Does a Half Pull-up Count As the Real Thing?
If you can knock off 20 halfway pull-ups, is this really the same as 10 reps from a dead-hang? Or are you sacrificing muscle recruitment with those cheat reps? You’ve seen it plenty of times Read more...
Cause of Coughing After Esophageal Cancer Surgery
Are you suffering from a cough following your esophageal cancer surgery? Read more…
Why Can’t All Esophageal Cancers Be Removed? Surgeon Explains
Why is it that esophageal cancer can’t just be surgically removed in all cases, and instead, sometimes it’s left in there? Read more…
Can a Barium Swallow Test Rule Out Esophageal Cancer?
Do you have symptoms worrisome for esophageal cancer and are wondering if a barium swallow test can rule out this horrible disease? Symptoms of Esophageal Cancer • Difficulty getting food down the “food pipe” • Read more...
Blood Tinged Vaginal Discharge Postmenopause, No Known Cause
Here’s my experience with postmenopausal blood tinged discharge and how, after a full workup, no cause was found. One day when I wiped myself after urinating, I felt moisture on the palm of my hand Read more...
Older Women Afraid of Bone Fracture from Dog Walking: Solutions
Are you an older woman who fears fracturing a bone while walking your high energy dog? Read more…
Types of Doctors Who Are Skilled at Spotting Melanoma
Though a dermatologist is the best type of doctor for spotting a melanoma, there are several other kinds of doctors who are particularly skilled at noticing suspicious spots. Read more…
Can Fat Be Healthy just Because Thin People Get Heart Attacks?
When a superstar influencer gets an Instagram comment of “Obesity isn’t healthy,” defensive followers post back, “Thin people die of heart attacks all the time.” Read more…
Stabbing Pain Around Melanoma WLE Site: Causes, Solutions?
Does the stabbing pain around your melanoma WLE site relate to the cancer itself? Or is something else going on? Read more…
Why Isn’t My Actinic Keratosis Responding to Efudex?
Have you been religiously applying Efudex to your actinic keratosis lesions but after several weeks, nothing has happened? Read more…
Time It Takes for Stage 2 Melanoma to Go to Stage 4?
Stage 4 melanoma has a very grim prognosis, so if you have a stage 2 melanoma, you may be wondering how long it takes for it to progress to a stage 4 status. How well Read more...
Why Does Basal Cell Carcinoma Affect the Nose so Much?
Why is it that whenever you hear that someone has basal cell carcinoma, it seems that it’s always on their nose? Read more…
Carnivora vs. Youngevity: Which Is Better for Health?
Are you a “Coast” listener who keeps getting bombarded with the ads for Carnivora and Youngevity? Which of the two is more hype? Which of the two should you choose if you could only choose Read more...
Using the Gym Locker Right Next to Yours When There’s Many Available
Fed up with people at the gym taking the locker smack next to yours even though there’s a ton other unused lockers? I finally caught someone red-handed trying to do this. I’ve been working out Read more...
How Long Can Lung Cancer Go Undetected?
Ever wonder for how long lung cancer can grow before it’s detected by a doctor or before the patient begins feeling the symptoms? “There are two approaches to think about this,” says Alex Little, MD, Read more...
How Long Can Esophageal Cancer Go Undetected?
How long can an esophageal cancer be growing inside you before it can be detected? The answer is frightening. Read more…
Why Aren’t All Child Sex Abuse Victims 600 Pound Adults?
Many patients on “My 600 Pound Life” were sexually abused as children, yet most sexually abused children don’t become morbidly obese. Why? Read more…
Uplifted by Strangers’ Self-Love Notes Means Poor Self-Esteem?
If your self-worth is boosted by a self-love sticky note in a public restroom by a stranger who’s never seen you, does this mean you have poor self-esteem? Read more…
Hydrated but Urine Is Still a Deep Amber Like a Sunset?
You’re nowhere near dehydrated yet your urine is a brilliant amber and leaves salmon-orange stains on the tissue paper when you wipe! There’s a most likely cause. Read more…
Does Scheduling Workouts Mean Poor Body Image and No Self-Love?
You should not let bopo influencers guilt you into thinking that scheduling your workouts is a sign of poor body image or lack of self-love. Keep scheduling your gym time, treadmill time or fitness video Read more...
