by Dr. Gabriel M. Freitas | 10/30/2025 | Cancers and Tumors, Health Fun Facts
Content discussed in this post What cancer is and key terms Benign vs malignant: what changes in practice Metastasis: how cancer spreads Staging: TNM and clinical stages How to read survival statistics with sensitivity Treatments: surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy,...
by Dr. Gabriel M. Freitas | 10/28/2025 | Health Fun Facts
Content discussed in this post Why we are discussing this now What Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is Tylenol and autism: what studies do and do not show Causation vs correlation: where many go wrong Why it “seems” there is more autism today Risks of health...
by Dr. Gabriel M. Freitas | 10/23/2025 | Health Fun Facts
Content discussed in this post What collagen is and how the body absorbs it Does collagen work for skin during weight loss What to do and what to take to minimize skin laxity Time course and factors that determine laxity When to consider excess-skin surgery How the...
by Dr. Gabriel M. Freitas | 06/27/2025 | Health Fun Facts
The desire for tanned skin is common, especially in tropical countries like Brazil, where the sun is abundant. However, the pursuit of that “golden tone” can come at a high cost to skin health. Although many people still associate tanning with beauty and vitality, the...
by Dr. Gabriel M. Freitas | 06/25/2025 | Health Fun Facts
We often hear health advice passed down from generation to generation. Some of it makes sense, but much of it is just popular myth without any scientific basis. The confusion between myth and truth can lead to ineffective — and sometimes even harmful — habits. In this...