Testosterone and Summer
Prepare to hit the beach of Alexandria this winter!!
Just finished reading the Journal of Endocrinology this month and some researched have been conducted about the relationship between testosterone level and times of the year. Specimens of blood have been drawn and studied for a year. The objective of the study is to determined the amount of testosterone hormone in the blood during different times in the year.
Testosterone is a hormone from the androgen group. In mammals, testosterone is primarily secreted in the testes of males and the ovaries of females, although small amounts are also secreted by the adrenal glands. It is the principal male sex hormone and an anabolic steroid. Low testosterone levels can impact on a man's libido as well as zap energy levels. It also performs essential functions in both men and women such as maintaining muscle strength and bone density.
Based on the result of the research, the level of testosterone in the blood is increased in the month of August, and drop off in the winter, hitting their lowest levels in March. This indicate that testosterone production is directly proportional to the amount of vitamin D that was obtained by our body. Men who ensure that their body is at least sufficiently supplied with vitamin D are doing good for their testosterone levels and their libido among other things.
However, too much exposure to the sun-ray to obtain vitamin D can also cause you cancer especially skin cancer f you are the one who can lay down on a beach for one whole day without applying any sun block. So, always know and aware of the limit.
Vitamin D is an essential vitamin. That means, you need to obtain it from diet. There a thousands of supplements in the pharmacies nowadays, but please rely on normal food that you consume everyday first. This is because nutrition that you get in your diet is 100% pure and natural without any alteration. However, the nutrition you get in any types of supplement is chemically altered and preserved. The effect will not be immediate but the risk is still there.
So guys, lets hit the beach for some natural induced testosterone this holiday!!!
Maggi oh Maggi
Many of us can't do without " Maggi " especially when one is away from home, in a foreign land. Here is a piece of information to share so that we can remove the potential health hazard of consuming Maggi.
Maybe you should print this e-mail to keep as a reminder, pin it up in the kitchen or dining room as reminder or in your purse if you are always traveling.
CORRECT WAY OF COOKING NOODLES'
The correct way to cook instant noodles without harming our bodies and health. `Normally, how we cook the instant noodles is to put the noodles into a pot with water, throw in the powder and let it cook for around 3 minutes and then it's ready to eat.
This is the WRONG method of cooking the instant noodles.
By doing this, when we actually boil the ingredients in the powder, normally with MSG, it will change the molecular structures of the MSG causing it to be toxic.
The other thing that you may or may not realize is that, the noodles are coated with wax and it will take around 4 to 5 days for the body to excrete the wax after you have taken the noodles.
CORRECT METHOD:
1. Boil the noodles in a pot with water.
2. Once the noodles is cooked, take out the noodles, and throw away the water which contains wax.
3. Boil another pot of water till boiling and put the noodles into the hot boiling water and then shut the fire.
4. Only at this stage when the fire is off, and while the water is very hot, put the ingredient with the powder into the water, to make noodle soup.
5. However, if you need dry noodles, take out the noodles and add the ingredient with the powder and toss it to get dry noodles.
Dietitian's Note:
If you buy plain Hakka noodles which you make initially need to boil in water and discard the water. This will soften the noodles but to prevent it from sticking we need to add a tbsp of oil and also the noodles are deep fried partially to make it crunchy and then dusted with flour to prevent it from sticking while boiling. Hence when you buy the noodles they are already made unhealthy and this is the type we use to make stir fry noodles and the regular Maggie too is made the same way plus they add MSG / Ajinomoto and other chemical preservatives.
A large number of patient with the ages ranging from 18-24 years are ending up with pancreatitis either as a swelling or infection of the pancreas due to regular consumption of instant noodles... If the frequency is more than 3 times a week, then it is very hazardous...
Please share this info and help save a life.
Spicy Peri Peri
Sambal belacan, lemak cili api, ketam sambal thai. Who am i to resist this mouth watering piece of heaven? But still, people will complain about the stomachache after eating this kind of foods that will make you breath fire. Is it true that spicy food is bad for your health as it will make you have stomachache or is it just a reason for the cowards?
