Alright Jamie here are my questions:
- Why do men have nipples? Very confusing, they clearly don't use them for anything, are persnickety about anyone else doing things with them, and as far as I know, no male mammals use them for lactation.
- What exactly happens when you get sunburned, and is it different than burning yourself with a match, fire, or hot wax?
- Can plantar fascitis be mitigated by proper stretching and is it ever too late?
- Why do they saw off bunions- how many meds do you get for recovery?
- What are those little threads that run across your eyes somethimes? Stars?
I'm sure to have more, but here is my initial list.
Thanks.
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I looked it up last year, because I had a minor tear on my retina and read whatever I could find online. It healed on it's own, and the doctors never quite knew what caused it. I had an echo of my heart and tested for blood clots... might have been an "episode" of high blood pressure (even though I'm young).
1. Adam thought it was unfair for Eve to have nipples and he didn't when he was the oldest. By that time, God had learned it was a waste of time to reason with a man so he gave him a couple of pretend nips to shut him up.
2. Of course, it's different. When you sit in the sun, alien waves sent by the Sun-people enter your body to nose around. They are so embarrassed by what they see and hear they turn red for a few days. This is why nuns never get sunburned.
3. This is also called "policeman's heel." Stretching often resolves it (often 18 months worth of stretches-true) and corticosteroids may give temporary or permanent relief except then you lose your eligibility in all professional sports.
4. Contrary to popular belief, bunion removal is not considered an efficient or less expensive way to get meds. Personal research has shown that therapists will give prescriptions for a much wider range of meds than orthopedists.
5. Those little threads are small parasites trying to get out of your body so they can have a life. They migrate to your eyes because they can see the outside world from there but they can't break through the membrane. Eventually they get tired of this and take up residence in the organ of their choice.
I hope there is someone around to give Jamie the heimlich maneuver if she reads John's answers to your questions during her dinner break.
Dont know about all the other questions
sorry
Jess
JK you know, I know how to get people's attention & trust me it has nothing to do with bunions.
Susan & Jess- I'm waiting for Prof. Jamie to chime in with the medically correct answers, yes John- you're right, just in a different way ;)
John is absolutely correct. NOT!
Jess has the gist of it though.
During early development females and males are identical. They have both male and female parts. Males produce a transcription factor, the gene is on the Y chromosome, that causes the male parts to develop and the female parts to degenerate (most of them - not the nipples though). Testosterone, produced in the male fetus, results in male parts. Without testosterone and a Y chromosome, female parts automatically form. Female is the default sex (because it is obviously the superior gender - JUST KIDDING). But ask any biologist, males are "sex accessories" in biology. Females are the necessary gender, we just like genetic variety in our offspring so we allow males to hang around. (I'm being snarky, sorry.)
So nipples are left over from development. Notice that little girl nipples look like little boy nipples until puberty. Estrogen (released in females after puberty) causes breasts to develop (in men too, ask a steroid user why he started growing breasts and he won't be able to tell you - but I can - in another thread). Testosterone (released in males after puberty) causes the chest to broaden and so the nipples become wide spaced. Testosterone causes thin to thicken as well, so the nipples thicken as well. The result male nipples but no breasts.
Now for TMI-
Extra nipples, called supernumerary nipples, occur on the "milk line". What's a milk line? Look at your dog's underbelly, or your pig's if you have one of those. See how all the nipples are in a line. All mammals have a milk line. During human evolution, only the top two mammary glands were retained, but occasionally one of the extra nipples in the milk line develop. Extra nipple. How precious.
Okay, did that answer your first question? Or did I confuse you more?
Testosterone causes thin to thicken as well, so the nipples thicken as well.
should be
Testosterone causes SKIN to thicken as well, so the nipples thicken too.
Discuss....
All other comments I'm keeping to myself, because I'm in a weird mood.
Now you have to decide whether to go along with Science or accept explanations that use words actually used in the Bible, which was around a long time before Science. (Google "creationism" and "evolution" for the latest on this science versus bible issue.)
For extra credit, take a quick romp through Eve was framed ....
I don't get lost easily, merely forget easily ;)
Please more....pretty please.
Logic dictates that the female should be the default because without them, the species would be DOOMED!
Boy this lecture is kinda slow.....dozing off in the second row
Sunburn.
A sunburn is a first degree burn (similar to any other burn). First degree burns only affect the outer layers of the skin - the epidermis. (Do we want more burn terminology- there are also 2nd degree and 3rd degree but they are irrelivant here.) So YES a sunburn is similar to other burns. A burn caused by radiation given off by the sun.
What causes the heat and pain of a sunburn are ruptured and/or leaky blood vessels near the skin. So you have caused enough damage to your skin to cause blood vessels to burst or become leaky. Damage to skin releases histamine which causes inflammation. And that's NOT the bad news. The bad news is, if you've exposed yourself to enough sun to cause a bad sunburn, you have subjected your DNA to WAY too much UV radiation.
UV radiation causes mutations in DNA. Usually, your highly evolved cells are able to repair the DNA. For about every 1,000,000 errors, 999,999 get fixed. That's amazing. Know any physicians with that kind of healing power? The problem is the 1 that didn't get fixed. Usually that 1 is in the "junk" DNA and no problemo, but occasionally, the error is in a protoncogene or a tumor suppressor gene. Both are bad news. Both lead to cancer. So the more sunburns you've had, the more damage you've done to your skin (specifically the DNA of skin cells). The more errors you've created in your DNA, the more likely those errors will be in the wrong genes. If the errors are in the "wrong genes" cancer is the outcome.
Now those lucky dark skinned people with their natural sunblock - melanin, skin pigment. Well, those nasty UV rays rarely make it to the DNA of their skin cells and they rarely get cancer. Pale-bies, like me, have little natural melanin, so every UV ray that hits my skin, hits my DNA. Poor little DNA doesn't have a chance. That's why skin cancer rates are about 600 times higher in those with fair skin.
TMI or actually, everyone should be aware of this, I'm surprised it isn't more well known-
There is no scientific evidence that wearing sunscreen prevents cancer. There is even some evidence that sunscreen CAUSES cancer. There are a lot of nasty chemicals in sunscreen that are carcinogens - PABA comes to mind, but there are others. Don't toss your sunscreen in the trash though - it does block UV rays, just be aware that the best prevention is to stay out of the sun. I suggest vampirism, then you won't be tempted.
I could be a vampire, even like the taste of blood- well my own at least.
BTW leaky blood vessels sounds gross, ick! Leaky anything for the matter.
If it mutated your eggs, you could have a mutant child, because all of those cells would have the mutation that originated in the egg (or sperm). Does that make you feel better? :-)
Free lessons from Professor Jamie. Most people have to pay for my drivel. :-)
Anyone stumbling upon these strange questions, we are writers doing research. Yeah, that's the ticket. That's why these questions are so odd. We are researching situations and characters.
Did we get to the questions about how to murder people...characters yet?
Contrary to popular beliefs, men Do have feelings, especially in their nipples.
Next time you are in bed with one, try licking the tip of you finger and wetting his nipple with it. Or better yet, lick or suck it. Want to make him crazy? Use your teeth to give his nipple a quick little byte. Dont warn him, just Do It.
And for those of you who want to give your lover some bliss....suckle his nipple. You can make your mouth and tongue move just like a babies mouth on a breast.
His reaction will tell you why men have nipples. Because it feels so good to be caressed there too.
(btw, suckle him down below and he will be lost to you forever)
Anatomically they must be similar to the female nipple but ave no real purpose such as breastfeeding.
I like mine!!
pj
And I disagree with you Timothy. I don't think ANYTHING on our bodies is just for decoration.