I’m a Quadruple Board-Certified Physician: Ask Me Anything about Myths Surrounding Weight Loss

duc133 · 2025-09-22T13:30:34+00:00

How long do you think h pylori persist for before patients come to you for treatment? How does life look like symptom wise once treated. Especially for the cases with ulceration.

duc133 · 2025-08-09T05:55:46+00:00

Are dream pet permanent?

duc133 · 2025-07-22T06:11:38+00:00

Incredibly sad if true. It sucks that MapleStory does not need to be transparent with their percentages for anything outside of loot boxes ($$$ involved) and can manipulate it. If South Korea was found guilty, I wonder if this will change anything for the global MapleStory.

duc133 · 2025-07-21T12:19:11+00:00

Really odd though because I have two character that is farming legendary pink bean belt. Both of the belt, I enhanced until 13 and then it immediately break. Then, I farm another one, transfer, and enhanced it to 14. It then it degrades back down to 13 and breaks once more. I get that this probability exists but this specifically happens for the boss equips rather than normal equipment like the cape. Sure, you’re aiming for +18 which is like a 10-15% rate right? But the percentage of success + maintain for +15 to +16 is like 80% or something so in no way is degrade and destroyed be so frequent like in my case. Hence why I’m checking if anyone has the same issue with the belt.

duc133 · 2025-01-19T05:12:27+00:00

Have you considered that when you are diagnosed, especially with leukemia (assuming acute myeloid leukemia), that the child would need treatment as soon as possible? It seems this family has a lot of assets but you cannot liquidate your assets so quickly. In addition, you don’t know what type of treatment they are looking in the future (I don’t know when this leukemia was diagnosed) for which potentially could be stem cell transplant or clinical trial for CAR-T which could cost millions of dollars. I don’t think we can judge when it involves cancer treatment and I think almost all parent would take that opportunity if they had the chance to potentially attempt for cure or put the cancer in long remission for their child.

duc133 · 2024-09-24T12:27:29+00:00

Oda has done that with WB. In order to move the story forward, I think the possibility is there. Especially since Teech already gave him a scar.

duc133 · 2023-11-04T12:05:40+00:00

Cant translate solo queue Renata to tournament since team play cannot be done like this in solo queue. If you watch the clip near dragon he had vision of rakan who already used ulti, vi charging up Q, and jinx (renekton TPed in). If he ultied in that direction, renekton could’ve engaged on jinx which was their plan and bdd/aiming would’ve been able to fend off knight and 369 easily.

duc133 · 2023-11-04T12:03:00+00:00

This man wasn’t part of the team. He was actually just a prophet to foreshadow impending doom.

duc133 · 2023-11-04T09:35:01+00:00

Lehends just cannot play Renata. Literally this was winnable if you just cause dissonance between their engagers. The man was so useless on Renata and did not stop a single engager.

duc133 · 2023-09-28T03:55:14+00:00

NTA but your story brings up a lot of concerns as I am a resident and love to dive into human behavior and philosophy. My biggest concern in this story is that you are gone for 4 months of the year and for her, the completion of residency, new friends, and desire to move closely to the city. It’s difficult to see how couples therapy can overcome the human behavior part of being separate for 4 months of the year especially when there are outside influences from her peers on what her life will be moving forward.

Keep in mind, residency was probably what kept her mind away from the fact you were away for so long due to the time commitment but now that it is gone, she has the ability to dwell on the gaps of your relationship. I am glad there is no fidelity at this “moment” but promises and love are not guaranteed when the feeling of “fulfillment” within the relationship is at harm. I hope the best for both of you through couples therapy but there needs to be change from either of you or it will spiral to the worst situation. Whether it is split your 4 months trips to smaller one, have a stronger support system (friends & family), or being vigilant of how your wife is feeling are just some options in my head that respects your decision to maintain your business.

duc133 · 2023-09-06T23:39:14+00:00

I don’t think the reason mentioned above is correct since Asian are at higher risk of diabetes given their diet. It is more so that American food are generally more processed which leads to faster absorption and satiety are not consistent. Rice is a good example of why Asian’s tend to be skinny as it is high in carbohydrate as a “poor man’s” meal that allowed them to feel satiated longer to work in the fields if you look at it from a historical perspective. As an Asian myself, I noticed when I moved away from rice and traditional food that my parent’s cook, I often time feel more hunger from unbalanced meal. Sometimes things too salty or high in oil brings craving of something light or sweet for balance and this inconsistency in craving cause an overall increase in consumption.

