It's better to eat less meat than this dish! It's delicious and not expensive, it drains "toxins" and has stable blood pressure!

Some people think that celery is very delicious, and some people think that the taste is very strong. When eating celery, many people throw away the celery leaves, which is very wasteful. In fact, the celery leaves are very nutritious. The taste is good. In November, I would rather eat less meat than this dish. It is delicious and not expensive. It discharges toxins and has stable blood pressure.

Usually eggs and celery are very common vegetables, but what effect will the combination of the two have?

Scrambled Eggs with Celery Leaves

Scrambled eggs with celery leaves taste very good, and the method is very simple, you can learn it.

1. Wash the celery leaves and chop them into small pieces and place them in a bowl.

2. Beat the right amount of eggs into the bowl and put the chopped celery, the right amount of salt, chives, and mix well. These ingredients are put according to personal taste and appetite.

3. Put oil in the pot, wait until the oil is hot, add the eggs and celery.

It tastes good in this way without wasting ingredients.

Celery is a high-fiber food, can lose weight, beautification and beauty are good for the body, and celery leaves have the effect of reducing blood pressure and protecting blood vessels;

The protein in eggs is very high. The combination of the two is perfect. It can make people look better and smarter. It is good for the elderly or children.

People's Daily:

The benefits of eating celery are uninvited

"Materia Medica Pushing Chen" records that celery "cures liver-yang headache, red face, red eyes, light head-heavy, wandering walking, etc." In addition to clearing liver heat and reducing liver fire, what are the effects of eating celery?

Celery is rich in insoluble fiber, calcium, magnesium, potassium and carotene. It is also an excellent source of B vitamins and vitamin C.

Eating celery often has the following advantages:

1

Detoxification

Chinese medicine believes that celery tastes sweet and bitter but cool in nature, so it has the function of clearing heat, detoxifying and producing body fluid, which can obviously alleviate dry mouth and tongue caused by dry weather and heat. People with frequent irritations, rough skin, insomnia, and headaches can eat more celery.

2

Diuresis and swelling

Celery contains diuretic active ingredients, which can eliminate water and sodium retention in the body (sodium ion retention outside the cell causes edema), diuresis and swelling.

3

Pinggan blood pressure

There is a phytochemical in celery called apigenin, which belongs to flavonoids. It can improve blood vessel tension and relax blood vessels, thereby having a certain effect on lowering blood pressure.

4

Lower blood lipids

Celery contains a lot of fiber and minerals. Nutrition experts have also found in research that people who eat celery frequently have not only no increase in cholesterol in the body, but also significantly reduced blood lipids.

Celery is rich in crude fiber, which can stimulate gastrointestinal motility, promote bowel movements, and reduce the absorption of fat and cholesterol.

5

Prevent dental caries

Celery is a master at removing dental plaque. The crude fiber in celery is like a broom. It can not only remove part of the food residue and tartar on the teeth, but also stimulate the secretion of saliva during chewing, balance the acid value in the mouth, and achieve the natural antibacterial, anti-caries and tooth-fixing effect.

Don't just eat celery

1. Celery leaves

Nutritionists have tested the nutritional content of the stems and leaves of celery and found that there are many indicators in the celery leaves that exceed the stems. The niacin, vitamin B2, and vitamin C of celery leaves are more than twice that of stems, magnesium is 3.2 times that of stems, and carotene is 8.6 times that of stems.

2. Celery root

In addition to celery leaves, celery root, which is most easily overlooked by us, is the most nutritious part of celery.

Chinese medicine believes that celery root is the scavenger of the kidney and can help the kidney to expel damp toxins.

Especially for those who often eat meat and drink alcohol, the kidneys are prone to dampness and heat, some people will develop eczema on the waist, and some people will have painful urination, bleeding in urine, and even urinary white and cloudy like rice water. At this time, eating more celery root can relieve it.

As for the way to eat celery root, it is very simple. Soak it in hot water and flour for about 10 minutes, then boil it in boiling water for cooking. It can be eaten fresh or dried for later use.

How to eat celery

To give full play to the effects of celery, we must first distinguish the types of celery. Celery is divided into celery, parsley and medicated celery. If you want to achieve the purpose of diet therapy, it is best to choose parsley and medicated celery.

Medicinal celery is also ordinary Chinese celery, and the stem of parsley is thinner, and the effects of the two are similar. Chinese medicine believes that parsley is better for clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm, and the medicine is better for calming the liver and dampness.

Recommended way to eat

Celery Fried Shrimp

Stir-fried Celery with Cashew Lily

Sydney Celery Juice

Reminder: Although celery is good, people with diarrhea should not eat more!

Just steam and eat for three days to promote detoxification and flatten your stomach

Just steam it, eat for 3 days, detoxification and laxative! Stomach calms down in 7 days~

I remember that I used to eat celery leaves steamed by my mother, steamed it in a big pot, and mixed with garlic juice for one person and one bowl. The taste is much better. It is very greedy and addictive.

And if you eat too much celery, you are not afraid of getting fat, because it is a good food for detoxification and weight loss, so girls must eat more of this dish.

Celery is sweet, bitter, cool in nature, non-toxic, and belongs to the lung, stomach, and liver meridians.　　

It has the functions of calming the liver and clearing heat, dispelling wind and dampness, eliminating troubles and swelling, strengthening the stomach and blood, clearing the intestines, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, lowering blood pressure, strengthening the brain and calming down.

The method of celery leaf is also very simple. Just steam it once, and it will be a delicious dish. It can be used as a vegetable or as a staple food.

Steamed celery leaves

Ingredients preparation:

100 grams of celery leaves, 50 grams of flour, 1 teaspoon of sugar, 10 ml of white vinegar, 7 grams of salt, appropriate amount of sesame oil, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 spoon of corn oil, 2 grams of MSG

Practice steps:

(1) Wash the celery leaves and dry them with a sieve until no water drips, add a teaspoon of corn oil and mix well (keep green when steaming), then add flour and mix well;

(2) Add water to the steamer and spread the cloth. After the water boils, spread the leaves and steam for 8 minutes.

(3) Put garlic, salt, monosodium glutamate, and white sugar into a mud in stone mortar;

(4) Scoop out the garlic paste with a small spoon, add white vinegar and sesame oil to the right celery leaves and mix well.

I often eat this dish, it tastes good, you will know if you try it!

 The best place to travel in December丨Some beauty is only available in winter.

Annual rings of time

Never stopped for a while

There is only one last month left in 2020

Has the plan for the beginning of the year been completed?

Is the person in love waiting?

Have you gone where you want to go?

December is destined to be a special month

Connected to the end of the year

Also connected to the beginning of the year

at this time

Most of the country

Have entered the cold winter

A sudden snow

Can make the whole world very romantic

2020 is already tough enough

It's better to take advantage of this year's end

Go on a long-lost trip

These 10 travel destinations

Jingmei

Best for departure in December

So beautiful you don't want to go home

This December, you should come to Yandunjiao Village to take a look at the swans flying here from remote Siberia to overwinter.

Yandunjiao is a small fishing village surrounded by mountains and the sea. Because of these cute elves, the beach has a beautiful landscape, which makes people stop and leave for a long time.

There is no pollution and no harm to animals. They are free and noble to forage and rest here. Humans and animals should be so harmonious.

In the setting sun, they cruise freely, or chase streams, or soar in the sky, as far as they can look like dreams.

This also makes photography enthusiasts not calm, seize all good opportunities to take the most satisfactory photos.

This December, you should come to Laojun Mountain. When it snows, Laojun Mountain is not as beautiful as the world, but the heavenly palace is just so.

Unless you are on the scene, you never know how beautiful the snowy Laojun Mountain is.

If you can live on the top of the mountain for one night and open the window, you will be able to encounter the beauty of heaven. This winter will be enough to remember for a lifetime.

Snow quietly fell, falling on every corner of it, and it was fascinated by everyone who came.

