association and Clinical Trials to Trustworthy Conclusions
A supplement does not prevent or treat COVID merely because it is “related to immunity.” The real question is whether cr…
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Deaths Reported After COVID Vaccination, Actual Risks, and Treatment Myths: How to Read Causal Evidence
“After vaccination” establishes a sequence in time, not a causal conclusion. Large studies support the overall lifesavin…
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Diet and Health: An Evidence-Based Reading of Food Order, Processing, and Extreme Diets
Fruit does not rot in the stomach merely because it is eaten after a meal, although food order may affect postprandial b…
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Do Breathing Practices Promote Health? An Evidence-Based Review of the Wim Hof Method, Diaphragmatic Breathing, and Breath-Holding Risks
Deep breathing, diaphragmatic breathing, hyperventilation, breath-holding, and cold exposure are not the same interventi…
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