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Daria Sargsyan
Killer wallpaper, poisonous water and a seduction chair. How to survive in your own apartment
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The next time you brush your teeth, try asking yourself about each action: "Why am I doing this?" Six months ago my answers looked like this:
Why do I use this type of toothbrush?
Well, she's simple and pretty. And the bells and whistles that other brushes have are probably pure marketing, no benefit from them.
Why this toothpaste?
She smells good.
Why am I brushing my teeth this way?
I got used to it since childhood.
Why don't I have interdental brushes, irrigators, or other devices for cleaning my teeth?
Hmm. Because life is too short for me to waste on interdental brushes? I don’t know, I didn’t think.
If your answer is about the same, then this book is for you. The wrong choice of toothpaste brings the day when the teeth need treatment. Due to improper hand washing, you are more likely to get SARS. Defrosting meat improperly (at room temperature, not in the refrigerator) increases your risk of food poisoning. Every day we do a lot of little silly things of this kind. Just because we don’t think about it. Just because they are so used to it.
Sometimes the opposite happens. We are afraid of what is completely harmless (well, or almost harmless): scale, microwave oven or a monitor that supposedly kills our eyesight.
I tried to understand all this from the point of view of evidence-based medicine. What is good about evidence-based medicine is that it has the tools to provide a reasoned answer to the question "Why?" Why do professional dental communities recommend using fluoride paste? Because in well-conducted studies, this approach has proven effective in preventing tooth decay. If there were no such studies, then we would know that we know nothing. And this is also good: we would not be led by the hot conviction that only paste with tea tree oil and grated pearls can protect against caries. "Where is your proof?" - "They are not here". However, due to the relatively small amount of good research, such verification of information is often unsupported and leads to some confusion. But it is still better to know that we do not know something, and to accept it, than to blindly believe.
Together with Marianne Mirzoyan and Karina Nazaretyan - they are also medical journalists - in January 2016, we launched a Telegram channel (essentially a blog) called Wet Mantu. The title may sound strange, but it has an important message. I think that more or less all people who grew up in the USSR and Russia know that the mantu sample cannot be wetted. This taboo is firmly in the head, and few people even think that everything could be different. We want people to question such "well-known facts" and look for evidence. Because in the end it turns out that the mantu sample can be wetted, with a sore throat, you even need to eat ice cream, and the meat cannot be washed before cooking.
There are not so many decent sources with which you can check information. They are practically absent in Russian, mainly in English, because there is no local medicine - there is world medicine, and the language in which doctors and scientists from all over the world share information is English. All guides from the professional medical community, all highly qualified scientific journals are in English. Scientific articles are collected in the PubMed.com database. But the very fact of publication is not a sign of the quality of the article, of course, and each article needs to be dealt with separately, this is a rather complicated process that requires certain skills. Therefore, in medical practice, the leadership of professional communities is more often relevant: based on the analysis of scientific articles, experts recommend how to prevent, diagnose, treat, etc. These guidelines can be found on the websites of the professional organizations themselves or on ClinicalKey.com. Check out UpToDate.com and Medscape.com for helpful, fact-tested texts on a variety of diseases and conditions. These are all sources for doctors, nurses and journalists. Maybe more for advanced patients. For everyone else, for example, government websites MedlinePlus.gov (USA) and NHS.uk (UK) have been created - there the information is simplified. A section for patients is also available at UpToDate - uptodate.com/patients. There are other sites out there, but MedlinePlus acts as an aggregator and links to pretty much anything decent. Using these sources, you can find answers to most questions about health.
I wrote this book based on the sites listed above, and also talked with doctors, watched what doctors told my foreign colleagues, and checked every fact that seemed obvious. And if, while reading, you come across some strange statement, you can always look into the footnotes and familiarize yourself with the source. In some things you just don't want to believe, and in order to get rid of some habit, you need to show character, go against
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We do hundreds of stupid things every day - in the kitchen, in the bathroom, in the bedroom, and at the desk. For some reason, with an effort of three with a washcloth, we buy orthopedic mattresses and are afraid to go blind from constant work at the computer. From this book you will learn how to live according to science and not die prematurely. Debunking myths on every page!
We don't need antibacterial soap
But the paste must be chosen wisely, otherwise then you will have to treat your teeth
Due to improper hand washing, we often get sick with ARVI
Water filters can harm us
The toilet seat is cleaner than it looks and the carpet is not very good
It's a shame, but kissing pets is still not worth it.
Medical journalist Daria Sargsyan tried to understand our everyday behavior from the point of view of evidence-based medicine: what is good for us, what is absolutely not, and what makes no sense at all. "Why so and not otherwise?" is her favorite question.
