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In Vitro Lab Study on Sucralose Impurity Shows DNA Damage at Unrealistically High Doses; No Evidence of Human Toxicity at Normal Splenda Use
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 20, 2026 Source:Popular Sweetener Linked to DNA Damage – “It’s Something You Should Not Be Eating” Reference:Toxicological and pharmacokinetic properties of sucralose-6-acetate and its parent sucralose: in vitro screening assays The SciTechDaily article from April 16, 2026 summarizes a May 2023 lab study on sucralose-6-acetate.This is a manufacturing impurity in…
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House Calls, #1011, April 19, 2026: It’s in the blood! Python’s that is.
House Calls, #1011, April 19, 2026: It’s in the blood! Python’s that is. A recent discovery of a metabolite in python blood was shown to cause a 9% loss of total body weight in 28 days in mice. The way it works is fascinating and may lead to new medications for humans just like it…
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New way to lower high cholesterol by stopping its production demonstrated in mice. It is also designed for a subset of people with a genetically inherited condition that causes significant elevated levels.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 17, 2026 Source:Scientists Discover Game-Changing New Way To Treat High Cholesterol Reference: A human iPSC-derived hepatocyte screen identifies compounds that inhibit production of Apolipoprotein B
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Scientists finally crack mystery of rare COVID adenovirus vaccine blood clots
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 15, 2026 Source:Scientists finally crack mystery of rare COVID vaccine blood clots Reference:Adenoviral Inciting Antigen and Somatic Hypermutation in VITT
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Metformin shown to increase a biological effect of exercise in men with prostate cancer reducing insulin resistance, easing metabolic stress and weight gain. What this isn’t is exercise in a pill.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 14, 2026 Source:Exercise in a Pill? Metformin Shows Surprising Effects in Cancer Patients Reference:The anti-obesogenic metabolite, Lac-Phe, is elevated by metformin treatment in prostate cancer patients
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Naturally Occurring Bacteria Completely Eradicate Tumors in Mice With a Single Dose
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 13, 2026 Source:Naturally Occurring Bacteria Completely Eradicate Tumors in Mice With a Single Dose Reference:Discovery and characterization of antitumor gut microbiota from amphibians and reptiles: Ewingella americana as a novel therapeutic agent with dual cytotoxic and immunomodulatory properties
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House Calls, #1010, April 12, 2026: Cut to the bone and suck out the marrow
Just as a veterinary and dental clinics are being bought out by larger corporations, so to our medical clinics. There have been some issues brought up by people but I have spoken were questioning how this is affecting availability and quality of care given that staff cuts usually followed purchase of these enterprises and clinics.…
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Hidden Danger: Widely Used Pesticides Linked to 150% Higher Cancer Risk in Peru. Most of these are not used in North America and Europe Due to Tighter Regulation.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 10, 2026 Source:Hidden Danger: Widely Used Pesticides Linked to 150% Higher Cancer Risk Reference:Mapping pesticide mixtures to cancer risk at the country scale with spatial exposomics
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