Polls: Health & Fitness

If untreated 100% die , if treated 30% can still die. So far two Russians have died.

Bloodletting historically in the United States was used as a cure-all treatment for almost any illness, and was believed to stem from particularly an excess of blood.

George Washington was given this treatment for a sore throat and contributed to his death by throwing his body into hemorrhagic shock.

Mercury & Arsenic injections were the mainstay of medical treatment of syphilis in the United States until around 1943-1947.

These harsh treatments, often administered via painful injections or highly toxic regimens, aimed to kill the bacteria but frequently caused severe, sometimes fatal, poisoning in patients.

Patients suffered from excessive salvation, severe tremors, kidney damage, rotting jaws, tooth loss, through mercury poisoning, and because syphilis naturally goes into long latent periods, doctors mistakenly believed these horrific side effects meant the "poison" of the disease was successfully leaving the body.

Tobacco Smoke Enemas and liquid enemas were practiced in the United States by American medical practitioners for colic, bowel obstructions, and resuscitation, and this bizarre practice is the literal origin of the modern idiom "blowing smoke up your ass".

This treatment was finally abandoned because doctors realised it lacked medical efficacy and carried a high risk of fatal nicotine poisoning, as excess nicotine actually halts blood circulation.

Apparently Lobotomy and Hydrotherapy were widespread practices in the US to treat mental illness uptil the mid- 20th century.

Lobotomy is the crude practice of destroying brain tissue in the frontal lobe and has been abandoned, though neurosurgical procedures still exist for psychiatric conditions like obsessive-compulsive disorder, or major depression.

Hydrotherapy in various forms was to manage, calm or shock patients suffering from mania, depression and other forms of mental illness.

The treatment was similar to the medieval "ducking stools".

It was a form of near drowning that caused profound psychogical trauma and hypoxia.

Apparently In the US Hysterectomies or wandering womb surgeries, the removal of the ovaries, and clitoridectomies were regular operations by Physicians to treat hysterical or unmanageable behaviors.

The Women's Health movement in the 1970s stopped the widespread use of these operations and in 1980 the American Psychiatric Association ended this practice.

These operations were based on the Ancient Greek theory that a woman's uterus detached and floated around the body causing mental distress.

In the United States the appendix was regularly removed as a routine measure during the 20th century.

Following early evolution theories, the appendix was widely believed to be useless, vestigial remnant of human evolution.

Doctors reasoned because the appendix seemingly served no purpose, a person was better without it.

In the early 2000's researchers discovered that the appendix is not useless, and it functions as a "safe house" for beneficial gut bacteria.

The appendix also contains lymphoid tissue, playing an active role in the immune system.

Studies have shown that the appendix's unnecessary removal can trigger gut dysbiosis which happens when the helpful and harmful microorganisms in your body (mostly in your gut) lose their natural harmony.

I've not had my appendix removed, have you?

What is your opinion?

At one time it was fashion to have your tonsils removed as a child, a bit like puberty and growing up.

Did you have your tonsils removed and was you given icecream afterwards?

Unfortunately I missed out on the icecream, but fortunately I kept my tonsils because they are there for a reason.

What is your opinion?

I used to have bad habits. My vitals all look good. I quit vaping/smoking forever at 27.5. My blood pressure is fair/ideal, 118/78 and 83 beats. BMI ideal, 6ft0.5 and 173 lbs. 15% body fat. Gonna get my lipid profile checked. I do weights 2X a week and a bit of cardio and walking. I get good sleep, rest and have a stress free life. I plan to keep this.

my habits - I started vaping at 19. I then started smoking at 21 mostly light/mod, then there were many months of smoking a pack a day and chain smoking, then I just went back to vaping as it’s less harmful but I’ve probably had years of smoking a disposable vape a day and chain vaping it. In university I also used to drink excessively.

I quit mainly because I’m health conscious and I also noticed it affecting me like the vaping suddenly made my lungs really tight and I couldn’t exercise as hard but when I quit this all went back to normal after a couple months

if you get a cold do you still try to do your job?