@danielholkss What medicine is doing is what we call troubleshooting in engineering. You have the device and you troubleshoot to get/know what's wrong. abi what do you think?
Mallam Nasir @elrufai Has Been Consistent.
What he told Angela in this interview is exactly what he told @chamberlainusoh in another interview on @channelstv that I have shared severally.
If you don't know who Mallam is, shut your mouth.
And that includes Femi Fani Kayode @realFFK. He is too inconsequential and tainted to taint Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.
If not for the unfortunate elevation of Tinubu, who and what would have given Femi Fani Kayode the opportunity, platform and temerity to talk about El-Rufai?
FFK has now set his eyes and fangs on Kaduna state.
I pity those Southern Kaduna folks who might think FFK loves them. They should go and ask some of my Igbo/South East brethren how fast FFK dumped them without looking back the minute he saw that food was ready on the other side - after deceiving and misleading them with his pseudo love and solidarity.
Take FFK serious on any aspect at your own peril.
#EyesOnTheBall
August last year, a man reached out and invited me to his house somewhere in Abuja.
He is a very prominent and wealthy man.
He said to me " Dr Felix, I have never joked with my health. I run routine tests twice a year. I don't know where this prostate cancer came from."
This is where most people, including the mainstream medical establishment gets it wrong.
The commonest cause of cancer is smoking. The next commonest cause is overweight/obesity.
What is in obesity that causes cancer? Insulin resistance!
How do you check for insulin resistance? By doing a fasting insulin test and calculating HOMA IR.
Medical schools don't teach this, doctors don't request the test, most labs do not even know a test like that exists.
This was what was missing in the man's routine tests.
If his doctor knew the link between insulin resistance and cancer they would have at least pointed him to it.
The man was on the big side with a 'big man' abdomen.
I could see and smell the insulin resistance from a distance.
When we finally assessed his insulin, it was not only high, it was in the diabetic range.
With the insulin and HbA1c, we diagnosed type 2 diabetes in addition to prostate cancer.
That's was when the real treatment began..
To achieve any meaningful success in a cancer associated with insulin resistance, you MUST reverse the insulin resistance.
No oncologist looks for or even consider this in their treatments.
You can be extremely careful with your health. You can live a decent life, avoid smoking and alcohol, eat well, and do everything you can to protect yourself. Yet, somewhere along the line, one careless person may be selling you fake soft drinks. One dishonest pharmacist is selling you counterfeit medication. One wicked market trader is selling you palm oil mixed with red dye.
It only takes one person’s greed, carelessness, or dishonesty to put another person’s health and even life at risk.
In Nigeria, when it comes to what we consume, we are ultimately in the hands of God. You can do your best to protect yourself, but sometimes, the things we put into our mouths are only as safe as the people who produce and sell them.
Let me try and explain why cancers happen and why anyone reading this Tweet can have Cancer BUT you can lower your risk.
Let's start with What happens in the normal body.
Everyday you are alive, your cells are dividing and performing functions. every part of your body is made of cells with different roles.
The body has a clock , every cell has a born date and has a destruction date. there are 2 ways the body destroy cells.
One way is When it is time, the body tells cells...IT IS TIME. You need to die. There are some soldiers that go and destroy these cells that are worn out, some cells die themselves because it is time. A process called APOPTOSIS.
The body just like every machine can make mistakes, while dividing some cells might have abnormal parts or missing parts, BUT It has a Checkpoint. Any cells that are abnormal don't pass this gate. right there... BOOOM. The body destroys them. You don't want abnormal cells DIVIDING
BUT CANCER
Same cells, but when it is time to die, they don't die, these cells become like Methuselah, omnipotent. they are living forever.
Some funny things about them, if normal cells are dividing at a rate of 1, cancer cells are diving at a rate of 1 million. if 1 cells can divide to 10, cancer cells can divide to 1 billion.
For every cell there is a gate, so you don't enter into another cell.
Cancer cells are like those boys driving Lexus ES 350 2009, they crash into everyone. something called METASTASIS
Cancer cells get so powerful, they dodge the soldiers, the body is trying to kill them. they are too powerful, too much, traveling at a speed of light.
