To be fair, what's actually happened here is that some researchers have released a narrative review discussing the possible pathways by which blueberries may be able to reduce blood pressure, and somehow that's become entirely mangled to a hilarious extent
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Here's the study. Just look at that wonderful title https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gerona/glz047/5321875?redirectedFrom=fulltext …pic.twitter.com/Os1WqXrzv2
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HAHAHA I FOUND THE BIT WHERE THEY TALK ABOUT BLOOD PRESSURE AND IT TURNS OUT THE RESULT WAS NON-SIGNIFICANT THIS IS GOLDpic.twitter.com/NqeKKvyFcX
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Also none of the people in any of these studies ate blueberries, what they did was take 11g/d of "powdered wild blueberry extract" that was "equivalent" to 100g of blueberries so there's that as well
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Most of the results they discuss were looking at "flow-mediated vasodilation" and in fact the 40 individual study was the biggest one, most of them had 5-25 participants
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Blog is up on the blueberries and heart disease question. It includes a hilarious reveal about the funders of this researchhttps://link.medium.com/W4XBn3znvU
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what if you can do push-ups tho
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Only if you can do >40 while also chugging smoothies that are actually made of superfood
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You might also like this website cataloging the "Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it." http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/
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Long term outcome: everything ends up in both categories.
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