Er... What!?

So it's 4.30 in the morning right now. Bear with me! - I actually finished this post a few weeks after the incident occured on Twitter.

As all of you've realised and known, I am very active on Twitter. I tweet. A lot a lot. What I tweet range from from books to technologies to medical-related stuffs also (definitely) including my favourite anime and manga. It's a place that I can trully express myself and thoughts running in my brain every single day. It's an escapade for me. 

I love interacting with people there compare to FB because it's not as personal as the later. Twitter is more open and yet, I feel secure there. I don't put up my recent photos (and I'm on the way of removing those I've had uploded!) and there aren't loads of my personal information there. Also, I don't feel like I'm barging on others' people TL if I RT mountains of tweets. You don't like it? You mute it. No harm done and definitely no hard feeling of unfriending/blocking. 

You don't know me, I don't know. We don't bothet each other, kay? 

Right? 

Wrong. 

Someone decided that a medical student like me shouldn't be on Twitter most of the time. Who the heck give you the authority to 'advice' me to stay out of Twitter just I am simply a medical student? 

You don't even know me for Goodness' sake. 

I learnt a lot from Twitter. I am definitely not the typical medical student that spend her time read books and slides and medica references. The knowledges are not limited in books and most definitely stick better in your brain when you discuss. And how I discuss medical stuff is by usingn Twitter. Most of the medica students I know that use this particular social media share their knowledges. We discuss. We ask qurstions. 

You dony have the right to kick me out of Twitter even if your intentions are good. Really, you need to revise on your Tweeting and advicing skils. Tweets like that would make people hating you. And do remember, the medical community starts with people that ask questions; medical students trying to get a better understanding by asking doctors in Twitter. 

You just recently join Twitterville and ought to learn the community before you get angry at people. 

Also, I do think a lot of medical students don't study all the time. They split their time between studying, hobbies, social life and anything their heart desire. I'm pretty sure you understand how stressful medical students' lives can be. And to study during all awaking hours, crazy aah? 

I don't rant a lot but I was definitely taken aback with your tweets.

I already unfollowed you btw and I'm really glad. Idk what was on your mind that day, but others who are in the same profession as you, are cool with me being active on Twitter. Maybe, even if they don't, they know better than saying anything because they don't know me, personally

Professional people like you is the one of the reasons miscommunication happen. Your tone, how you structure your words, when you interupt people- among the important things you ought to learn. 

We couldn't afford for people to wrongly understand us when we are here to educate people. Our profession demands that. 

A small miscommunication may lead to harmful effect in our field. 

It's the babies feeding time! 

P/S: Enjoying my oncall today! ✌🏻️

[Book Review] Pantai Kasih by Azmah Nordin

*Supposed to post this a month ago and my English is not that good*

Assalamualaikum. Hi! 

Since this is my first proper book review, please be kind to me. I'm not much of a book reviewer and I have read a lot less comparing to my high school years. So I will try to do this book review as good as I possibly could and also, I might just be ranting aimlessly, picking up pointless points about the book; mostly on what I despise about it. 

Firstly, a vague background on my reading experiences. 

I've had my fair share of Malay novels especially during those years when I kinda hate English to its core (how stupid of me! -.-). The early 2000s of Alaf 21's books are my standard on how novels of leisure yet informational wise and beautiful usage of Bahasa Melayu should be written like. The older generations of Malay books like Usman Awang's or A Samad Said's, those are fantastic but I haven't gotten enough exposures on their materials to make a comparison.

It has been quite sometimes since I pickup a Malay novel because recent published novels have such an ick!-y tittles with typical story line with a Datuk-Datin-rich guy met a poor girl, hating each other at first, force into marriage and eventually fall in love. My self conscious screams to stay away as far as possible from current, mainstream Malay novels. 

But! This Pantai Kasih book is an exception. With an excerpt of it being circulate in the net, particularly Twitter, I know I need to read this book before I could judge it. Also, it's part of the Bahasa Malaysia literature reading material for SPM-takers.

