Warts are a common skin condition caused by a virus. Almost everyone has gotten one at one point or another, but the truth is, they’re persistent, disgusting, and can be awkward if they show up on a hand or a foot. We try all sorts of medication to get rid of them, from liquid nitrogen (cryotherapy) to concentrated salicylic acid to direct scalpel work. But is there an easier way – perhaps one that involves fewer trips to the doctor?

Studies have claimed that everyday duct tape can be more effective than any of these methods. All you have to do is cover the wart with duct tape for six days (if it comes off don’t be a worry wart, just reapply), then remove the tape, soak the wart, debride (euphemism for scraping off dead skin) it with a pumice stone, and repeat starting the next day. After a few cycles, the wart should be all gone. Just make sure you use grey duct tape — because other studies challenging the remedy have failed to remove warts by using the transparent kind. But please be careful to allow the area you’re covering to breathe if you should experience any redness or rawness.

Another dependable treatment is injection therapy with Candida antigen. If home remedies and doctor’s visits aren’t working, this injection therapy is rising to become the new way to fight warts. Now before I go on, I must share that Candida is the same yeast which causes yeast infections in women. I know – gross. But before you cringe and hit your back button know that doctors have been using Candida for three decades to test our immune systems. Recently, the Altoona Family Physicians Residency conducted a test showing that Candida antigen could help completely eradicate warts from your life in as little as one visit (maximum of five).

I realize this treatment is new and that in it itself can be a bit scary when you’re looking for an answer. I earlier this year I was quite stressed about life in general and got sick…very sick. Kidney infection sick. Right after a trip to a Los Angeles emergency room (horrid experience) and a good dose of antibiotics, I noticed a bump on my palm. Nothing serious, just very peculiar. Pretty soon it was a wart.

I couldn’t believe what I was looking at when it finally penetrated the surface of my palm. It was ugly and spotted and only getting worse. I made an appointment with a receptionist and the earliest they could squeeze me in was in a month. As soon as the receptionist told me, I looked down wide-eyed at the hideous bump on my palm and got the shivers. Ugh, I’m going to have to look at this and feel this for the next 30 days!

30 days later…I arrived at the office fifteen minutes early and boy was I ready to finally see the wart burned to smithereens. I remembered getting a wart removed with liquid nitrogen when I was ten and it hadn’t been too painful. But still I sat scared in the florescent waiting room. Finally, the nurse called my name and invited me into the patient room. She then proceeded to ask me about the wart and bring out the liquid nitrogen canister thingy. Have you seen one of these before? It looks like she cut off the Tin Man’s head and was going to use it to burn my hand off, which ironically is what she proceeded to do. Rather than concentrate the area the liquid nitrogen was going to hit, she pointed the Tin Man’s head at my hand from a foot away and released the liquid. My entire palm was burned. MY ENTIRE PALM. I have never felt so furious at a “doctor” – which I don’t even know if she was!

I immediately transfered to my home practitioner in San Diego, a dermatologist I trusted. I saw her every two weeks for my proper “freezing” as they call it. It is now April and instead of one wart, I have four. She told me not to use home remedies in between freezings as it could counteract the treatment and cause more, so every two weeks I would drive the hour and a half from L.A. to San Diego hoping that it would be the last (despite how much my mother liked it – now she was seeing me more than she could have ever hoped for). And two weeks ago it was the last. Two weeks ago my dermatologist gave up. She said my warts were just too resilient and stubborn (I thought, “Not as much as I am”). She recommended that her good friend Dr. So-and-so have a look.

A few minutes later…”Oh, hello Dr. So-and-so! This is Natalie I’ve been seeing her for months now and these warts just aren’t responding.” He says, “Have you ever heard of Candida antigen? It’s a wart injection therapy that many of our patients with this exact same problem have been trying and loving. Would you be interested in reading the Patient Education form?”