Although the snowy weather is cold, when you climb step by step, there are five steps and one scene, ten steps and one majestic, no one remembers the cold, but only awe.

This December, you should come to Shennongjia to see the unsculpted original scenery.

The Shennongjia Mountain is densely forested and isolated from the rest of the world, and it has well preserved the scenery of the ancient times. In winter, covered with snow, it becomes more mysterious and primitive.

Before you walk by, you can't find people's footprints on the snow, maybe you can find the footprints of small animals. This is probably the little surprise that Shennongjia brought us.

The branches of the trees are covered with frost, which is as beautiful as the rime of Jilin. Just walk around here, it fades the emerald green of summer, and the world of ink and wash is also beautiful.

This December, you should come to Jingpo Lake. Once winter comes, it will become the hometown of Snow White.

Diaoshuilou waterfall was frozen from top to bottom, mist rose from the lake, and Apollo quietly rose from the east. At this moment, no amount of words can describe its beauty.

I could only hear the side, sighing "Wow" constantly.

Seriously, just for Jingpo Lake is worth a trip.

Snow country is on, urging me to travel far. When you stand in front of it, you will be shocked by the power of nature.

This December, you should come to Hailuogou. Countless people are obsessed with its summer but missed its winter.

This secret place privately held in western Sichuan contains fjords, ice waterfalls, pine forests, hot springs...you can find this beautiful fairy tale place without going abroad.

It’s really an enjoyment to put your eyes on paradise to hike in the snow here.

Perhaps as I walked, the sky began to snow again, and the white-headed white head also added a romantic feeling to Hailuogou.

This December, you should come to Tanzhe Temple to find a quiet time.

It is said that life in Beijing is fast-paced, but time in Tanzhe Temple can be slowed down, so quiet that you can hear the sound of falling snow.

"First there is Tanzhe Temple, then Beijing City", when you come to Beijing, in addition to the snow in the Forbidden City, you should come to see the snow in Tanzhe Temple.

Drink a cup of tea here, don't think about the past and fear the future.

This December, you should come to Wuzhen, the ancient town without makeup, and you will never be disappointed.

If you can meet snow, then don't hurry, stay here for a few days, sleep in the morning until you wake up naturally, and wander around the ancient town in the evening. It is not amazing, but it is enough to comfort your heart.

The simplicity of Wuzhen, in the snow, has become more and more dense.

Sitting in a daze by the window, you will fall in love with it accidentally, and it will become the most unforgettable memory in my heart in the days to come.

This December, you should come to Hemu Village. After the colorful autumn colors, there will be white snow here.

The cooking smoke of every house and the morning mist intertwined, and the livestock were waiting in front of and behind the house, waiting for the owner to feed, like a picture full of life.

The people who have never been to Hemu always think about it, and those who have been there never forget.

There is no noise and people flow in the city, only the comfort and coziness of a small village. This is probably the unique charm of Hemu.

This December, you should come to Wuliangshan Cherry Blossom Valley. When the whole country enters the cold temperature, the cherry blossoms all over the mountain will bloom early.

Every year from the end of November to the beginning of December, about 2,000 acres of cherry blossoms bloom enthusiastically along the valley for about 25 days, arousing people's infinite yearning and cherishing this earliest spring.

The tea trees are planted according to the mountain, and follow the mountain, like a piece of emerald green ground, stretching into the distance, with winter cherry blossoms dotted with it, pretty intoxicating.

Walking around here, the dyed hair is full of tea and flowers.

This December, you should come to Xishuangbanna, take off your heavy cotton clothes, and run in the warm land.

Lost in the tropical rain forest of Xishuangbanna, indulging in the characteristic customs of the Dai people...

There is always a trip in your life, which belongs to Xishuangbanna.

The sky gradually darkened, so I put on my favorite skirt and went to the Starlight Night Market to go shopping.

This is simply a girl’s paradise. When I come here, I am inexplicably excited. Who can resist the temptation of delicious food.

Wilde said: The only way to get rid of temptation is to surrender to temptation.

I can resist everything except temptation. Since the temptation to travel can't be resisted, let's go.

In December, we must seize the little tail of 2020, play as much as we want, and go hi.

 "New crown + flu", what to do this winter? Learn 3 strokes and spend the winter safely

Recently, when I opened a hot search on Weibo, the screen was full of snow, snow and snow, snow in Beijing, Tianjin, and Taiyuan...it was accompanied by various beautiful pictures of snow scenes and interesting things in the snow.

Source: Weibo

Although the snow scene is beautiful, it is fun to play in the snow, but don’t forget to protect yourself from the cold. After all, when winter comes, the flu will follow.

Especially this year, the new crown epidemic has not yet gone far, and it has also brought greater challenges to the prevention and control of this epidemic. In the recent period, confirmed cases and suspected cases have appeared in many places in China——

The epidemic and flu are superimposed, and if the autoimmunity is not in place at this time, it will be vulnerable to virus attack. Therefore, the task of improving self-immunity is imminent.

Improve immunity, try these 3 tricks

1

Regular schedule

Irregular work and rest, staying up late for a long time, and lack of sleep can destroy the body's immune system and make people vulnerable to diseases related to reduced immunity, such as urticaria and shingles.

Suggest

Combine work and rest, try not to stay up late, adults should ensure at least 7 hours of sleep a day. In addition, remembering "3 nos" before going to bed is helpful for sleep.

①Don't play with mobile phones

The screen light of electronic products such as mobile phones and tablets can stimulate the human body and reduce the secretion of melatonin. Melatonin can shorten the time to fall asleep and improve the quality of sleep. Once the secretion is reduced, the quality of sleep will naturally be compromised. So, half an hour before going to bed, stop playing with your mobile phone.

②Don’t eat supper

Eating too much before going to bed can easily stimulate the brain, thereby producing excitement and reducing sleepiness. Therefore, it is best not to eat 1 to 2 hours before going to bed. If you feel hungry, you can eat a few biscuits and drink a glass of milk. Don't eat too much.

③Do not exercise vigorously

Strenuous exercise will increase your heart rate, increase your breathing, and increase your spirits, which is not conducive to falling asleep smoothly. Friends who have exercise habits at night can do it 2 to 3 hours before going to bed.

2

Exercise

Proper exercise can improve the pumping function of the heart, allowing immune cells to function throughout the body through blood circulation.

Suggest

Exercise 5 times a week.

It should be noted that it is winter and the temperature is low. It is best to choose indoor sports venues to avoid colds.

Sports events are mainly softer, low-intensity events, such as jogging, brisk walking, Tai Chi, Baduan Jin, etc.

When exercising, you should avoid a lot of sweating, so as to avoid the cold wind blowing, causing headaches and brain fever, usually with warm hands and feet, ruddy complexion, and slight sweating. At the same time, clothing should not be too thick during exercise, and clothing should be added to keep warm after exercise.

3

Supplement Vitamin C appropriately

A proper amount of vitamin C supplementation is helpful to improve the body's immunity, which is specifically manifested in the three lines of defense of the immune system——

Help maintain the integrity of skin and mucous membranes

As the first line of defense of the immune system, skin and mucous membranes can keep most of the bacteria and viruses out of the body, and proper intake of vitamin C can help maintain the integrity of the skin and mucous membranes.

Promote phagocytosis of phagocytes

The second line of defense of the immune system is the bactericidal substances and phagocytes in body fluids, which can play the role of enveloping → engulfing → killing bacteria and other pathogens.

Vitamin C can improve the phagocytosis of phagocytes. For example, the phagocytic function of white blood cells depends on the level of plasma vitamin C. If the phagocytosis is strong, the ability to resist bacteria and other pathogens will be correspondingly enhanced.

Promote the differentiation and proliferation of lymphocytes

The third line of defense of the immune system includes humoral immunity and cellular immunity. Vitamin C can promote the differentiation and proliferation of lymphocytes, and through antioxidant effects, promote the formation of antibodies, making this third line of defense "firmer"!

