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-Patella Femoral Pain Syndrome
Translation? Patella means kneecap, Femoral refers the Femur, a bone in your leg, and the rest is self explanetory. So all it this really says s that you have pain in your kneecap.
Not a diagnosis, its more like just a term. What does this have to do with anything? My doctor [...]

Our bodies produce hundreds of chemicals, but one that I notice in particular being produced is lactic acid (C3H6O3) .
Ever noticed a burning sensation in your muscles during a power-intensive workout?
You have lactic acid to thank. During hard exercises (such as sprinting up hills, for one!), your body produces more lactic acid than it can [...]

I was thinking that exercise would perhaps just force the cold out of my body, make me well faster, even if I was killing my lungs with my coughing. So I raced Saturday and Sunday and spent sunday night and monday morning completely miserable. I’m still getting over my cold, so perhaps my idea didn’t work.

Was I helping or harming myself? According to an article in American Fitness, “New research shows you can put as much effort into a workout when you have a cold as when you are healthy.” However, it warns against exercising if you have a fever.

Stress… Everyone knows its bad. Flight and Fight responses were designed for short bursts of time, enough to escape that saber tooth tiger and that was all. We’d all be better off without stress, but the college student knows how stress occurs during the aptly name “dead week”, the week before finals.
Take this Headline:
“Short-term stress [...]

According to Snapple Cap Fact #60, the tongue is the fastest healing part of a human body… which is good as I cut my tongue licking an envelope shut.
Your mouth in general heals very fast, with your tongue healing the fastest because they are covered by mucous membranes.
Yay for the tongue.

“Hello, Hello! (Hola) I’m at a place called Vertigo (dónde está?)”
So goes the chorus of the song Vertigo by U2. However, whenever I’m in a science-y mood, I can’t help but think how vertigo is a medical term.
Mayoclinic.com defines vertigo as ‘the sudden sensation that you are unsteady or that your surroundings are moving. You [...]

It is time to mess with your circadian rhythm again so don’t forget to set your clocks on Sunday, March 9th.
Your circadian rhythm is just a fancy way to say ‘internal clock’. The body adjusts to the changes in time for sunset and sunrise gradually, over time. It doesn’t adjust suddenly in hour increments. [...]

According to Science Daily, researchers have discovered a cell that may be play an important role in psoriasis, a skin disease that causes patches of red scaly skin.
The cell implicated is Th17, a recently discovered immune cell. Research shows that in comparision to healthy individuals, who have very little of Th17 in the skin, individuals [...]