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...

Infections following surgery are a serious and potentially fatal complication. Current methods of combatting infections, especially drug-resistant pathogens, often fall short. New research, looking at a narrow band of ultraviolet light might offer a safe and simple solution. Far-UVC light could prove to be a life-saver. A clean surgery refers to an operation carried out in a sterile environment where no  inflammation , infection, or unexpected tissue damage occurs. Even in these ideal situations, an estimated  0.5-10 percent  of procedures result in surgical-site infections (SSI). That equates to around 275,000 patients in the United States per year. Individuals with SSIs have a mortality rate twice that of someone without an infection.  A patient with an SSI stays in hospital, on average, 1 week longer than someone without an infection. In total, SSIs cost the U.S. up to $10 billion a year in patient hospital costs. An estimated 8,200 deaths are attr...

Active smokers have a 30% to 40% higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared with nonsmokers , according to new data published in the Surgeon General's 50-year anniversary report on smoking. The Health Consequences of Smoking — 50 Years of Progress , announced at the White House last Friday by current acting Surgeon General Boris Lushniak, MD, MPH, highlights diabetes as one of several new diseases causally linked to smoking. Newer studies have controlled for those and other co founders and have also demonstrated a dose-response relationship, as well as a reduction in diabetes risk following smoking cessation. So now, the Surgeon General report concludes: "The evidence is sufficient to infer that cigarette smoking is a cause of diabetes." "The link between smoking and diabetes is reall...

  Introduction Nails are underutilized as diagnostic tools, despite being involved in many dermatologic conditions. This paper explores new concepts in the treatment of median nail dystrophy (MND), onychomycosis, and the nail pathology of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD). A Pubmed database literature search was conducted for MND treatment, onychomycosis treatment, and HFMD nail pathology. Only papers published after January 2008 were reviewed. The results showed that 0.1% tacrolimus ointment can be an effective treatment for MND. Early studies on laser therapy indicate that it is a safe and efficacious treatment option for onychomycosis, compared to conventional oral antifungal agents. Vicks VapoRub (The Proctor & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH) is effective against onychomycosis and is a reasonable option in patients who choose to forgo conventional treatments. Lastly, there is evidence to support a correlation between HFMD and onychomadesis. ...

  The FDA is investigating reports of five deaths and a nonfatal heart attack in people who drank high- caffeine energy drinks made by the Monster Energy Company. Meanwhile, a Maryland couple has filed a wrongful death suit against the company, alleging that their product killed their 14-year-old daughter. They say Anais Fournier, 14, collapsed after drinking her second 24-ounce Monster Energy drink in two days. She died six days later. The reports are not proof that the drinks caused the deaths, but merely signal there might be a problem. Even if the deaths are determined to be caused by caffeine poisoning, the FDA will consider all sources of caffeine before blaming the deaths on the energy drink. In addition to caffeine, energy drinks contain other stimulants, including taurine and guarana , a caffeine-containing plant. Because energy drinks are sold as nutritional supplements, they are not regula...