Of course I was! I could hardly handle the first month with those ugly things. Constantly hiding my hand in my pocket to avoid anyone’s glances. Embarrassed to even mention it to my closest friends. Embarrassed to even look at it. I read through and a second after I said, “Yes!” He had me sit on the exam table. He started to make small talk with me. All I’m thinking is, “Doc, come on get it over with. I hate injections, but I’ll make sure to hold still-even if I really want to kick and scream.” Then out of no where the guy sticks me. No warning or anything, just the fierce sting of a needle.

It’s been three weeks and two of my warts are gone.  Hopefully with one more treatment I’ll be 4 for 4.

Good luck, try what you feel comfortable with and if you’re just as determined and resilient as they are you’re bound to succeed.

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Do you face a long commute every day?  Is it hard to sit upright in the car?  Are you conscious of your driving posture, or is it hard enough to just stay awake?  If you’re starting your day with a pain in your back due to driving, then this article is definitely for you.

For Your Back

Via posturecorrectionblog comes a fine illustration of what a slouch in the car will do to your spine. 

This is especially disturbing when we think about what a spine ought to look like.  It gets even worse when you realize that it’s exactly what you’ve yelled at your teenager for doing.

So how can we keep our backs in order, even as our fists clench in the stress of traffic?

1. Get the car some feng-shui order

This should be obvious, but if the mirrors are in the wrong position or at the wrong angle, you’ll find yourself craning your neck to see behind you.  Also make sure you know where those mirrors are, so when you do need them you won’t have to snap your neck around trying to find them.  If  it helps, especially if your car has a large blind spot get a blind spot mirror to avoid neck contortions.

2. Sit back

Push the seat back until you can maintain about a 130-degree angle in your knees.  This will force your back to begin rounding – you’ll even feel your spine fall into alignment as your chest straightens out.  This adjustment will also take stress out of the knees themselves.  The ideal position will also keep your knees level with your hips.  They should not be arching as you reach the pedals.  Think of how uncomfortable and hunched you feel when your knees are up behind the steering wheel, and then remember: this is my car, not a clown car!

3. Bring the seat forward

This has the same effect as telling that lazy teenager to sit up right.  You know that slouch is bad for him – and now that you know your car seat is putting you in the same position, you should be able to avoid it.  Bringing the seat fully upright will put your back into alignment.  Of course, like that teenager, it will be slightly uncomfortable at first – and you’ll be tempted to put it back.  Don’t!  Getting a lumbar pillow or something similar may help you get over this and provide some extra support where you need it.

4. Relax!

Keeping your muscles tense and your fists clenched is a recipe for pain.  Sure signs to avoid include grinding your teeth or working your jaw, so if you start to develop any sort of pain anywhere, think about why.  If it’s a stress motion, relax.  Put on lighter music; stop if you need to.  Be sure to  breathe through any road drama – that is, don’t add too it by getting angry – and remember to always stretch any aches or pains you begin to feel.

A great way to work out any aches and pains that do arise is to stretch once you arrive.  Natalie demonstrates some great car stretches below…

Do both sides, holding the stretch, for 30 seconds.  These will keep your neck, legs, and back from getting sore after you drive – especially if you are looking forward to a long, painful day at a desk!

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Growing up my mom used to tell me to eat lots of strawberries to whiten my teeth. I used to do it because I loved the taste of strawberries – who doesn’t?

A part of me thought she might be be right, although most of me thought that I was ridiculously silly for believing her. But the joke, as it turns out, is on me – strawberries really can whiten your teeth!

Why It Works

Strawberries have a gentle whitening agent called malic acid which works wonders for removing any kind of surface discoloration (aka yellow enamel). So good-bye coffee and tea stains and hello gorgeous pearly whites!

Some research, however, partly debunks my mother.  Apparently just eating them doesn’t do much good, so maybe a small part of me was right to doubt her advice.

How to (Really) Get Those Pearly Whites Using Strawberries

Health.com reports that teeth can be whitened using a homemade paste of one strawberry and half a teaspoon of baking soda.  Brushing it on, then rinsing it off after 5 minutes can leave you with whiter teeth before long!

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Doctors have long told their patients about the obvious danger shoving a Q-Tip into your ear canalcan cause: permanent damage to ear drum.

