Living destroys your health on a molecular level… Or being punched… or stabbed. Or staying up longer than you should… or looking at screens too long… or…
Or staying up longer than you should… or looking at screens too long… or…
Oy, no need to call me out like that… I should turn off my phone.
looking at screens too long
No it doesnt. You might as well say “looking at a tree too long”.
If you had to spend 8-14 hours every day staring at a tree at a fixed distance, it would probably be harmful to your vision.
Nothing quite like being technically correct, and completely missing the point.
Yeah and constantly looking over your shoulder because there are threats everywhere accelerates that molecular destruction.
Aka. Stress.
Sounds like an excellent class. Probably should be a requirement rather than an elective tbh.
Doesn’t seem that related to medicine, I could sed it being the topic of two classes at best, but not a whole course. That’s why its an elective.
Stress can exacerbate almost every medical condition. The boat doesn’t perform normally when it’s under stress. It can affect pregnancy like crazy which affects every single person in the world. Every single person comes from a pregnancy. Stress can affect sleep which also negatively affects like every condition.
your mental health greatly affects your physical health. It is very much related to medicine
Not just that but “stress” in biochemistry/biomedicine could fill entire semesters full of lectures. On a hormonal, neurological, cellular level - stress is freaking fascinating.
Can you explain the tweet for me? First of all it implies that being poor or minority generates more stress than being rich or part of the majority, but then what about the molecular level?
As an example, being under this kind of chronic stress will very likely raise your cortisol levels, along with other hormones and neurotransmitters. Cortisol is great in the short term, but long term it suppresses the immune system, which means people are more susceptible to infection and diseases. It might even cause cancer defense to go down and make patients more likely to have worse treatment outcomes and be more likely to die from cancer (iirc from a lecture each day on average your body develops 6 new cancer cells. That means each day your body manages to identify and kill 6 cells that, if they don’t get detected, would cause cancer. You gotta have a good immune system to catch those cells. But please don’t quote me on that number, it was a random thing the prof said.)
Other reasons why being poor or a minority would lead to being sick are ofc food (cheap food is low in quality, for example it is usually low in fiber, which has been shown to reduce the risk of colon cancer or diverticulitis - and, obviously, obesity, diabetes, cholesterol and therelike). Being a minority also means that medication that works well for white males will work differently and therefore possibly worse on you. Most clinical studies in the past have been done on white males, and they have a different expression and/or different “versions” of certain enzymes that activate/deactivate drug compounds. (This problem also hits women who are often avoided in studies because of risk of pregnancy.)
If a poor person came in to the doctors office, they wouldn’t be getting adequate care if the doctor didn’t understand the impact their conditions have on their physical body.
"Molecule Man, Molecule Man,
unable to provide for his family man…"
What’s he like? It’s not important GET BACK TO WORK PLEB
Person Man, Person Man
Hit on the head with a frying pan
Lives his life in a garbage can
Person ManIs he depressed?
Or is he a mess?
Does he feel totally worthless?
Who came up with Person Man?
Degraded man,
Person Man.
Can you imagine the molecular and epigenetic damage being done to the Palestinian people right now?
We should send more monies so dey happy
That tends to happen when you get hit by an explosive.
Yeah, and not just molecular damage.
That sounds like Gabor Maté’s work.
Every day? Sounds stressful.
Signed up for stress, got stress 🤷 Does exactly what it says on the tin 😅
But seriously this world’s fucked :| :(
Better hope Ron DeSantis doesn’t see this or that course won’t be offered any more.
You think he can read?
Yes. DeSantis is what happens when weird and spiteful nerds get political power.
At least she didn’t accidentally end up in the mechanical engineering department learning about stress.