Translating 'Science' to English

How to understand what a study is actually saying.

When you read the following terms in a study:

• Western diet

• High-fat diet

• Oxidative stress

• Lipid peroxidation

Think "Seed oil toxicity". It's very clarifying... ("356,081 results")

When I originally posted this to X, one fellow objected:

“dude your search is literally showing every single result for "oxidative stress" which could be about anything from paracetamol overdose to Covid-19, and every single result for "high fat diet" (so basically every paper in the entire field of bariatric medicine)” *

I replied:

“Yes. That's the point.

“Look into the mechanisms behind, say, paracetamol overdose or COVID-19 and you will see I am correct.

“‘Ferroptosis driven by radical oxidation of Ω-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids mediates [paracetamol]-induced acute liver failure’” (Yamada et al., 2020)

It’s even higher now, 387,214:

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References

Yamada, N., Karasawa, T., Kimura, H., Watanabe, S., Komada, T., Kamata, R., Sampilvanjil, A., Ito, J., Nakagawa, K., Kuwata, H., Hara, S., Mizuta, K., Sakuma, Y., Sata, N., & Takahashi, M. (2020). Ferroptosis driven by radical oxidation of n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids mediates acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure. Cell Death & Disease, 11(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-020-2334-2