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What are the consequences of leaving hypertension untreated?
A) It does not cause any long-term problems.
B) It only causes mild headaches that goes away.
C) It can lead to a heart attack, kidney failure, and stroke.
D) It improves with time as the body adapts.
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This is genital herpes.
If someone with herpes and a mouth sore uses their saliva on your private part, you may develop this.
Never use saliva as a sex lube.
Never.
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This is a kind of behaviour that can damage your sperm.
Place your laptop on a table or desk instead.
Your average laptop generates up to 70°C heat during use.
Placing it directly on your laps can transfer some of that heat to your testis.
Prolonged use may cause irreversible damage to your male reproductive function.
Men, take note.
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If you are planning to conceive soon, start taking folic acid daily for 2-3 months before you get pregnant. Continue until at least 12 weeks pregnant.
You can get it over the counter at pharmacies, supermarkets and online retailers.
Do not wait until you miss your period.
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You may have seen the sign "NO MSG". In 1968, a doctor felt shaky after eating a Chinese meal, guessed MSG or monosodium glutamate was the cause, wrote a letter, and a journal printed it "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome". No study. No test. But that hunch led to 50 years of MSG fear.
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First, let me say this.
Your liver has no pain receptors. It has an incredible ability to regenerate.
It can lose 70% of its function before you feel a single symptom.
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Your liver may be failing silently but you don’t know. No jaundice, no tommy pain, no signs. By the time you find out, it has reached an irreversible point called cirrhosis.
Here are 8 silent killers of the liver.
(Number 4 may be in your kitchen right now):
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Regular coffee intake is linked to a reduced risk of chronic liver disease and liver cancer.
The polyphenols in it further reduce inflammation and improve your blood sugar control.
Plus better heart health and brain function.
Just 2 to 4 cups a day.
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1 in 3 adults have prediabetes. 9 in 10 of them have no idea.
You wake up 3am to pee every night. You blame the water you drank. But your kidneys are sending you a sign.
Here are the early signs of type 2 diabetes most people miss:
1. You pee more than you used to.
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Rule 2: Put down the ibuprofen.
Also the diclofenac, naproxen, aspirin, other NSAIDs. They strip your stomach protective lining.
If you need pain relief, use paracetamol.
Ask your doctor about anything else.
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So Rule 1 is Get tested for H. pylori.
If it is positive, you need antibiotics not a food list. Not a diet rule.
You can eat bland foods forever, the ulcer stays until the bug is gone.
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First, the truth most people don’t know.
Most peptic ulcers are caused by 2 things:
1. A bacteria called H. pylori. OR
2. Painkillers like ibuprofen.
Not spice, not stress, not mother-in-law.
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I have treated hundreds of ulcer patients.
One of them told me he had ulcer for 11 years. He blamed eating pepper and went 9 years on bland foods.
One stool test. 2 weeks of antibiotics. Ulcer was gone.
Here is what actually heals peptic ulcers and what is just noise:
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2. Infections
Chronic infection with H. pylori, the bug that causes peptic ulcer, is the single biggest risk factor for gastric cancer. For this reason, it is a Group 1 carcinogen.
Also, a virus called Epstein-Bar is implicated in about 10% of cases.
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Of the 4 options above, eating heavily salted fish (Option B) greatly increases your risk of gastric cancer.
Here is a breakdown of the 3 common modifiable risk factors for gastric cancer.
1. Dietary
High intake of salt in the form of salted preserved foods and picked vegetable damages your stomach mucosa and combines with H. pylori to increase your risk.
Also, processed and smoked meats contain nitrates or nitrites which get converted to N-nitroso compounds which can cause gastric cancer.
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Gastric cancer is dangerous because early symptoms mimic simple indigestion. Most patients are diagnosed at advanced stage.
What single daily habit greatly increases your risk?
A. Having unprotected sex
B. Eating heavily salted fish
C. Drinking lots of tea
D. Eating white bread
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Sperm you do not ejaculate does not build up. Your body breaks it down and reabsorbs it within 64 to 74 days.
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Blood cancer kills more people than breast cancer. Over 700k a year.
Yet most people I see dismissed the early signs for months because they looked like nothing.
6 warning signs your body sends before leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma is diagnosed:
1. BRUISES YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN.
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When the chest veins start looking like this, which major organ is likely failing? What one thing will you advise?
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Why would you add salt separately to your white rice when there is already enough in your stew and excess in your chicken, meat or fish?
Excess salt can lead to high blood pressure. Bad for your heart and kidney.
Stop eating excess salt.
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Everyone talks about weight loss but there are those who want to gain healthy weight.
Here are the exact tips I would use to add weight in 14 days:
1. REST MORE.
Rest conserves energy and allows your body to repair muscle tissues and build lean mass. Especially quality sleep.
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1 in every 8 men in the world will develop prostate cancer at some point in life. 2nd most common cancer in men. If caught early it can be cured but late diagnosis has poor prognosis.
Watch this and talk to your doctor if you need a PSA test and a rectal exam today.
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Haaland to Barcelona will be the biggest move from EPL to Laliga since Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009, and it will bring back the fiery hot El Clasico rivalry days between Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Mbappe & Vinicius Vs. Haaland & Yamal. Dear @Erling, please make it happen. 🙏🙏
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Fans of a certain club will nearly developed this condition when they see the "RODRI TO BARCELONA" news. Name the club.
