Dr. 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧 | محمـــد غيـــلان

Husband | Father | Teacher | Canadian | M.D. | #Neuroscience Ph.D. | Student of #Islam & #Philosophy | Writer | Podcaster

[Dr. 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧 | محمـــد غيـــلان @MohamedGhilan]

Lord, please increase the love of everyone in our hearts, place a barrier between us and our egos, and grant us intellectual humility.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.

ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

[Dr. 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧 | محمـــد غيـــلان @MohamedGhilan]

There’s a folkloric allure to stories about jinn. I get it. But if we’re going to bring the writings of Muslim scholars into it, we should at least get their texts right and most importantly not elaborate or embellish to make a point, even a valid one.

[Dr. 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧 | محمـــد غيـــلان @MohamedGhilan]

The actual text in the Fatawa of Ibn Taymiyyah doesn’t say what’s being related in this video. The passage he’s referring to is in the chapter on Tasawwuf within passages discussing istighathah (calling upon aid from a created being). I’ll share it below to explain further 👇🏽

[abu salahudeen @abusalahudeen20]

The Jinn hypothesis is the most correct that explains the UAP & NHI phenomenon, Islamic scholars observed the technological superiority of the Jinn 700 years ago, where are they potentially now and are we catching up to them?

[Dr. 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧 | محمـــد غيـــلان @MohamedGhilan]

The problem with how it’s related in the video is the impression it leaves. The actual passage doesn’t talk about jinn communicating with each other using tablets. It’s about how they facilitate for someone the practice of responding to being called in an idolatrous way.

[Howard Luks MD @hjluks]

Your knee is a living, biologically active organ. Cartilage is maintained by cells that respond to their chemical environment, and the primary driver of OA progression is not mechanical grinding.
It is chronic, low-grade inflammation that poisons the environment in which those cells are living.

So we need to stop thinking mechanically and start thinking more biologically. Our cartilage responds favorably to the same stimuli that improve our overall health and wellness.

This is precisely why high intensity exercise in moderate OA (grade 3 of 4) decreases pain and actually increases cartilage thickness.

[Dr. 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧 | محمـــد غيـــلان @MohamedGhilan]

Retatrutide may prove to be a major therapeutic advance, but it should be used with humility, not triumphalism.

The old adage is worth noting here: there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

[Dr. 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧 | محمـــد غيـــلان @MohamedGhilan]

On Retatrutide and Fat Loss Peptides

For many patients, the metabolic, mechanical, and cardiovascular benefits of substantial weight loss may be profound. My hesitation with retatrutide and the next generation of high-potency fat-loss peptides is not that weight loss is bad.

[Dr. 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧 | محمـــد غيـــلان @MohamedGhilan]

My worry is that the enthusiasm for improved biomarkers may tempt us to treat the body like a machine with a few adjustable levers, rather than a living organism whose compensatory systems are complex, slow, and interdependent.

[World of Science @Science_TechTV]

This glowing mesh is called a cytoskeleton, growing and routing traffic inside the cell

[Dr. 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧 | محمـــد غيـــلان @MohamedGhilan]

The Expander
The Constrictor

Down to the atomic level

رَبَّنَا مَا خَلَقْتَ هَٰذَا بَاطِلًا سُبْحَانَكَ فَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ

Our Lord, You did not create this aimlessly; exalted are You [above such a thing]; then protect us from the punishment of the Fire.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced.

This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.

[Dr. 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧 | محمـــد غيـــلان @MohamedGhilan]

May Allah ﷻ accept your fasts and prayers

May Allah ﷻ make this a turning point in your lives for the better

May Allah ﷻ grant us peace and security through certainty in Him

[Howard Luks MD @hjluks]

I’ve been an orthopedic surgeon for nearly 30 years, and a few patterns have become impossible to ignore. One is that many musculoskeletal problems in adults aren’t sudden injuries. They’re the moment when declining capacity and awful metabolic health finally reveals itself.

Over the decades your strength fades, muscle mass declines, as your aerobic capacity tanks. Tendons and connective tissues lose substance, stiffness, and resilience. For years the body compensated... quietly. Then one day a knee hurts during a run to get the train, or shoulder aches reaching overhead, or a back tightens lifting something simple.

At that point the story usually becomes more about structural damage. An MRI gets ordered. Welcome to high-tech, low-medicine. And the MRI almost always finds something. A meniscus tear. A rotator cuff tear. A disc bulge. Why? Because by midlife these findings are extremely common — even in people with no pain at all. If you have a tear in one shoulder, image the other shoulder... you probably have the same tear there. But I digress.

Once the scan appears, the narrative changes. The image becomes the diagnosis. Now the patient believes something is broken, and the focus often shifts to fixing what the MRI shows.

What often gets lost in this is the reason the symptoms appeared in the first place. Many so-called “atraumatic” orthopedic complaints are not purely mechanical failures. They are the moment when reduced strength, declining tissue capacity, and sometimes broader metabolic health issues finally reach a tipping point. Our tissues change over the decades... get over it.

In other words, the MRI didn’t create the problem. Well... it sort of did in this scenario. But all the MRI showed was something that was already there.... because of your age, lifestyle, health and so on.

The real driver of symptoms is often loss of physiologic reserve. Less muscle. Less tendon or aerobic resilience. Less tolerance for load, etc.

Once the MRI enters the picture, the risk becomes overtreatment. This is probably the number one reason people have surgery. When in many cases the most powerful intervention was never the scan or the procedure.

It was rebuilding capacity.

Strong muscles stabilize joints. Aerobic fitness improves metabolic health and tissue perfusion. Gradual loading restores tolerance.

But people often don't take PT seriously prior to surgery. They often take PT very seriously afterwards. Therefore, PT is probably the reason you feel better, despite the surgery.

The irony is that the treatment many people ultimately need is the same thing that might have prevented the problem in the first place.

Staying strong. Staying active. Maintaining the reserve that protects our joints/tendons/muscles/abilities as we age.