Nattokinase-Associated Hemoperitoneum in an Elderly Woman pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Case study of a patient taking “sometimes a handful” of nattokinase, ended up with an internal bleed

Nattokinase-Associated Hemoperitoneum in an Elderly Woman

The consumption of herbal supplements has become increasingly popular the United States. One such herbal supplement that is available at pharmacies and grocery stores is nattokinase. Nattokinase, a by...

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Who gets counted in Long COVID research? Our new paper shows that routine study inclusion rules change who gets represented, even among people already diagnosed with Long COVID. A fuller medical record ≠ a more representative cohort. 🧪 doi.org/10.1186/s129... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Assessing the impact of additional inclusion criteria on the representativeness of EHR-based long COVID cohorts identified using U09.9 - BMC Medicine

Background Electronic health records (EHRs) are widely used to study Long COVID, yet cohort inclusion criteria may systematically affect cohort composition, shaping how findings are interpreted and to...

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Fascinating case study: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Full text in German so i can only read the abstract, but it seems like a patient was diagnosed with cortical blindness - a type of blindness from the brain rather than a problem with the eyes 🧵

Fun fact: if you put a pine cone in water, it closes youtu.be/sdA-exnEGi4?...

Fun fact: (in women) getting lots of hugs from their partner may be associated with lower blood pressure including during stress, which may be partially due to higher oxytocin (often known as the love hormone, though its more complicated than that!) levels sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

More frequent partner hugs and higher oxytocin levels are linked to lower blood pressure and heart rate in premenopausal women

In animals, ventral stroking for >5 days increases oxytocin (OT) activity and decreases blood pressure (BP), but related human studies are few. Thus, …

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Fun fact: sea otters have loose pouches of skin under their arms that function like pockets, which they store food and their favourite rocks (used for cracking open mollusks and clams) in oceana.ca/en/blog/watc... Watch here: youtube.com/shorts/UrZsC...

Watch | Sea otters have pockets - Oceana Canada

Sea otters are small marine mammals that can be found along the Pacific coast of Canada. They have loose pouches of skin under their arms that function like pockets, which they use to store food and t...

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Fun fact: ever notice you can often see the un-illuminated bit of moon, & wondered what is making it visible? 🌒 That would be Earthshine: light is reflected off the Earth onto the moon so we can see where the sun dont shine! earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/83782...

Fun fact: Cape ground squirrels: 😏 Are promiscuous ⏱️ Have a 3 h oestrus, where females mate with up to 10 males 🍒 Males ballsack is 20 % body length 🍆 And penis is 40 % body length 💦 Males wank after sex, including self fallatio (& yes, they swallow) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Fun fact: whilst the underlying pathophysiology of OCD hasnt been firmly established, there seems to be a relationship between OCD, low grade inflammation, neuro-inflammation, & autoantibodies pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31367805/ This illness is not being "a bit anal" as many wrongly believe

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Autoimmunity and Neuroinflammation - PubMed

A persistent low-grade inflammation involving both innate and adaptive immune system with coexisting autoimmune morbidities and stigma of infectious events has been prominently observed in OCD. Hence, specific treatments targeting inflammation/infection are a feasible alternative in OCD. This review …

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Fun fact: recent research suggests genes that helped our ancestors survive the Black Death (and have therefore been passed on) may be implicated in autoimmune diseases today nature.com/articles/s41... Easy read: bbc.co.uk/news/health-...

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Fun fact: neutrophils, basophils, & eosinophils are immune cells. Their name comes from what stains them: Basophils: basic (alkaline) dye Eosinophils: acid dye (called eosin) Neutrophils: neutral dye link.springer.com/referencewor... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34711490/ ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

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Fun fact: kangaroo rats are so well adapted to low water environments that they can survive in the desert without drinking any water, eating predominantly dry seeds pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Fun fact: some male bats lick out their partner before & after sex; some female bats lick their partners 🍆shaft...while he's inside her; & some male bats give their guy mates blowjobs journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Cunnilingus Apparently Increases Duration of Copulation in the Indian Flying Fox, Pteropus giganteus

We observed a total of 57 incidences of copulation in a colony of the Indian flying fox, Pteropus giganteus, over 13 months under natural conditions. The colony consisted of about 420 individuals, roo...

