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“Leisure sickness” is not a medical condition but a lot of space was taken in this article to produce a plethora of recommendations for relaxation that paradoxically becomes a full time stressful job to accomplish it.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for November 29, 2024 Source:You Might Be Prone to “Leisure Sickness” if Your Body Seems to Sabotage Your Time Off
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If you like pumpkin spice food products at this time of year, go ahead and enjoy. Its touted health benefits and claims are on more shaky ground.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 11, 2024 Source:5 Health Benefits of Pumpkin Spice
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Drinking shots of alcohol will not prevent food poisoning. @billcarrolltalk and I discuss why it does not work.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 3, 2024 Source:Wait—Can Alcohol Really Prevent Food Poisoning?
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Little to evidence to suggest that the purported uses of red light therapy accomplish what the manufacturers claim.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 27, 2024 Source: What is red light therapy and does it work? Reference: Red Light Therapy
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New tool being developed by the University of Waterloo to help identify false health claims.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 29, 2024 Source:‘Life-or-death’ issue: How one tool is identifying false health claims on social media Reference:A Big Data ecosystem for evaluating health misinformation on social media
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Hangover cures that are incongruous with physiological reality and laws of chemistry continue to be peddled as realistic solutions. Alas, despite these beliefs and claims, your body will always affirm (in concert with dose, dosing intervals, metabolism, absorption, and excretion along with medical history, liver, kidney function and body size) why it ain’t so.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 5, 2024 Source:5 Myths About Hangovers You Need to Stop Believing
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Rosemary oil is a viral hack for hair growth. Does it work? No it does not. But they will shill for your purchase at the end of the “article”
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 19, 2024 Source:Rosemary oil is a viral hack for hair growth. Does it work?
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Weak evidence (on the basis of one small study) to suggest that a supplement can mitigate postpartum blues. Also wary when the article advertises the product in question and quotes the senior author and patent holder of its virtues.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 11, 2024 Source:Canadian researchers create natural supplement to combat postpartum blues Reference:Dietary supplement for mood symptoms in early postpartum: a double-blind randomized placebo controlled trial
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‘Oatzempic’: TikTok Users Claim New Drink Helps With Weight Loss—Here’s What You Need to Know. This should have been an April Fools’ joke.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 1, 2024 Source:‘Oatzempic’: TikTok Users Claim New Drink Helps With Weight Loss—Here’s What You Need to Know