Answers to Medicine Questions

Why does stress cause palpitations and then anxiety or chest tightness?

Is there a way that I can train myself in advance to avoid the risk of altitude sickness? I'm going to Tibet early...

What's the difference between good fats and bad fats, and are good fats actually good for you or just not as bad?

How do air sacs in the lungs help with gas exchange?

How does my body absorb the morphine in my dry-feeling patch?

Is it dangerous to live 500 metres away from a mobile phone mast?

Is there a reason for cyclic weight loss?

Do high roasted coffee beans cause cancer?

What causes the tremor seen in heavy coffee drinkers, and is that related to dopamine like with Parkinson's...

It's recommended that we eat 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day. So I'd like to know, if I liquidise...

If we store seasonal fruit and vegetables will they still have all the same nutrients as when they're fresh?

If you don't eat enough cholesterol - does your body not just make it anyway?

If red wine is good for us, is sherry good too?

Does peanut butter help to lower your cholesterol?

Humans spend all our lives one way up. So when we stand on our heads, everything is upside down. Bats spend half their...

Is it true that if you add fizzy mixers to alcoholic spirits you get drunk more quickly than if you added the same...

Can the muscles in the lower part of the bowel be repaired?

When you fry popadoms, why does it curl upwards away from the layer of oil?

While I'm working, what percentage of my brain is being used?

What happens physiologically when the body is cut off from oxygen?

What limits the length of the human life?

A car across the street has a flashing blue security light that's very faint when you look straight at it. But...

If the retina is grown on the back of the eye, as a part of the back of the eye, why does it seem to detach so easily,...