I got my copy from my BM teacher when I visited her. Being the biggest bookworm in my school, she knew the book would interest me as an excerpt of it being viral in the Net.

*I read this within a day and sort of skimming/speed reading on certain parts. Might not be a comprehensive review and most of my points are stored in my memories. There are probably points I've missed*

[GENERAL]

The book is about 160 pages long and the font is bigger than your typical novel size (just like those books we had back in early 2000s for primary school reading).  The font does irk me a little; it made me felt like I was being mocked. Somehow... 

It's also a bit shorter than your typical KOMSAS book and there are few drawings on the start of each chapters (which is weird... I guess?) No other KOMSAS books I read have pictures...

There are three main characters (Dr Raiha, Dr Sadiz and Dr Uwang) and about five others (Nurse Felicia, Dr Alex, Dr Muhammad and patient Unong, with psychiatric patient). 

I read the first 3/4 of the book while only skimmed through the remaining quarter. It is draggy/boring that I found myself hardly able to open my eyes. 

[Writing Style]

Comparing Pantai Kasih to Timulak Kapal Perang, I do feel that Pantai Kasih is a disaster. The writing is bad. It's like an insult for SPM takers to be reading a material like this. The author writes as if she is forced to fill up those 160 pages in nine chapters despite not having ideas on what to write. 

Same words and sentences keep on repeating for about five times in a single chapter of 10-17 pages long. It's not just using the same word but she actually repeats the same sentences back and forth. How many times could you write 'pembedahan kali ke enam' or something like that 

Remember back in SPM days and we're forced to write more than 360 words for essays in exams and you don't have ideas whatsoever that time? What's the better way to fill up the quota other than repeating the same things?

THAT'S WHAT HAPPEN IN THIS BOOK!

First few times it happened, I was okay but got irritated by the time I finished half of chapter 2. 

This book has mountains of flashbacks and imaginations (imbas muka) of the protagonist (Dr. Raiha). The changing between present, past and future are not well written that I got confused a few times during reading. One second Dr Raiha's viewing Unong's X-ray film the next second she's remembering her past with Dr Uwang.  The confusion also occurs when switching point of views of characters. One moment it's written from Dr Raiha's POV then suddenly the Nurse's POV. 

You have to have your head clear without any distractions to actually follow the POV/timeline of the book or you'll definitely find yourself in a maze of confusion.

The dialogues between the characters are too rigid. They are definitely feel awkward all the way through the end of the book.

[The STORY] - Spoilers (and Rants) Alerts

Dr Raiha - the protagonist of the story. A mid 30s Orthopedics surgeon worked at Pusat Rawatan Pantai Kasih, under Dr Uwang's guidance. She was married and had a child, but her daughter died in a fire. She used to be Dr Uwang's student, back when she was a medical student. She initially worked with both Dr Uwang and Dr Sadiz but the former transferred to PRPK, leaving her behind at the local hopsital with Dr Sadiz. She liked  Dr Uwang as he was a good looking doctor, charismatic and work for the sake of his patients. 

When she was working, and wanted to be, with Dr Sadiz, her dad was against it very sternly.  For her father, Dr Sadiz was an arrogant and rude bastard that would eventually destroy her daughter's life. She didn't listen and of course her father was right. Her marriage with Dr Sadiz did take a wrong turn. She had a child with Dr Sadiz (though the circumstance of conception seemed to be from rape but not sure whether it was a marital rape or otherwise). During a CT scan of her pregnancy, it showed that the fetus had some abnormality and Dr Sadiz forced her to do an abortion, which she didn't. Ayu, her daughter, had Down Syndrome (I think). Ayu died in a fire when she was near his father's Porsche, which was deliberately lit by Dr Sadiz. Dr Sadiz bought a new car and died in a car-oil tanker collision. 

A point for the author to kill Dr Sadiz. He is definitely the most hateful character I've ever came across (even Lord Voldermort is nicer!)

