If you study the history of medicine, it’s impossible not to be fascinated by the influence and authority of Galen and the length of his dominance in Medicine: more then 1,500 years! This is unprecedented, there is no other scholar that could compare with him. At least, not in Medicine. To come close to describing […]
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How many B vitamins are out there?
Have you ever wondered how many B vitamins there are? And what’s with all those numbers? I did and here is the answer. First of all, let’s start with the definition of a vitamin and a brief introduction to vitamins. Vitamins are organic components in food that are needed in very small amounts for growth […]
Are Canker Sores contagious?
Medically known as aphtous ulcers, these nuisance, small lesions on the inside of your mouth or at the base of the gums, are a medical mystery in its own right. We don’t know how and why they appear. Mystery. Medicine doesn’t have all the answers, after all. The work canker means “spreading ulcer” and it […]
About FASTING and its benefits
Throughout the history of the human beings on this planet, fasting has concerned with both spiritual and physical parts of a person. Traditionally, fasting was a way to communicate with the sacred, with the Creator and it was used for this purpose alone for thousands of years. It makes sense too, from an anthropological and […]
Randomness
Is this the actual order and growth of the Universe? Is this the way things unfold themselves in life? Could this be it? Only by random? Could this be explanation in medicine to the toughest question that a patient with cancer can ask you: Why? and Why me? This concepts troubled me for a while […]
Why do you laugh when tickled?
Have you ever wondered why do you laugh when tickled? And what is the mechanism behind this? Well, I had and I want to share with you my findings. You don’t spend a lot of time in any medical school learning about laughter. Almost at all. All you hear is that laugher is good for […]