Grapefruit (and its juice) cause many major d**g interactions. It's a very potent metabolic inhibitor, even a small amount shuts down the CYP3A4 liver enzyme for up to 24 hours. A d**g which uses that pathway will persist in the blood far longer than specified, and you may essentially "double dose" after taking the next dose on schedule. Long, long list of medications it f***s with. On the positive side, like Cialis is on the list, so hypothetically you might be able to stretch your "boner weekend" out quite a bit on one pill if you keep drinking grapefruit juice.

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Grapefruit is gross anyway. I'll never understand how my mom can eat them! They taste like sour disappointment.

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Today, one fourth of hearing losses in people over 50 were completely 100% preventable.

Longterm exposure to moderately-loud steady-state noise (think highway driving with windows down, personal music players, musical instruments, working at a pub or night club) without even the most minimal hearing protection will not only cause as much hearing loss as short impulse sounds like gun shots over time, but it will also speed up the progress of any age-related hearing loss you were predisposed to have.

**TL;DR WEAR HEARNG PROTECTION IF YOU WANT TO HEAR WELL AFTER 50.**.

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And don't turn your music up full volume on your headsets and earphones when you're out, if I can hear what you are listening to, your ears are getting shattered

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“If its natural, it must be good for me!” The “all-natural” trap is a very misleading one that people fall into all the time. There is a misconception that if something is natural, it must be better for you but there is just NO REASON for it to be. Ignoring the fact that natural supplements aren't even regulated by the FDA (meaning that there is no governing body enforcing quality control or even effectiveness), Natural d***s work on concentrating a plant of some kind, which in turn concentrates the active ingredient. Pharmaceutical d***s just isolate this natural ingredient, so all you get with a pharmaceutical d***s is the pure ingredient that actually WORKS, and its effects (good and bad) are well documented and regulated. With “natural” d***s, EVERYTHING is concentrated. You not only take a concentrated d**g, but you concentrate every other chemical present in the plant. And because most plants produce some sort of chemical defense against herbivores (plants can't run away from their predators after all), you are concentrating this defense as well, which might lead to unforeseen health issues (and because the supplements aren't regulated, there's no way of knowing what these issues may or may not be) Of course, YMMV, but the TL;DR version is that Natural =/ Better.

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If it's natural it's good for you, sure like tigers, piranhas, sharks, gympie plants, covid, etc. (Waiting for the nutcases to tell me covid isnt natural).

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CPR works only 8% of the time.

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I live in King County, Washington, USA. We have the highest survival rates for CPR, and many others model their system after ours. The reason we have high rates is that a lot of people know about CPR, AEDs everywhere, and good EMS resources. All of that will not matter, though, if the reason you went into cardiac arrest cannot be fixed.

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Low-carb diets like keto and paleo aren't healthy if you just replace the missing calories with meat. They can also cause misconceptions about nutrition...

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I'm really interested to see if there's an increased incidence rate of atherosclerosis, ischedmic strokes, and coronary artery disease in people doing these trends (esp since they promote high fat intake)

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A lot of people with certain musculoskeletal conditions (ie osteoarthritis) stop exercising or don't exercise at all because they think it'll exacerbate pain or make their pain worse. Research shows that it does the opposite and helps.

Source: I'm a physical therapy student.

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I carried on exercising and doing the special 'arthritis' exercises I was given. Not improved a single thing, but it might not be worse...

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Alternative medicines don't work. If they did, they would be called medicine instead.

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A lot of medicine came from nature. Asprin (Willow bark), Heart medicine Digitalis (Foxgloves) and penicillin (Mold) are some examples. It is better to take the processed concentrated form of these as the dosage will be correct but there are many plants that may yet turn out to be useful. So you can't blame people for self-treating especially as it is cheaper. If you mean something like homeopathy, then yes it is pure quackery.

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That using hand sanitizers and washing hands are the same thing. They're not.

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Yep, hand sanitiser won’t kill norovirus. You need to wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water to prevent its spread.

