I met a man some months ago, he was complaining of chest pain, he thought it was a stomach ulcer, sometimes it got worse after he ate a heavy meal, other times when he was climbing his staircase

It was not his stomach at all!
His heart was not getting enough blood
Your heart pumps blood around your body yea?

That same heart needs blood itself, supplied by what I call coronary arteries, sometimes, these arteries can become narrow and not supply enough oxygen to your heart muscles.

This is what leads to the pain people feel.
Sometimes, this pain can be triggered by stress, cold weather, exercise, heavy meals and can last anywhere between 2 to 10 minutes at a time.

This pain is called angina and is a form of heart disease, there are other kinds of angina and some just come without warning
It is not something that should be joked with, It is a sign that all is not well with your heart and if ignored could lead to more serious problems.

We took some tests that confirmed that he had angina.
Gave him some drugs to help but he had to change his lifestyle
He stopped smoking, changed his diet to reduce his cholesterol levels for instance. If you are having any pain that looks like this, do not assume, make sure you get it checked IMMEDIATELY

Make sure you share this thread for others
@Servier @servier_Nigeria #AprilAnginaAwareness

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29 Apr
We have a problem in Nigeria and it is tied to how we like cheap things:
"We value quantity over quality and this can harm us in the long run" As long as it is plenty, we do not care, plenty means more in our stomach"

Unfortunately, awoof dey turn belle. More doesn't mean better
Especially when it comes to what we eat, remember that “we are what we eat.” So many meals are not healthy and we do not pay attention to this, because we have this idea of as long as I do not have to pay extra for it, it won’t affect me or my health.

Awoof dey purge belle o
To be honest, I just do not blame us, is the way we've been wired.

We may not have the resources to get what we really want, add inflation to the picture, it becomes another story altogether.
But why should we not always go for more? When should we step back and think?
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24 Apr
Your generator gives out Carbon Monoxide, a very harmful gas, if you put a generator in a room and close all the windows, everybody in that room d!es.

Now Shisha contains the same carbon monoxide that your generator gives out. This time, they just covered with pineapple flavor
Your favourite shisha gives out at 10 times more carbon monoxide in a single session than one cigarette,

Carbon monoxide is a colorless and odorless gas, anytime you burn fuel, from cars, generators, stoves, grills, it is given out. You can't smell it.
This is why you do not burn anything in a closed environment. Anything at all and remain in the room. If it builds up indoors, it can poison the people who breathe it in.

Some pass out and die from it, people who might be sleeping can go on to the great beyond from there
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25 Mar
I didn't want to do this, but after careful thought, I decided this is the best way forward.

We raise money publicly and it's best you know about this.

You remember the guy we got a prosthetic leg for asides Jane during the #EndSARS protests?

I got a call from a lawyer
Stating that he represents him and he claims that he had neither received the leg or money but we had gone ahead to publish that he had gotten the leg and the total sum of 217,000 naira to help him kick-start his life.

Naturally, this came as a shock to me
I called Bayo who helped me source and assembled this leg for him FREE OF CHARGE to please confirm, as I currently have videos on my phone of this same person doing gait training with the same prosthetic leg.

He confirmed that the beneficiary passed his gait training.
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23 Mar
Gifted people fight a battle, many of them waste their lives doing a little of everything because they can literally do almost anything.
Some of them allow life to kick them around, they keep trying their hands at stuff, other people who may not be so gifted know exactly what they can and can not do, so they do not even waste time trying.
Their gift becomes a curse, now in their late 20s or 30s without a roadmap for their lives, they have tried their hands at almost everything.

One issue they face is committing to one singular path.
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7 Mar
There's nothing like a "toilet infection"

It's a misnomer for a group of conditions referred to as vaginitis, which result in itching, vaginal discharge.

Now there are 3 main causes

Bacterial Vaginosis
Candidiasis
Trichomoniasis

NONE of them are gotten from the toilet

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Some will swear it started right after they used a public toilet but it usually starts long before that "toilet" is used and can be attributed to the vaginal practices of the owner. I just saw someone advocating for toothpaste to be used

Now this is how it goes down:
Your vagina has bacteria living in it already, let's call it good bacteria, known as lactobacilli, that's what makes the vagina acidic, and acidic is good. At least for the vagina.

As long as these guys are in charge, you are in the clear at least.
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26 Feb
Staphylococcus is NOT a sexually transmitted disease.
Staphylococcus is NOT a sexually transmitted disease.
Staphylococcus is NOT a sexually transmitted disease.
Staphylococcus is NOT a sexually transmitted disease.
Staphylococcus is NOT a sexually transmitted disease.
Staphylococcus Aureus, a very common type of this bacteria is found almost everywhere!

And I mean everywhere!

They are normal tenants in your nose, throat, skin and even in your intestines.

You can also find them on phones, door knobs, remotes, elevator buttons
But quacks around have led people to believe that "Staf Erus" is an STD, and that it can cause infertility and I've seen personally some relationships break up because one party believes the other gave them Staphylococcus!

This is a lie!
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