Dr Uwang - The handsome surgeon that worked at PRPK, taking over his father's place. The treatment center belonged to his dad and he'd expanded it to receive a lot more patients (and money), losing his integrity as a doctor along the way. He mainly focused on how much money he could make. This guy was as bad as his uncle (Dr Sadiz, yes the same doctor that was married to Dr Raiha). He's rich and definitely a narcissist. He cared only about himself. He's selfish. Despite being married to a beautiful, young woman, he's still looking for escorts and always thinking on why Dr Raiha stopped liking him. He also didn't want more than one kid and his son was sent to a boarding school as early as seven years old. 

He's a good surgeon, but only with the rich patients. The poor patients would always come back with post-op infections. This happened multiple times and it made Dr Raiha suspicious on him. Apart from this problem, being the person in charge of the medical center, Dr Uwang was bothered with the lack of security in his hospital. A psychiatric patient came in last week and pretended to a be doctor. It caused a big scene and scared a lot of people, including the nurses. Dr Uwang also kept on having flashbacks about 'a young girl' and fire that engulfed her small body. He was also haunted by the ghost of the child; seeing her on his garden, hugging his wife and such. 

Nurse Felecia - Also worked at PRPK and handled the same patient as both Dr Raiha and Dr Uwang. She wass haunted by the memory of Ayu's death. She was there went the car exploded but she knew something extra that she told nobody about. She pretended that she was scared from the patient impersonated to be a doctor (the psychiatric patient). Her nightmares are so bad that she started to chug cough medicine, stealing from the pharmacy. 

Felecia used to be Raiha's friend back in primary school but she felt inferior to Dr Raiha. 

These are what two-third of the book all about; just background stories on these four characters with Dr Sadiz only appeared in flashbacks of Dr Raiha and Dr Uwang. 

The sex part, the one that's been circulating around the net, is an imagination of a tired Dr Raiha. Though it's not told, I assuming that it happened before they got married. Rape happened (which was not stated where and when) and she was pregnant with Ayu. She did imagine the scene (or maybe flashback?) as at the moment, Dr Sadiz was dead and so was Ayu.

There are not a lot of things that I can learn from this book. It has a bit of misogynist-ish theme. 

1. Dr Raiha's dad (also a doctor) told her that a woman should not be a doctor. She should just be a housewife
2. Dr Uwang's belittled his wife a lot in his mind. Pretty face without a brain. Forced her to follow whatever he wants (including having only one child)
3. Dr Sadiz and Dr Uwang played a lot with escorts (while criticizing them, in their minds)

Narcissistic character - Dr Uwang was definitely in love with his own self. 

• He felt he was better than everyone and no one should question his work (Dr Raiha did and this hurt his ego a bit). 
• He only treated the best/rich person to take care of his image and when the break in happened at his hospital, he worked hard not to let it happened again (to maintain his image). 
• He wondered why Dr Raiha stopped liking him. 

The only good point I got is the love of a mother towards her child. Dr Raiha loved Ayu since she was still in her womb, and knowing she was not going to be a normal baby.

This showed how great mommy's love could be and she risked her life running away from her abusive husband. 

[Conclusions]

In terms of writing style, I DESPISE hate this book. It's boring to the max. It's draggy. It repeats the same sentences over and over again. It contains too much flashbacks and without a proper shift between past and presents. Changing of characters' POVs are also terrible. Definitely not for high school level especially SPM's KOMSAS. I couldn't get any positive values (other than mom's love). 

The story line - it's okay-lah but in need of better and a bit more on the story's elaboration. Most of the scenes happened vaguely, keeping the reader to ask questions and wondering what actually happen. 

Also, it ends rather abruptly. -.-

It's not even worth to be published. A lot more blog posts/fanfics or even school essays are written beautifully compare to this abominable work. The previous KOMSAS books are 1000 times better.

I don't think I would want to blame Azmah Nordin hundred percent for such a horrible book because I read Timulak Kapal Perang and it was a great book. Maybe it's the pressure from publisher? Or ministry?

One thing for sure, I'm definitely not recommending this book to be a KOMSAS book; not because of the few paragraphs on rape/porn/whatever-you-guys-are-calling-it BUT it's because of the terrible writing and ideas behind the story. 

I read it. 

I hated it. 