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It is okay if you do not poop everyday, as long as your schedule is at least 2-3 times a week and consistent.

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Or in my friend's case once a week...

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Unless something is protruding from your eye or you have a serious physical injury to your eye, don't waste your time going to the emergency room for an eye problem. They are not usually equipped with the right equipment or the expertise to treat you. You can often reach an on call ophthalmologist at most clinics. They are just going to send you to see us the next day anyway and you can save yourself the money.

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Depends on the eye problem. DO go if you have eye pain that is unusually severe or accompanied by a headache, fever or unusual sensitivity to light.

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Effects of diseases:

- High blood pressure is a painless and comfortable disease. You won't feel any immediate effects on you body for decades, however, the long-term effects are devastating, thus your doctor is so persistent to treat you.

- This roughly applies to diabetes, too. It's the long-term effects we fear (and we fear them a lot). While you may feel perfectly fine when diagnosed with diabetes, it is really urgent to fix this problem.

- Thanks to the tireless efforts in the development of effective d***s, HIV patients who receive a sufficient treatment have a normal life expectancy. AIDS is only rarely seen these days in countries with a good health care system.


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- There is little to none reliable evidence for any food to cause or prevent cancer.

- If on a balanced diet (and not suffering from certain diseases), supplementary vitamins will neither improve your health nor prevent illness.

- Diet constitutes only roughly 35% to blood cholesterol levels.

- There is no such thing as "detoxification" as a fasting cure. It's all bogus.


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- If a poison, acid or alkaline solution is ingested, never force to vomit.

- Likewise, drinking milk doesn't help.


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- Nobody gives you placebo.

- Generic d***s are not necessarily as effective as the original. Many are, but the accessory agents (e.g. added for galenic purposes) are important, too.

- We like to think a treatment we administered was the reason for your cure. But there is somewhat a probability of coincidence and that you would also feel better without our d***s. (However, it's common standard to scientifically test the effectiveness of every treatment.) All we can say is that a certain d**g will rise the probability of you getting better again (and that's perfectly fine).

- If you like grapefruits or grapefruit juice, always tell your doctor whenever a new d**g is prescribed. There's a chance this will influence the effectiveness.

- Isotretinoin and other retinoids should under no circumstances be prescribed to girls, teens and women capable of bearing children. Some of the most horrific malformations may develop. (The medical guidelines that are applicable for my country only require to educate about the consequences of getting pregnant during treatment. However, since none of these d***s are without any alternative, it is my personal and many other's opinion and advise to better not subscribe at all.).

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There is little to none reliable evidence for any food to cause or prevent cancer - cause is a big word but if it increases your risk of getting cancer? For example alcohol or red meats or processed meat? And when you eat lots of veggies and wholegrain stuff it reduces your chances? I'm done googling for today though.. 😬

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I just saw my dermatologist, and people may already know this, but it was news to me and clarified a lot.
it takes up to 6 weeks for acne medications to start working. Using treatment, then changing after 3 weeks of no improvement is counterproductive.

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Vitamin c doesn't cure or prevent the common cold.

We're not keeping you in the ICU because we're siphoning money from you. It's because you are potentially closer to death than everyone else in the hospital and 99.9% of people outside the hospital. Not to mention, if you are bugging us about discharge, you're probably annoying enough that we can't wait to get you on your way!

Pain cannot always be eliminated. If you shatter your pelvis, break 7 ribs and have an open tib/fib fracture, I will do my absolute best to make your pain tolerable, but realistically would not be able to eliminate it without an overly dangerous amount of narcotics.

If your loved one is getting Trached and PEG'd after a brain injury, we're preparing them for death, not to resume life. I know your cousin's friend's sister-in-law heard of a miraculous recovery from a non-survivable injury, but that just doesn't realistically happen.

