Bad News for Acetaminophen Users

This article originally appeared on The Epoch Times and was republished with permission.

Guest post by George Citroner

That daily backache medication you’ve been popping may be doing more harm than good.

A new study suggests that one of the world’s go-to pain pills, acetaminophen, can trigger unhealthy changes in heart tissue—even at standard adult dosages long considered perfectly safe. Acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol and many other pain killers.

“We expected two to three pathways to be altered, but we found over 20 different signaling pathways being affected,” Gabriela Rivera, a doctoral student at the University of California–Davis and the study’s lead author, said in a press release.

Read the full story in The Epoch Times.