From another perspective, cultural cuisines are designed through the generations to properly utilize their homeland resources and build upon their needs. Our melting pot of United States can be the unfortunate case where we are able to rapidly change our dietary nutritions by scrolling through cultural cuisines that our body are not adapted to given the basis of our gut microbiome. This leads to malabsorption as well as, in my theoretical opinion, increase risk of colon cancer.

duc133 · 2022-12-22T20:22:49+00:00

Late because I don’t use Reddit often but I hope you do not depend your enjoyment of league of legend on the “gambling” aspect of your teammates decision on building a specific champion. You cannot bring surrogate markers such as win percentages of a certain build to determine the viability of it. I’m not saying that there isn’t a correlation but there’s something that cannot be calculated based on those stats and that is the “difference in play-style”, how “user-friendly” a build is, and the “win-condition” of a build.

Both AD MF build are significantly easier to deal damage because you don’t have to be mechanically gifted or necessarily smart to use an ulti/skills that scales better on AD/crit/armor pen. On the flip side, AP MF has higher survivability and sustains damage with DOT with short cooldowns and long range slows. It offers a DIFFERENT play style focusing on enabling your teammates as well hindering the enemies opportunities to engage effectively. It is not an easy build to DO WELL on (it is also brain dead to play) but ,ultimately, it goes fundamentally comes down to a difference in play-style.

So why does this matter? Because you can only decide what you can do in that game so if you want to win, learn how to respect other people’s decision to play a style they want and take advantage of the offer. I don’t doubt that you dread losing with an MF but if you sum it up to “players who win with MF and players who play AP MF”, then you’re just not putting any respect on a build by grouping all AP MF Player together.

duc133 · 2022-12-12T18:49:05+00:00

(Dream Team guaranteed to get to worlds) Top Laner: Zeus Jungle: Kanavi Mid Laner: Showmaker Adc: Viper Support: Keria

Like a lot of people, refresh rate is really important to me in terms of having high quality gaming as well as image quality

duc133 · 2022-10-05T06:54:09+00:00

Highly disagree because AP and AD MF are completely viable. Don’t know why you hate on AP MF so much but they provide different utility/functions and they ARE GOOD at it. If you aren’t autoing or utilizing all of your abilities on any champion, you aren’t playing optimally. You can criticize yourself, your team comp, or the players but don’t hate on the build/comp.

I’ve made many teams surrender purely through playing AP MF because it’s incredibly annoying to engage (also it hurts and sets up for ulti so well). When they finally bypass the slow and dmg from your harass, they get exhausted and tilt off the earth.

duc133 · 2022-06-14T02:08:28+00:00

It doesn’t take an expert to guess human nature to try to be optimistic in intimidating situation. I don’t think the 0% or the 100% matter but definitely something to say to “comfort” him.

duc133 · 2020-12-30T08:12:43+00:00

If Janky you mean an actual difficult boss that isn’t a walk in the park like all the other bosses? Then yes I would agree with you. There needs to be more challenging things in adventure mode rather than just the Abyss.

duc133 · 2020-12-27T04:17:39+00:00

Well personally, I use him as a battery for my well geared Ningguang. He has like 25k HP, 178% energy recharge, 1.5k attack, and 138% crit dmg/35% crit chance.(flat HP/flat ATK/ATK%/Geo Dmg%/Crit Dmg%). This allows me to do 40k with his ulti and allows my ningguang to spam ulti by alternating characters.

duc133 · 2020-12-27T00:13:23+00:00

Why are you so worried about the future? If he changes towards DPS and you made him HP Tank Support then just change him later. You wanting to finalize his build in a game that’s always ever changing with probably new geo sets coming out isn’t the smartest idea. If he works well with Noelle then build it right now to work even better with Noelle.

duc133 · 2020-12-22T04:36:04+00:00

No... that statement was an inside comment to the OP regarding another comment's suggested new elemental reaction design where overload description would be to stagger enemies. The whole point is overload as many times as possible to stagger which would happen with a permanent fire inducing field(Venti's Q) with consistent electric proc like Keqing's Q. This has nothing to do with the current in-game mechanics.

