The Medical Thread

[Ledgem]

Originally Posted by GenjiChan

I better take a walk..... People today are becoming too lazy....

It isn't always laziness. I've had quite a few patients who were overweight and knew it, and wanted to do something about it. We would go through their lifestyle together and find that fitting exercise in isn't easy. There's a lack of time, there may be confounding health issues preventing "normal" exercises, and often there's also a lack of resources (no access to viable or safe exercising areas, inability to afford exercising equipment or gym memberships; this is doubly important for people living in unsafe areas or with confounding health problems).

Cutting to the chase, what's so special about exercise? A few years ago I went to a fascinating lecture where they examined this in mice. There are many changes that occur, but they focused on mitochondria. Doing things like jogging or swimming increases the number of mitochondria in your cells. If you stop exercising then the number of mitochondria diminish. By "artificially" increasing the number of mitochondria in mice via cell signaling manipulation, they created mice with no special training that had the endurance to outlast mice that had been on a regular training schedule.

I don't recall the lecturers talking about what effect this might have on obesity. We like to think of mitochondria as the "energy furnaces" of cells, and simply having more might help to burn away more energy at a basal state. Even if it doesn't, allowing someone to exercise for hours, without having to go through the weeks and months of building up exercise tolerance, would certainly allow them to burn off more energy even if simply having a greater basal mitochondria count would not.

[SummeryDreams]

Exercise is more like burning excess fats rather than increasing BMR, I believe. When you are exercising, you'll demand more ATP than usual, thus you have all your reserves in form of fats. So using your reserve fats will decrease your weight.

[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by Ledgem

It isn't always laziness.

Hmmm.... I just prefer exercise that those things.... I don't know.. I just feel like even endorsing them to patients..... Personally, I don't take supplements ( vitamins etc) but rely on my own body's to become strong and resistant to the common infections..... I've been working in an infections ward for six months with wearing a mask and not a scar was seen in my X ray nor unusualities in my lab works...

[MeoTwister5]

So doctors and medical professionals in my general extended family are wishing me luck for my licensure exams 3 weeks from now. They also told me that I need to work harder because the fact that I repeated a subject and got held back a year means I'll have inherent difficulties finding training unless I'm like in the top 20 of the entire country for that exam.

What a nice depressing thought.

[NoemiChan]

Good luck Doc...

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

So doctors and medical professionals in my general extended family are wishing me luck for my licensure exams 3 weeks from now. They also told me that I need to work harder because the fact that I repeated a subject and got held back a year means I'll have inherent difficulties finding training unless I'm like in the top 20 of the entire country for that exam.

What a nice depressing thought.

Here is something to press you on : think of all the lolis you can get to treat if you do well.

Good luck for your exams!

[SummeryDreams]

Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

So doctors and medical professionals in my general extended family are wishing me luck for my licensure exams 3 weeks from now. They also told me that I need to work harder because the fact that I repeated a subject and got held back a year means I'll have inherent difficulties finding training unless I'm like in the top 20 of the entire country for that exam.

What a nice depressing thought.

If you need some help, maybe you can approach me. I have a very good retention, I believe I can still sustain you very detailed stuffs about medical related topics, especially pathophysiology. It's difficult to forget things that you love, yah know.

[NoemiChan]

Yeah, I remember when I was back in college, I always pick pathophysiology in our group report.... It's the best part of reporting where you could learn a lot and even guess possible treatment easily,,,,

[SummeryDreams]

Originally Posted by GenjiChan

Yeah, I remember when I was back in college, I always pick pathophysiology in our group report.... It's the best part of reporting where you could learn a lot and even guess possible treatment easily,,,,

That is my favorite subject. With excellence in pathophysiology, you can actual diagnose a patient base on the clinical manifestation. The thing is, you can only suggest that to the physician, but this means very handy in their part. Physician sometimes are having headache with the diagnosis especially that we lack new technologies here, that is why our suggestion are very much appreciated. Atleast we can give them ideas, right?

[Ledgem]

Originally Posted by GenjiChan

Personally, I don't take supplements ( vitamins etc) but rely on my own body's to become strong and resistant to the common infections..... I've been working in an infections ward for six months with wearing a mask and not a scar was seen in my X ray nor unusualities in my lab works...

Not everyone has your body, not everyone has your genetics.

[ChainLegacy]

Originally Posted by Ledgem

Not everyone has your superior body, not everyone has your superhuman genetics.

Fixed that for you. It's the ubermensch.

[SummeryDreams]

Originally Posted by Ledgem

Not everyone has your body, not everyone has your genetics.

True, and speaking of which. I forgot that I've took a drink of Red Bull like 10 hours ago and I've took another shput two hours after, damn It's 7am here and I don't feel sleepy at all.

[NoemiChan]

Originally Posted by ChainLegacy

Fixed that for you. It's the ubermensch.

I love you.

[AnimeFan188]

Lose weight with a shot? NC hospital develops 'Obesity Vaccine':

http://www.wbaltv.com/news/entertain...z/-/index.html

[AnimeFan188]

Technology Really Is Making You Fat (But Not How You Think):

"It's lazy to point out that technology makes us lazy. Of course it does. The entire idea
of technology is predicated around an efficiency whose end is specifically a decline in
human exertion. You know, lazy. But technology's actually making us fat for another
reason altogether."

See:

http://gizmodo.com/technology-really...u-th-966147894

[SummeryDreams]

Originally Posted by AnimeFan188

Technology Really Is Making You Fat (But Not How You Think):

"It's lazy to point out that technology makes us lazy. Of course it does. The entire idea
of technology is predicated around an efficiency whose end is specifically a decline in
human exertion. You know, lazy. But technology's actually making us fat for another
reason altogether."

See:

http://gizmodo.com/technology-really...u-th-966147894

Yea I agree, I was once in a medicine diet. Like just take these medicines and you'll lost weight in two weeks. yes it did, lose more than 10 kilos. The thing is, I've find myself really been lazy exercising, I was like, "Oh I have that diet, I'll just buy it next time if I get fat again."

[NoemiChan]

Why people still complain even just to walk around the house? LOls

[SummeryDreams]

Originally Posted by GenjiChan

Why people still complain even just to walk around the house? LOls

Because I'm lazy. haha.. Seriously, I'm the laziest nurse in the world. All I want is to eat and sleep, play games. I'm so much aware of its impact to my health, but I can't help it. I really love to eat and sleep, just that. If given the freedom, I can sleep more than 16 hours a day.

[AnimeFan188]

Originally Posted by SummeryDreams

Because I'm lazy. haha.. Seriously, I'm the laziest nurse in the world. All I want is to eat and sleep, play games. I'm so much aware of its impact to my health, but I can't help it. I really love to eat and sleep, just that. If given the freedom, I can sleep more than 16 hours a day.

Well, maybe someday there'll be a vaccine for that......

[SummeryDreams]

Originally Posted by AnimeFan188

Well, maybe someday there'll be a vaccine for that......

Didn't give some valid explanations for me. I'm not convinced. I will take it into considerations if it explains the product in the cellular level. Too risky, I'm better of fat than being sick because of dieting medicines.