So I do not have any new hospital volunteer experiences to report on yet.
Instead I'm going to be making a guess as to the main diseases that I will see at Ben Taub.
- Diabetes Type II: I think alot of people will be in the hospital for Diabetes type 2 because the average diet today contains a large amount of sugar and high blood sugar can cause alot of chronic problems like amputation, heart problems and kidney failure. All of which require repeat hospital visits. Also, developed Insulin resistance is a neat concept because it's essentially a form a cellular memory. I wonder if transplanting certain psychiatric techniques that depend heavily on resetting chemical receptors would be beneficial for curing Type 2 Diabetes.
- Heart Disease:When your cardiac tissue is starved to death it is said to be permanent. This concept is interesting as it highlights the bodies in ability to build back from ground zero. It requires a certain level of healthy tissue in order to rebound.
- COPD: This is a very disappointing disease simply because it is 100% preventable. Decrease the number of toxins entering into your lung and you decrease the likelihood of COPD. The majority of the current toxins result from cigarettes but if life spans increase and air quality stays the same in cities, we will see an increase in environmentally based COPD. That said I believe there is a way to reverse COPD if one were to study more thoroughly the stages of the disease on a cellular level.
Those are my guesses and a few of my thoughts on them. We will see in a week or two if I am correct or completely wrong.
