Athlete’s Foot / Jock Itch Tinea Pedis aka athlete’s foot is a common skin fungus that is quite itchy. The most common treatment is topical antifungal ointments. Tinea cruris aka jock itch, and other skin fungal infections, are treated the same...
How Insulin Makes Fat Cells Fatter Insulin is the hormone that tells your muscle cells to take in glucose via glut 4 transporters to be metabolized for fuel. It also “…increases the uptake of triglycerides from the blood into adipose...
Metformin’s Mechanism (how it works) If you are a type 2 diabetic or know one, than you are probably familiar with Metformin (a.k.a. Glucophage). It’s a common oral medication used to treat insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is when cells (mostly...
What is Prosopagnosia? Prosopagnosia is defined as the inability to recognize faces. There are varying levels of Facial Agnosia from mild to severe. Fortunately in my case, mine is quite mild. There are those who suffer from a case so...
“Even ten minutes of activity changes your brain” Almost all successful people have one thing in common; they workout regularly. In an interview, John Ratey MD, psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School said “Exercise is the single best thing you can...
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Emotional stress is a chronic form of the fight or flight response to an external stimuli. Much like when the early man would respond to the vision of a sabre tooth tiger, stressful emotions also initiate the physiological response in...
When one get’s stressed, one seeks comfort foods. Usually a craving for carbohydrates satiates the brain when stressed. Adaptogen is a category of natural medicine such as herbs or foods that help the body deal with stress. The idea of...
Is getting tattoos and piercings just like acupuncture and effecting your health? Acupuncture is a very effective therapy when performed by a licensed acupuncturist or Eastern Medicine Doctor, but what about when an unqualified acupuncturist? Is it just as wise...
All of my blogs are published with Anti-plagiarism software. If you turn it in as your work, you will FAIL! Stress is the number-one cause of human death. Cancer, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, and almost all of the major diseases are...