About medicinal fat, iron transplantologist and pills for greed

uncle_doc, MedPortal.ruAlmost any food product is useful for our body.

Of course, if you don't turn it into a cult object. Or into a medicinal product, as some media do with lard.

Our reader pushistyj_koshk sent a funny note:

I was immediately interested in the question, but how to make sure that the pig was not fed hormones? Ask the pig? Or poke a pregnancy test into the fat? I was also pleased with the technique of cleaning the liver with lard. Is it in the sense of stuffing it with pork rinds and baking it?

However, the matter turned out to be much more serious. Search engines have brought to several articles where it is quite seriously claimed that fat is almost a panacea for all diseases. For example, here in this reprint on the website mosmedclinic.ru report:

But the Newspaper went even further in the Dnieper way:

So, I didn't understand something, what kind of fat are we talking about? I hope it's about pork after all? Then what does pig stem cells have to do with it? And the oral use of any stem cells is news. They will be digested clean.

About the unique nutritional value and essential fatty acids. Let's take it in order. Indeed, there is such a thing as essential fatty acids. The human body must receive them from the outside. These are linoleic, alpha-linolenic and arachidonic acids. We will not go into the biochemical wilds, we will only say that these substances are necessary for the biosynthesis of a number of biologically active substances in our body.

Linoleic and alpha-linolenic acids are not synthesized at all in our body. And they should come with food of plant origin. But arachidonic acid is perfectly synthesized in our body from one of the mentioned acids. So there are two ways out – either to ensure the supply of arachidonic acid with animal food, or to deliver its precursors from crop products.

And now let's compare which products contain essential fatty acids:

Maybe I have a problem with my eyesight, but I see the undeniable superiority of oilseeds in this table. And cod does pork fat with tenfold superiority. So there is no uniqueness of fat in the sense of essential fatty acids.

But the classic combination of vodka + lard is one of the most common causes of acute pancreatic necrosis, in the army this pathology is often called "ensign's disease". And if you replace vodka with alcohol or moonshine, and salted lard with smoked lard, then the chances of visiting the intensive care unit as a patient increase tenfold.

So if you like lard, for God's sake, eat it. A little bit, which is called "without fanaticism." However, to require the body to take fat for medicine is too much.

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When journalists do not understand what they are writing about, they start quoting interview characters in huge quantities. As a result, such pearls are born, as in the AIF article about the rejuvenation technique of Dr. Seleznev. Let's digress for a moment from the doctor's 18 million patients (in my opinion, even the Fedorovsky Institute cannot boast of such turnover), from stem cells, the study of which has not yet been completed, and the doctor is already using them with might and main - by the way, on millions of people (and where is the generalization of the results of the work? this is the most valuable scientific material, pulling on the Nobel Prize), and even from the transformation of non-stem cells into stem cells (it's about like rain coming from the earth to the sky). I was most pleased with this fragment of the text:

To begin with, a transplant surgeon is still a doctor. And when they talk about a transplantologist made of two metals, for some reason I see a statue of a doctor made of platinum-iridium alloy, the standard of a doctor with a height of 1 meter and a weight of 1 kg in the Paris Chamber of Weights and Measures.

And now let's move on to the school course of inorganic chemistry. In the section devoted to the study of chemical elements. I quote the textbook:

The nucleus of an atom consists of protons, the number of which is equal to the atomic number of the element, and neutrons, the number of which can be different.

And the electrons are running around the nucleus. Thus, two heavy metals, being different chemical elements, will differ by at least one proton. And isotopes of one chemical element (with an equal number of protons) differ in the number of neutrons. And certainly there are no two different chemical elements that differ only by one electron (with the same composition of the nucleus). Note that we are not talking about different degrees of oxidation of one metal, we are talking about two different metals.

And more. Metals artificially produced on a synchrophasotron or other accelerator have high radioactivity. In addition, they are extremely unstable, the half-life is at best seconds, or even thousandths of a second. They get them in the amount of tens or hundreds of atoms, just to prove their existence.

Longer-lived radioactive isotopes in some industrial quantities (the same polonium) are obtained in nuclear reactors by placing the starting materials there and exposing them to neutron irradiation. But they are still extremely radioactive, and the only therapeutic effect they can provide to the body is a guaranteed lethal outcome from acute radiation sickness.

Special thanks for the advice of yuri-zimmermann.

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And here is another example from the series "We heard the ringing, but suffered from topographic cretinism" (the package came from rositsa).  An article in the newspaper "Metro" about medical devices. In particular, we are talking about blood pressure monitors:

Let's understand the pressures. There is no "upper diastolic", there is upper and lower (if colloquially) or systolic and diastolic (if in the language of medicine). Systolic = upper, diastolic = lower. And only in this ratio. By the way, I remind you once again that there is no such diagnosis as "vegetative-vascular dystonia" in nature, although it is mentioned in this article. 

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The manufacturers of the following products, apparently, loved the movie "The Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase" with Evgeny Lebedev in the title role as a child. It was in this children's picture that the sweets of real courage and the medicine for talkativeness flashed. And under the brand Viavita, such wonderful medicines are sold:

The only comment that perfectly fits this case was made in another children's film – "The Adventures of Pinocchio":

But out of greed, kwa-kwa,
And from avarice,
But from meanness, kwa-kwa,
And from stupidity,
And also from bragging,
Kwa-kwa-kwa, yes kwa-kwa-kwa,
Your product won't help,
Evil, nasty Duremar!

And there is really nothing more to add.

Portal "Eternal youth" www.vechnayamolodost.ru27.06.2008