I will state here my finding about the truth behind the spiciness. Firstly, spicy food will make the temperature of your body higher and same goes to your blood pressure. It will erupt to a higher state. This is the reason why you can see your friend's face will change to red color when eating sambal belacan. As the blood pressure increase, your body will signal your brain to increase the metabolic rate of your body to digest the spicy food in your stomach in a faster rate than normal digestion rate. Thus, increase in metabolic rate will make you burn fat faster. So, it is one of the method to loose weight faster. Eat more spicy food. For the side note, drinking cold water is better than drinking hot water. When you drink cool water, your body will increase the temperature of the water to the same temperature as your body temperature for the digestion to take place. In order to increase the temperature, your body need to warm up the water using energy in your body. What is our body source of energy? That's right! It is lipid. More fat burning solution!!!
Blood flow to the stomach will also increase, especially the right and left gastric arteries. and the gastroepiploic arteries.
So mainly, it will increase the metabolism and our cardiovascular system.
Some research is also going on regarding it's effects as anti-oxidant. I will update it as soon as I know about it.
That's it for now. So, keep the spicy food coming!
The Land of Dead
Ever been in the situation where you were admitted to a hospital in an emergency situation? You feel calm in the beginning because you felt safe in a comfort of a hospital, under the care of beautiful nurses, supervision of a great specialist and the most important, sleeping on a nice clean bed sheet and having meal in the comfort of your own room. THIS IS HEAVEN!Suddenly, the nightmare came up after 1 or 2 weeks. The hospital bill is the most hectic part of your trip to the so called heaven. Your ambulance cost, EMT cost, room cost and a whole bunch of side cost. Not to mention your specialist cost, drugs cost and your consultancy cost. In Malaysia we have a pretty good subsidy from our government for the health care but still do not cover the whole charge of the bill.
This is where the insurance company will make their move and started to offer you their lifeline. Unaware patient will buy this insurance without hesitation because of the tight situation. How many of you know about types of situation that will make you the lucky one to receive the insurance money?
The answer is, only a little! There is a lot of disease that not being covered buy medical insurance company and sadly, many of it is the most common problem that will happen to you like flu, hepatitis, jaundice, heart attack, asthma etc.
The health system in our country Malaysia thankfully is average and the insurance companies is fair an aware of this situation. However, we need to remember that insurance cover the disease not the drugs. They cover most of the diagnosis and consultancy part of the treatment but none for the part where you need to go to the pharmacy and buy your own drugs. The price of drugs in Malaysia is fair but is not exactly the kind of accommodation that we suppose to have for a citizen in the country.
Have you ever been to a pharmacy at Paris or England? They have a special organization, NHS that responsible to observe and fight for patient right in the country. Thanks to their effort they have a flat rate of drugs for you to buy. Example, 10tb. of normal paracetamol will cost GBP6.65, 100tb. of normal paracetamol will cost GBP6.65 and 1000tb. of normal paracetamol will also cost you only GBP6.65. See the different? None! It's flat rate. Egypt for example, there are no fear for you to go to the pharmacy as you will only buying medicine under EGP10 at the most for normal kind of sickness like cough, flu or headache.
What is happening in this two countries? Their government care for the health system of the country. They have special subsidy for health system to rely on. Malaysia? The only subsidy that we are fighting for is the petrol subsidies. What happen to our care about our own body? What happen to the hefty amount of tax that we paid for everything that we have? Road tax, service tax and a lot more of taxes.
This article is not meant for you to go acquire a permanent residence permit for other country. It is not for you to look higher at another country. We love our country, we love our people. We need to fight for our right and the importance of this issues. I have a dream that i really want to make it come true. I want to fight and revolutionize the health care system in Malaysia to be better. Not only for me and my family but for the whole people who are in Malaysia because we all have the common rights and needs as a Malaysian. Not for us, but for the sake of our children and grandchildren in the future.
The Truth Behind The Pharmaceutical Door
How many of us as a medical student got an email or two from any pharmaceutical company asking us to take survey. Some of my friend in medical school from Malaysia and Moscow received a lot of this kind of email. They even sometimes give invitation to my friend to dinner and have some talk. What is actually their motive behind this. If they are certainly confident about the effectiveness of their drugs why do they still have to do this kind of thing to the future doctors? Splashing them with all kind of luxury so that their medicine will get through the patient gastrointestinal system? Wonder what did they do to the real doctors or the hospital directors?
