Hydration and Drinking Water
Hydration and Drinking Water play countless roles in keeping your body alive and healthy. Water allows your body to perfuse your organs with nutrients and oxygen while carrying away metabolic waste to be disposed of. The World Health organization estimates world wide about 1.1 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water. In the […]
Diabetes and Emergency Medicine
In the emergency room such as FRONTLINE ER, when patients say they are getting abnormally high readings of blood glucose in the absence of increase food intake and change in medication, the next questions are: is there an infection somewhere that is decreasing the patient’s glucose tolerance? Are they producing ketones because their bodies cannot push […]
How bad is Influenza or “the flu”?
Depending on the year, the number of deaths from Influenza or “the flu” can range from approximately 3000 in 1986-1987 to as high as 49,000 in 2003 and 2004 in the United States according to the CDC. To put these number into perspective, about 14,000 people die of AIDS in 2013, and about 33,000 people die […]