And lastly, healthcare is not burger king, and you can't have it your way. A "costumer is always right" attitude has been ingrained in people in the US. Yes, it's your body, but let the centuries of research, decades of university education, and years of on-the-job training and experience guide you. It's our job to be the experts, and if we were wrong more than we were right, we wouldn't be in the position of helping you make decisions anyway.

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But costumers do such good jobs... Fairly sure if I was dressed by one I'd look fabulous!!

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“Vitamin X improves body function Y, so I'll take a whole bunch of it!!” Another dangerous trap people seem to believe, especially with vitamin C. The usefulness of vitamins is almost exclusively limited to when you are DEFICIENT for that vitamin. So is vitamin C good at bolstering your immune system? Sure, if you have been at sea eating dried meat for two months! But for your cold, much less so. No conclusive evidence has been found to support Vitamin C's effectiveness for reducing either severity or length of colds. Vitamin C overdose, however, is a well documented condition, and can make you even more ill by giving you diarrhea, and is especially dangerous if you are prone to having oxalate kidney stones, as Vitamin C overdose can cause them to form.

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I recommend high doses of vitamin-A to my enemies.

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1) a few cigarettes a day is not alright 2) if you have diabetes, control it 3) doctors are not agents for the CDC to keep people sick (have been told that from patients).

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Do you know what, if you're a smoker and was on 15+ a day, and you've gotten down to 2-3 then congratulations. It's hard quitting smoking, and 3 is definitely better than 15, and if youve got that far down, then it's just a short push to completely quit. So that first point is incredibly insensitive and irresponsible.

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RN. Antibiotics won't cure everything. In fact, overmedicating with antibiotics is what is causing multiple d**g-resistant organisms, such as MRSA, VRE, etc. Seriously, just because you have a sore throat doesn't mean you need medicine for it. Most sore throats are caused by viruses, anyway.

Edit: I should have been more clear in saying that overmedicating for VIRAL issues is what the problem is. You should only be on a course of antibiotics if your issue is BACTERIAL in origin. If your doctor has determined that you need antibiotics, then by all means, take them! But if you go to the doctor for an illness and don't get prescribed an antibiotic, don't assume that you need one and don't get upset that you didn't get them.

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Overuse of antibiotics enables bacteria to build up resistances to them. This is why penicillin was once a "miracle drüg" but now is often useless. We are sliding back towards the days when a mere scratch could be a death sentence.

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“Antibiotic soaps/cleaning products/etc. Are always the best choice” This is a tricky one. While our culture seems to be one that is obsessed with obliteration of all bacteria, remember that bacteria (for the most part), are our friends! After all, we are more bacteria than we are human, by up to a factor of 10! So using harsh chemicals may not always be the best option when cleaning or sanitizing, because washing bad bacteria away with traditional detergents/soaps can be just as good in terms of keeping yourself sickness free. While on the topic of gut bacteria, you may also want to reconsider routine enemas if you do them. Washing away our little friends may not be in your best interest, but of course, again, YMMV.

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I think this post means anti-bacterial, not antibiotic. The rest of the post is equally inaccurate.

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Mental ilnesses aren't static/unchangeable conditions. I know quite some people that were diagnosed with schizofrenia or personality disorders but don't have that diagnosis anymore, because they feel a lot better and can just cope better.

People will keep a certain vulnerability, but they can get rid of the disorders and lead normal lives like anyone else.

This annoys me a lot because a lot of the stigma's of the untreatability of psychiatric disorders came from the professionals... Take the Personality Disorders. Patients were found untreatable by means at that time so they gave them a diagnosis in which untreatable was included... When treatment is unsuccesful its the patients condition and not the professionals ignorance?

I also like how they say "some children grow out of ADHD" (or psychiatric disorder x), but they haven't come up with a treatment to make this happen for other children or adults even. So when people get over something by themselves they grow out of it? But other than that people should just take their methylphenidate, get up on time and learn to use an agenda...