In addition, vitamin C can also assist in the treatment of early viral colds and shorten the course of the disease.

Supplement vitamin C, are you still eating oranges?

Vitamin C is so good, how to make it up?

1

Dietary supplement

Such as eating oranges, tangerines, grapefruits and other foods with high vitamin C content.

This is a more straightforward method, but not the most effective.

According to the "Reference Intake of Dietary Nutrients for Chinese Residents", the daily intake of vitamin C for adults should be 100mg. If you want to achieve the effect of preventing chronic diseases, the recommended intake is 200mg.

The vitamin C content of oranges is 33mg/100g, and the vitamin C content of lemons is 22 mg/100g. If you want to reach 100mg, you have to eat at least half a catty of oranges and a catty of lemons. The amount of intake required is so large that few people can persist.

2

Vitamin C supplements

Currently, vitamin C supplements on the market are mainly divided into two categories: synthetic vitamin C and natural vitamin C.

Synthetic dimension C

Most of them are made by chemical synthesis after fermentation. Generally, the price is relatively affordable and there is no pressure to buy.

However, the composition is relatively single, and it is usually used as a medicine, or as a stabilizer or forming agent containing chemically synthesized components, which needs to be metabolized in the liver, which may increase the burden on the liver. Long-term intake may also form calcium oxalate stones.

Natural Vitamin C

Concentrated from fresh fruit and vegetable juice, it is closer to the needs of food supplements.

Compared with synthetic vitamin C, natural vitamin C is more abundant.

Take natural vitamin C from acerola cherries as an example. In addition to vitamin C, it also contains vitamins such as vitamin E and vitamin P, minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron, as well as nutrients such as carotene and dietary fiber.

The existence of these substances can help enhance the activity of vitamin C, stabilize and strengthen the role of vitamin C, and assist in the development of the physiological functions of vitamin C. This also makes natural vitamin C excellent in anti-oxidation, strengthening immunity, and fighting chronic diseases. In synthetic dimension C.

Further reading

How to distinguish between natural vitamin C and synthetic vitamin C

Take a look at the product name: natural vitamin C will write "natural vitamin C" on the product packaging, while synthetic vitamin C does not.

Second, look at the ingredient list: The ingredient list of natural vitamin C does not contain vitamin C (sodium)/ascorbic acid (sodium).

Yangshengtang natural VC,

Build your own immune armor

1

Green and natural: 100% sourced from Brazilian acerola cherry

Acerola cherries are not ordinary cherries. They belong to the order Acerola (Ordinary cherry belongs to Rosales). They contain a lot of natural vitamin C. On average, every 100g of acerola cherries contains 2440mg vitamin C4, which is 224 times that of ordinary cherries and 110 times that of lemons. It is one of the fruits with the highest vitamin C content.

In Brazil, whenever people catch a cold and have a fever, they eat a lot of acerola cherries to help them get better faster.

At the same time, acerola cherries also contain a variety of phytonutrients, such as carotenoids, anthocyanins, etc. These nutrients are naturally symbiotic with vitamin C and can assist vitamin C to function.

The natural vitamin C of Yangshengtang, 52.8mg vitamin C per tablet is all derived from this Brazilian acerola cherry, which is green and natural.

2

No additives: full physical transformation

The best picking period of acerola cherries is only 18 days, and the freshness period is short. Once the fruit leaves the branches, its nutrients will be lost quickly, so it is difficult to eat fresh acerola cherries in China.

In response to this problem, Yangshengtang cleaned and squeezed the acerola cherries in Brazil within 2 hours after hand-picking the acerola cherries, and transported them to the French factory in cold storage at minus 18°C, and then used low-temperature spray drying technology to remove the acerola The moisture in the cherries is instantly powdered to maximize the retention of nutrients and active ingredients in acerola cherries.

Moreover, the natural vitamin C of Yangshengtang does not add synthetic vitamin C, artificial coloring, and preservatives during the processing process, which preserves the natural flavor and nutrients of acerola to the greatest extent.

3

Strong immunity: has the function of enhancing immunity

Animal experiments have proved that the natural vitamin C of Yangshengtang has the health function of enhancing immunity.

Nowadays, it has just entered winter, the weather is hot and cold, and those with weak resistance will be invaded by the flu if they are not paying attention. Take precautions in advance and pay attention to supplementing vitamin C every day to help boost your immunity and live a safe winter.

 Cold legs and feet, beware of arterial occlusion in lower extremities

The 76-year-old Li Bo has repeatedly experienced cold feet and weakness in his lower limbs in the past six months. After walking a certain distance, he has to stop and rest. From time to time, he will have leg pain and the walking distance is getting shorter and shorter. Even shortened to 20 meters. In the past week, Li Bo’s right lower limb pain suddenly increased, telling his son that the leg pain was severe. The son found that Li Bo's toe was black and ulcerated, and he hurriedly sent Li Bo to the hospital for treatment. After a detailed examination by the receiving doctor, Li Bo was diagnosed with arteriosclerosis obliterans of the lower extremities and required interventional surgery.

Arteriosclerosis obliterans of the lower extremities is caused by the formation of atherosclerotic plaques in the lower extremities, which causes the arteries of the lower extremities to be narrowed and occluded, which in turn leads to chronic ischemia of the limbs, which causes chills in the feet and legs. With the increasing age of society, the incidence of lower limb ischemic diseases is also on the rise. The incidence of people over 70 years old is 15%-20%, and 5%-10% of patients can develop severe lower limb deficiency. Blood, even the need for amputation.

Li Bo was surprised when he learned that his cold feet needed surgery. As everyone knows, almost all patients have symptoms ranging from mild to severe: cold lower limbs, weakness in the lower limbs, pain in the lower limbs, and progressive development of lower limb ulcers. When symptoms such as coldness, numbness, or even pain appear in the lower limbs, many people think that it is not a serious illness and do not seek medical attention in time. When symptoms such as rotten feet appear, it is often too late to go to the hospital.

When many patients have symptoms of lower extremity ischemia, there is often a risk of severe ischemia in the heart and brain vessels. If we can pay enough attention to the danger signs of some vascular diseases and go to the hospital for examination in time, we can achieve early prevention, early diagnosis, and early diagnosis. Treat early. Li Bo's low-extremity arteriosclerosis obliterans was caused by perennial high blood pressure.

So, what are the danger signs of lower limb ischemia? According to the clinical symptoms of patients, they can be divided into four stages:

Stage I: Mild symptom period. Most patients have mild symptoms, such as cold limbs, numbness, and fatigue when walking.

Stage II: Intermittent claudication. Intermittent claudication is a characteristic manifestation of arteriosclerotic obliterans. The longer the claudication time and the shorter the walking distance, the more severe the arterial disease.

Stage III: Resting and painful period. The lesion worsened, and there was ischemic pain at rest, that is, resting pain. Resting pain is a precursor to gangrene in the affected limb. The pain is mostly in the front half of the foot or toe of the affected limb.

Stage IV: the ulcer and gangrene stage. Acral ulcers are aggravated by the ischemia of the affected limb. In severe cases, limb gangrene occurs, and the combined infection accelerates gangrene.

Can radiation protection "artifact" really protect you?

Nowadays, putting a pot of cactus in front of the computer has become the standard equipment of the network office family. It is said that "the cactus can prevent radiation." In addition to cacti, various Internet celebrity anti-radiation products are very popular among white-collar workers, ranging from mobile phone anti-radiation film and anti-radiation glasses to large anti-radiation screens, radiation protection suits for pregnant women... and even iodized salt is used for radiation protection. Can these "artifacts" really prevent radiation?

Is cactus anti-radiation?

