Life, Health and Enjoyment

What? Performance enhancers? For decades athletes and non-athletes have been using performance-enhancing drugs/supplements> However most of the time the news  flash comes when a competitive athlete is caught using banned hormonal & non-hormonal substances. They can be broadly classified as: Stimulants Prescription medications Blood buffers Nutritional supplements Energy beverages STIMULANTS They are both physical and cognitive performance enhancers.  Beneficial effects include increase in: Energy level,  Endurance,  Anaerobic performance, r Reaction time,  Concentration, and alertness.  Adverse effects include Headache,  Nausea,  Insomnia,  Anxiety,  Tremor,  Agitation,  Panic attacks,  Hypertension, and tachycardia.  Rarely, stimulants may cause myocardial ischemia, stroke, psychosis, heatstroke, or rhabdomyolysis. While many stimulants (eg, methylhexana...

Is your diet prior to being pregnant important? Well researchers and health experts say that it is. As the diet which you were taking before you were pregnant, determines your usual diet plan. Depending on that, the health care professional can assess and recommend to you what is missing in your diet and what needs to be changed. Did you ever stop to consider what you are eating, when you want to get pregnant? Or when you misses your periods, you just go to the pharmacy and buy a pregnancy test kit and wait for it to show to bars? Well, if you are thinking to do the above, you seriously need to consider your day to day diet plan when you plan for a child. However,  Eighty-five million pregnancies, representing 40% of all pregnancies, were unintended in 2012. Of these 38% resulted in an unplanned birth 1 . So there is a high chance that your pregnancy falls in to this 40%. Nevertheless, a good diet plan and a healthy life style won't do harm right? whether you have pl...

Hello there everyone... It has been a long time since I posted. Last few years were the years of studies, without social life, with lots of knowledge pouring in from the Professors & of course from the sources of evidences for the current practised evidence based medicine. For those who don't know or has forgotten 😄, I am Dr. Mohamed Ali. I finished my Basic Medical Qualification from Ukraine, and completed my specialist training in the field of Internal Medicine from Nepal. Just 1 year back I was like this in the pic below. With over 106Kg, well its a little overweight, don't you think? Well it was around 1 year back. Since then, with 2 of my colleagues & with the help of my wife: we started the journey to lose fat & build muscle. During the studies it was hard, & initial days were very hard. Because once you go to studies, your diet is out of control. Lunch is usually provided at the hospital, most of the time it is a Biryani/Momo/ or some hig...