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“We do not know exactly how our our bodies can distinguish fuel from poop. We have some ideas; we all know there are a ton of nerve endings within the space, however the exact mechanism of our our bodies telling our brains ‘this can be a fart, let free’ is not actually understood. What blows my thoughts is that it is distinct sufficient that we even go fuel whereas asleep. That distinction should be wired DEEP!”
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“I’m an anesthesiologist. We nonetheless don’t really know why inhaled volatile anesthetics like sevoflurane, the primary anesthetic agent used to keep up common anesthesia, work. We type of have an concept of possibly the way it occurs, however we don’t actually know. It’s generally stated in my subject that whoever figures this out will win the following Nobel Prize in drugs.”
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“I am a sleep specialist. Whereas we do have some good theories about a few of the features of REM so far as the way it impacts the mind and well being, we nonetheless don’t fully understand the purpose of dreaming. Like, why will we dream in any respect, and why do desires have a story as a substitute of random incomprehensible imagery? Sadly, that is unlikely to even be solved.”
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For a lot of medicines, it’s not clear how they work, or even when they work (for instance, have a look at the precise efficacy trials of name-brand antidepressants). While you have a look at them in combination, they appear like they barely work. But, mainly all people is aware of anyone whose life was saved by a selected antidepressant.”
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“Psychiatry is still shockingly infantile in our understanding of human disorders. It is always in a state of flux, we do not perceive loads concerning the meds we at the moment use, and the diagnostic standards for issues nonetheless change as we understand, ‘Hey, possibly all these behaviors aren’t the identical supply dysfunction.’ It is extremely onerous to diagnose when the factors are largely based mostly on self-report and subjective observations.”
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“We all know subsequent to nothing about fibroids, which many ladies have in some unspecified time in the future of their lives. Contemplating the biggest one eliminated was round 100 kilos, it’s not precisely a minor problem. There are theories about totally different hormones and what issues put you at greater threat, however other than having surgical procedure to have your current ones eliminated, there may be mainly no data on what you are able to do to stop them from coming again.”
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“Ask any medical skilled about immunology, so little identified, so complicated.”
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“We don’t know what is meant to naturally bind to the area that benzodiazepines work at. Benzodiazepines, BZD, are medicines like Xanax and Valium. They produce anti-anxiety results and have a really distinct chemical form to suit into the BZD website in a bunch of 5 proteins. However, we don’t know what is meant to go there. Many medicines are analogs of naturally occurring binding molecules that we copy after which use to create an impact. The BZD website is for one thing, we simply don’t know what.”
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