Some people say that cacti can play an important role in radiation protection, but even the deity of cactus also said that they "did not know". Another common misunderstanding is that you can protect the fetus from radiation effects by wearing radiation protection suits for pregnant women. In fact, the radiation protection effect of a thin layer of clothing is really minimal. Professionals are protected against X-rays, but they must wear thick lead clothing.

Is iodized salt really versatile?

Looking back at the Fukushima nuclear spill in Japan in 2011, the iodized salt in domestic supermarket stores was sold out. So, can iodized salt really play a role in radiation protection? In fact, stable iodine can only protect the thyroid, but not other parts of the body. Because iodine is close to the thyroid part of the human body, if stable iodine preempts the thyroid part, it can prevent the adverse effects of radioactive iodine 125 or 131 on the thyroid. In other words, iodine does have a protective effect. However, the iodine content in iodized salt is negligible. Compared with the iodine tablets we took before the radiation accident, the iodine content in 3 kilograms of table salt is equivalent to the iodine content in one iodine tablet. Therefore, the radiation protection of iodine is very important, and iodized salt is not a panacea.

Radiation is everywhere

In nature, any object whose temperature is higher than absolute zero (-273°C) will produce radiation. In other words, all objects will produce radiation, in the form of heat radiation or other forms, and most of them will not harm the human body.

The natural radiation in nature comes from the sun, cosmic rays and radionuclides in the earth's crust. Human beings have adapted to the environment of natural radiation. For example, the annual radiation dose of marble is less than 0.17mSv, which is equal to the radiation dose of eating 1700 bananas. The element radon is the most common radioactive element in daily life. Most of it appears in gaseous form. It is usually contained in natural stone and causes almost no harm to the human body. Uranium, the nuclear raw material we are familiar with, actually only accounts for a few percent of uranium ore. It needs to be refined and enriched to have high radioactivity. It was once used in the porcelain and glass industries. Therefore, radiation is everywhere.

Three Brothers of Ionizing Radiation

According to the standard of whether it can ionize the atoms or molecules of a substance to form charged particles (ions and electrons), radiation can be divided into two types: ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. Among them, non-ionizing radiation has low energy, such as ultraviolet, visible light, microwave, radio waves, etc., which are extremely common in daily life. Non-ionizing radiation occurs in mobile phones, TVs, and microwave ovens around us, but normal use will not affect health.

Ionizing radiation includes alpha particles, beta particles, protons, neutrons, X-rays, gamma rays, etc., which can cause harm to the human body under sufficient intensity. Among them, the three brothers of particles α, β, and γ are the three kinds of particles often produced in ionizing radiation. Alpha particles have a mass close to 4 times the mass of protons, are positively charged, and have a speed of 1/10 of the speed of light. Their penetrating ability is extremely weak, and a piece of white paper can block them. The mass of beta particles is equivalent to 1/1800 of the mass of protons. They are negatively charged and have a speed of 9/10 the speed of light. A thicker aluminum plate is needed to stop them. Gamma rays are actually photons with a small mass limit and the speed of light. Only standing behind a thick concrete wall can be protected from high-intensity gamma radiation.

Radiation protection follows principles

When encountering radiation, we must shorten the exposure time as much as possible, stay as far away as possible from radioactive contaminated areas, and use lead plates, steel plates or walls to block or reduce the intensity of exposure. That is, when encountering different radiation conditions and different radiation particles mentioned above, protection should be carried out under the three principles of radiation protection of time, distance and isolation.

Be sure to pay attention to eating and drinking. After a nuclear radiation emergency, emergency protection should be carried out in time. The food should be placed in a closed container or refrigerator. Food that has not been closed beforehand should be washed before being put into the container. In addition, do not drink desalinated water.

Be sure to protect your nose and mouth. When you enter an area where the air is heavily polluted by radioactive materials, guard your facial features. For example, cover your mouth and nose with a handkerchief, towel, cloth, mask, etc. to reduce the inhalation of radioactive materials.

Be vigilant in ventilation and air intake. After a nuclear radiation emergency occurs, pay attention to timely closing windows and vents and use recirculating air. If you stay indoors, turn off the air conditioner, ventilation fan, boiler and other air inlets. Keep windows and vents closed in the car and use circulating air inside the car.

Don't forget about personal cleaning. If you have been exposed to nuclear radiation pollution, you must change your clothes and shoes in time. Put the exposed clothing in a plastic bag, seal it and mark it, and store it in a remote place. Wash your body thoroughly.

Body protection is very important. After a nuclear radiation emergency, avoid rain, minimize exposed parts, and wear long clothes, hats, turbans, glasses, raincoats, gloves, and boots. The protection of the neck (thyroid) is especially important.

Keeping the information channels unblocked For the safety and health of yourself and others, remember to call the “12369” environmental protection report number of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment in time when an accident occurs. In the event of an incident, try to obtain reliable information about emergencies and understand the decisions and notifications of government departments. We should maintain information communication with national authorities through various means, and avoid credulous rumors or gossip.

Nuclear and life are closely related

Artificial nuclear radiation has become more and more widely used in the fields of industry, medicine, agriculture, military, aerospace, and energy. For example, nuclear energy, as we know it, as an efficient and safe green energy source, has already played an important role in energy supply, and the radiation level around nuclear power plants is far lower than natural radiation.

In food, nuclear radiation can inhibit the sprout of garlic and beans, and extend the shelf life of vegetables and preserved fruits. A considerable part of the food is also made from radiation-induced crops, such as the soybeans and rice that we often eat. These foods themselves do not cause harm to the human body. In daily life, X-ray security inspection devices are widely used in subways, airports and other places to conduct safety inspections on luggage. Our lives are closely related to nuclear, and making good use of radiation is the only way to welcome a better and brighter life in the future.

Nuclear technology is already a close partner in our lives. What we have to do is not to talk about nuclear discoloration, but to constantly master relevant scientific knowledge, to understand nuclear, make good use of nuclear technology, and do a good job in nuclear emergency protection. On the basis of health and health, enjoy the fruits of nuclear technology.

 Daily walking steps and mortality

In May of this year, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a paper. Researchers conducted a survey of more than 18,000 elderly American women (average age 72) from 2011 to 2015, and asked them to wear recording equipment for 7 consecutive days. Number of steps and pace per day.

Then, we tracked and investigated the conditions of these people from 2018 to 2019 and found that 504 people had died. From this analysis, the relationship between the number of walking steps per day and the mortality rate was obtained.　

The result of the analysis is:

Walking is indeed good for health and can effectively reduce the risk of death. The mortality rate is reduced by about 15% for every 1,000 steps of walking per day; when the daily walking reaches 4,400 steps, the mortality rate decreases significantly. Compared with 2,700 steps per day, the risk of death is reduced by about 40%; The lower the risk of death, until 7500 steps per day, the risk of death will no longer decrease or increase.

So the conclusion is: walking 7,500 steps a day for the elderly is the most beneficial for longevity.　　

In addition, this study also analyzed the relationship between walking speed and mortality. It was found that the speed of walking has nothing to do with the mortality. Excessive walking speed can easily cause accidents such as falls and fractures.

2. How to walk is the healthiest?

Walking is recognized by the World Health Organization as "the best sport in the world".

Studies have shown that people who walk a lot are healthier. Whether it's hiking or keeping pace, you can exercise your body. Experts believe that walking 6000 steps a day can achieve the effect of fitness. Why on earth?

Experts believe: walking 6000 steps per day ≈ 3 to 4 kilometers walking distance ≈ 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise

The Chinese Nutrition Society recommends that the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents" also recommends that adults perform a total of more than 6000 steps of physical activity every day. Therefore, 6000 steps a day is the healthiest number of steps to walk!

After finishing these 6000 steps in one go, your health will be improved qualitatively!

As the saying goes, "You can live ninety-nine by walking a hundred steps after a meal." Every day, we take a few steps to go to the toilet, a few steps up and down, a few steps in an office... But apart from these fragmentary steps, being able to walk 6000 steps a day can really improve everyone's health. As long as you finish these 6000 steps in one breath and stick to it for a long time, your health will improve qualitatively.