We do hundreds of stupid things every day - in the kitchen, in the bathroom, in the bedroom, and at the desk. For some reason, with an effort of three with a washcloth, we buy orthopedic mattresses and are afraid to go blind from constant work at the computer. In this book, you will learn how to live according to science and not die prematurely. Debunking myths on every page! - We don't need antibacterial soap - But the paste must be chosen wisely, otherwise we will have to treat our teeth later - Due to improper hand washing, we often get sick with ARVI - Water filters can harm us - The toilet seat is cleaner than it seems, and the carpet is not very - It's terribly sorry, but kissing pets is still not worth it Medical journalist Daria Sargsyan tried to understand our daily behavior from the point of view of evidence-based medicine: what is good for us, what is absolutely not, and what makes no sense at all. "Why so and not otherwise?" is her favorite question. This is the third edition of the book, supplemented and revised. Science does not stand still, scientists continue their research and publish new articles, so Daria re-checked all the facts, refreshed the scientific information and rewrote the chapter "On Air". Let this book become your desktop, and also be studied in the lessons of life safety, distributed in medical institutions, passed from hand to hand and helps to live. About the author Daria Sargsyan is a medical journalist, promoter of evidence-based medicine, editor of the Meduza publication and co-founder of the thousands of telegram channel Namochi Mantu. Reviews The book should be read not so much as an instruction - is tap water dangerous and is it possible to do without a filter; is scum in the teapot scary; Is it harmful to drink five cups of coffee a day (spoiler: not harmful) - as much as a therapy for urban fears: it turns out that so many things that we are so hysterically afraid of are actually not at all scary. In general, read Sargsyan more and listen to the Internet less. Lisa Birger, Literary Critic Drawing on hundreds of studies, Dasha explains how to wash your hands, brush your teeth, protect yourself from STDs, how to eat, drink and sleep. The book really describes the ideal (as it is understood by today's development of science), to which one must strive in order to reduce the risks of health problems. I would be glad if this book was rewritten and republished every few years in accordance with the latest data. Fedor Katasonov, pediatrician, author of the popular telegram channel "Fediatriya" 3rd edition, revised and enlarged.
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When I was 20, I decided to donate blood. I thought, why not actually. I passed it, and somehow it worked out by itself - I became a volunteer and started going to the hematology department of the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital. There I saw quite a few problems - and this despite the fact that the "Give Life" foundation tried to plug all the holes to the maximum. And since I was a senior year student of journalism, I worked, I wanted to write about it. She proposed the topic of bone marrow transplantation to Esquire magazine, and the editors gave the go-ahead. , became one of my first texts on a medical topic.
At the same time, I decided to take advantage of the fact that my students had not yet been taken away from me, and began to attend lectures at other universities and other faculties of Moscow State University. Across the street from the faculty of journalism there are several departments of the First Honey, where I, among other things, began to go. I really liked the logic of the body, the logic of the disease. School biology lessons were not so fun and understandable. And it quickly became clear that there is a huge problem in medicine: there is no mutual understanding between doctors and patients - they are very angry with each other (despite the fact that there is either no reason for this at all, or everything is easy to fix just by talking). And I, as a journalist, could contribute to slightly change the situation. In addition, after the Faculty of Journalism, I began to feel nauseous from the humanities - I took up medical journalism, in which you can rely on cool sources and where there is not much room for a subjective attitude on the part of the author.
Conscientiousness, meticulousness and curiosity are perhaps the main qualities of a medical journalist. Here you just need to sit on the priest exactly from day to day, read a lot, look for confirmation of each fact and torment doctors with endless questions. Quite a tedious job, by and large. Yes, you constantly learn a lot of new and useful things, visit those places where strangers are not allowed in hospitals, but mostly this is routine work. Probably, the life of a special correspondent or a sports journalist is much more fun and unpredictable.
However, for me personally, the most difficult thing is not routine, but the incompetence of many colleagues. I hate to talk about it, because it always sounds like "all idiots, and I am d'Artagnan", but there are really a lot of illiterate articles. And every time I see material without a single reference to sources about the fact that from the age of 30 you need to do an ultrasound of the mammary glands every year, or that acne occurs due to intestinal problems, or that multivitamins are necessary for everyone, I want to "kill" ... Probably because it is to some extent personal: a kind of war in the information space - I am trying to tell you one thing, and colleagues for some reason contribute to the spread of obscurantism. And it is very painful to see. After all, they probably act without malice and sometimes they do not even understand that they are harming. This makes the struggle even more ridiculous.
