Tag: Health

  • Tools of Personal Agency: Seatbelts, Condoms, and Masks as Signs of Maturity

    Tools of Personal Agency: Seatbelts, Condoms, and Masks as Signs of Maturity

    Introduction We live in a world where risk is often invisible — embedded in the air we breathe, the roads we travel, and the intimacy we share. Viruses, accidents, and infections do not announce themselves; they arrive uninvited, sometimes with lasting consequences. Yet we are not powerless. Tools like seatbelts, condoms, and masks offer more […]

  • Could L-Arginine help with Long Covid? Some findings through my habit of searching for solutions

    Could L-Arginine help with Long Covid? Some findings through my habit of searching for solutions

    I came across the idea in a very matter-of-fact way as part of the process of researching on Amazon, of all places. I looked at L-Arginine and considered its benefits in relation to what I had learned about Long Covid in the past couple of years.

  • Empathy in mental health. Why it remains the constant need?

    Empathy in mental health. Why it remains the constant need?

    “The health of the mind”: As easy as it is to say those words, it is endlessly a challenge to keep them.  To keep a healthy mind is a challenge for so many reasons.  It becomes a challenge due to the way we live our lives, the occupations of the modern man, the systemic injustices, physical […]

  • How the medical myth of drug treatments has created a whole culture?

    How the medical myth of drug treatments has created a whole culture?

    What is a myth?  A myth is a traditional story consisting of events that are ostensibly historical, though often supernatural, explaining the origins of a cultural practice or natural phenomenon.  The word “myth” is derived from the Greek word mythos (μῦθος), which simply means “story”.   Mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths.  Myth can […]