I wouldn't be recommending this book. 

Read at your own discretion. 

Attitudes

Salam

It has been quite sometimes since I last give this blog a peek. I only do so when I have ideas what to ramble and rant. And YES! I have something to talk about now.

This has been popping into my mind a handful of times during the year of  2015 (it sounds so long ago when we just passed it few days back -.-) and it's been bugging me during my New Year lunch with friends.

Attitudes

at·ti·tude

ˈadəˌt(y)o͞od/

noun

plural noun: attitudes

1. a settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person's behavior.

   "she took a tough attitude toward other people's indulgences"

So basically, how you BEHAVE and REACT with people.

It might look to be something tiny, insignificant perhaps in today's life. But it's part of very and utmost important aspects in life, that some people may overlook.

I learnt and realized how important this attitude is when I'm already in medical school. Yes, back in those school days, attitude is just attitude. Nothing much to consider about it and I didn't really give a second thought in it. Never actually.

There are few types of students people that you'll meet in life. There are those who treat others with respects; or act in a way that made the people around them feel inferior to that particular person; there are also those who always feel inferior to others; and then, there are the know-it-all-I'm-better-than-you-and-I-want-you-to-realize-it kind of person.

The last one is the species I loath the most. And this is also the people who doesn't care about their attitudes. They think with their extra bits of knowledge, automatically they're superior than others? And they start to treat surrounding people with no respect at all?

I saw this happening in my vicinity. The holier than thou and superiority complexes unfolding among the students. Yes, I know, the more you know, the better you're in faculty, the more superior (in terms of knowledge) you are among your fellow colleagues. But! This does not mean you could disrespect your 'friends.' And have the guts to questions whatever other people are doing, despite they're none of your business?

Then, that kind of aura you give out and made students from other faculties loath at medical students, thinking that all of us have that Grandiose Delusions of being the best in the hardest faculty in university?

Your attitudes define who you are. Even if you memorize all the words ever printed in the textbooks, you score highest among other students, and doing a lot more better than others, if your attitude is like that, do you think people will respect you?

Do you think your patient would like you?

Every time people ask me, how to survive in medical school, my answer would be as simple as it could be.

You study, you don't skip classes, you ask for prayers from your parents and...

check your attitudes and respect others

It's okay to be average, or maybe slightly lower... as long as you really work hard for it and you behaved appropriately. You could't and shouldn't be questioning people, with that kind of know-it-all tones and giving that annoying-aura to people. 

Even if you're right.

Even if you're the best.

Respect other people. In this field, we cannot be living for and by ourselves. We are a system that need one another. Medical field doesn't consist of doctors, ONLY. We have nurses, we have medical assistants, we have clerks, we have a lot more other people that make the system works. 

Do you think if you're acting like that, people will want to work with you? Respect you?

Attitudes define who we are.

Medical students (or everyone!) stop feeling we are better than anyone. In the end of the day, we are still gonna ended up in the same place. 

In a grave. 

We're just a speck of being in this vast world. Respect others if you want to be respected to. Respect is gained not given and your attitudes determine if you're worth others' respect. 

--Footnote--
> I started written this piece somewhere during New Year celebration day and just finished it. I'm lazy like that.

I am... Indonesian's Medical Student

Do you know that it IS NEVER easy for me to be a medical student?

Do you know that it IS THE WORST feeling ever when people asked you that?

Do you know I DREADED the decision made by my parents to send me study in Indonesia? In MEDICINE

I hated it at first. I dreaded it. I felt worst.

Comparing to my friends that are doing their MBBS in Malaysia or UK, in those prestigious, established, well-known universities? Bapak ah aku down gila.

Nobody knows UNPAD when you first mentioned it. Paling, they heard of it because of Fatin Liyana, which is not a full time FK UNPAD student, but twinning program UKM-UNPAD.

Okay sedih! Down! Semuanya!

Why?

People cakap,

'Apa kelas kau belajar kt Indonesia?'  

'Do they even know what medicine is?'

'The worst medical students are from Indonesia.'

