“50 Shocking Medical Facts That Will Change the Way You Think About Health!”
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The first doctor to suggest hand washing before surgery was laughed at repeatedly by his colleagues.
#3
That your body fights off 10,000 events that would cause cancer daily.
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#4
A scary number of people wind up with vertebral artery dissections and strokes from chiropractic cervical manipulations. How do I know? I’ve seen several perfectly healthy women in the prime of their lives as organ harvests in my OR.
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#5
The health of your teeth, or lack thereof, can cause heart disease. The bacteria that infect the gums and cause gingivitis and periodontitis also travel to blood vessels elsewhere in the body, where they cause blood vessel inflammation and damage.
If you are diabetic, and don’t know it–or do, but have problems controlling your sugars, it can severely harm your teeth. On the flip side? Having bad teeth can severely affect your blood glucose as a diabetic. It can become a s****y cycle.
And yes–mentioned earlier, but if you get an infected tooth, that infection can travel to the brain or blood very fast.
And yet, teeth are still considered “luxury bones,” with maintenance, cleaning, and dental care hardly ever being covered by insurance.
#6
The man who developed the pap smear did so with the help of his wife, who received pap smears almost daily for 21 years.
>Volunteering as an experimental subject: For 21 years, Mary allowed her husband to sample her cervical cells and vaginal fluids almost daily, which he would then smear on glass slides and examine under a microscope.