But before I go any further, I do wish to put forth the very important (lawsuit avoiding) disclaimer: I am using Q-Tip in the general sense to cover all “cotton-tipped applicators” and am not targeting the makers of any Q-Tip as the culprits, but users who have been trained by their parents and parents’ parents to use Q-Tips incorrectly.

Now that that’s finished… Q-Tips, if used to dig wax build-up out of your inner ear, can cause several vulnerabilities. Wax works as a protective coating in your ear to ward off bacteria and infection.  And if you go probing around in there too much, you could end up rupturing your eardrum or just packing soft wax even deeper into your ear. This “wax dam” impedes normal movement of your eardrum, actually causing hearing trouble. At that point all you can do is stream warm water into your ear until the wax softens again and hopefully takes its natural position inside your ear. If not then it’s time to see the doctor, which will definitely end in a long waiting-room wait, another lecture about how Q-Tips are only for external ear use, and a possibly painful treatment.

Let’s avoid this! Who wants hearing loss? a ruptured ear drum? an expensive medical bill?

And everybody knows to avoid ear candling, so…

Use hydrogen peroxide instead!

Hydrogen peroxide has the oxidizing properties capable of actually cleaning your ear without causing the damage Q-Tips do. You can buy it for $0.99 at CVS and it can last for months.

What are these cleaning properties?

1. It kills bacteria in your ear, helping you to avoid ear infections.

2. A half cap-full to full cap-full (per ear) massages your inner ear gently while cleaning it.

3. Since hydrogen peroxide is such a powerful cleaner, you need only use it twice a week (or as needed).

How do I use hydrogen peroxide to clean my ears?

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1. Obtain an ear syringe, cotton ball, or you can choose to just use the bottle cap, and hydrogen peroxide (duh). We’ll be using the example of the cotton ball.

2. Fill your cap halvsies and absorb the hydrogen peroxide (make sure it’s room temperature) with your cotton ball.

3. Tilt your head to the side until your ear is facing the ceiling .

4. Carefully squeeze the hydrogen peroxide into your ear. You should feel the delightful fizzing of the hydrogen peroxide with your ear wax.

5. After thirty seconds, or until the fizzing has stopped, place a dry cotton ball in your ear. Then tilt your head so that the hydrogen peroxide can drain into it.

6. Repeat the process for your other ear.

If you realize that you have frequent buildups of wax, I strongly suggest speaking with your doctor or seeing an Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist.

It’s really important to remember that the wax in our ears works to keep dirt  and other bacteria from causing hearing problems, but that it’s good to clean your ears every now and then.

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Try practicing one of the following two meditations before your next meal. Take a small portion of food, like a single strawberry, raisin or a slice of apple or orange, or a cracker.

Amnesia: Imagine you have never seen a strawberry (or any piece of food) in your life, and examine it the way a baby would examine something newly discovered. Look at the strawberry and try to notice something about it that you have never noticed before. This should be easy, as no two strawberries are ever identical. Now close your eyes and see if you can smell the strawberry. Lick your lips and rub the strawberry over your lips, massaging your lips gently. How does it feel? Now lick your lips. Can you taste the trace flavor of the strawberry? Hold the strawberry in your mouth, and roll it around. How does it feel in your mouth? As you chew, notice the immediate change in the intensity of the flavor. Slowly chew the strawberry while resisting the urge to swallow. Sit a little taller and notice if posture affects your appreciation for the strawberry. Breathe in deeply and let your breath go with long soft sighs. Does breathing help you enjoy the strawberry? Relax your face and smile. Notice how smiling improves the taste of a strawberry.

Sincere Appreciation: Eat a second raisin practicing Sincere Appreciation. Eating just as slowly and following the same instructions from the first raisin, but this time contemplate the many miracles that brought this raisin to your lips. The farmer who grew the grapes, the truck driver, the architect who designed the store where you bought the grapes, all of the people whose lives helped make this moment possible, including your parents for raising you, the rain and sun and the miracle of life present in a single raisin. Give thanks for the wonderful gift of taste. Students who practice this eating meditation are often amazed at how much better food tastes when they take the time to notice and appreciate the food as they eat it. You will notice that a single raisin, eaten with sincere appreciation brings more joy and happiness than a whole box of raisins swallowed unconsciously.

