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Did you know 😏

He rubbed lemon juice on his face. Robbed two banks. Smiled at the cameras. Got caught in an hour. And changed psychology forever.

In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two banks in Pittsburgh and robbed them with no mask, no disguise, and lemon juice on his face. He believed that because lemon juice works as invisible ink on paper, it would make his face invisible to cameras. He smiled directly into the security cameras. Police aired the footage on the evening news and arrested him within an hour.

When shown the tape, Wheeler stared at the screen and said, "But I wore the juice." He had tested the theory with a Polaroid selfie and didn't appear in the photo — because lemon juice got in his eyes and he aimed the camera at the ceiling.

His case inspired Cornell psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger to publish their 1999 paper defining the Dunning-Kruger Effect — the cognitive bias where people with low ability drastically overestimate their own competence.

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@jainendrajeevan Agents of Happiness हेर्नुभो? बडा गज्जब लाग्यो मलाई ।

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@binuebhi @grok मंगोलियामा "किर" नामक कुनै जनजाति छ कि छैन? के नेपालको किरात जनजातिसँग यसको कुनै सम्बन्ध छ ? मंगोलियन भाषा र किरात जनजातिहरूले बोल्ने भाषाहरूबीच कुनै सम्बन्ध छ कि छैन?

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@NoahKingJr No I am not

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If the Universe is Expanding, What is it Expanding Into? ✍️

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Be Kind

[Shashi Iyengar | Metabolic Health India® @shashiiyengar]

In India among the uneducated & the educated "qualified" individuals the myth of Ketogenic diet causing kidney damage still exists

I wonder why media did not pick up this study

I also wonder why those top Diabetologists of indis who like to hammer low carb at the slightest pretext citing small studies are silent on this 10 year data

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@kaphlebhumesh Minoxydil कि के भनाउदो तेल ले उमार्छ भन्छन त बैग्यानिक डाउटर हरु त ।

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@MilanPandey बर्षको अन्तिममा परिक्षा लिने प्रणाली बेकार हो। महिना महिनामा सानो परिक्षा या कृयाकलाप गराउने अन्तिममा सानो सबै समेट्ने परिक्षा लिने हो भने पछि पढाइको बोझ पनि बोक्नु पर्दैन । विद्यार्थी , शिक्षक सबै रमाउने वातावरण बन्छ।

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@ifixhearts Yes

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[Shashi Iyengar | Metabolic Health India® @shashiiyengar]

Many spike blood sugars well beyond even 200 mg/dl while fasting & hba1c may be at a lower levels.
These are damaging if not contolled.
Check PP after a heavy meal...not a snack as its usually done. This small snack do not give the real picture. I always advice to take PP after the usual heavy lunch.

"Isolated postprandial hyperglycemia (2-hour postprandial glucose level >140 mg/dL in the face of normal fasting plasma glucose (<110 mg/dL & normal hemoglobin A1c (<6.1%) values is associated with a 2-fold increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease"

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[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Today, few neighbors of my patient, a 33 year old man, came into my outpatient department to convey the message that he had died by suicide.

On the way to Kasargod town by train, he jumped on to the tracks from the moving train and was smashed to death.

He was sufferring from alcohol use disorder and barely survived a severe episode of severe alcohol-related hepatitis 4 months back. It took me and my department a whole lot of shouldering burdens to get him out of the ICU and discharge him home.

He went through a de-addiction protocol and was off alcohol for two months. But on that train, he was partly inebriated.

He left behind his wife, aged 29 and a cherub of a daughter, aged 3. People love to believe that there is an afterlife and the spirits of the deceased linger on out of love. These are consolation borne out of grief and loss. The young child's father died. The young wife's husband is no more. There is no afterlife. When some one dies, it is same as it was before birth. Nothingness. They become memories for the living to grow around and move on. And nothing more.

Value lies in living a life. Not in living to death.

Covid had destroyed his travel and photography business. He could never recover losses. It was as if, he decided he wanted to die, as he could hardly provide for his family and became dependent on his elderly parents. To die and to quit - alcohol use reinforces that decision very easily. Even if the best doctors work on it, the simplest of answers for the patient always lie at the bottom of a bottle - because temporarily, it takes you elsewhere, away from all worries and paints an inaccurate picture that eveything was going to be ok.

When people think about alcohol use, they always think about the liver. But there is more than meets the eye with alcohol use and the one I dread, because consequences are unpredicable, is alcohol's influence on the brain. It is terrifyingly close.

