I’m elated to declare the return of Lifehacker’s Burning Questions column, right by which I resolution the health questions that folks can’t—or don’t deserve to—google. As a reminder, here is no longer scientific advice, and I’m no longer a doctor.
That talked about, I am no longer terrorized to predict a doctor the issues you won’t. Love how one can come by a checkup of a mole for your butt crack with out demise of embarrassment. Or whether penises tend to curve more with age. Or why you come by gas and diarrhea ought to you’re for your period.
That talked about, burning questions don’t deserve to be putrid or embarrassing. We’ve answered why you preserve getting acne within the identical advise, and whether it’s doubtless you’ll perhaps well be ready to come by scurvy from residing on nothing nonetheless ramen (yes, nonetheless it’s no longer straightforward). I maintain one of my well-liked questions was from any person scared that they might well well perhaps grunt a lengthy-buried family secret while beneath anesthesia. Luckily, the reply grew to vary into out to be no: Anesthesia might well well perhaps decrease your inhibitions, nonetheless no longer that distinguished.
So now, it’s 2020. We now beget loads to shock about, especially as the realm changes round us. So if you’ve acquired a inquire about health or the human body, let me know. I’ll be checking the comments beneath, nonetheless for your perfect probabilities at getting your inquire answered in a future column, please e-mail it to me with “BURNING QUESTION” within the discipline line. Except you speak in some other case, I’ll quote from your letter nonetheless preserve your name confidential.