The best time to exercise is from 8 am to 10 am.

The heart beats blood 100,000 times a day. After the blood goes out, it must return to the heart. Who is working? The muscles of the whole body.

The way to improve the heart by walking is actually very simple:

Swing your arms up, preferably shoulder-level, take your steps away and breathe. Persevering for 15-20 minutes a day is more effective than walking for two hours.

Experts say that long-term, rhythmic, and relatively fast walking can improve health due to six reasons:

Consumption of calories is conducive to weight control;

Promote venous return of lower limbs and protect the heart;

Exercise coordination and sense of balance, delay aging;

Move the muscles and bones to clear the stagnant veins;

Enhance cardiopulmonary function and improve blood circulation;

Relax the tired brain and restore energy.

Walk in the correct posture every day

It can enhance physical fitness and improve immunity!

Correct walking posture

all in all

The best way to exercise is to walk!

 Too arrogant! Betel nut is carcinogenic, and more than 20,000 people have their faces cut. "Blocking" is useless, threatening to buy a doctor's head!

I believe everyone has a feeling--

There are so many betel nut advertisements around!

Elevators, bus stations, variety shows, live e-sports... all are betel nut ads.

Chewing betel nut causes oral cancer, it is a fact recognized by the medical profession.

△In 2013, "The Face-Cut Man in the Kingdom of Betel Nuts" nakedly demonstrated the horror of chewing betel nuts

However, in the past few years, the sales of betel nuts have not declined at all, but have grown rapidly.

For example, X Weiwang, a leading betel nut company, and its high-end brand "XX World", sold 800 million packages in 6 years.

According to its official website, "annual tax payment exceeds 100 million yuan, and tax payment has increased by more than 60 times in 10 years."

Incredible!

Isn't it carcinogenic? Why can advertisements be overwhelming, as if there is no such thing?

Betel nut, why can it be so arrogant!

Students studying music in Wuhan

I can't open my mouth

Hubei, the "neighbor" of the hometown of betel nuts, has a deep understanding of how terrible betel nuts are.

Seven or eight years ago, Peng Youjian, director of the Department of Stomatology, Wuhan University People's Hospital, met the first betel nut patient, and he is still very impressed.

"He is a student of a certain music conservatory in Wuhan. He is a handsome guy from the Northeast. Suddenly he can't open his mouth."

The upper jaw, soft palate, buccal and sublingual mucosa are all fibrotic. The opening degree is 1.5cm, and even a horizontal finger cannot be put in.

And he spent less than half a year chewing betel nuts.

After I came to Wuhan to go to school, I saw that my roommates in Hunan were all eating betel nuts and followed them.

△ Pickled Betel Nut

There were many such college students. In addition, there are migrant workers and drivers, all of whom are young men in their 20s and 30s.

These people have obvious characteristics: their faces become stiff, and they have no expressions when they speak.

Director Liu Zhiming of the Department of Stomatology of Wuhan University People's Hospital mentioned that in Hubei, the incidence of oral submucosal fibrosis and oral cancer is increasing year by year.

"Most of it is related to chewing betel nuts."

In 2016 and 2017, Wuhan University Stomatological Hospital received a total of 2608 patients with oral mucosal fibrosis. They all have the habit of chewing betel nut for a long time. The shortest time to onset is only two to three months.

This is just the initial stage of the evil of betel nut.

△Wuhan University People's Hospital

Professor Jian Xinchun of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of Xiangya Hospital of Central South University clearly stated in his publication "Betel Nut Carcinogens and Oral Cancer"-

"Chewing betel nut can cause oral submucosal fibrosis, which is a kind of precancerous lesions that can turn into oral cancer after a long-term chronic pathological process."

The ingredients in betel nut, such as arecoline, betel nut tannin, and reactive oxygen species, are inherently cytotoxic and even carcinogenic.

Once the oral mucosal epithelium thickens or hyperkeratosis, or progresses to oral cancer, you can only "cut your face."

In 2013, "The Face-cut Man in the Betel Nut Kingdom" reported the experience of Liu Sangguo from Xiangtan——

Underwent oral cancer surgery, the left mandible, left gum and lymph were cut off, and the atrophic face was sunken into a fist-sized deep pit. The left eye nerve was also compressed after the operation, and by 2013 he was completely blind.

There are even more terrifying tongue cuts.

After the tongue is cut, the taste function is lost, and the swallowing function is reduced; if the tongue is not cut, the oral cancer has spread, and he may not live for two years, or starve to death, or die of pain.

Some patients also have to cut meat from the thighs, arms or chest to "patch" the tongue. In the end, the hair on the legs grew from the tongue, and he had to come to the hospital for trimming regularly.

It's scary.

In the process of seeking medical treatment for patients with oral cancer, every photo recording will give people a strong sense of shock and discomfort.

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△Left: Patients with suboral mucosal lesions; Right: Patients with oral cancer surgery

In 2017, Xiangya Hospital estimated that there were nearly 25,000 cases of oral cancer induced by betel nut in Hunan, accounting for one-third of the country's total, a staggering proportion.

Wang Han from Xiangtan, the strongest "betel nut carrier"

Contrary to the horror of betel nut, it has unscrupulous advertisements across the country.

Guangzhou is a typical example.

This city hardly eats betel nuts. Now, you can meet it whenever you walk out of the house.

On the bus station, the advertisement of betel nut is bright yellow, very big and conspicuous.

△A betel nut advertisement at a bus station in Guangzhou (photographed by reporter Jiang Ying)

△A betel nut advertisement on a Guangzhou bus

A Weibo netizen said: "Reminds me of my fear of being dominated by XX world advertisements in Changsha Metro."

You can also buy betel nuts in convenience stores and commissaries, and some are placed at the checkout counter, just like buying chewing gum.

△The betel nut in the canteen is on the counter (Source: Internet)

As early as 2003, the World Health Organization identified betel nuts as a first-degree carcinogen.

However, in the same year, when Wang Han was the host of "Super Girl", he verbally broadcast the slogan of a certain brand of betel nut "Your taste, I know".

Suddenly, the sales blowout, becoming Hunan's largest green fruit betel nut brand.

△Wang Han endorses betel nut advertisement

This is the test of the entertainment marketing of betel nut enterprise.

From 2017 to 2019, "XX King" sponsored Hunan Satellite TV Spring Festival Gala for 3 consecutive years;

In 2017 and 2018, it was named the Lantern Festival Joy Club at the same time;

"XX World" Betel Nut, named Mango TV's self-made variety show "Wild Kitchen";

In the variety show "1.3 Billion Decibels" hosted by Wang Han, Wang Han and Sa Beining chewed betel nuts and broadcast live...

High-profile publicity has brought considerable benefits.

For example, "XX King"——

According to its official data, overall sales in 2017 rose 78% year-on-year; in 2018, the market share exceeded 50%, and the high-end market accounted for 71%.

Not a young man

Escape from the betel nut advertisement

Middle-aged men in small towns smoke and chew betel nuts. This is the original image of the betel nut crowd.

But now, they are all targeting young people.

What do young people like, where are the betel nuts?

Variety shows, NBA stadiums, live e-sports, major short video platforms...

This year, "XX King" was named the basketball sports variety show "This is Slam Dunk".

"Xiangtan XX" sponsored the Deyun Club reality show "De Yun Dou Laugh Club". The players and guests in the show are familiar faces of young people.

In the 2016 NBA season, betel nuts also appeared at the Golden State Warriors VS Memphis Grizzlies game.

△In the sports and competitive variety show "This Is Slam Dunk 3", which was launched this year, the contestants showed the betel nut products titled the show. The show targets young people.

E-sports is a more accurate circle of young people, and they often sit in front of the computer for a whole day, and they need to be refreshed.

