Dr. Shoaib Mehsud

30/09/2025

28/09/2025

🧠 Did you know your brain is a super-network?

Your human brain contains about 86 billion neurons—specialized nerve cells that carry electrical signals.
Each neuron can form thousands of synaptic connections with other neurons. Put together, that’s trillions of tiny communication links, far more than all the connections on the internet!

✨ Why it matters:

These vast networks let you think, learn, remember, and adapt every moment of your life.

Every new experience can strengthen or create new synapses, which is the basis for learning and memory.

Despite making up only about 2% of your body weight, your brain consumes roughly 20% of your oxygen and energy to keep these neurons firing.

💡 Takeaway:
Your brain is not just an organ—it’s the most complex biological system we know.
Every time you practice a skill or learn something new, you’re literally rewiring trillions of connections inside your head!

27/09/2025

After partial hepatectomy, remaining hepatocytes undergo compensatory hyperplasia, allowing the liver to return to near-normal size within weeks. This unique regenerative capacity is why living-donor liver transplants are possible.

29/11/2024

𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄?
𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝟮 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀

You may already know that stress can increase your heart disease risk, but it also increases your risk of developing type 2 diabetes due to cortisol level increases. Cortisol increases blood sugar levels

21/11/2024

Did You Know?

You produce about 40,000 liters of spit in your lifetime

21/11/2024

Did You Know?

Laughter can decrease pain and release endorphins, which can boost your mental health

16/11/2024

Guess What 🤔?

15/11/2024

Perfume Bottle recovered from a patient's re**um 🤭😂

14/11/2024

In ancient times, before the invention of refrigerators, people had to get creative to preserve perishable items like milk.

One fascinating method used by Russian and Finnish communities involved placing brown frogs, specifically Rana temporaria, into milk.

This might sound strange, but modern science has found some truth to this practice. A study conducted in 2012 revealed that secretions from these frogs contain peptides with antibacterial properties. These peptides, including Brevinin-1Tb, can inhibit the growth of certain bacteria, helping to keep the milk fresh for longer periods.

While this method might seem odd today, it was an ingenious solution for its time. However, it's important to note that this method isn't recommended for modern use.

Instead, we can appreciate the resourcefulness of our ancestors and the fascinating ways they found to solve everyday problems.

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13/11/2024

Kidney Stones from a Single Kidney 😱🤯

07/04/2024

Imagine stumbling upon a creature in the deep sea that looks like it swam straight out of a Disney movie. That’s the Dumbo Octopus for you!

With its body shaped like a bell and its skin almost ghostly pale, it’s quite the sight. But what really steals the show are the two fins on its head, flapping away like the ears of Dumbo, the elephant. It’s got big, round eyes that seem to hold the mysteries of the deep ocean.

Did you know that these eyes can measure up to a third of the width of its head? This helps it capture the tiny amounts of light that reach its deep-sea home.

And guess what? It doesn’t need an ink sac to make a quick escape. Instead, it flutters its adorable ear-fins to glide away. But that’s not all.

This unique creature is one of 17 different species in its genus and can live up to 13,000 feet below the ocean surface. It’s also a carnivore, feeding on crustaceans, bivalves, worms, and copepods. Isn’t that fascinating? 🐙💙

Image credit: Youtube Channel EVNautilus (A), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (B&C)

Text credit: Earth Unreal

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