Nav Badesha
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The Achilles Tendon
In athletes, particularly runners, repetitive overloading of the Achilles Tendon leads to micro tears. If there is inadequate time to…
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Does the Heart Make Hormones?
The concept of the heart as an endocrine organ, which produces hormones, arises from the observation that the cardiac muscle…
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How to Grow Muscles
If you exercise, you may have learned a very fundamental concept about muscle: muscle mass can be created by repeatedly…
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Should You Eat the Placenta?
Each one of us came into this world attached to a placenta – making it arguably one of the most…
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MEDspired Physicians
Via Dr. Pamela Mehta, MD: “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone” – Ronald Reagan How true is…
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How to Rid of Emotional Baggage
The human body is not comprised of merely skin and bones, but of secrets, lies, pain and emotional baggage that…
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Linking Art and Mental Health
My inspiration comes from my experience of mental illness. I liken my process to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: deconstructing, reconstructing, and…
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Keys to Gallstones
Take a close look at this gallbladder! These golden brown cholesterol stones may look beautiful at initial glance, but they…
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Why Flexibility is Key
This is a demonstration of the strong and supple umbilical cord surrounded by Wharton’s jelly, a gelatinous substance within the…
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Keys to Coping with Stress
There are many examples in nature that demonstrate how times of great stress can be signals for growth. For example,…
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