'Study kat Indon^ ni budak-budak tak layak ambik medik pun sebenarnya.'

'Untung lah belajar medik kat Indon. Tak pandai pun tak pe. Janji banyak duit.'

and so on and so forth.

Those were the rumors I heard. Even after I stepped into the faculty, those 'stories' kept on circulating. When I got back to Malaysia, same gossips I heard.

I understand. Takde standard pun kan belajar kat Indonesia ni? Budak tak pandai je layak. Yang pandai, stay belajar Medik kat Malaysia. Or flew to better, well-known, established countries macam UK, US, India, Aussie dan lain-lain kan? Even those yang belajar kat Russia, are better than Indonesians' graduates kan?

I'd developed that kind of feeling yang takut nak jawab any medical quizzes on social medias especially I saw the answers from other medical students. Jawapan gila-gila, that I'd to Google half of them*.

Hebat memang hebat.

Okay paham. Kami tak pandai macam korang. Kami punya teori banyak ke laut. Kami memang paling rendah diri among other medical graduates. Kami tak sehebat kalian yang dari universiti negara hebat-hebat. We are just graduates/medical students from a third-world country.

Tak. Hebat. Mana.Pun.

But you know what...

I think I have learnt a lot; both in medicine and real-life. How to deal stuffs ethically. How to deal with bureaucracy.

We learnt that life is not always easy for everyone.
We learnt that there are a lot more unfortunate people that needed medical attention. '
We learnt there are people that are so poor that they couldn't buy the full medical prescription.
We learnt that even the smallest help could bring out the biggest smile.

We learnt to be humble.

We learnt to be a human being. 

Memang teori kami tak berapa kuat. Tak macam kalian. But we got something better. We learnt from the people, from the patients. We learnt doing the smallest tasks but giving you the biggest result. A smallest act of kindness, brings out the happiness from the ill patients.

Seventh semester and counting.

Thank you Allah for this oppurtunity. Thank you for sending me here, in this 3rd world country. Thank you for putting me in Bandung. Thank you for surrounding me with such great people, patients, nurses, doctors,lab technicians, makcik nasi kuning, pakcik bubur ayam, abang Gojek semuanya.

---

Footnote:
^ Aku paling anti orang cakap Indon. Dude, c'mon! It's either Indonesia or Indo. They don't like to be called an Indon. We ought to know that. We have been neighbours!

*Btw, tadi cuba beranikan diri jawab one question. Everyone else said heart-/renal- related diseases and only a handful yang jawab pregnancy-related (well I am one of them! XD) and guess what,I got the right answer! Thank you! At least this restore some of my confidence in learning medicine in Indonesia.

As long as you're willing to learn, belajar kat mana-mana pun boleh jadi.

Yang penting itu bukan tempat belajar, yang penting itu niat nak belajar, dengan attitude yang betul. Belajarlah kat Harvard ke John Hopkins ke UKM ke UM ke mana ke... attitude takde, berlagak gila, ke laut lah nak jadi seorang doktor yang berjaya.

As long as you are willing.

Kangen Water

Kangen Water, bottled.

This IS the WATER!

It can cure anything and everything! From diabetes to cancer to eczema or even 'penyakit bodoh' like acne and such. 

It's good for your health! Drink this miracle, high pH, very alkaline water and dispose of those medications! 

Acidic food and drinks are the reason we got sick! Drink this alkali water to combat it!

Ever heard people selling Kangen Water told you these? 

How far the truth behind their out of the world statements? 

Some of us, especially our grandparents, easily believe this. Why would someone sell you anything that's dangerous or not good for you? Right?

While some of us, mainly people that I can call Abang and Kakak, mostly don't believe those statements (albeit some does!) 

But how far is the truth behind all these statements? Or are they false testimonies that the machines sellers produce just to make sure people buy the machine? *it's Leveluk SD501, cost about RM 12,000 a pop, by the way*. 

Well, there are some facts and lies in those statements. 

