So who am I to believe?
CBS Fake News that lies on everything?
My Kaiser MDs, who put in a stent, and those who monitor me on a regular basis telling me to take a baby aspirin once a day?
Including the chief of cardiology and my FP, who is a friend.
I will go with my cardiac team and forget CBS, the network that lies 24/7.
So I guess it’s best to wait until the EMT guy gives your an unnecessary aspirin after getting a heart attack, or a stroke.
In other words, they can take my aspirin from my cold, dead, body.
Aspirin is good.
Aspirin is bad.
Eggs are good.
Eggs are bad.
A glass of wine is good.
A glass of wine is bad.
I sure wish the experts would make up their minds. In the meantime I’m going to have a cannoli.
This is related to low dose daily. If you’re having a heart attack or stroke. Higher dose could save your ass.
If the Democrats give everyone, including illegals, Medicare, they will have to get rid of the expensive elderly. Articles like this may be part of their strategy.
They don’t like aspirin because they can’t make any money from it.
Period.
Everyone with heart trouble should find a Chelation clinic ASAP and take their treatments. It works! Find the book “Bypassing Bypass” and read it. It also saves limbs from diabetes amputation.
I visited a new-to-me doctor a decade ago when I was nearing 50. She said, “I cannot find ONE single thing wrong with you, but I do advise that you take a baby aspirin each day.”
I did that for a few weeks, and once I saw that I was bruising like a banana, I stopped.
Fast-forward to the current Decade. Yep. I’m heading toward 60 this year, and I’ve yet to have a doctor tell me to take an aspirin a day, since.
Eat fresh foods and home-grown meat and veggies. Take a walk. Drink a lot of water. Get outside and PLAY.
Unless you’re pre-disposed to some genetic disease, I really think people spend way too much time on this stuff. You could get run over by a bus, (or in my case, kicked in the head by a Mule), on any given day!
I’m currently watching my Dad ‘die’ of a myriad of self-inflicted problems; drinking all day every day for 40 years. Smoking, though to his credit he did quit. A totally sedentary life once he retired at 53! A big bowl of Ice Cream before bed EVERY night.
People are free to make choices but they are NOT free of the consequences of said choices! (Either Oprah or Ayn Rand said that, LOL!)
Nearly 2 years ago my husband was in a near fatal motorcycle accident while on his way home from work when someone traveling in the opposite direction came into his lane and hit him. He had multiple surgeries to put his body back together and a few days later suffered a stroke.
His neurologist has had him on 81 mg of aspirin every evening and has told him its for life. I can’t see that changing.
Its been a tough recovery, especially with his traumatic brain injury.
Aspirin taken daily in this preventive way killed my cousin. He was only about 50.
He fell and hit his head, and aspirin made his brain bleed not stop. They. Have an antidote to aspirin but it was unsuccessful. The bleed was inoperable but they tried surgery anyway, 5x in 2 days, to save his life. It didn’t work.
It is very easy to fall or get hit in the head. Especially for the elderly. It’s too much of a risk.
And beneficial for some people probably.
I’ve heard (from people in pharmaceuticals) that given the FDA approval process today, aspirin wouldn’t get approved for medical use.
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Actually, aspirin is the only product that Pharma makes that really is useful!
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It's those scientists and clinicians who develop therapies based upon mechanistic biological medical science who drive medical innovation. Conversely, ‘outcomes’ statisticians take large databases (e.g. the Medicare database) and use them to ‘answer’ questions they ask about whether therapies are effective. For reasons that I'd be more than happy to enumerate and discuss, querying large databases such as the Medicare database is just as likely to yield to erroneous conclusions as it is to lead to meaningful clinically applicable conclusions.
In that context, aspirin is helpful to prevent strokes and myocardial infarctions (heart attacks) because it inhibits the action of platelets. Platelets circulate in the bloodstream, and participate in thrombosis/clot formation. The mechanism of most ‘heart attacks’ is the formation of a clot/thrombus in a coronary artery that already has an atherosclerotic ‘blockage’. The clot/thrombus leads to total occlusion (closure) of the artery - and death of the heart muscle that relies on that artery for delivery of oxygen and nutrients. Taking aspirin makes it less likely that your platelets will participate in forming this thrombus/clot. A similar principle explains why aspirin can help prevent strokes.
One big ‘downside’ of taking aspirin is that is can cause gastritis (erosion of the stomach lining) and predispose to ulcers and bleeding from the GI track. Most people do not have this side-effect, but some do - and this is one of the factors that has lead some outcomes analysts to recommend against taking daily aspirin.
Of course, if you are a thinking physician, you will prescribe daily aspirin to those who are most likely to benefit from it, and not to those who are low risk for thrombus/clot - based events.
The problem with a study like this, that provides no substantive new information, but is sensationalistic and highly visible, is that it can lead to the avoidance of aspirin therapy (or other effective therapies) in those who would benefit from them.
I think we’re entering a phase where there’s a crisis of trust in science precisely because of things like this: the science on something is ‘settled’ for 20 to 30 years, and then scientists do a U-turn and go “Nope, don’t do that. Yes, we told you to, but now we’re telling you NOT to. We’ve got it right this time. Trust us”.
Salt.
Bran muffins for cancer.
Cholesterol.
Do as I say, until I tell you not to do the thing I told you.
Some day.
I always wondered about the wisdom of that custom; one asprin each day, even when asymptomatic. I thought it would thin the blood too much.
..I take aspirin and will never take statin drugs...
Fish Oil supplements for a healthy heart and joint function may be yet another popular, though benign myth.
I stopped taking them until further notice.