Of importance to note, is that it has been known since 1971 that aspirin inhibits PGE-2 production. The idea that we should not care about how the adjustment works because no one knows how the aspirin works is foolish and an impossible position to defend. This has been a perennial BOOPer and nonBOOPer blooper. Our collective ignorance demonstrates that we actually have much more in common than we are often led to believe. The precursor for PGE-2 is arachidonic acid.
Arachidonic acid comes prepackaged in animal meats, chicken, shell fish, and dairy products.
These foods make up the diet of most Americans including chiropractors and their patients. Whenever there is tissue injury, arachidonic acid is released from local cell membranes and is promptly converted into PGE-2, which subsequently helps to drive the inflammatory process and powerfully sensitizes local nociceptors and the reflexes that promote subluxation. Thus, there appears to be a nutritional method for the prevention and treatment of the subluxation complex. Clearly, BOOPerisms like the one cited earlier should be eradicated from our minds and should not be introduced into the minds of unsuspecting and vulnerable students. All Rights Reserved, Dynamic Chiropractic, 2001.