However, before we go through that, I'm going to tell you a story here about this Kangen Water. I actually went to a so-called Kangen Water conference a few days back, courtesy of my mini-thesis supervisor. She called me to join her for that Kangen Water conference (she's also the machine and Kangen Water seller, not to mention a medical doctor, at the Department of Pharmacological and Therapy. 

Yes. A licensed MEDICAL DOCTOR, that believe in Kangen Water.

the Video showing about Kangen

Anyways, back to the conference. You've to be invited by someone that's already in the 'Kangen Group' -of some sort; they called this person a sponsor. Not to mention everyone that comes to it has to pay IDR 50,000.00 (about RM15) per person. It's like a bit of exclusive and such to go into this conference. I kept an open mind but a bit on the skeptical and negative side during the whole night it lasted. 

I wanted to know what the MC, presenter and also the audiences would be like. I had an idea based on postings I read on an FB page, Pseudoscience Watch. And I was actually quite right. 

It began with everyone getting a 600ml bottle of Kangen water (free of course) and a video showing the general idea of where Kangen Water is developed. The video did emphasized that Kangen is originated in Japan, the machine, its development and researches are conducted in Japan. 

the Presenter

Live Blood Analysis

Then, the MC started to ask questions whether you want to be healthy-lah, rich-lah and be like those people that had sold more than 100s Kangen Water machines lah. Not that I have anything against those kind of questions but they made me felt... weird. The audiences, on the other hand, responded so lively and enthusiastically. The whole medium-sized ballroom was actually vibrated with their roars and yeses. The presenter was a doctor. They said he had not been a 'doctor' ever since he found of bout Kangen water. Four years, if I'm mistaken. So the conference began with this Maher Zain's doppelganger's speech about water being the 70% make-up of our body (this is a fact!) and hydration. Water and hydration really do correlate but the photo he showed, Live Blood Analysis is something that doesn't make sense. 

I have never heard of Live Blood Analysis before. Never. Not in my four years of medical school nor in the 22 years living in this world. And the picture, the 'dehydrated' red blood cells look a lot like coin-stacked peripheral blood smear/rouleaux  (when the smear is too thick).

Now I'm skeptical level 2

 

Hypertonic, too much water lost from RBC. Dehydration station

Rouleaux or stacks of coins. When blood smear is too thick (2nd Year Meds)

If he's A medical doctor, he should at least know about the basic on blood smear. 

Then, he kept on blabbering and showing photos on blood, endoscopy and testimonies, in which huge, blockish words such as  'BETUL KE NI!?' 'WHAAA-?' kept on blinking in my mind.

Most of that this so-called 'doctor' said, I could never associated them with those basic sciences I learnt in medical school.  They were full of bull!

*Serious lah, aku tak boleh nak compute pun apa 'dokter' ni cakap dengan apa yang aku belajar!*

There was also a demonstration of the Kangen water with pH indicator drop. He did that on various of drinks such as carbonated water, isotonic drinks, bottled juices, mineral water, RO water and of course, the Kangen water. As expected, and known, most of drinks available at the stores are on the acidic side of the indicators. Yes, they are definitely not good for us to consume daily (gula weih gula tinggi!).

Kangen water exhibit a high alkaline level (more towards base than our daily mineral water) and it has the 'power' to neutralise some of the acidic drinks. Remember high school chemistry experiments on acid and alkali? The demo was just like that.

Okay yang ni memang betul lah.

Also, Kangen water has high Oxidation Reduction Potential, something that I'm not familiar with but I'm pretty sure it's called the 'Redox Potential'. Redox potential means that it has the energy to become an antioxidant, removing excess radicals from surrounding. The lower the number, the better it is in being antioxidant. Kangen water has a redox potential somewhere around -600mV and this is like blending three-four types of fruits together and drink the whole thing.

After the demo on the water, the guy started preaching about selling the machine, in which I didn't have a speck of interest. Told my doctor that I wanted to go back and I left. Bits and pieces that I caught during the 'Sale of Machine' (okay, ni aku namakan sendiri) were that you sell to people, you get a certain amount on money from Enagic (the one and only Kangen Water machine maker) and after selling certain amount of machine, the amount of money is increased. Something that looks like pyramid/MLM scheme - which my doctor said IT'S NOT.

the Leveluk SD501

You decide whether it's or not. I myself didn't bother to get the full info about it. 

