Prior to my right hemicolectomy I had no clue that coffee had laxative effect. Then after my surgery it took me a while to figure this out. Unfortunately this effect is rather strong in my case. When I go to the office I need a few cups of coffee through the day, that would result to a few trips to ...

Cured wrote:No good news for us. But now 2 California juries have found Monsanto/Bayer at fault.

Cured, do you understand that often such decisions by jury contradict established scientific facts?
I prefer one meta-study article in a mainstream peer reviewed journal over 10 decisions of US juries.

... colonoscopy ... was extremely painful, so much so I screamed out ... (I was prepared for being 'uncomfortable' due to the air but not actual physical pain) which now has me a little anxious about the next part with sigmoidoscopy etc, and I've had numerous procedures and major operations over th...

Just get one more low dose chest only CT san in 3 months.

I ... just keep thinking about my mom and my little brother who passed away in a car accident 32 years ago... Tonight I asked my father why couldn't I just go with them... Why didn't we all just die and stop this suffering... brokenwings , It's OK to be said. It's OK to be depressed. It's OK to be ...

Vitamine C is water soluble and rather harmless. It doesn't accumulate in your body and its excess is excreted by your kidneys. Quite a few people (including me) acted as guinea pigs consuming a lot of vitamin C to validate hypothesis of Linus Pauling that vitamin C is effective against common cold....

Sometimes life is not that simple. First I got my "polyp" removed through colonoscopy (I was out of work for a day without any noticeable aftereffect). Then I got laparoscopic hemicolectomy because margins were not clear enough (I was out of work for 5 weeks with all expected consequences ...

After my right hemicolectomy I discovered that coffee had rather strong laxative effect. Prior to my surgery I had no clue that coffee was supposed to have such effect. Coffee laxative effect is rather strong in my case. :( When I am in the office I need a few cups of coffee through the day, that le...

I just noticed your signature. It looks incomplete My signature already reached maximum allowed size of 512 bytes. A lot of funny stuff discovered by CT scans in liver, kidney, lungs, arteries, gallbladder and a lymph node Funny stuff in the 6/2017 CT but no follow up? No MRI? No PET? Again, I ran ...

On January 31st 2019 Pierre Nanterme, former Accenture chairman and CEO has died. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-accenture-ceo-pierre-nanterme-152555787.html He abruptly resigned due to health reasons on January 11th 2019. He publicly announced his diagnosis on July 6th, 2016: " I was ve...

mpbser, you seem very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about different supplements.
What do you think about shiitake extract?

My wife is very enthusiastic about it because her friend told her.
To save my energy I just take whatever my wife gives me.
Resistance is futile.

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How do I create a Post Bookmark?

I ... had repeat scans 3 months later, 6 months after that, and at 6 months again. In a similar circumstances I had a follow up scan in 3 month (low dose chest only) and then my regular yearly full body scan. They have not noticed any significant change in these nodules and I was told not to worry ...

TacoLover, how old are you?

Anyway, diet is overrated and its change would not have an immediate impact on a risk of getting a cancer.

My doctor told me that the best US hospitals are better than the best Canadian hospitals.
So Boston, Cleveland or NY should be better.