BUT WHY DO CANCER CELLS happen?
from everything explained you will see anything that can damage cells can increase these cells from behaving abnormal
- From problem of the body itself, radiation, family history, some substances can directly cause the cells to cancer eg Asbestos used in Roof- Lung Cancer, smoking- lung and more, alcohol- liver cancer etc
we also know there are some viruses, bacteria etc that can make cells turn to cancer eg
HIV- Many cancers
H pylori- Cancer of the stomach
HPV- Cancer of the cervix, penis, oesophagus, throat and more....
so in summary you can see why anyone can have cancer, which are abnormal cells dividing abnormally and can travel distance anywhere....
But how do I reduce my risk of cANCER?
I will be dropping part 2
Please do share , repost, I will be glad to take questions.
Thanks
Your kidneys can be badly damaged without causing pain. That is why kidney disease scares me.
You can eat, work and sleep normally while kidney function keeps falling.
Here are 5 foods I would never make a daily habit:
1. INSTANT NOODLES
BREAKING: Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has filed a fresh N10 billion suit against the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
The ex-governor instituted the suit against the ICPC for allegedly preventing him from having access to his wife, Mrs Aichatou Asabe, and son, Abba El-Rufai, while in custody.
El-Rufai, in the suit filed by his lawyer, Ubong Akpan, also named the ICPC chairman and the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) as 2nd and 3rd defendants.
The originating motion, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1852/2026 and filed on Aug. 13, was sighted on Sunday by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
The detained ex-governor, who alleged that his wife and son were denied to see him, sought nine reliefs. He prayed the court to declare that his fundamental human rights guaranteed under Part IV of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) remain inviolable and in force notwithstanding his detention by the commission and should be honoured.
He prayed the court to declare that his repeated refusal and/or prevention from access to his family members while in custody, particularly to provide him with food, medication and other necessities, without any lawful justification or court order, breached his rights.
He said these rights are guaranteed under Sections 34 and 37 of the Constitution and Articles 5 and 18 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
El-Rufai sought a declaration that the physical restraint, intimidation and treatment meted out to Asabe and Abba by ICPC’s officers on July 7, as well as their alleged arbitrary interference with the spousal and filial relationship, amounted to a violation and breach of his right to the dignity of the person as well as his right to private and family life.
He sought “a declaration that the respondents’ continued denial of family access without lawful authority is unconstitutional, illegal, null and void.
The Nigerian Army Silent Drill in Benin was more than a ceremonial display. It was a demonstration of the largest most profesional military in the region. The Anglophone power that saved the country's democracy.
With Nigeria's outsized influence its easy to forget that West Africa is majority Francophone in terms of the number of countries. Anglophone countries are a minority in the region, and Nigeria is essentially the only English speaking power. Remove Nigeria from the equation, and the region’s leading military powers are overwhelmingly Francophone.
Temi Popoola GMD/CEO of the Nigerian Exchange Group has presented their wishlist to President Tinubu of listening Eleme Petrochemicals, Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), and NNPCL to be listed on Nigerian stock market
This was me a few years ago. One of my fellow interns asked if I'd love to work with TotalEnergies.
I replied, TotalEnergies is a great place to start a career, no doubt. The professionalism, work ethic, remuneration, and learning opportunities are top-notch.
But I also told her I could only see myself working there for a few years, becoming financially stable, and then moving on.
She asked, "Why?"
I love FREEDOM.
I don't like feeling robotic or being programmed to perform certain tasks without having the flexibility to say "No".
In the long run, it would deter me from unleashing some of my potential and exploring many of the things I truly love.
From my little experience, I can say the oil and gas industry is rewarding, but it's also very demanding.
Thank you for sharing your story with us, @AskMichaelTaiwo. Your journey is both inspiring and insightful.
I earned $120K a year working for Shell in 2012.
Ten years and multiple promotions later, in 2022, that figure has doubled to $240K a year.
In 2023, I stumbled on an internal, confidential, document that showed the salaries of my superiors.
I saw that even if I were promoted multiple times again, the best I could hope for in another 10 years was another doubling to around $480K a year.
This may sound crazy saying it out loud but that wasn’t cutting it for me.
I simply didn’t want the next 10 years to be a repeat of the last 10.
I wanted geometric progression, not an arithmetic one.
On my 40th birthday, in 2023, I was asked to make a wish as a blew the candles on my birthday cake.
“Get the hell out of Shell,” I quietly whispered. Months later, I was out.
In 2024, my businesses grossed $500K; in 2025, they did $1M - geometric progression.
It required me to be delusional about my abilities, to bank on the faithfulness of God and to trust that inner voice that always nag at me that I could be more, I could do more and I could have more.