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25 Medical Facts That Need To Be Common Knowledge

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If you don’t treat your hearing loss early, eventually you’ll wish you did. The brain loses connection to sounds and impairs your ability to understand speech more and more the longer you go with untreated hearing loss.

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It’s significantly more effective to prevent cancer than it is to treat it, but the world isn’t interested because most people just want a pill to fix their problems. Don’t smoke. Wear sunscreen. Don’t drink excessively. Get a bit of exercise and eat some goddamn vegetables. Do those and bam!, huge drop in cancer risk, but nobody wants to hear it.

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The pregnancy test you get in the ER is no different from the one at the store and equally accurate.

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Viral infections cannot be treated with antibiotics.

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Smoking will kill you. “Nah… cancer won’t get to me” you might say, and you’d be statistically right. It’ll be your heart. In the simplest of terms, smoking makes your arteries rigid, so as they progressively get filled with fat, instead of increasing their diameter they’ll just get stuffed until no more blood can get through and you’ll be done. If you’re lucky you’ll get some chest pains beforehand but that’s not always the case. “Joke’s on you sucka! I got a heart attack and survived, death ain’t got shit on me!” Welcome to the world of chronic heart failure where from now on every day that goes by your heart will be less a pump and more a container, until you get out of breath from just speaking and eventually die. There’s no going back.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.