Alcohol use (sometimes even one drink a day)
➡️Can reduce brain volume and accelerate brain shrinkage
➡️Can reduce "gray matter," leading to brain degeneration
➡️Can make it difficult for consumers to make new memories
➡️Slows down how your brain processes information, making it harder to work out what you are really feeling and possible consequences of your actions
➡️Alcohol targets and feeds negative feelings inside your head - regardless of your mood
➡️Increases anxiety, depression, and other psychiatric disorders higher compared to non-drinkers
➡️Can increase risk of social anxiety disorder and panic disorder
➡️Alters sleep physiology, reduces rapid-eye movement stage of sleep, induces periodic limb movements during sleep and worsens sleep quality

You can never know what alcohol can really do to you - small or large. You can never be too sure either. Because if alcohol is your friend, trust me, you dont need any enemies.

I lost my patient. A family lost their son, husband and father. What can you do about it? Directly, nothing. But there is something we all can do. None of us can stop people from drinking or enjoying their drinks. We are all adults and the most intelligent ones take the right decision on alcohol use. To abstain from it.

But the other lesser intelligent ones, can still help. At least, STOP normalizing alcohol on social media - on Instagram, on Twitter (X), on Facebook, and on your Reels and Shorts. There is no style in it. There is no love in it. When you feel putting up photos of your alcohol escapades, try to deviate and put up another picture - of your dog, your flowers, your garden or a nice book collection or something that is useful for others. Do not give undeserving credit to this socially accepted poison.Take honor in not doing so, because this way, you can contribute towards your fellow humans well being.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Let me tell you how a private clinician-researcher and the team work to publish an important study in India.

We think of a study that would be eye-opening and be of great public health education.

We design the study, setup methods and finalize the protocol - takes about a month to get this done.

For a study like this, no one would fund us because a lot of stakeholders will be affected. But this is a public health concern study, so we are forced to self-fund it.

We review the market, purchase multiple products and sent them out for chemical and toxicology analysis
- INR 6,36,888/- ($7635)

The results come, we spend three months collating it, re-analyzing data, looking for errors, confirming final results with the lab - during weekends and late into the night, making us lose time with family, friends, and of course, sometimes forgeting about ourselves.

Once results are completed, we write up the study. This takes about two-three months, again spending late nights after work, and also on weekends, eating into family time. It is usually a 4000-5000 word manuscript. We make tables, figures, supplementary documents. Many journals need infographics, so we subscribe to an online software to create one.
- INR 10,000/- (annual, $120)

Manuscript writing is completed and we look for journals to submit for peer-review and publication. Since this paper is of great public health concern, we want everyone to access it and read it. So we cant use high impact subscription journals. So we go for good impact open access journals, where authors have to pay, so that everyone else can read the paper once published.

Peer review is on. Other doctors and scientists review our paper FOR FREE for the journal and publisher and we receive reviewer comments for revision.

Peer-review is complete, but Reviewer 2 wants us, "authors from India" who are not "native English speakers" to edit the paper by a "native English speaker." And they give options for English editing services. We pay again for those.
- INR 50,048/- ($600)

We submit the revisions and the editor reviews all changes and the reviewers review our responses and they accept it for publication. Now the publisher wants us to pay open access fees to make it free for everyone to read. And so we pay the publisher who scientifically reviewed the paper for free without paying peer reviewers/ doctors/ scientists involved.
- INR 2,50,240/- ($3000)

Paper is published in final form online and everyone gets to see the eye-opening data we produced for the good of the public.

We put up the paper on social media and online to educate the public about what is right by them in the context of healthcare seeking behaviour and treatments available, only to be called "big pharma agent," "anti-national propagandist," "anti-Hindu," "pharma shill," and other colorful word choices.

Cost of publishing a paper from India by a group of private researchers who wants to do good by the public?

- INR 6,36,888 + INR 10,000 + INR 50,048 + INR 2,50,240 = INR 9,47,176/-

or $7635 + $120 + $600 + $3000 = $11,355/-

Sometimes I wonder why we do this. Could we not use that money for so many other things? Like a family trip and make memories with children or invest in our own children's future?

Clinician-scientists are a curse to their own family and boon to the public, because we are trained to give and never take - a core principle in the humanistic practice of clinical medicine.

Please take note, next time when you harrass, troll or abuse a clinical researcher/doctor online.

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