Medical Science

I've always been taught that the formula for how much weight one gains/loses is very simple: calories in - calories out = weight gained (not in so many words of course). But then I hear of 'good' calories and 'bad' calories - or - calories that are easy to burn vs. those that are hard. If I were on a weight loss routine - reducing calories in through diet and increasing calories out through exercise - why would I need to worry whether the calories I'm taking in are 'good' or 'bad'? If it's as simple as calories in - calories out then does it matter whether the calories in part is mostly 'good' calories or 'bad'? So I guess the question is: if I've got the formula …

Here's the gist of my problem: I did NOT get a flue shot this year. Alkaselzer doesn't work. When I scratch an itch, I feel like I'm ripping my skin right off, and the feeling lingers for a few minutes. Fearing the worst, I did a google search on how to tell the flu from the common cold. Here's what I found. http://www.ehow.com/how_2173382_tell-have-flu.html On the first test, I don't know for sure if I have a fever (I have no thermometer), but I definitely feel like I do. Cough? Sore throat? Stuffy nose? Yeah, all three of 'em. Diarreha and vomiting? No. Weakness? Yes. I can't afford to go to the doctor because it's too damned e…

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I'm curious. Do you drink diluted lemon juice on an empty stomach in the morning ? I searched but found mixed opinions. This is claimed by some people that it is good for the body in some ways. I have a weak stomach, thin stomach wall, so I doubt I'll do it. I took one type of lime drink without problem. This is a MLM product, just add water to one or two spoon of this product, and its lime drink. I like to know if you drink dilluted lemon juice very often, like every hour, is there any negative effects ?

Hi: I recently posted something similar but with significant differences. I apologize profusely if anyone is annoyed by what wrongly-seems like a repetitive post. I’m currently daydreaming of a hypothetical liquid Atkins induction product that is vegan-friendly and has all the nutrients of vegetables, fruits, herbs, algae, seaweed, and other plants that are necessary/beneficial for human health. It also contains beneficial and essential microbes [such as probiotics]. All the aforementioned are in amounts optimum for human health. This product is completely organic and free of any pesticides, synthetic ethylene and other man-made substances that compromise the…

Hi: I’m currently daydreaming of a hypothetical liquid Atkins induction product that is vegan-friendly and has all the nutrients of vegetables, fruits, herbs, algae, seaweed, and other plants that are necessary/beneficial for human health. It also contains beneficial and essential microbes [such as probiotics]. All the aforementioned are in amounts optimum for human health. This product is completely organic and free of any pesticides, synthetic ethylene and other man-made substances that compromise the heath of plants and their human consumers. In addition, no plants used in the product are gene-modified. Prior to the making of this product, all proteins &amp…

Okay, so does anybody have any ideas on how to combat the acceleration of this problem or how to rebuild the myelin sheath around the nerves? currently it is classified as idiopathic although the doctors have eluded to it being a possible diabetic neuropathy, but they are not sure. lets brainstorm. Go.

Hello, I have a simple question and do not mean to be ignorant, because I am not in the medical field. Here is the problem. Suppose a patient had a bladder infection and antibiotics could not be used because of allergies. So there would be no easy way to treat their infection. Or is there. Ultraviolet light kills bacteria and viruses, so if you were to treat the bladder once a month by inserting a ultraviolet light through a cathedore ; making sure to kill the bacteria without burning the bladder. I don't know what type of device would fit into the bladder. Maybe a fiber optic cable device with a mirror that folds to fit then expands reflecting the light. …

No one should die for no reason, and should anyone at all in the first place? not as we exist today but in a more hormonious design? DO you really think it should be a world full the sick killed and dieing? I think that diseases are cured for a reason, and i also think they are there for a reason. First of all i think that us as intelligent, as a species itself we are very very far behind. And i also think its our fault. WE know better and we should have acomplished so much more by now. If we cant cure a disease then how are we supposed to progress to the real question that is life itself. The way i feel and how happy i am, why is that going to end? should it? is it reall…

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I'm not asking if they are safe, I'm asking if you would consider them safer than the tobacco combustion variant. A few examples... http://www.blucigs.com/ http://www.myluci.com/ http://greensmoke.com/ And an FDA report on two samples... http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/ScienceResearch/UCM173250.pdf

Hi: Sorry to bother the group with another question. I'm really interested in hypothetical stuff. Let's say the human body is modified so that the transverse colon has new cells that safely filter out the following from the bloodstream [and carry them out of the body via the stools] without removing anything else from the blood: 1. Cholesterol 2. Glycerol 3. Saturated fats 4. Saturated fatty acids 5. Trans fats 6. Trans fatty acids 7. Homocysteine [an amino acid that damages arteries] 8. LDLs 9. IDLs [intermediate-density lipoproteins] 10. VLDLs 11. Chylomicrons In addition, another modification is made. Microscopic new vessels directly carry mol…

Why does the scaffold have to dissolved ? And why add cell cultures to the scaffold ? What the differnce of using natural collagen and animal collagen ?

