A premarital exam for women…

Stock photo, used in WaPo article, no other photo credit found   Ok I was going to write about poor toilet hygiene causing the spread of e-coli, But this cropped up in my feed. Ok, what the actual fuck? Is it the 1900’s and we are looking for a hymen? Are we trying to emulate …

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Under pressure…

Credit. CDC   A new study out in the European Heart Journal. Routine ingestion by hypertensive patients of ≥1 prescribed BP-lowering medications at bedtime, as opposed to upon waking, results in improved ABP control (significantly enhanced decrease in asleep BP and increased sleep-time relative BP decline, i.e., BP dipping) and, most importantly, markedly diminished occurrence …

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I am not the only one…

A patron exhales vapor from an e-cigarette at a store in New York. Juul and other vaping companies face an escalating backlash that threatens to sweep their products off the market. (Frank Franklin II, File)   The Independent ( UK) published an OP-ED validating the message that we have been sending out from the castle. …

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Sitdown 2

  If you are liking this format better, we would love to hear from you, if not, we would like to hear that too. This week at the castle we talk about how exercising before breakfast can help fend off diabetes: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7589073/Working-stomach-breakfast-help-fight-type-2-diabetes.html How being obese can impact your lungs by making breathing more difficult https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7583773/Overweight-people-develop-fat-LUNGS-make-harder-breathe.html …

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