Alright. So that was what happened during the entire evening I was forced to attend the seminar. 

Betul ke air ni boleh buat semua tu? Is this all hoax? 

Weih aku tak percaya! Mana boleh minum air baik semua! 

I think these are all penipu je. 

Let me get this straight. My answers are based on journals that have been published under respectable, reputable publishers such as Elsevier (yang buat buku Pathologic Basic of Diseases, Abbas and Kumar tuu). I read those journals as a requirement to write my mini-thesis proposal as part as being a medical student (wajib leerr ><). The journals are available through Google Scholars. 

These are the answers for any of you that doubt this water.

ps: I'm not Kangen water seller/preacher etc. I just happen to read these correct information and have the responsibility to educate others.

• Anti-cancer - Surprisingly YES! In 2001 a study on human lung adenocarcinoma and cervical carcinoma. Changes in morphology of the cells from cancer cells to normal cells because the water somehow stopped the 'immortality' of cancer cells so only the normal ones multiply.
• Anti-diabetic - Yes! In 1997, a study showed it did reduce blood glucose and also lipid peroxide. The study is continued in 2002, on hamsters and this also showed same result.
• Anti-oxidant - Yes! The biggest property of Kangen water is because of its antioxidan effect due to low redox potential. Also in 1997, Japanese conducted a study and it showed how Kangen water not only did the job like our endogenous antioxidant but it also worked far better with removing radicals that cannot be removed by our naturally occurring antioxidant.
• Anti-cholesterol - Yes. My friend did her thesis on this and the result is impressive! Comparing Kangen water to Simvastatin (the usual drug prescribed for high cholesterolemia, Kangen water shows better result!)
• Dialysis - Showing good signs in people that do dialysis. The machine is equipped with Kangen water and the patients were less tired, felt a lot better and the oxidative stress is reduced in various parameters.
• Effect in guts - Despite having such high pH, the water does not disturb the normal floras (the good bacterias) in our guts. Kangen water (or ERW, if I may) actually helps in people that have chronic diarrhea, constipation and hypercholia (extra secretion of bile)

These are the benefits of drinking Kangen Water/Electrolyzed Reduced Water, among others. LOADS of BENEFITS, I'm not kidding!

So, jadinya, betullah apa those sellers said. BUT! It doesn't mean you can simply throw away your medications, especially those who are suffering from diabetes and other chronic diseases. Kangen water may one day be cure but until this very second, it's only an adjuvant treatment. 

ADJUVANT. 

SUPPLEMENT. 

PENOLONG. 

MEMBANTU. 

It helps you provided you drink your meds. Jangan pergi buang pulak ubat mahal-mahal tuuuu. Lain jadi kang!

You can read further on journals and such from Google Scholars. It's not the same with normal Google.com. Enter these keywords: Electrolyzed Reduced Water (the scientific name of Kangen Water), antioxidants, anti-diabetic etc.

Sebenarnya, air ni banyak potensi nak jadi a part of our treatment one day. But please, yang jual air-air kangen ni, jangan kasi dakyah. Educate the people, educate yourself before nak jual or suruh patients stop with their meds. Ingat. Nyawa orang.

Till later. Salam.

sources:

images.google.com

scholar.google.com under Elsevier's journals and papers posted in scholar.

Intro

Salam all.

This is my... secon- no. I think this is my 20th blog or so throughout the years I've been active using the internet. Too many blogs and I rarely maintained them more than few months.

I've deleted MOST of them.
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. well, those that I remembered making them, the emails and password associated together.

I'm not much a writer nor a student nor anything. Most of the time, I'm less than your typical college student and the least medical student that people expected.

Why?

I rather be playing with technologies or my pots and pants OR just lazying on my bed, reading or watching movies.

So bear with me on this one. I'm thinking 'bout writing my experiences in writing mini-thesis, going into labs and clinical rotations for the next two years of my life!

by the way, 178 days left in theoretical-years!