In 2017, XX Betel Nut sponsored the ECGC e-sports competition held in Hubei Province and even sold it on site.

In 2019, he appeared on the Huya live broadcast platform again, titled the League of Legends S9 National Finals.

△ Live broadcast platform Douyu's betel nut advertisement

Brush your face frequently and high-profile for a long time, don't believe you are not interested.

Faced with doubts about health risks, businesses launched corresponding health care products to dispel health concerns.

"No burning", "No smoke", "Goji berry betel nut", "Break betel nut", "Coffee betel nut", "Mint betel nut"...

Carcinogenic things are packaged as health products. Are you ironic?

It was once blocked, but it was blocked for two months.

Does no one care about such a high frequency of facial promotion?

I managed it, but it was useless.

In February 2019, an article entitled "Billions of "soft drug" betel nuts and 60 million Chinese who are addicted" sparked heated debate.

In March, the Hunan Betel Nut Food Industry Association issued the "Notice on Stopping Advertising"——

Stop all domestic advertisements, and stop publishing media platforms including but not limited to newspapers, radio stations, television stations, highways, airports, railway trains, subways, buses, network platforms, electronic screens, shop signs, cinemas, taxi tops, etc.

However, this ban did not last long.

In March, a "ban" was issued;

In May, the betel nut "advertisement" blossomed in disguise on the short video platform.

△In May, King XX launched a short video challenge on the short video platform, with a cash prize of 10,000 yuan to attract participants to shoot and publish videos related to King of Taste. Has been played more than 10 million times

Now, in major cities, there are betel nut advertisements all over the streets.

Is the ban a dead letter?

Some media asked relevant departments for verification, and the Hubei Provincial Market Supervision Bureau stated that advertisers would not interfere with their normal business operations as long as they did not violate the Advertising Law.

It can be seen that the documents issued by the industry association are not legally binding on betel nut enterprises.

To put it bluntly, it means "control yourself". Whether to fulfill it or not depends entirely on self-consciousness.

But who would really hit his job?

In fact, as early as 2013, CCTV's "News 30 Minutes" reported on the carcinogenicity of betel nut, and the betel nut brand encountered a large-scale collective boycott.

In February last year, the National Health Commission issued the "Healthy Oral Action Plan" and directly named——

Chewing betel nut is a high-risk behavior that causes oral diseases.

The magic is that after experiencing the "winter" again and again, it can "recover" with the help of high-profile marketing.

How big is the capital power behind betel nut?

Hunan doctor was threatened to buy a head of 800,000 people

The reporter called Xiangya Hospital of Central South University to make an appointment with Professor Jian Xinchun of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, but was refused.

The correspondent revealed that because of warnings from the local betel nut industry, Professor Jian would not come forward for an interview.

As early as 2014, Professor Jian Xinchun said that someone had threatened to spend 800,000 on his head.

In 1983, he admitted to a 15-year-old girl who sold betel nuts at home, so she ate every day. As a result, I couldn't open my mouth, and couldn't eat spicy or salty ones.

At that time, Professor Jian Xinchun put his finger in and touched the oral mucosa. The cheeks were very hard, as if he had touched a hard board.

Later, the girl was diagnosed with oral submucosal fibrosis.

This is the first time that betel nut has been found to be associated with oral mucosal lesions in China.

Since then, Professor Jian has conducted a large number of field and empirical investigations, holding real evidence that betel nut causes cancer.

In 2019, the "Research on the Causes of Oral Submucosal Fibrosis and the Correlation of Carcinogenesis" published by Jian Xinchun's team mentioned that the relative risk of oral submucosal fibrosis in the betel nut chewing group is that the betel nut chewing group 109 ~287 times.

He made it clear that chewing betel nut is directly related to oral cancer. Precancerous lesions appear but are ignored. 3.3%-4.5% of people will become cancerous.

But these voices were repeatedly covered up.

△After oral cancer surgery (Source: Internet)

The betel nut industry is the economic pillar of Hunan and Hainan.

Wanning, Hainan is the largest producer of betel nut, while Hunan is the largest producer of betel nut on the mainland.

In 2018, the "People's Daily" reported that the annual output value of the betel nut processing industry in Hunan Province has exceeded 10 billion yuan, and more than 300,000 people are engaged in betel nut production and processing.

In Hainan, the betel nut industry can create an annual output value of 14.6 billion yuan this year, which can be called a "golden fruit" and is an important source of income for Hainan's 2.3 million farmers.

As a result, betel nut is always swinging between "God of Wealth" and "God of Death".

Then you can only take a step back.

At the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress in 2018 and 2019, Bian Zhuan, the dean of Wuhan University Dental Hospital, twice submitted a proposal to the National People’s Congress to suggest that the packaging of betel nut products should be printed with hazard warnings and the sale to minors should be prohibited. Betel nut.

"Control betel nut chewing like smoking."

A city full of betel nut advertisements

The future is the hardest hit area for oral cancer

No more action

It's too late!

 Snoring has become "the source of chronic disease"

Why do people snore

Snoring is a very common phenomenon. In the traditional concept, snoring was once considered to be "satisfying and sleeping" and living a happy life. In fact, people snoring because of the narrowness of the airway, nasal cavity, or pharyngeal cavity. As the person exhales and inhales, the airflow rushes through the narrowed area, vibrates the mucous membrane, and snoring sounds.

During night sleep, nerve excitability decreases, muscles relax, upper airway mucosa collapses, and local stenosis is formed. When airflow passes through the stenosis, there will be snoring, and in severe cases, partial blockage will be formed, and breathing will stop temporarily.

Snoring is completely uncontrollable. Some people never snore, while some people snore constantly all night. Snoring not only affects the sleep of people around you, but also poses a serious threat to your own health.

More than just making "noise"

Now more and more studies have found that snoring is the "source disease" of various chronic diseases.

Severe snoring, we can also call it "malignant snoring", can cause repeated upper airway blockage during sleep, intermittent breathing airflow, affect oxygen exchange, and cause a decrease in blood oxygen saturation. It is clinically called obstructive sleep breathing Pause syndrome. The disease can increase the prevalence of chronic diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, senile dementia, respiratory diseases, and childhood growth and development disorders on the basis of causing metabolic disorders.

Patients frequently suffer from apneas or hypoventilation, and the oxygen content in the blood decreases, causing frequent awakenings during sleep, thereby destroying the sleep structure. Patients will have a series of clinical symptoms such as obvious daytime sleepiness, mood swings, and memory loss.

Snoring is also divided into good and evil

Many people snoring only happens occasionally, such as when they are tired, after drinking alcohol, or when there is a problem with their sleeping posture. Snoring that only occurs under certain circumstances generally does not cause damage to important organs such as the heart, brain, and kidneys. We can call it "benign snoring" for the time being. If the snoring further develops and becomes constant snoring throughout the night, or even apnea, then it becomes a "malignant snoring".

The so-called "malignant snoring" refers to long-term holding of breath and snoring during sleep, accompanied by irreversible damage to important organs such as heart, brain and kidney. Once it develops into a "malignant snoring", we must pay enough attention. If it cannot be treated in time, if it exists for a long time, it will cause irreversible damage to our health.

Children's snoring should also arouse the attention of parents. Children's snoring is mostly caused by tonsil hypertrophy and adenoid hyperplasia. Hyperplastic tonsils and adenoids can block the child's nasal cavity or upper respiratory tract, causing nasal congestion, sinusitis, mouth breathing, sleep snoring and other symptoms. Long-term poor breathing and cerebral hypoxia and ischemia in children can also lead to inattention, slow response, and decreased memory, which affects intellectual development. At the same time, they are also prone to otitis media and cause repeated upper respiratory tract infections.

How to judge whether there is sleep apnea

Many people snore without realizing it, mostly by family members or roommates. If you want to judge whether you have sleep apnea, in addition to relying on others to observe, you can also make a preliminary judgment through the following symptoms.

