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Medical Can tendons be strengthened/grown in the same way muscles can be?
1. I tend to think of tendons as less elastic muscles... In the sense that tendons join muscles to bone. Tendons are basically thickened epimysium, the membrane that surrounds muscle. Problems in the tendons (e.g. tendinitis also called tendonitis by some) are actually often problem with...- cisono
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Medical Stomach Not Emptying: Vagus Nerve Damage?
> I'm taking a proton pump inhibitor, twice the recommended amount (per doctor's orders). Therein lies your answer. Why are you taking a PPI by the way? - (if I may ask) I used to have delayed gastric-emptying last year after a week of bad digestive disturbances while on holiday in...- cisono
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How do we breathe from nose when we eat?
I have unwillingly tried this many times and doing both at the same time leads to (near) choking. I am obviously still alive, so one might claim that "it worked" but I guess this is due to the two processes somehow organising themselves sequentially after a bit of a "bottleneck" (the choking)...- cisono
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