Aspirin can also have negative effects. I’m 75 years old and was a chronic headache sufferer since as far back as I can remember. I took full dosage aspirin all these years for them. Recently I started having breathing problems. I couldn’t catch my breath after taking a shower or just walking from one room to the next. Turns out the aspirin had thinned my blood so much that I had to have a blood transfusion and was put on iron supplements. I was taken off of aspirin and was told to switch to Tylenol. Since getting off of aspirin my breathing has greatly improved and I haven’t had a headache since.
But acetaminophen will destroy your liver.
I think regular aspirin is about 4 times the miligrams of the low dose aspirin. People are certainly NOT being advised to take full dose aspirin on a regular basis. Regarding the thin blood, while iron may be one way to help, when I was young I was always anemic and was told to take iron supplements by my doctor. It did NOT help at all. Finally I read in a book by Adelle Davis that one cause of anemia was premature death of red blood cells (RBC), She recommended taking Vitamin E for that because E can help increase the lifespan of an RBC from 85 days to 115 days. I started taking Vitamin E supplements daily, and never had the anemia problem again. I am 85 and in reasonable health still.