The main problem is not when the article says that this or that disease is treated with soda and urine (it seems to me that many already understand that this is nonsense), but when it is written that it is necessary to use certain drugs with solid names and for diagnosis do a certain tomography, but if you figure it out, it turns out that these are just harmful recommendations. Ideally, of course, to protect yourself from this, you need to look for information in English and only on trusted sites. This is basically, and. There are a bunch of extensions now that help translate single words, sentences, or all text on the page. And quite high quality. Yes, this, of course, makes it difficult to read, but in essence it just takes some getting used to.
If I now list the minimum requirements for a good article, then I don't know where you can find something in Russian that even remotely resembles in scale or. First, there should be links to quality sources (read: at least English-speaking, because English is the language of modern medicine). Secondly, there should be a date: when the article was published and (ideally) when it is going to be updated. In medicine, everything changes very quickly, and, for example, there will already be a 2011 article on the treatment of hepatitis C. Plus, over time, you will learn to identify bullet words that betray bad author work. This, for example, is already pretty boring. You can read everything to get some basic patient education and quickly figure out such things.
I have two beloved friends with whom we make "Wet Mantu" - Marianna Mirzoyan and Karina Nazaretyan (jokes about the Armenian mafia have long been joked). At one time we came together precisely because we are unbearably meticulous. This does not mean that we are not mistaken - we are mistaken, because we are human beings, but in general, our approach is the same and it helps to provide reliable information in articles.
I mostly read Russian-language articles on medical topics in Telegram and Facebook (with the exception of). This is, for example, the telegram channel "" of medical journalist Oli Kashubina,. On Facebook I read pediatricians Sergei Butriy, Fyodor Katasonov and infectious disease specialist Evgeny Shcherbina. Gynecologist Tatyana Rumyantseva also has her own. There are also many good doctors on Instagram, but I still can't figure out how this terribly inconvenient resource can be used for reading texts.
It seems to me that, in principle, an ordinary person should not be aware of the latest research. I'll explain now. If you just love science, read on. If you want to apply this knowledge in practice, then no - I cannot recommend anything like that in Russian. Usually in the news outlets, this is any slag like "Carrots will save you from Alzheimer's disease" - you open it, and there is a study on mice or a study in which a correlation was found, not a causal relationship. Even if the research is good, there are 283 more studies on the topic that have not been canceled. And you just have to head over to where the articles are updated every month to see how this 284th study affected the big picture. There is, of course, everything about evidence-based medicine, but this is not a major media outlet that does everything promptly and on all fronts.
It seems to me that the low level of health education in Russia is directly related to laziness and a lack of understanding that you yourself are responsible for your health. Now you have a headache, you go to the pharmacy, you say: "Give me something from the head." They give you some combination drugfor example citramone. Accepted - it helped. Then the head ached again - you accepted again. And if this happens often, you earn yourself an abuse headache, that is, pain directly due to taking painkillers. And all because you followed the simple path, felt that the pharmacist is responsible for your health, and not yourself. I understand, of course, I would like to live in a world where everyone is doing their job well and you can outsource a lot of things, but the reality is that only the person himself can be responsible for his health. And this is difficult.
Probably, if we had such cool Russian-language sources as or, it would be easier. But in the United States and in other English-speaking countries, people are treated with echinacea and homeopathic medicines.
It is difficult, of course, to talk about the reasons why many people do not want to go to the doctor or go to the clinic to the last in case of malaise, but, most likely, the fact is that: a) you will certainly face rudeness - “how do I know, where is your map ”,“ you were not standing here ”,“ I just ask ”; b) you will be healed, like the grandmother was healed. The experience of older relatives can really be quite sad: they diagnosed for a long time, treated, did not help, treated again, a lot of money and time in the pipe, no health. Maybe it was the incompetence of the doctors, or maybe that was the state of medicine at that time. Now everything could change. Well, of course, it is better to go to a doctor who adheres to the principles of evidence-based medicine, and not to a random specialist in compulsory medical insurance or VHI. Here, by the way, I sometimes notice that people are strangled by a toad. For example, there is good doctorbut he accepts in the private sector (this is often the case). Suppose a patient, without any damage to his budget, can pay 3,000-5,000 rubles for an appointment. But since long time medicine for him was conditionally free (actually, paid - for our taxes), then it is psychologically difficult to give that kind of money. Moreover, if you think about it, there is no logic in such a decision. Here you go to a random doctor, he will prescribe you an MRI, an ultrasound scan, blood and urine tests, senseless physical therapy and ten more strange drugs. As a result, you spend more than for an appointment with a competent doctor who would prescribe only what is necessary. But, I think, everything will change: it is impossible to step on this rake indefinitely.
