Daily aspirin to prevent Alzheimer’s? Not so fast!
Aspirin is a “wonder drug,” all right.
I keep wondering what they’ll claim it cures next!
For years the mainstream has been pumping us full of nonsense about how a daily aspirin can prevent everything from heart attacks to cancer.
And now it looks like they’re hitching another car to this crazy train.
Because a group of researchers is claiming that aspirin can help protect your brain from Parkinson’s disease and even Alzheimer’s.
The only problem? You just might bleed to death first.
One large enough to feed the Brady Bunch.
Millions of Americans — with our government’s blessing — spent years choking down daily aspirin to prevent heart disease. And just last year even the FDA admitted there wasn’t any proof it works — especially if you’ve never had a heart attack or stroke.
And that claim that aspirin can stop colon cancer in its tracks?
Well, even Dr. Mark Nelson, an Australian who’s leading one of the largest studies on aspirin and cancer in the world, said aspirin is a “Catch 22” that might not be worth the risks (more on those in a moment).
So what exactly inspired researchers from Johns Hopkins and the Boyce Thompson Institute to study whether aspirin can prevent Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s is beyond me.
But they did — and the media ran with the story like it was the health breakthrough of the century.
According to the study, the main component in aspirin, salicylic acid, can stop an enzyme called GAPDH that damages brain cells and can trigger lots of neurodegenerative diseases.
Well, fantastic. Scientists also discovered years ago that smoking cigarettes may prevent Parkinson’s — but they don’t hand out Lucky Strikes at the doctor’s office.
You see, these guys want to pretend like this was the first ever study on the effects of aspirin on your brain. But that’s not the case — not by a longshot.
I’ve been warning you for years how aspirin can damage blood vessels, prevent clotting, and trigger potentially deadly bleeding in your brain and stomach.
In fact, just three years ago Italian researchers studied more than 300,000 hospital patients and found that aspirin increases your chances of hemorrhaging by a shocking 55 percent!
That’s right. Aspirin is about as good for your brain as jelly donuts are for your waistline.
But with all the hoopla around this new study, you can bet that’s going to be forgotten about fast. And that’s a tragedy, because there are plenty of safe — and natural — ways to protect your brain, like:
- Avoiding household items and foods that are proven to damage your neurons. These include aluminum (as a food ingredient, and in drugs, deodorants and cookware), the food additive MSG, and the artificial sweetener aspartame.
- Eating plenty of healthy, brain-protecting fats like unrefined virgin coconut oil and organic butter (preferably grass fed).
- Loading up on supplements like docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and vinpocetine. DHA is proven to boost your memory, and vinpocetine actually improves blood flow to your brain.
But steer clear of Big Pharma’s wonder drug. Because odds are, you’ll just end up wondering how it’s going to harm you next.
Sources:
“Can aspirin help prevent Alzheimer’s?” Nick Tate, December 1, 2015, NewsMax, newsmax.com
