I chopped up some baby aspirin into 20 mg chunks and started taking one a day with fish oil.

I'm just wondering--is this technique meant as sort of a longer-term tonic, or is the intent more for short-term "super-charging" to help with injuries, etc.?

Aspirin is fine in small doses for long-term use. It helps to destroy bad eicosanoids. A small baby dose will do it, which Isnt large enough to have a significant effect on acute pain.

There is more written about it in zone books.

I do not personally do it, but have been working on eliminating other NSAIDs because I was using them chronically, knocking out bad and good eicosanoids.

This topic has been discussed often. If you input " baby aspirin and Fish oil" in the search window in the yellow strip above you will find a bunch of information

This topic is also discussed in "The Omega RX Zone" (pages 144 and 145) and I found it extremely interesting. Aspirin is a blood thinner and when taken in the form of one baby aspirin daily it reduces heart attacks. Aspirin-triggered 15-epi-lipoxins are new good eicosanoids recently discovered at Harvard that are strong anti-inflammatories, the "best" of which are made from EPA. This is where fish oil comes into the picture. Dr Sears writes "If you take a baby aspirin a day and fish oil at levels recommended on my dietary program, you'll increase the production of those 15-epi-lipoxins, which can, by reducing arterial inflammation, dramatically reduce your risk of having a heart attack caused by a plaque rupture." He goes on to say "I truly believe that this advance will make heart disease as rare as it was at the beginning of the twentieth century."

So I feel Dr Sears views it as a long-term thing.

Thanks for posting some of the science, techie!

Yes, there has been some recent posts about this stuff, so check around on some other threads, too.