Today's miracle "cure" is brought to you by the Letter D. D, for Dumba*s!
People are literally taking baths in cow crap thinking it's a cure for SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. I have no words. Just absolutely no words. Then again, I mean the white house has been having us do the same with every press conference so tomato, tomahto?
So, I'm sure you've seen it all over the place--this study that predicts a "radical transformation" in the way fibromyalgia is treated because in a study that had TWENTY-THREE PEOPLE in it, fibro patients tend to have a high a1c score, indicating prediabetes. Now people are breathlessly sharing this "OMG AMAZING NEW CURE" article--not just on their news feeds but in actual groups of spoonies--and there's absolutely no freaking way a study could conclusively prove (or even suggest) something if it only had 23 people in it.
First of all, correlation is not causation. Just because these 23 (or 27, or whatever, definitely less than 30) people with fibro also happened to have high a1c levels doesn't mean that metformin is going to magically cure fibromyalgia.
Secondly, there are about as many different manifestations of as there are people with . Not only that, but some people who have also have diabetes, and some people don't. I'm glad metformin helped some of these people to feel better, but I think it's more likely that their prediabetes symptoms were being lumped in with the rest of their symptoms.
Third the next person who shares some BS they found on Mercola with me I may just throw my bottles of meds at them. ( The a1c story wasn't on Mercola but it's certainly unscientific enough to end up there. #Fibromyalgia#badscience#mediahype#justpissesmeoff
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