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Your immune system cheat sheet
1. Get enough sleep
2. Eat a balanced diet
3. Stay hydrated
4. Exercise regularly
5. Practice good hygiene
6. Manage stress effectively
7. Avoid smoking and excessive alcohol
8. Consider supplements like vitamin C and zinc
You're good to go.
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The number 1 cause of cancer deaths in the US for adults under 50 is now colorectal cancer. Not lung cancer. Not breast cancer.
Someone asked me "I have a relative with colon cancer, how can I prevent it?".
I have summed up everything in 3 points.
1. Screen.
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A personalized mRNA vaccine built from a patient's own cancer DNA has just shown nearly all of its responders still alive at 6 years. Until now, less than 13% of pancreatic cancer patients survive past 5 years.
Great things happen when we fund science.
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What sign is this? What organ failure commonly causes it? What is your single advice for him?
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BREAKING: The UK just approved a GLP-1 weight loss pill that took 30 years to make.
Unlike other similar medications which are injections, Foundayo is a pill.
But here is the truth about it:
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Testicular torsion is when your testicle rotates, twisting your spermatic cord (the tube that contains the vessels that bring blood to your testis).
This leads to reduced blood flow to the testis, causing sudden and often severe pain, redness and swelling.
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A boy was hit in his groin while playing soccer. He started screaming in severe pain and his scrotum began to swell. He was rushed to the emergency room and wheeled straight into the theatre for surgery.
His testes were minutes away from being gone.
What is TESTICULAR TORSION?
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1. Do not add salt to plantain to fry. It's a waste of salt. Plantain is sweet without salt. It can raise your blood pressure. It can harm your kidneys.
2. Most foods in their natural forms, including plantains, already have some sodium in them because sodium is a natural mineral. Eat them like that.
3. Also, re-using frying oil increases the amount of bad fats in the plantain or whatever is being fried. The more the number of times you reuse the oil, the worse.
4. Over time, these can affect your heart and can cause high blood pressure, heart attacks, and strokes.
5. It is better to boil, grill, or roast your plantain than to fry it, whether ripe or unripe.
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BREAKING: Roughly half of all US adults 60+ have metabolic syndrome. Basically a pot belly with insulin resistance.
This puts them at
5x higher risk of type 2 diabetes
2x higher risk of kidney cancer
2x higher risk of stroke and
2x higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
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Eat your watermelon 🍉 with the seeds.
Eat your watermelon 🍉 with the seeds.
Those seeds are one of the most nutrient-dense varieties of seeds rich in proteins, vitamins, magnesium, zinc and potassium.
Do not throw away the seeds.
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One of these organs in the human body almost never develop cancer in our lifetime. Which organ?
A. Heart
B. Kidneys
C. Brain
D. Pancreas
E. Lungs
And why is that?
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A 13 months old child had 2 days of acute watery diarrhoea, refusing to feed or breastfeed, vomiting, crying and holding the tummy. It started after returning from childminder or nanny and been getting worse.
It may be viral gastroenteritis or stomach bug.
This is what to do:
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Wearing very tight clothes or tight belt around your waist can press on a nerve that passes under your groin ligament, leading to numbness in the area front and side of your thigh. This is known as meralgia paresthetica. Avoid wearing too tight things around your waist or hips.
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1 hour of smoking shisha, you inhale the same amount of toxins as a person who smokes 100 to 200 sticks of cigarettes.
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Never use saliva as a sex lube under any condition. Genital herpes can make you regret it.
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Como just banned heading for its youngest players.
As a doctor, I think every academy on earth should copy them.
THIS IS WHY:
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After childbirth, the place where the placenta detached is an open wound inside the uterus. Roughly the size of a dinner plate. It takes about 6 weeks to close.
Sex before then can push bacteria straight into that wound, cause infection, heavy bleeding, and torn stitches.
She is not going anywhere. Let her heal.
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Look at this tongue, what is wrong with it? How can it be treated? What is the likely possible underlying cause?
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There is a silent pandemic unfolding in Nigeria and parts of Africa, a generational emergency of hard drugs.
Youths are drugging away their lives on cocaine, weed, heroin, cough syrups, inhalants, tramadol, loud, 'gegemu', and colos.
Something urgent must be done. Now!
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First, let us compare the normal kidney appearance with that of kidney failure. Do you notice the visible changes in size, colour, and surface texture?
Now let us look at the 7 silent killers of the kidneys.
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The kidneys of many people are failing silently, but they don't know. No pain, no urine symptoms, no signs. But by the time they find out, they have already lost 90% of kidney function.
Here are 7 silent killers of the kidneys:
(Most people do 3-4 of these daily!)
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Never ever eat this if you want your liver to stay alive. No amount of boiling or frying is enough. Throw it all away and wash everything.
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When the legs start looking like this, one or more of these 3 organs is likely struggling:
1. Heart.
When your heart becomes too weak to pump properly, fluid will leak into your tissues and stay there causing leg swelling. This happens in heart failure.
Thread.
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What is one deadly disease that can be spread by the urine, faeces, and saliva of this type of mouse? How do you prevent it?
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Spain 🇪🇸 and Argentina 🇦🇷, the two countries that drew with Cape Verde 🇨🇻 at FT, are now playing the World Cup final.
Spain went on to beat France 🇫🇷, tournament favourites, at FT. Argentina went on to beat England 🏴, tournament favourites, at FT.
Cape Verde was so unluckyyyy!
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English media is the biggest problem of the England team 🏴, just look at this.
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