Regarding to my previous post about the cervical cancer, they are many drugs that have been known to CURE it. Is this true? Does cancer really have a cure? Or is it just a therapeutic medicine that can only make the patient suffer more after a good night sleep?
I have read about this HPV vaccine from a website. They also sell a bottle of this drug there in the website. WOW! Pharmaceutical company now started their online business~
Actually, the procedure to get a drug in the market is by a doctor himself. A pharmaceutical company will approach a doctor and tell about their new research and finding about some kind of drug. The doctor than need to write a report about how the drugs is working. Mostly, they only need about 10 successful cases for the report. However, the patient that being used as a lab rat mostly is the patient that have terminal disease and not aware about the side effect and risks of the drugs. Sometimes, they also didn't know that they were given some experimental medicine. Yes they will be finally 10 success cases but on the way to the successful report, how many patient have died or suffer even great pain because of the medicine. For the record, cancer medicine is not the same as cough medicine or any kind of aspirin. The pain that must be bear by the patient is beyond unbelievable.
According to a statement release by Dr Diane Harper, an oncologist at NHS Hospital in Bedford, England, the vaccine itself is more dangerous than the cervical cancer it claims to prevent! So, the patient have every right to know about this risk that they going to take.
The question here is simple. Are we going to be a doctor that will jump around when splashed by wealth or the doctor that are willing to suffer the hard but true world of medicine. It is your choice, because one day, it is your turn to be on the patient bed.
Cervical Cancer and Pap Test.
I always see the Pap Smear Test posters in the clinics and newspapers every day since I am in secondary school. I start to ask myself, what is this test? Can I do it? Is it so important that the government offer free checkup and vaccine at all GH around the country? The answer is YES! How many of you is aware about Cervical Cancer and how to prevent it? I asked all my girl colleagues about this second-deadly-killer-after-breast-cancer. About 90% of them is aware and know deeply about this as my colleagues is mostly a brilliant medical student. However there is only 5% that realize and do the prevention step in the same time.
Cervical cancer is the only cancer that can be cure by drug and therapy. Therefore early prevention is virtue. What is the prevention? That is when the Pap Smear Test come in handy to us. It just a simple test by extracting a small amount of the tissue at the neck of the cervix. The tissue than will be analyzed by the lab department under the microscope. There we can differentiate between a normal cervical tissue and mutated cervical tissue.
However bigger question arise regarding to the suitable age for woman to do a Pap Test. For Malaysian the suitable age that been told my the Ministry of Health is 20-30 and 50-60. In the past 20 or 30 years, this guideline maybe logical but it is no longer valid for me. Pap Test can be done as early as the woman have her first sexual intercourse with someone. If we see this age guide and the age where woman now first have their sex, the guideline need some alteration. The test need to be done after the woman have their first intercourse. There is no need to be shy to your doctor. Regardless of your age, you are still a woman and have the right to get the checkup and the treatment.
The real source about this cancer is caused by the Human papillomaviruses. It is carried by a male human body an transmitted to the body of the female when they have sexual intercourse as genitalia area is the most bare area for two human body to contact. On the side note, if you have a big open wound you need to clean it frequently as this virus also can enter your body through the wound and cause skin cancer.
I will continue about the treatment, vaccines and our right to get the vaccine after this jump. Remember to share anything you think about this with me. Catch u later an thanks for reading.
Every Story Need A Beginning
Let me begin my writing here withBISMILLAHIRAHMANIRRAHIM
After a few years of being a blog-stalker, seeing a lot of my friends and my relatives starting to share what they are doing, what they are eating, what music they are listening, etc. etc. I then have a thought to start one for myself. However, I intend not to blog about my life, food I am eating, music I am listening or other things that seems to happen everyday to every single human on this planet.
So, let me give you all a rough idea about what is going to happen on my next post. I am planning to write about things that happening in the world. Well, it may seems like serious and boring but I will try my best to alter it, edit it to your like but still keep the message posted in my posts. Mainly I will write about medicine world and human rights.
I will also love to have tips from you to keep me updated and always in track to give the best in all my posts. You can either email me at retrosnare@yahoo.com , PM me here, give a comment, or tweet me at www.twitter.com/rafieaniq
That's it for now. I will start on making my first post as soon as I can. And oh, don't forget to contact me and give me some tips.
See you!
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