The result was delete. RL0919 ( talk) 19:51, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
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This seems to be a hoax. While there are various medical techniques referred to as lipid therapy (e.g.
lipid rescue,
drug therapy for cholesterol management, and
some quack cancer treatment), there is no such thing as a controversial medical technique that entails the injection and expulsion of fats and lipids, which proponents claim can improve cognitive and memory function.
The article claims that it is popular with celebrities and has drawn scrutiny from the FDA and the Department of Agriculture, but no sources are provided to support these assertions, nor can they be found.
The medical claims in the article are nonsensical, e.g., lipid therapy can be easily discerned by the painful pressure in the thoracic cavity engendered by the sudden dip in plasma viscosity. Globules of lipid polymers also produce a significant shear strain on capillaries, causing the skin to pale and the tongue to swell.
Content like Since most toxins in the body are fat soluble (according to practitioners), this causes the patient to defecate a translucent slime
seems like childish potty humour.
The cited sources don't contain any references to this technique according to Google books previews: [1], [2], [3]; the last source is about lipid rescue. There are no results for "therapeutic lipovenous injection" outside of Wikipedia mirrors and no relevant results for searches like "lipid therapy" +celebrity, "lipid therapy" +pseudoscience, etc. I found 2 references to it on blog sites: [4], [5], but the wording of these posts makes it clear that they're just cribbing from the Wikipedia article. I was tempted to tag this for G3, but since the article has been around since 2008 and the title is hard to search for I decided to bring it here. SpicyMilkBoy ( talk) 16:14, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
The result was delete. RL0919 ( talk) 19:51, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
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This seems to be a hoax. While there are various medical techniques referred to as lipid therapy (e.g.
lipid rescue,
drug therapy for cholesterol management, and
some quack cancer treatment), there is no such thing as a controversial medical technique that entails the injection and expulsion of fats and lipids, which proponents claim can improve cognitive and memory function.
The article claims that it is popular with celebrities and has drawn scrutiny from the FDA and the Department of Agriculture, but no sources are provided to support these assertions, nor can they be found.
The medical claims in the article are nonsensical, e.g., lipid therapy can be easily discerned by the painful pressure in the thoracic cavity engendered by the sudden dip in plasma viscosity. Globules of lipid polymers also produce a significant shear strain on capillaries, causing the skin to pale and the tongue to swell.
Content like Since most toxins in the body are fat soluble (according to practitioners), this causes the patient to defecate a translucent slime
seems like childish potty humour.
The cited sources don't contain any references to this technique according to Google books previews: [1], [2], [3]; the last source is about lipid rescue. There are no results for "therapeutic lipovenous injection" outside of Wikipedia mirrors and no relevant results for searches like "lipid therapy" +celebrity, "lipid therapy" +pseudoscience, etc. I found 2 references to it on blog sites: [4], [5], but the wording of these posts makes it clear that they're just cribbing from the Wikipedia article. I was tempted to tag this for G3, but since the article has been around since 2008 and the title is hard to search for I decided to bring it here. SpicyMilkBoy ( talk) 16:14, 6 November 2019 (UTC)