In general, everything worked out by itself: I was offered, and since I had some free time, I did not refuse and just did my usual journalistic work. This is how the book "Killer Wallpaper, Poisonous Water and a Seducing Chair" appeared.
I have several thousand articles saved in Pocket. If I search there for something by the word sleep, I find a ton good lyrics about all possible and impossible aspects of this case. Also, American, British and Australian government organizations are doing a good job of conveying some basic, but very important rules to people. On their websites, for example, there is a bunch of texts stating that meat should not be washed before cooking. Moreover, on one site there may be several pages devoted to this issue, with more or less the same content, but with slightly different wording. At first I was perplexed, and then the book came out, and every second comment under the materials about it was: "What is this nonsense, how can we not wash this meat?" Then I realized: yes, they decided everything right there. We need to make videos about this, and memos, and FAQs, and just articles, and interviews - maybe this way people will be able to come to terms with this simple idea.
Five tips from Daria Sargsyan (after which you will want to read her book):
- Use a fluoride paste.
- Throw out the loofah and antibacterial soap.
- If the house has small child and you love dogs, get a dog.
- Do not buy a filter without water analysis.
- Don't be afraid of monosodium glutamate, GMOs, microwaves, toilet seats, coffee, hormonal contraception, and computer work and fried foods.
An intriguing title, isn't it?
I was looking for a book for a long time so that everything was collected in a heap, some useful tips housework, cleaning and food.
Finally, she was found. Daria Sargsyan is a journalist, I read one of her books, I liked it. But again, there are so many doctors and opinions, so you don't need to trust her 100%.
Killer Wallpaper, Toxic Water, and Seducing Chair is based on scientific research that can be found on American websites.
Let me tell you about interesting facts from book.
I read the book in electronic form. Sometimes beautiful pink pictures with the contents of the chapter run through. There are a lot of footnotes on every page.
So, we choose the most common soap, tar only as prescribed by a dermatologist.
We change the towel 1-2 times a week.
Sulfur comes out of the ear at the moment when we chew food. Therefore, you cannot go deeply. (By the way, there are excellent ear sticks with a stopper on sale, you will not climb further than necessary )
About black dots.
Blackheads are comedones (open blackheads), that is, a sebaceous plug in the hair follicle, which, due to contact with oxygen, has oxidized and turned black. Plus there is melaninin - that is, it's not dirt that can be washed off. You can cope with blackheads by using products with benzoyl peroxide (look at your pharmacy) or 0.5-2% salicylic acid. This should be done for at least four to eight weeks.
In the morning, you do not need to use facial cleansers.
Better to use a soft power toothbrush with uneven bristles.
Use oral staining tablets to control your dental care.
There are only 4 types of toothpaste, the rest is marketing.
Fluoride in the paste must be at least 1350 ppm.
The colored strip on the tube with the paste has nothing to do with the naturalness or harmfulness of the paste))
You need to brush your teeth with the appearance of the first teeth in order to prevent tooth decay in childhood.
The irrigator does not remove plaque.
Throw out washcloths and body scrubs. Maximum - pumice for the heels.
We don't use air fresheners!
This is the most interesting, in my opinion, from the first chapter. The second is no less interesting.
The chapter includes articles on sleep and contraceptives. I don't know really why the second is here, but the author has written about STDs in great detail.
People with HIV can sleep without protection, taking a pill, but it is expensive.
You can boil water as many times as you like.
Defend water and use filters.
People with weakened immunity can only drink boiled water.
Do not drink large quantities of herbal teas!
The book describes in detail detox and melt water, mineral water, juice, smoothies, coffee, etc. I will not stop, the information seemed to me not very useful.
Antioxidant benefits have not been proven.
There is a small amount of monosodium glutamate in finished products.
GMO-safe. In general, there is a lot of praise in the book for all kinds of additives, preservatives, and additives. Not the first book where I come across this. Did you know that rice and potatoes on the market are GM foods?
From the book you will learn how to properly store food in the refrigerator. For myself, I learned some important information.
Option with cold water and a microwave, I find it convenient.
It is imperative to change filters in vacuum cleaners, air conditioners, wash air cleaners, change lamps periodically if you quartz the room.
At the computer, you need to blink more often and do exercises.
Your eyesight does not deteriorate from what you read or look at the phone.
It is dangerous to live on the 1-2 floor.
What should be in the first aid kit:
There is also a list of what should NOT be in the medicine cabinet.
A large section is devoted to animals, how not to get infected from them.
The most harmless animals in the house are rabbits and fish.
I have shared with you interesting facts from the book in my opinion, I would like more. But what is in the book is indisputably important, there is something to think about. The author herself tries to live easily, and not worry about any issue. Therefore, there is no need to turn the content of home life into obsession.
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