1. Get up in the morning with dry mouth, dry tongue and throat discomfort.

2. After waking up, there is no relief from fatigue and sleepiness during the day.

3. Inattention, memory loss.

4. Get up frequently at night.

5. Easy to wake up during sleep or difficulty falling asleep.

6. Emotional instability.

7. Exacerbation of the original chronic diseases, such as unstable blood pressure.

If you have the above symptoms, you may have sleep breathing disorder, and it is recommended to see a doctor as soon as possible. Doctors can confirm the diagnosis based on symptoms and polysomnography.

Standard polysomnography monitoring requires patients to stay in a specific sleep monitoring room in the hospital for at least one night to collect sleep structure, sleep depth, arousal status, respiratory airflow, heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen content, and brain during the entire night. Various information such as electricity. On the second day, a professional doctor will manually analyze the monitoring results, and finally a complete report will be issued.

There are also many portable sleep monitoring and examination equipment, which can be installed and taken home for monitoring, and then returned to the hospital the next day, which can reduce the discomfort of patients in the hospital and improve the accuracy.

In the future, we look forward to enabling everyone to complete the diagnosis without leaving home through wearable devices. This set of wearable sleep monitoring equipment can send sleep monitoring information instantly through the cloud after a simple operation. These monitoring information can include ECG, EEG, EMG, blood pressure, respiratory rate, respiratory airflow, blood oxygen saturation, sound and electricity, etc. All data collection can be done at home, and the information collection is transmitted to the cloud via mobile APP , Intelligent analysis can be completed in an instant. Our team has also been developing it for 5 years, and it should be just around the corner to walk around the patient.

How to treat snoring

The pathological mechanism of sleep-disordered breathing diseases is complicated. Therefore, treatment methods are diverse. At present, it is advocated to implement individualized comprehensive treatment according to the characteristics of patients' different conditions. For some obese patients with excessive body mass index, weight loss should be encouraged and sleep on their sides as much as possible. For patients with other bad habits, such as smoking, drinking, or drug abuse, it is recommended to regulate good habits.

For more severe patients, clinical treatment mainly includes noninvasive positive airway pressure (NPPV) treatment, oral appliance treatment, or surgical intervention treatment, including nasal cavity expansion, pharyngeal cavity correction surgery, Han-UPPP surgery, etc. Children should be treated actively, so as not to affect their intelligence and physical development, they can be treated with drugs, and if necessary, tonsils or adenoids can be removed.

 How exactly did Beethoven's ears become deaf?

Who is the hottest musician in the world? It is difficult to conclude on this issue.

But if you ask, who is the hottest musician in the medical world? The answer is Beethoven.

Or to be more precise, it is the ears of music masters.

This "Le Saint" who suffered from deafness prayed in the "Heiligenstadt Testament" that one day the cause of his deafness could be revealed to the world.

In this regard, the medical scientists answered very sincerely: nearly a hundred research documents, and the causal inferences that are always the same.

On the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, we collected relevant documents in order to restore an answer that is closest to the truth.

The sickly saint

In the "Biography of Beethoven" by Romain Roland, there is a sentence that basically everyone can recite:

"I want to hold the throat of fate, I will never admit defeat!"

But it is not so much that Beethoven is struggling with fate, it is better to say that he is fighting with him for a lifetime of illness. If this great artist had his own medical record, his past medical history would be densely written.

Before the age of 17, Beethoven's body was still healthy, but since a respiratory infection began, the illness has clung to him.

In 1792, the 22-year-old Beethoven had abdominal pain and diarrhea for the first time. At the same time, arthritis also began to attack. Beethoven, who suffered from abdominal pain for many years, contracted jaundice in his later years and was accompanied by vomiting blood. His liver problems are also getting worse.

A year before his death, he had begun to have yellowish face and oliguria and abdominal edema. Before he died, he had taken four times for the accumulation of water in his abdomen, each time he only got short relief.

According to modern medicine, abdominal fluid accumulation and acid-base imbalance cause breathing difficulties. The final cause of coma, liver and kidney failure should be the direct cause of Beethoven's death.

Timeline of Beethoven's medical history (source: made by myself)

Talking to his friends about his growing belly, the music master is occasionally optimistic and even self-deprecating, but when it comes to the gradually malfunctioning ears, his words are almost full of despair and pain.

In 1801, the 26-year-old Beethoven first talked about his ear disease in his correspondence. Since then, his progressive illness has repeatedly appeared in the letter. Of course, these complaints with his friends also inadvertently enriched his illness for future generations.

To sum up, Beethoven's initial symptoms are sudden inability to recognize high-frequency sounds in the left ear, followed by progressive tinnitus and hearing loss, but the progress is slow bilaterally. The 56-year-old is determined to be deaf in the left ear, and the 57-year-old is determined to be both ears. deaf.

The tortured Le Sheng wrote in his will before his death that he must undergo an autopsy after death, so that later generations of doctors can clarify the truth of deafness.

But the ridiculous thing is that before the anatomy doctor's report was issued, the rumors had begun to spread everywhere. Beethoven's deafness was caused by syphilis, even now this assertion still appears.

But as long as it is more truthful, this hypothesis is actually the least reliable of all the inferences.

As far as Ye Youshi is concerned, he really has no chance of being exposed to syphilis. Although Beethoven is a gifted man, he is not romantic. Because of his ugly appearance, Beethoven has not been married in his life. The talented composer has a conservative view of men and women:

When Beethoven learned that his friend was tainting his wife, he chose to resolutely break with him. Moreover, he once spit out Mozart in the letter because of "Don Juan"-he actually used this kind of promiscuous sex ghost as the protagonist of the opera.

"Don Juan" source: Wikipedia

From a clinical point of view, syphilis theory is also difficult to stand up. Although the medicine in the Renaissance era was very obscure, it is not difficult to diagnose a highly apparent disease such as syphilis. In Beethoven's information, we could not find any medical advice or prescriptions related to syphilis. In the autopsy report of the body after death, there is no description of syphilis.

The demise of the syphilis viewpoint is also reflected in the paper, and the literature on Beethoven and syphilis has almost disappeared in recent years.

However, the opinions put forward by medical scientists based on Beethoven's clinical symptoms and anatomical reports have become more and more.

Differential diagnosis

Up to now, there are many possible causes of Beethoven's deafness on PubMed, and there are many industry leaders, which can be called fairy fights.

A rough distinction can be divided into two gangs: conductive deafness and neurological deafness.

The cause of conductive hearing loss is otosclerosis, which is an unexplained bony disease of the ear capsule that involves overgrowth of bone in the stapes foot.

Reference 6

The pathological mechanism is the accumulation of abnormal new bone. With the development of overgrowth, the stapes can no longer have the function of a piston, but shake back and forth, and finally become completely fixed. The conductivity gradually deteriorates until it reaches the maximum conductive hearing loss of 60dB.

Progressive hearing loss in both ears or one ear is the main symptom, and it can also be accompanied by tinnitus and dizziness. These seem to overlap with Beethoven's symptoms. At the same time, the incidence of otosclerosis is the highest among Caucasians, and most of the patients are young and middle-aged, which is also in line with Beethoven's race and time of onset.

But this theory also has flaws. First of all, the actual basis for conductive deafness comes from a widely circulated physics story: Beethoven used bone conduction hearing aids for a long time after hearing problems with his teeth-biting one end of a wooden stick with his teeth. Put the other end on the piano to listen to the sound of your own playing.

In fact, this story has always lacked written evidence. Beethoven used many hearing aids, and he has been complaining about ineffectiveness.

The hearing aid used by Beethoven. Source: Wikipedia

Second, Beethoven's autopsy did not support this theory. During the dissection, the doctor carefully examined the temporal bone, including descriptions of the opening of the Eustachian tube, the middle ear space and the mastoid process. However, the anatomy report did not mention any abnormality of the oval window. Instead, it wrote the abnormality of the ear nerve: "The auditory nerve is atrophy, and there is no medulla."