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This is like when he swore no one with autism could have a job, create music, write literature. The whole world is only the people he's met personally, and even those personal experiences are so colored by his biases that I'm not sure he's ever known anybody.

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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

This case study is wild: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3191066/ Full text: sci-hub.st/storage/2024... A girl was born without a vaginal opening. At age 15, she gave her boyfriend a BJ. Her ex caught them, and she got stabbed in the belly. 9 months later, she unexpectedly goes into labour 😱

Fun fact: to get the most caffeine & catechins (antioxidants) out of your green tea, putting the teabag in boiling water for 30 seconds followed by 1 minute of microwaving may be more effective than a standard 2-3 minute brewing sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Improved extraction of green tea components from teabags using the microwave oven

The green tea (Camellia sinensis) catechins are strong antioxidants linked with potential health benefits. Based on previous studies, it was hypothesi…

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Today's fun fact: at therapeutic doses, paracetamol seems to have quite potent antioxidant effects (in preclinical models) frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Frontiers | Acetaminophen: Beyond Pain and Fever-Relieving

Acetaminophen, also known as APAP or paracetamol, is one of the most widely used analgesics (pain reliever) and antipyretics (fever reducer). According to th...

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Fun fact: although slime mould exhibits behaviours similar to fungi, plants, and animals, they are amoebae that make spores. These spores create networks that can even simulate road and rail networks warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/life... science.org/doi/10.1126/... Watch: youtu.be/R3o6DofDQO0?...

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Fun(gi) fact: some fungi fling their spores super fast, reaching launch speeds of up to 25 metres/second with accelerations of up to 180,000 g (for comparison, astronauts may experience up to 6 g on Earth re-entry) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Easy read/watch: www.iflscience.com/fastest-acce...

The Fastest Accelerating Organism on Earth is a Fungus!

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Fun fact: two male tegu lizards were found repeatedly having sex with a dead female over two days, even when her body was starting to rot with a "strong putrefying odour that attracted carrion-seeking flies" www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Very Severe ME/CFS : FOR UK ME Charities to Provide Individual Advocacy and Legal Support - Sign the Petition! c.org/SRLc4cfjZV #MECFS #MyalgicE #SevereME

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Fun fact: despite high paracetamol (acetaminophen) use globally, how it works is still a bit unknown. Likely mechanisms include: - COX inhibition (similar to ibuprofen) - Endocannabinoids (similar to weed) - TRP channels (similar to what makes spicy food burn) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Fun (sort of) fact: some sea monsters (probs not Nessie though) from time gone by may have just been whale dicks euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/... Easy read: livescience.com/loch-ness-mo... x.com/DiseaseMatte...

Cetaceans, sex and sea serpents: an analysis of the Egede accounts of a “most dreadful monster” seen off the coast of Greenland in 1734 | Archives of Natural History

A re-evaluation of the “most dreadful monster” originally described by the “Apostle of Greenland” Hans Egede in 1741 suggests that the missionary's son Poul probably saw an unfamiliar cetacean. The sp...

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Fun fact: the last digit of a credit card number is oft a "check digit", which is used by an algorithm to check for (usually) typing errors when writing out card details academia.edu/download/324... Explainer: youtu.be/Yr9s5NjsVAo?...

The Secret Algorithm in Your Credit Card Number

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Fun fact: the assassin bug injects its prey with a lethal combination of chemicals that dissolve the prey's innards, allowing the assassin bug to drink the already digested organ juice straight from the source sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Watch here: youtu.be/hXFRAmWiaa4?...

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Fun fact: smaller male iguanas risk bigger guys interrupting sexy time, meaning (average) 3 mins to ejaculate may not be viable. To bypass this barrier, the smaller guys have a sort of tactical wank & keep the spunk in a penis pouch ready for quick release royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Patient Experiences of Disrespectful or Judgmental Language (DJL) in Medical Records jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... "1 in 6 reported DJL in medical records...disproportionately affecting those with low income or chronic pain...DJL was associated with ↓ clinician documentation trust"

Sex differences in pharmacokinetics (PK) predict adverse drug reactions in women pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32503637/ Of 86 drugs, 76 had higher PK values in women PK predicted sex biased side effects 88 % of the time 96 % with female biased PK were drugs with more side effects in women