Over the past 4 years my eyesight is getting bad .One eye good at seeing close up is having problems with far away stuff and one eye good at far away stuff is having problems with close up. Also gray hair and hair loss.Not to say when going pee bubbly urine.When drink more water less bubbly and lack of water more bubbly .The bubbly urine does brake down in the toilt and brakes down faster when I drink more water . I having stress at work and marriage could this be stress may be why I'm aging so much? What safe meds can I take to help with stress and gray hair and hair loss?

Hi: Let's the say the villi of an obese patient's small intestine are modified -- via gene therapy -- to prevent him/her from absorbing any carbs he/she eats. The carbs are still digested as they normally would be but are not absorbed into the bloodstream. The villi continue to absorb all nutrients other than carbs. This will cause starvation of glucose and will result in the body breaking down fat for energy. Will this cure obesity? What are the obstacles to doing this? Thanks, Green Xenon

I see a machine used to create oxygen with high concentration, means larger than 21%, I just want to ask what is its utility in hospital, why need high concentration, and why they let oxygen flow into a bottle with some water in it ? Thanks !

does anybody have some insight to cutting edge cancer treatment? A close friend of mine has some tumor growth that is inoperable in one of his lungs and some tumors in the lymphoid tissue of his chest. Anybody have any ideas? I know NK cells can be used, what research is showing promise? What about drugs any medication showing promise without destroying the body while its at it?

I read a little into REM and sleep patterns, so if someone a bit more knowledgeable in this area could point out any mistakes or wrong assumptions below, that would be helpful. This diagram shows a typical sleep pattern at night The graph shows the stages of REM and outlines the top one in dark red to outline the times when you are most likely to dream. This is also the lightest stage of sleep where you are able to wake up with ease. My questions are: 1) How are you able to time it so you wake up during the REM 1 stage? 2) If REM 1 occurs 4/5/6 times then doesn't that mean that you can have several dreams within these periods? 3) What's the best …

Hi: What is the most potent topical anesthetic? Thanks, Green Xenon

Back in the day, every so often you'd get a good bout of diarrhea, and lose quite a bit of weight. For the most part we no longer get seriously sick, not nearly as often anyhow. One of the things that happens when you are really sick is that you lose weight, no? Sure, we still get sick once in a while, but not nearly as often as before, and much less of the diarrhea based sicknesses. If we factored in the amount of weight we "should" have lost due to sickness, does that account for our weight gain?

To me, the question, can anyone become smarter, is like asking, can anyone increase their lung capacity. Unless you're a professional runner, and even then, this can be debated, you aren't close to realizing your potential. I believe that every human brain has a potential, and also, a set limit to which they can no longer improve, but this limit is completely unknown to most of us. Many people would say, there is no limit to the human mind, that it is like time and never reaching it's limit, but in this case, I would strongly disagree because time does have a limit (obviously). It's limited to it's parts which keep going forward. It doesn't increase it's potential an…

Everyone's had sleeping limbs, but is it normal if you're completely unable to move or feel a sleeping arm for a full minute? When I got up this morning, for a while it felt as if my forearm felt like it was a plastic attachment to the rest of my body. I shook it, trying to revive it, but for a while it dangled limply from my elbow. It was quite a frightening feeling. Later that day, my fingertips went completely numb due to cold — again, it's normally quite normal, but this time the numbness was complete. What could this signify? I'd been sleeping on my arm, but I'd assume it's still not normal even in that case.

Hello everybody, i need help, could you post me some web pages where i could find information about most significant biochemists and their developments; milestones of biochemistry. I need articles or books about it, i tried to find by myself, but i can't find. please HELP!!!!

Hi all- I was reading about psilocybin in the Erowid vaults, and it says: "The ED50:LD50 ratio is 641 according to the NIOSH Registry of Toxic Effects; compare this with 9637 for vitamin A, 4816 for LSD, 199 for aspirin and 21 for nicotine" Am I missing something or is that ratio backwards? Wouldn't that mean a user would have to kill themselves 641 times over to facilitate any psilocybin-induced effects? The way it's written, the effective dose is 641 times greater than the lethal dose, right? Am I missing something or should the ratio be LD50:ED50? Thanks

Supposedly there are terms that relate to how drugs work and the emphasis of their effectiveness when mixed with something else. So, let's say I take one drug and another: these cause the effects to be twice as strong. (additive effect, right?) And let's say I take drug y and drug x: drug x causes the effect to triple: multiplicative effect, right? I think there are terms for these effects, but I think I have the terms wrong. I cannot really remember what the terms are, but I use to know.