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Cayenne peppers contain the active ingredient of pepper spray, the chemical capsaicin. Capsaicin triggers nerves repeatedly, causing pain at first but then depleting the nerves. Afterwards, pain signals can no longer be sent. It increases saliva and stomach secretions, which helps food digest. Cayenne also serves to dilate blood vessels, improving blood flow. These effects are all temporary, but immediate.

Thanks to these effects, cayenne’s medicinal and culinary applications date back as far as 9,000 years. Taken orally, it can help heal digestive and circulatory problems. A topical cream can provide relief from arthritis pain.

There are two common ways to ingest cayenne. It can be cooked as a spice, and is popular in cuisine around the world. It can also be drunk, either by mixing small amount of powder into a shot glass of water or by drinking the liquid form available in many grocery stores – again, a shot glass will do.

The immediacy of its effects gives cayenne great household utility. Even a small oral dose serves to relieve pain and clear headaches very quickly. Sprinkled on a cold hand or foot, it can improve circulation and rapidly warm the affected part. Studies have even claim it works against prostate cancer! Besides, it adds a wonderful heat to many foods. Enjoy!

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1. Your friends backbite. 

2. Girls communicate exclusively through gossip.

3. The manly man – the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker – is the one you want.

4. The girly man – the accountant, the lawyer, the politician – is not.

5. There is a more interesting life out there, where people don’t spend their time watching TV (have you ever watched someone watch TV on TV?).

6. The best way to access this more interesting life is through television. (Thanks to David Foster Wallace for this.)

7. You are not beautiful enough.

8. In fact, you are not even close to beautiful enough.

9. There is someone out there who is perfect for you and only you.

10. You are perfect for them, too.

11. You are constantly being evaluated and judged.

12. Nobody else has any sort of self-identity confusion. They are near-static, self-assured characters.

13. Your qualms and confusions are weaknesses.

14. Political speeches are important.

15. You have to be doing something with your hands at all times, or you seem stiff and awkward.

16. Gaffes, especially of the speaking variety, are unacceptable.

17. Everyone is all about sex, all the time.

18. Celebrities’ lives are somehow inherently more interesting than yours.

19. Spoken communication is, by and large, passe.

20. Plastic surgery – not time – heals all wounds.

21. The preparation of food is a heartwarming, fun, unique experience despite the fact that a million other families are eating the same food out of the same can/box.

22. Every response out of your mouth must be quick, witty, and incisive.

23. Things are always more than they seem.

24. Nobody can be happy with what they already have.

25. Men have a right to spend a fortune when they have a mid-life crisis, but menopause confers no such entitlement.

26. If you try hard enough, you will succeed.

27. There is no arduous mediocrity in learning. There is only a scene where you pick up an instrument, and then, later, one in which you impress your friends with a masterful rendition.

28. Only a diamond will do for an engagement ring.

29. See a lover before a therapist when a marriage or relationship hits a rough patch.

30. “Falling out of love” is reason enough for divorce.

31. You will always have the same friends.

32. Men, unassisted, will notice when a woman is upset.

33. Men know what to do when a woman is upset.

34. Elderly people are boring and nosy.

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1. It’s called the “Hallux” in Latin and in Wikipedianese.

2. In birds, it’s the talon that sticks out the back to help eat mice and other assorted rodents.

3. It’s an awesome dance group in Vietnam.

4. All sorts of crazy Latin stuff can happen to it, from bone fusion to hallux rigidus to hallux valgus (pictures!).

5. It’s “the story of Kazumi Mano, a naïve twenty-two-year-old who wakes up one afternoon to discover that her big toe has turned into a penis.”

6. It has only two bones, while all the other toes have three.

7. Karate masters (not to mention Chuck Norris) can break 2×2’s with their big toes.

8. And if you can pull off the Padangusthasana, you’ll be doing the Big Toe Pose.

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