On October 11, Fox News Digital warned that “Silent inflammation could be damaging your body” and listed factors from clinical pharmacist Jim LaValle. The article names no blood test, no measured level and no study. “Silent” does its work before any fact arrives. The headline puts the harm in “your body” and hedges it with “could be”, which is the hint: a charge put as a possibility, so no one has to prove it. The habit it rides is the fear of loss. The threat falls on what you already have, your health, and the sentence never says what you stand to gain or how likely the loss is. A plain sentence would need a measure, and inflammation has one. Mayo Clinic describes a simple blood test, hs-CRP: under 2.0 mg/L counts as lower heart-disease risk, and an assessment usually averages two tests two weeks apart. The CDC and the American Heart Association set the first cutoffs in January 2003. The Fox article names no test, no level and no study; its claims run on can, may and could. The tell to keep: a threat to your body with no number and no test that could ever rule it out. The page against its headline: “silent” appears in the body once, in LaValle’s closing quote about overtraining. The advice to see a doctor sits in the final news paragraph, below the five items. The article text names no supplement; its only treatment is GLP-1 medications, which it says “may have anti-inflammatory effects”. Its single expert, by his own site, is Chief Science Officer at Life Time MIORA and promotes products he earns from.