Why Seana’s Story on 600 Pound Life Is One of the Saddest
Seana’s story on “My 600 Pound Life” ranks as one of the saddest and bleakest for several reasons. At only 22 she was seemingly destined for success with Dr. Now’s program. Read more...
Joyce, 600 Pound Life: How Much Is Her Mother to Blame?
Joyce on “My 600 Pound Life” was another train wreck, but this disaster contains some unusually interesting components: namely her mother. Read more…
Orange Substance on Tissue Paper after Wiping: Likely Cause
Did you just collect an orange substance on the tissue paper from wiping yourself after urinating? Read more…
Why’s It OK to Call a Thin Woman Unhealthy but not a Fat One?
Followers of obese influencers get furious when someone says “Obesity is not healthy,” but these same followers will call a thin woman unhealthy. Read more…
Why Do Old Men Let Their Butts Fly up with Lat Pulldowns?
Ever notice that nearly every senior aged man does lat pulldowns by lifting his butt off the seat before each pull? Read more…
Big Toenail Subungual Hematoma: Images Show Healing Over Time
JUNE 11 Here are serial images of a big toenail subungual hematoma showing how the old blood and bruise heal over an eight month period. In the June 11 image above, a subungual Read more...
What Cancer Other than Melanoma Causes Hutchinson’s Sign?
If you see what appears to be Hutchinson’s sign in a fingernail or toenail, your first thought might be melanoma skin cancer. Read more…
If All Bodies Are Beautiful what About All Faces? Face Positivity
Who’s speaking up for the plus size and smaller women with unattractive faces? Why don’t we see THEM strutting catwalks and getting on covers of magazines? In fact, the very phrase, “All faces are beautiful,” Read more...
Body Positivity a Sham: Must Have Big Breasts & Booty
Why is it that every single MAJOR plus size model, recording artist or TV star has really big boobs and a bubble butt? A fat woman doesn’t always have big breasts and a bubble butt. Read more...
How Much Should You Worry About Melanoma in Your Child?
Do you worry that your anxiety over your child developing melanoma might be unrealistic, but you just can’t help obsessively inspecting their moles and imagining the worst? Yes, melanoma occurs in children, even those with Read more...
Child’s Melanoma vs. Adult’s: Appearance Comparison
The ABCDE rules of melanoma screening for adults don’t apply to children. There are distinct differences in the way melanoma appears in kids than it does in adults. Read more…
Can a Basal Cell Carcinoma Be Purple?
Basal cell carcinoma is typically described as a nodule or bump that may be pearly in color, but also flesh toned or some range of pink. Purple is a color that may come to mind Read more...
Trans Fats: the Killer Among Us: How to Avoid this Food Ingredient
While gun control dominates the news, thousands of Americans every year die at the hands of trans fats in common foods. Trans fats should be banned. Where is the outcry? Trans fats are a poisonous Read more...
If Intuitive Eating Works, Why not Try Intuitive Smoking Too?
If intuitive eating can help people lose weight and eat healthier, shouldn’t it stand to reason that “intuitive smoking” or “intuitive drinking” should also help people manage THESE addictions too? Read Read more...
Plus Size Mom Teaches Chubby Child to “Booo!” Diet Commercials
A woman who admits to being 265 pounds has posted on Instagram a video of her and her child hollering “Boooo!” at a diet commercial. If you happen to find her video, posted on Jan. Read more...
600 Pound Life: Why Get Surgery if They Lose Weight on Their Own?
TLC If Dr. Now’s patients on “My 600 Pound Life” can initially lose weight all on their own, why do they need the surgery then? Read more…
Strength Training Machines: Range of Motion only Two Inches?
Have you ever seen people moving the handles only two inches on strength training equipment and wonder, “What the heck are they hoping to achieve?” Read more…
Why Do People Sing to Songs in Public that Others Want to Hear?
A song on a workplace radio or public overhead speaker is playing; you love that song. Then someone starts singing to it. How dare they! Read more…
How Long Pill Esophagitis Lasts if You Stop Taking Pills
Can there be a delay between when you stop taking pills and when pill esophagitis begins? Read more…
Cause of Burping after Rising from a Seated Position
Have you noticed that often when you get up after sitting for a while, you have to burp? Read more…