Health Topics/Concerns

In 2006, a man with debilitating asthma walked barefoot through human waste in Cameroon, deliberately infecting himself with hookworms—and claimed it cured him. This is the bizarre true story of helminthic therapy, where patients risk prosecution and parasitic infection to treat autoimmune diseases, all based on the idea that our sanitized modern world has made us sick.

They were once like father and son—Freud called Jung his 'crown prince' and heir to psychoanalysis. But their bitter split in 1913 wasn't just personal drama; it fractured psychology into two fundamentally different approaches to the human mind that practitioners still debate today. Discover how a friendship-turned-feud over sex, spirituality, and the unconscious gave us both Freudian psychoanalysis and Jungian analytical psychology.

Think you need two kidneys, your spleen, and your stomach to survive? Think again. We're counting down seven surprising body parts that modern medicine has proven are optional for human survival—including some that will make you question everything you thought you knew about anatomy.

In 1892, a respected 73-year-old scientist stood before his colleagues and swallowed a test tube filled with cholera—enough to kill a man several times over. Max von Pettenkofer was so convinced that germs didn't cause disease that he was willing to bet his life on it. What happened next shocked the medical community and raised questions about scientific ego that still resonate today.

For thousands of years, two vastly different medical systems have evolved on opposite sides of the world—one focused on energy flow and holistic balance, the other on evidence-based interventions and targeted treatments. We examine how Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western medicine diagnose the same conditions differently, why some patients are now seeking hybrid approaches, and what each system can learn from the other.