El-Nuel Consults

02/02/2025

What happens:

- The average human body replaces around 330 billion cells daily.
- The entire gut lining is replaced every 3-5 days.
- Red blood cells are replaced every 120 days.
- The skeleton is fully replaced every 10 years.
- The liver regenerates itself every 300-500 days.

However, some cells, like those in the nervous system, are not replaced or regenerated at the same rate.

08/10/2024

09/10/2023

"If it takes more string to measure waist than hips that's bad, and it relates to a higher rate of death,"

~ Francisco Lopez-Jimenez.

14/09/2023

To keep your blood cells healthy and to make your nerves work right, Your body needs vitamin B12

But what happens when you run low?

Here are some signs to look out for:

14/09/2023

Yawning regulates the parasympathetic nervous system. It brings us back to homeostasis.

Yawning doesn’t just mean we’re tired.

We yawn when we’re overwhelmed, irritated, or anxious.

If you’re reading this and think about yawning—let yourself.

Your body needs a reset.😊

14/09/2023

A few Medication tips...

1. Paracetamol will work faster on an empty stomach. And it doesn’t cause ulcer.

2. Eating oily food and taking your anti-malaria medication like the artemether/lumefantrine will make it work better.

3. Cimetidine may cause sexual dysfunction in men. The prolonged use of cimetidine has been associated with erectile dysfunction and a low s***m count.

4. If you’re severely depressed, don’t take ciprofloxacin, it may worsen it.

5. The time in which you take your medications is very important. It’s not there for fancy. Some drugs are best used in the morning, while others are best used in the evening. If your healthcare provider prescribed it for you to take it in the night, do that. Don’t go and take it in the morning.

6. Don’t take NSAIDs (e.g ibuprofen, piroxicam, diclofenac, etc) on an empty stomach. They will irritate your stomach and predispose you to ulcer and gastrointestinal bleeding.

7. Tetracycline can HARM the FETUS. If you are pregnant or have plans of becoming pregnant while taking tetracycline, call your doctor immediately.

8. Taking tetracycline with alcohol or within the period of alcohol intake is highly not advised. This practice may harm you.

9. If you have epilepsy, don’t take ciprofloxacin as it can precipitate seizure attack in people with epilepsy.

10. Don’t take take dexamethasone for weight gain. Using it for such will only harm you. Only use it when prescribed. Dexamethasone dampens your immune system, it is only to be used when prescribed as the benefits outweighs the risks. Using it on your own is bad. Again, the weight you thought you gained will be lost the moment you stop using the drug, so why harm yourself?

Don’t abuse drugs.🙏🏽

28/06/2023

Studies in mice have shown that restricting water intake shortens the mouse lifespan and leads to organ degeneration. This suggests that staying properly hydrated might help slow down the aging process.

26/06/2023

According to the Better Sleep Council, sleeping late one morning and rising early the next can lead to a "home-bound version of jet lag. To ​keep the body's biological clock in order, a regular schedule is the best way to ensure perfect nights.

25/06/2023

Those who exercise suffer less often from constipation than those who are sedentary.

Twice as many of those exercising just a little have trouble with constipation compared to highly active people...

25/06/2023

Men who are both physically inactive and obese have a colon cancer risk that is nearly 5times higher than that of their active and lean counterparts.

25/06/2023

Women who exercise for at least 4hours a week will have about 37percent less risk of breast cancer than women who spent their leisure hours reading and watching TV.

25/06/2023

Both obesity and physical inactivity promote higher blood levels of insulin, a hormone that increases the growth rate of cells lining the colon and hence their likelihood of turning cancerous.