Medical Science

The normal wisdom is that it is not possible to take drugs to lose weight and that exercise is the only way to burn fat. But surely this cant be right. My question is what is the direct cause of fat to be burned up. I dont think it is messages from the nervous system to the fat cells to say burn up. It must be the presence or absense of some chemicals or hormones in the blood stream. Perhaps the presence of ADP. So why not hook up fat people to dialysys machines overnight for a number of weeks and get these to add/remove the offending chemicals from their bloodstream as they sleep and they will get slim

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0511152103v1 http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0511152103v1.pdf Biological versus nonbiological older brothers and men’s sexual orientation Anthony F. Bogaert Departments of Community Health Sciences and Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada The most consistent biodemographic correlate of sexual orientation in men is the number of older brothers (fraternal birth order). The mechanism underlying this effect remains unknown. In this article, I provide a direct test pitting prenatal against postnatal (e.g., social/rearing) mechanisms. Four samples of homosexual and heterosexual men (total n=944), including …

A middle-aged, set-in-his-ways, sedentary, overweight (BMI>25), former alcoholic is controlling his diabetes with diet alone. He checks his blood sugar 8 to 10, sometimes 15, times a day, and the numbers I have seen him record are about 125 through 150 mg/dL, once as high as 200, and he says he once measured down in the 80s, which he said was "not good". He often will test his blood, gulp down a snack, and 15 to 30 minutes later, test his blood again. He claims he's heat intolerant, he seems to sweat a bit more than others do in the same situations (but I never see any beading or running sweat), he drinks a lot of ice water (sometimes a quart or two at a sitting…

What are you eating and, also, what would you consider as a healthy diet?

i love playing,watching movie and games that are based on zombies but then i start to get paranoid like if i ever face one or more how hard would it be to kill them assuming they are rotten bodies just walking and the outbreak having the entire world roaming with them leaving my life pointless to live on anymore and things like that could anyone explain to me that maybe zombies arent in anyway possible to be brought to life.like a human being is hard to kill what about zombies would they be even harder killing one would be hell but fighting an entire army of them so yeah i know "dont watch zombie stuff" but it is stronger than me please help

What do you think are the side effects of excessive masturbation(male) ? How are they caused? Is it due to stimulation of testosterone?

what makes only few ones can establish addiction /dependence y not the remaining what makes them so specials how can they specifically make long lasting friendship with brain desire center

Hello, I am a 31 year old mother. Currently pregnant. For YEARS... at least 7 years that I can date, I have become extremely sick when I drink any tap water. We are fine as long as I am using a reverse osmosis water filter or if I purchase any bottled water (never been sick 2ith any brands sold in stores). I recently put in a water filter/water dispenser in my ice maker of my fridge and thought it would be a safe thing to drink and now I am back to having severe stomach pain, diaharea and nausea with occasional vomit in along with sulfur burps. I have been tested in the past with h. Pylori etc... nothing is ever found. I do Not have any health problems what so ever…

This is an idea some friends and I have kicked around a bit. I realalize this is not rational, but I'm wondering if there could be any validity to it. We say: If you could give every one on the planet AIDS (or any disease for that matter) and we continued to reproduce, passing on the disease. Wouldent we as a spices develope some kind of an immunity to it? ^---- the result of college students what do you guys think?

When ever I'm relaxed but till exsited there this smell it smells sweet, smooth, ant soothing. I wanted to know what this was and does it happen to anyone else?

Hi everybody, Is it possible to change what comes into our life, our reality and experience? I wish someone who wasn't me would post about something incredible you could buy from me, I mean him. Um, liyon, that's your cue.

