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If cancer needs carbs (glucose) to grow, why don't doctors change people's diets when the cancer is first diagnosed?

Jamie, lives in Pennsylvania • Updated July 27, 2017

I'm no cancer expert or medical doctor but I read a great deal about this topic when we were desperately trying to save my father's life when his cancer spread like wildfir...

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How do I clean my lungs?

Lorah Kanegy, Medical Director (2012-present) • Answered January 18

Cleaning your lungs is like giving your body's air filters a much-needed spa day! But first, let's talk about what can gunk up those airways.

Imagine your lungs as a cozy fi...

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I was terminated on a Thursday and they needed my services for the following Monday. I was a salary employee. Would they have to rehire me back for my service?

Doc Wittmer, PhD Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at U... • Answered December 19

I was laid off on a Friday and told to have my belongings removed from the company under security guard by Monday. In about 2 weeks I got a call to come finish an important...

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When someone dies in their sleep, people assume that that's the best way to die. But I'd say about 99% of the time, they feel themselves dying even in their sleep, and they struggle to breathe, and they actually die from suffocation. Is this likely?

Shakuntala Singh • Answered November 15

My husband died recently next to me on the bed. Before he was injected with a injection he held my hand and kept looking at me as if want to say final goodbye. I asked him ...

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What is the best food for liver and kidney?

Riya Barua • Answered October 23

The best foods for liver and kidney health are those that reduce inflammation, support detoxification, and promote the organs' natural functions. Here are some key foods to...

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I got exposed to HIV in 2 months now. I did an ELISA test at 54 days, the results are negative, should I worry? I am having 70 percent HIV symptoms, like loss of appetite, ED, and tonsillitis.

Gerald Wolfe, HIV Prevention Coordinator at Warren City Health Department • Updated June 6, 2024

HIV is NEVER diagnosed by symptoms. It is only diagnosed by the results of an HIV test. Your test at 54 days is beyond the 45 day window period. If the results were negativ...

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If Jesus Christ (PBUH) mentions prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in the Bible then why don't the Christians believe in him?

Peter Herz, traveler, observer, teacher, and linguist. • Answered October 31

First of all, I , as a Christian, appreciate the Muslim questioner's apparent concern for the state of my soul. I also appreciate his apparent respect for the name of Jesus...

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I am diabetic. I walk 10 k steps daily. I take metformin 500 after dinner, but without any medicine, I feel low sugar before lunch and evening time. What does it indicate?

VC Chowdary, M.Sc Physiology and Zoology, Sri Venkateswara University (1980) • Answered January 28

One of the main functions of the drug Metformin is to reduce release of glucose from the liver. When the liver is prevented from releasing glucose, your blood glucose level...

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Why do women prefer C-section? Why would they do surgery to take out their baby?

Paige Lovegrove • Answered October 7

My firstborn was delivered by C section April 7th 2022. The birth plan was water birth in a birth care center rather than hospital. A few weeks before she was due, we found...

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I am 39 years old. I don't have a job, education, or skills. I know I am a loser. What should I do now?

Murali, Data Engineer (2024-present) • Updated December 15

I have started at age 33 - No skills, A Eight years of career gap, No job in hand, facing humiliations on a daily basis.

Now at 36, I am a Data Engineer. All it took was goo...

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If there is no cure for cancer, how did some people "beat" cancer?

Franklin Veaux, lives in Portland, OR • Answered January 16, 2020

There is no cure for cancer because cancer is not a disease.

"Cancer" is a broad category of many, many different diseases. The one thing all those diseases have in common i...

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