Health Talks with Diyenau

I'm quite excited about today's blog post because, for the first time, I'm featuring someone special and dear to me. My friend and coursemate, Stephanie of Green Eden Farms wrote something special about the brain and the heart. She's a poet and creative writer, so please open your mind and journey with her as you read. Enjoy...  " I’ve always been intrigued by the heart and the brain. Both organs, powerful and kings of their art, none a protégé to the other.  I’ve always been held captive by the power they wield, for though they are beautiful in their intricately woven anatomy, their pathology can be equally ugly. As of 2019, statistics showed that about 0.070% of the world’s population suffered from heart conditions, that’s a lot of people from the then 7 billion. In 2021, Lancet Neurology stated that more than 3 billion people worldwide were living with neurological conditions. And best believe there is a large percentage here who are oblivious of this state of t...

It's another beautiful Wednesday and I hope that you are doing just fine, Dear Reader.  "Are you deaf?"  "Some have ears but cannot hear."  . . . I'm sure that you've all uttered such statements, or had such statements uttered to you at one point or the other, possibly because somehow, your eardrums decided that they won't just listen to what someone has been trying to tell you repeatedly. I've experienced that countless times, and sometimes I feel ashamed to even ask what the person was trying to say because he/she might label me a deaf girl😅. Dear Reader, I recently found an ear condition called " Sudden Deafness ". Its medical name is " Sudden Sensorineural (Inner Ear) Hearing Loss ", and it is an unexplained, rapid loss of hearing either all at once or over a few days. This happens when something goes wrong with the sensory organs of the inner ear, and it often affects just one ear.  A lot of times, there is no specific i...