“50 Shocking Medical Facts That Will Change the Way You Think About Health!”
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#12
There are so many wild things living in the microbiome of a human’s skin. Demodex are a great example; little mites that live near human hair follicles. They look horrific and they feed off of sebum, sweat, dead skin etc.
Many things are localized too; the things living in your eyelash follicles are not the same as the ones living on your elbows. We’re a whole universe, and even our skin is colonized by bizarre little f*****s
Edit; a lovely little quote I found online, about Demodex
“When you sleep, the mites come out of your skin’s pores, mate, then go back into your skin to lay eggs.”
Sexy.
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#13
Not necessarily a medical fact, but a reality check: Doctors don’t have everything figured out, they are just human like the rest of us. Just like how us software developers search Google to troubleshoot something when we are stuck, they do too. Shows like Dr. House portray doctors as this infallible walking medical encyclopedia. It’s all fiction. So, always be open to getting a second opinion if something isn’t working.
#14
When you die, the bacteria that used to help digest your food, now digest you….
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#15
A fertilised egg can fail to develop normally and grow into a malignant tumor. It’s called a molar pregnancy and I’d be very interested in what the “life begins at conception” crowd has to say about it.
#16
80% of amputations are due to diabetes.
Watch your health, people.
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#17
At any moment anyone can just randomly drop dead from a brain aneurysm. It’s more or less common for certain people, but it can literally happen to anyone at any age at any time.