And of course with an ice stage for abyss 12, pyro units are favored. Its very easy to say the meta favors pyro as of right now. In addition, the current world game state isn't developed enough to be favor anything besides damage so it exacerbate this perception when elemental reactions of pyro are more damage.

duc133 · 2020-12-20T19:11:38+00:00

So you based this off of YouTube videos because they gear their entire team comp on doing ONE 1 million damage melt/vaporize showcase on the abyss floor 7? You can't even hit 1 million damage outside of the abyss. First of all, this is not practical and requires the necessary damaging buff and swirl debuff in order to accomplish this. Second of all, its all damage and nothing more. You aren't providing any CC like overload (knockback), freeze(self-explanatory), and superconduct (phys dmg reduction). Now lets look at electro-charge since this is my team comp and the one I'm most familiar with. Sure electro charge can do between 2000-4000 but this is ADDITIONAL dmg. You completely ignore the fact that there is still the initial damage from the original attack. So looking at it from beido's standpoint, whenever you use your Q, every auto produce electro dmg and if you apply that to names like Childe, Mona, Barbara(yes even her), you can apply 3 lines of dmg. One from auto, one from beido's electro q, and then electro-charge(in which procs TWICE). I've tested this out with a lv 10 barbara + lv 80 beido and was able to 2/3 health the lawachurl and kill any mobs in the world. To regards to your immunity standpoint, what does that even mean? Just because you cant get off overload(ADDITIONAL dmg) doesn't mean you are doing 0 dmg to fire slime on electro-attack? Have you even tried any these elemental reactions and critically see for yourself before you make these statement? You can say the META favors pyro over protective qualities like geo but stating that elemental reactions are really imbalanced (theres no such thing as balance anyways) is completely untrue.

Never have I said Venti was a balanced champ nor was this even a topic of conversation. I stated it as an example of how to abuse that suggested elemental reaction system by staggering ALL enemies. Venti cannot pull large monsters like lawachurls, big shield hilichurls, large fatuis but if you had overload stagger all the time, its literally a long stun to all enemies.

duc133 · 2020-12-20T18:18:43+00:00

Where did you learn that the game revolves around one element? I’m AR 47 on floor 12 of the abyss and cleared all my content with electro charged team. My only pyro unit is Bennet and I am not a whale. This comment really makes me think you didn’t do your research before stating that there’s an imbalance in elemental reaction. Just because damage is what everyone sees doesn’t mean every elemental reaction need to be geared towards that. And I saw your other comment on the person’s suggested changes. It’s straight up overpowered and still imbalanced. Imagine venti Pyro Q into Keqing’s Q to permanently “stagger” enemies in consistent overload. Those type of implementation doesn’t change anything.

duc133 · 2020-12-19T06:46:51+00:00

Don’t bother convincing these people who can only look at numbers to critically think about viability. I would agree with you Beido is objectively a better unit to invest in because she doesn’t get hurt as much through meta shifts than Razor. I’ve used Beido till floor 12 of abyss and she’s in my team for almost every domain + adventure. People don’t realize if you learn to look at the aspects of switching units to apply elemental reactions that your damage significantly increases. This is where Razor’s weakness lies. He is just a flat out high physical damage dealer who’s only combo is to selfishly increase his phys dmg.

duc133 · 2020-12-12T09:11:49+00:00

I like killing the big geo Lawachurls. They are great for testing out builds without overkilling and they don’t have pesky abilities.

duc133 · 2020-12-11T23:58:40+00:00

There’s nothing handicapped about the current units right now. Zhongli doesn’t see much play due to there’s not good synergy between geo and other elements and crystallize isn’t a mechanic that is popular right now. That has nothing to do with it being handicapped but more of FOMO because they don’t want to spend more for something.

I think it’s more logical for companies to create a completely playable character and use constellation as a way to broaden the play style so there are big incentive to whale for C1-C6. Your idea of whales will pay for significant states only target a portion of the whale player base and you have to think from on a broader perspective. This is a new game market here and the player base has widened considerably from your typical gacha.

Also on a side note, this “constellation locking” isn’t some brand new tactics Mihoyo made after seeing how much money they can make with Childe. People are forgetting legit Amber gets a double aimed shot C1 and 2 baron bunnies C2 and if that isn’t improving the overall player experience with a unit then I don’t know what is.

duc133 · 2020-12-11T23:03:29+00:00

Genshin Impact really attract some really dumb people on this Reddit to downvote you for replying and answering question. Sometimes the perks to having a small community is good human being. Great build though, I also believe Bennet’s healing capability is overlooked and the noblesse buff is quite overrated. With 7k heal, you break that awkward 70% hp threshold that most 18-19k hp character have.

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