Out of the interpretation of the clinical symptoms, the neurological deafness group made a lot more judgments. According to the composer’s strong abdominal symptoms, some doctors suggested that Beethoven may be a patient with IBD. His deafness and liver cirrhosis are immunoregulatory problems outside the intestine.

On this basis, in 2016, three Harvard Medical School professors published a document that Beethoven suffered from a rare autoimmune disease "Cogan syndrome", which is also known as interstitial keratitis-vertigo-neuropathic Deafness syndrome.

Reference 2

From the perspective of clinical symptoms alone, Cogan syndrome is almost the correct answer: respiratory infections and joint pain above the disease are prodromal symptoms, which are consistent with Beethoven's medical history in youth. Cogan syndrome can cause inflammation of the vascular system and affect multiple organs. The prominent manifestations are keratitis, auditory vestibular dysfunction (hearing loss, dizziness), manifestations of vascular involvement in other organs, arthritis, hepatomegaly, and possibly accompanying IBD.

These performances can be one-to-one correspondence with Beethoven.

However, this document is also more substantial. It clearly points out that Cogan syndrome lacks persuasiveness in deafness: autoimmune hearing loss is usually bilateral hearing loss, which is characterized by sudden, bilateral, fluctuating and progressive . Judging from the case report, the hearing of patients with Cogan syndrome usually disappears quickly within a few weeks or months, but Beethoven's deafness started from a single ear, and it has tortured him for 30 years.

In addition to these two major gangs, there are many other things in the medical arena: Paget's bone disease, typhus, lupus erythematosus, etc., have different opinions. Beethoven may not have thought that he would be able to blossom in both the music industry and the medical world.

However, with the release of a peculiar case report this year, the truth about Beethoven's deafness may be revealed to the world.

Beethoven Deaf

In June last year, Sotheby's auction house successfully auctioned a strand of Beethoven's hair for 300,000 yuan. A few years ago, Beethoven's hair was even carbonized and made into blue diamonds. Of course, this thing is more expensive.

Hair worth 300,000 (YouTube video screenshot)

Before achieving extremely high collection value, these Beethoven hairs first realized the medical mission.

In 2000, a document on the Lancet reported that researchers conducted metal detection on Beethoven's hair and found that the lead element was 100 times higher than the normal value. The article suggested that Beethoven may be suffering from lead poisoning.

References 7

In this regard, the doctor’s attitude is very cautious, because the doctors in the Beethoven era liked to use lead and mercury to treat patients. The lead-rich hair may also be caused by some drugs he took before his death, which is not enough to explain him. Lead poisoning.

But in 2005, doctors analyzed the skull of Beethoven's parietal lobe that was verified by DNA, and the results showed that the lead content was significantly higher. The lead found in bones is very important, which shows that Beethoven has been repeatedly exposed for many years and has been chronic lead poisoning.

Lead toxicity also successfully explained why the atrophied auditory nerves lacked medullary lines during Beethoven’s cadaveric dissolution: damage to the central nerves suggests axonal degeneration, which is common in lead poisoned people.

However, the effect of chronic lead poisoning on hearing has not been the main symptom, which is also a point that is often questioned. However, a case report in January this year provided a strong evidence for this.

The report stated that in 18 years, a woman in Italy experienced progressive hearing loss, accompanied by fatigue, upper limb paresthesia and abdominal pain. Her hearing assessment also showed impairments in perceiving sound frequency and discriminating ability. Researchers believe that the patient’s auditory history almost overlaps with Beethoven’s clinical course.

The patient’s hearing assessment form (Reference 4)

As for why doctors think of that music master? Because this lady is also a poor person poisoned by lead, the blood lead in the test result is much higher than normal.

After investigation, the culprit of the disease was also found: a pot with broken ceramics and exposed lead layers, the lady used it for breakfast every day. After treatment, the patient's abdominal pain and other symptoms have been fully relieved. Although the ear damage is irreversible, there is still hope for treatment.

In the literature, the author also sighs: This modern "Beethoven" no longer has to experience the pain and torture of more than two hundred years ago.

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The question of why Beethoven was exposed to lead poison is difficult.

Combining the background of the times, later people speculate that it may be a contaminated diet: Beethoven especially loves a poor-quality Hungarian wine whose aroma and sweetness depend on the addition of lead. Or maybe it's just a problem with cups: adding lead to glass is the code of wealth more than two hundred years ago.

Although lead poisoning is currently the answer that is closest to the truth, it may not be long before more reasonable and detailed cases appear to overturn it. Since Beethoven's death two hundred years ago, the medical profession has not forgotten his last words, and must thoroughly investigate the cause of his deafness.

As for why there are always medical scientists so persistent and enthusiastic about studying Beethoven? An interview with a doctor involved in skull analysis may give the answer:

"In fact, Beethoven in medical research is more cruel and worthy of admiration than the biography written. It is still hard for me to imagine how he completed his peak work "Symphony Ninth" under the condition of total deafness. This is not just music. The miracle in the world is also a miracle in medicine.”

 If the Yang Qi is insufficient, people will decline before they grow old. I will teach you a trick to build up Yang Qi!

If the Yang Qi is insufficient, people will decline before they are old. This is a particularly serious problem faced by most people in today's life. When working or studying in the same posture for a long time, the upper body leans forward and the cervical spine becomes tense. First, the Governor Vessel is suppressed. The Yang Qi of the Governor Vessel is suppressed, which means that the Yang Qi of the whole body is suppressed. Over time, the entire spine tends to bend, and people's spirits also deteriorate. The human spirit is not consumed by mental work, but consumed by the wrong posture.

This series of problems are all for the same reason.

Now, through one point, it can be solved completely, and this point is Houxi Point. Houxi is a point on the meridian of the small intestine, and the hand is made into a fist. The end of the horizontal lines behind the metacarpophalangeal joints is this point. This point is the intersection point of the eight meridians of the odd meridian, which helps to relieve the heart and fire, strengthen the yang qi, regulate the cervical spine, improve eyesight, and spine. Clinically, if the cervical spine has problems, the lumbar spine has problems, and the eyes have problems, this point is used, and the effect is very obvious.

It can adjust the adverse effects of long-term desk work or study and work in front of the computer on the body, as long as you persist, Baiyun Bailing.

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Using this acupuncture point is very simple and easy to stick. We sit at the table, put this part of the Houxi point of both hands on the edge of the table, use the wrist joints to drive the hands, and easily roll back and forth to achieve the effect of stimulation.

How do we release our hands when we sit at the computer and read documents? It must be the mouse with one hand, and the other hand on the keyboard. Keeping this position still makes people stiff.

At this time, you might as well be a little more flexible, free your hands, let the Houxi point of your hands rest on the edge of the table or keyboard, roll back and forth, knead, stimulating 3 to 5 minutes each time, one stimulation every hour is enough. This does not waste time, because at this time, you can see what your eyes should see.

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You can try it and stick to it for a day. It will be sure that your waist will not be sore and your neck will not be tired after get off work, and your eyes will be relieved to a large extent. Keep doing this every day. First, the lumbar and cervical spine are straightened easily. At the same time, you will find that your eyes are better than before.

What if you always forget because you are busy? I suggest that we can even set an alarm clock to remind us to rub the Houxi Point every hour. No matter how busy I am, I think I can spare such a little time. Because this is a good way to really save our health.

Get into the habit of rubbing Houxi, anytime, anywhere, when you have time. For example, when driving, if you encounter a traffic jam on the road or a red light is on, it is especially comfortable to roll Houjii on the steering wheel several times. At this time, others are anxious to get angry, but you are tongs the governor channel, relieves the heart and fire, strengthens the yang, regulates the cervical spine, corrects the spine, and sharpens the eyes. It is infinitely useful. Come, sometimes I feel that traffic jams are worth it!