For those who don't know, ayahuasca is a medicinal beverage with a long history among the amazonian shamans of central and south america. It typically consists of two brews which can be taken separately (one after the other) or mixed together. The first is a brew made from simmering the MAOI containing vine Banisteriopsis caapi in warm water, and the second is made the same way (simmering in warm water) with any of a variety of N,N-DMT containing plants (psychotria viridis, diplopterys cabrerana, mimosa hostilis, etc.). The caapi is important because without an MAOI, the N,N-DMT containing plant will not be psychoactive. At the site www.ayahuasca.com, there is a quote…

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I have recently being having a problem with my blood pressure, my medication appeared not to be working, the doctors increased the dose but still it was high 150/105 resting pulse 90 typically. I had put this down to increased stress via builder from hell. I use perondopril 4mg + indapomide 1.25mgIs there any correlation between eating oranges and drugs not working I am aware grapefruits stop heart medication working. Last year my wife got into jam making using oranges, figs etc. My neighbour also has orange trees and has also been giving me bags full of oranges to eat. For the last two days I have stopped eating oranges and not eaten any more jams made by my wife. M…

I've recently heard the term "Ionizing Cells" which - as far as I understood - stands for an effect caused when a biological cell is being "stripped" from ions - usually due to high radiation - which causes cell mutation and growth and aventually tumors and cancer. First of all, is that true, or have I understood it wrong? Secon, if that's indeed true, then Skin Cancer - caused by ionizing radiation from the sun - and other tumors caused by radiations are "understood" by this cause and effect - but then, why are cigarettes, smoke and other polluted substances also concidered to cause cancer? Thanks heaps, ~moo

Hi, I am new to everything medicine and was hoping someone could tell me the field in which scientists actively research causes and cures of diseases ect Do you have to go to med school or do you study medical science at uni if you were interested in being a researcher? Where does the money go to when raised in say a fight cancer charity? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Do any of the anti-hunger drugs/treatments actually work, or are they all just smoke and mirrors?

Hi! Something that could be promising in the future... For example, garlic could have an effect on high blood pressure so there are studies going on to see if it could be turned into a vaccine to hypertension...(that's a lame example).... It could have to do with anything (genomic, biotechnology...even geology), as long as it could have a potential in improving a health problem. Thanks in advance.

can nyone tell me that which disease has following symptoms? pain in left chest,left arm becomes num some times and high b.p...

I read that flax seed is rich in anti oxidants and has high fibres and removes toxins from our body. Also many advice to take flax seed in daiet. Is linseed the same as flax seed? Can it be taken as powder or oil? How much to be taken in a day? Also i read that flax seed powder should not turns poisionus if we keep it long. Is it so? Thanks in advance

When the government gives health advice to its citizens, you would expect that that advice would be purely scientific and objective. But in fact it is not, and instead, citizens are advised only to do those things to benefit their health which will also force them to curtail their spontaneous pleasures. So all scientific health advice has to pass through a filter of Puritanism before it reaches the public. One example is that a large body of data now demonstrates that cigarette smoking powerfully protects people against Alzheimer's Disease. If government health information were objective rather than Puritanical, every cigarette packet would display the notice that …

Just a quick question to anyone who might have the answers for me. Over many years I have been to a few different doctors and had some studies done, most of them involved hours worth of brain activity monitoring. During these tests, they would hook me up to a large amount of cathodes and have me perform different tasks, they would also ask me to close my eyes, open them, blink, move my eyes around, think of different things, and even watched me while I slept, they also used a bright light to shine in my eyes and flash at different speeds with my eyes both open & shut. After many visits and monitoring of my brain activity they brought me into a room with a …

Say you're a pediatrician. You come across a patient's parents who express concern for vaccine-induced autism and it depends upon you to assuage their fears. An example argument I've come across is that cases of mitochondrial dysfunction are potential hazards when a post-vaccine fever presents itself, leading to poor metabolism in the brain, resulting in permanent brain damage and autism-like symptoms. If you attempt to explain the counter-science (not to mention the essentially nonexistent correlation), it doesn't matter. How do you approach parents who are 100% obstinate to scientific research? How do you approach ANYBODY who is unwilling to read any further than a c…

What's the logic behind it exactly is simple and plain English?

Due to SFN advertising policy I'm not allowed to list my company but I would greatly appreciate your thoughts and criticisms. ______ is a mobile phone application that allows users to participate in medical studies regardless of proximity to lab or site. Think Yale's epic (a program that allows bulk data review under 1 single electronic health record format of millions of records for other research programs to use) except we farm the data through our mobile phone app directly from users and their primary care physician through diagnostics while not leaving them out of the financial benefits from data sales giving them more incentives to produce further data, still k…