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I think we medicalise a lot of things when it’s just a normal reaction to incredibly difficult circumstances. On the other hand, I don’t think people understand that just because my depression (or other mental illness) is well managed that it’s still there. I had to explain to a manager that it’s like diabetes. Yes, the medication helps manage it, but it still affects the choices I make every day to ensure I keep it under control. Mental illness can be exhausting to live with, even though on the surface everything looks fine. Hugs to anyone out there who needs one today. This random internet stranger knows that you’re amazing x

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That cardiovascular surgeons make a lot of money. This is a misconception. A heart surgeon makes about as much off a typical case as a dentist gets paid to cap a tooth. And capping a tooth takes much less time. Do NOT become a heart surgeon for money, do it because you want to save lives.

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They've saved my life, they were some of the most friendly doctors I've encountered.

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Reading in the dark won't make your vision worse. It just affects the type of light going into your eye, not change anything within the organ itself. You may feel a little uncomfortable and deal with some eye strain, but there's no long-term problem.

Wearing high heels is not harmless and can lead to foot problems. When wearing sneakers, your weight is distributed ~~all over your feet~~ in a healthier, more comfortable pattern. When you're on high heels, that redistributes your weight in a way that can damage your heel.

So many people have weird ideas about losing weight that involve weird dietary restrictions and only eating certain food groups. If you want to lose weight, you need to watch what you eat and reduce calories. Don't starve yourself. You'll be miserable and have lots of cravings. Instead, try to find healthier alternatives to what you currently buy. For example, replace soda with diet soda. (Yes I am aware that not everybody can afford healthier food and that exercise is also necessary for maintaining a healthy body.) Edit: I've been getting a few comments in opposition to diet soda. I just want to make it clear that my stance is not that diet soda is a health food. I just selected switching to diet soda as an example because it represents an easy step to reduce calories that involves no sacrifice, since you can still drink some soda. As others have said, water is a better alternative. Juice has more nutrients than soda, but just be aware that it has about as many calories as regular soda.

Essentially anything that claims to be a miracle cure and/or side-effect free is probably not a good idea to to take.

The mechanisms behind things like reflexology, acupuncture, energy healing, etc. have minimal scientific basis. In general, if you have something done to influence your chakras, qi, energy flow, energy field, etc., it's probably not going to do what you hope it would do. (To clarify, things like acupuncture may do things like reduce pain, but there's minimal evidence that such a potential effect is the result of qi.)

Medical professionals are trained mainly to treat patients and because we like helping people get healthy. They don't necessarily like everything in healthcare related to insurance and pricing. Also, nobody's hiding the cure for cancer or AIDS just to keep patients sick and paying.

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If doctors did have a sure fire cure for most or all cancers hidden away somewhere, then some would break ranks and make a fortune.

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Doctor here but I need to say this:

That your doctor/provider may not know best--I think this problem is going to get worse when universal health care will basically mandate a "gate keeper" to your health care.

Get a 2nd or 3rd opinion when dealing with a difficult diagnosis or a diagnosis that will need potential surgery. Specialists/Surgeons will have different approaches to the same disease.

Keep your medical records organized-copies of recent labs, imaging studies, medications. This will reduce duplicate studies and labs and also help inform your doctor/specialist while keeping your costs down. Always get a CD/film of your imaging study and take it with you to any relevant doctor visit--unless they are in the same system.

Oh, and Brain Death=Death.

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I thought Brain Dead=Elected into congress :P I'll see myself out.

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Don't enema hard liquor people.

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If someone wants to know why, the membranes in your guts are extremely absorbant and will put whatever they get directly into your blood stream as they usually only get processed material to digest further. Alcohol that came in this was not yet been processed by the stomach, so it has an extremely high concentration and you'll either get super drunk beyond any comparison, or you'll get alcohol poisoning. Greetings from my mother who's a former nurse and hot patients like that on a regular basis like that because they had stupid ideas at the red light district.

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That you have to eat every 3-4 hours to boost your metabolism.

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It's not about the metabolism. It's about the love for food. 🤤🤤🤤

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