Researcher| PhD in Ecology and Environmental Management| Geographer| Data Analyst| Environmentalist.
Postdoc position in Land and Water Resource Management.
On behalf of the alumni forum we celebrate with one of our own, Professor Adebayo Oluwole Eludoyin who has recently been promoted to the rank of Professor at the Deparment of Geography, in our great and prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria @OAUniversity
1. Today is our first intermittent fasting this week.
2. Skip one of your regular meals, wether it is breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
3. Intermittent fasting is king of medicines.
4. Help your body to detox.
5. If you are in, repost.
The vast majority of “malaria and typhoid tests” done in Nigeria (especially that popular ‘MP Widal’ test) is a COMPLETE SCAM and an elaborate fraudulent scheme to defraud you and simply make money for hospitals.
Yeah. I’ve said this many times.
And I will say it again.
Pls STOP doing “malaria and typhoid test” IF you are well and feel healthy. The common “widal test” done for typhoid is a largely useless and nonspecific test. Also routine malaria testing is a useless exercise in a country like Nigeria where malaria is endemic because almost everybody has the malaria parasite in their system- but not everybody needs any treatment as long as they are well and fine in themselves.
The actual cold brutal truth is that many of you suffer from some degree of hypochondriasis (which is an anxiety disorder where you persistently feel something is ‘wrong’ with your body or you may have an undiagnosed illness EVEN THOUGH you are well and fine in yourself).
This makes you keep going to hospitals who then exploit your illness anxiety, make you pay for tests you don’t need and end up giving antimalaria and antibiotics medicines you don’t need to treat an illness that only exists in your imagination. This is why some of you keep “treating malaria and typhoid” every month and it never goes away.
You know why? You never had any malaria or typhoid that needs treating. What you need is to STOP doing unnecessary tests and go see a therapist or a mental health expert to help you address your hypochondriasis and persistent health anxiety.
Don’t get me wrong:
I am NOT saying all malaria/typhoid testing is useless. NO. I have not said that.
What I am saying is that if you are well and healthy in yourself, you do NOT need any malaria or typhoid tests.
If you have fever, vomiting, diarrhea (especially bloody diarrhea), recent travel outside the country or recent visit to somewhere where you drank unclean water and ate unhygienic food, severe headaches, new bitter taste in your mouth, not being able to eat or drink, abdominal pain and you feel very weak and unwell; then yes, you should get tested. This makes perfect sense.
But to go and be getting “malaria typhoid test” randomly and on a routine regular basis like you are going to the salon for a new hairstyle, is an absolute waste of your time, waste of your money and unnecessary pricking/loss of your blood for useless tests.
Malaria testing is ONLY relevant IF you are not well. As I said before, in Nigeria, millions of people are bitten regularly by mosquitoes and so they will have a positive malaria test result if you test them.
There is NO need to “treat” a person who is well and healthy in themselves. The hospitals won’t tell you this because they need to make money: and many of you won’t listen because you like to waste money.
Anyway the bottom line is simple:
IF you are well and feel fine in yourself,
THERE IS NO NEED FOR ANY MALARIA OR TYPHOID TESTS.
I really hope many of you will convert this energy you use chasing unnecessary wasteful malaria tests (when you are well and don’t need it) to rather regularly check your blood pressure at least once a year or once every 6months- because one of the highest risk factors for kidney failure, heart attack, stroke, unexplained paralysis and sudden death in young people is undetected and untreated high blood pressure.
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On my way back from a work trip to Nigeria, I unexpectedly ran into someone I knew from a few years ago. This man was asking me out two months after I had broken off from a long term relationship and I was still trying to heal and find my footing again. Despite my intentions of not getting involved with anyone, I found myself giving this person some of my time and attention. I answered his calls and didn't push him away, even though deep down, I knew I wasn't ready for a new relationship.
A lot of people don't know how expensive taking care of Kidney diseases can be.
Protecting your kidneys should be utmost priority.
I will try and explain with Estimated figures how expensive it is for someone with Chronic Kidney disease who requires Dialysis
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"When I told my father I was going to marry Jake he said, ‘If you marry that man you will never set foot in this house again.’
He was horrified that I could contemplate marrying a black man, and I soon learned that most people felt the same way. The first years of our marriage living in Birmingham were hell — I cried every day, and barely ate. No one would speak to us, we couldn’t find anywhere to live because no one would rent to a black man, and we had no money.
People would point at us in the street. Then I gave birth to a stillborn son at eight months. It wasn’t related to the stress I was under but it broke my heart, and we never had any more children.
We were at the same technical college. I was having typing and shorthand lessons and he’d been sent there for training by the Air Force. He was with a group of black friends and they called my friend and me over to talk. We didn’t even know they spoke English, but Jake and I got chatting. He quoted Shakespeare to me, which I loved.
Jake returned to Trinidad, but we carried on writing to each other, and a few years later he returned to the UK to get better paid work.
He asked me to marry him, quite out of the blue, when I was only 19. My father threw me out, and I left with only one small suitcase to my name. No family came to our register office wedding in 1948.
But gradually life became easier. I got teaching jobs, ending up as a deputy head teacher. First Jake worked in a factory, then for the Post Office.
Slowly we made friends together, but it was so hard. I used to say to new friends: ‘Look, I have to tell you this before I invite you to my home — my husband is black.’
My father died when I was 30 and although we were reconciled by then, he never did approve of Jake.
Today we have been married for 63 years, and are still very much in love. I do not regret marrying him for an instant, despite all the pain we have suffered."
@OnelilGooner@Omowunmimurewa@Nugadel It's soothing hearing this. Thank you so much for the acknowledgement and encouragement. May God empower us to do more.
“IT’S OK”
(The Ultimate Tribute…She Lives On)
Her audition on AGT 2021 broke the internet after she performed an original song titled “It’s Ok” whilst fighting cancer.
3 times she was declared cancer free, 3 times cancer came back worse, she was divorced by her husband and later lost the battle to cancer.
But clearly her impact touched the world and she truly lives on.
#OdogwuTales