A BuzzFeed writer explores Reddit discussions where doctors share the most perplexing aspects of the human body that science still struggles to fully understand, covering areas like infant crying, anesthesia, autoimmune diseases, vision changes, and mental health.
The human body is a lot of things: incredible, strong, and often a little gross. But for all we do know about the body, it is also very,:" Doctors of Reddit , what's a mystery about the human body that science still hasn't fully explained?" Here's what some of them had to say:.
The bane of my pediatric specialty. Oh, your kid screams uncontrollably for hours on end? Welp, just don’t shake your baby. Good luck!""It's so frustrating, my second kid went off like an air raid siren at 9:30 at night and wailed until 3 or 4 a.m. From six weeks until just after her first birthday. It was HELL. Every doctor we talked to gave us the professional equivalent of a shrug. Then one day, silence...happy, sunny kid. Slept through the night, barely even fussed about anything. We walked around like she was an unstable land mine for months, and it just never came back...creepy."or predict outcomes, as we just don't know. The brain is remarkably resilient and fragile all at the same time." "I was in hospital once and about to be put under sedation. I casually asked how anesthesia works, to which the anesthetist replied, 'We don't actually know.' When I got home, I did some research — we. I used to think it was pretty straightforward; then I was diagnosed with a disorder. Everything is so hit-or-miss and open to interpretation, even bloodwork. I went from seropositive to seronegative at one point, how??? Do antibodies, rheumatoid factor, and antinuclear antibody just disappear? Or fluctuate? Depends on the rheumatologist you ask. Symptoms all overlap for so many similar things, and the treatments all work differently for different people, until sometimes they randomly don't or do for a while, then quit." "Maybe you have lupus, maybe you have arthritis? Can't be sure, so take this malaria drug about it and let me know if you get mouth sores, your liver swells up, or it does nothing for no reason. Could be the meds, could be a flair. Either way, it's going to affect parts of your body you never knew interacted. How is your relationship with gluten and dairy, because it's about to get weird. Which came first, the depression or the inflammation? No idea, but here's another four pills about it. You're hypermobile, ever heard of Ehlers-Danlos or POTS? Similar but different, but who knows...why did you come in again? Fatigue.". We know how it proceeds, but the trigger is not 100% confirmed/known. A popular theory is that the excretions from the lungs of the infant signal the placenta to get the ball rolling.". We have a lot of theories, but no concrete explanation as to why. The lens continues to grow throughout our life, but it becomes more biconvex, which should add plus power to the eye, but it doesn't. The ciliary muscle remains functional well into the 90th decade. The lens zonules remain attached and functional throughout life. We think it's a change of all the above. But, no smoking gun. This is why you can ask 10 different eye doctors why we lose our ability to read small print, and each has a different reason why.", and 100% death rate. Diagnosis is often only through a lengthy process of elimination. Typical life expectancy after diagnosis is 2–5 years. It causes slow, progressive degeneration and loss of muscle function, leading to paralysis. Probably something autoimmune related, which is its own can of worms."that we don't understand, e.g., IBS. People with IBS have symptoms but otherwise will have completely normal gastrointestinal investigations, i.e., there is no structural problem that can be conventionally identified. Increasingly, it's thought that IBS may be a disease of disordered microbiota, which in itself isn't well understood. The microbiota even more mysteriously seems to have some connection to the brain and mind itself, which may be why IBS is often comorbid with psychiatric problems like anxiety and depression." "Not a doctor, but recently went through cancer treatment. One of the medications I was on is designed to stimulate white blood cell production, but a nasty side effect is that it can cause your bones to hurt."Exactly why we need sleep and how it works. We have a general sense, but can’t explain it beyond the brain needs it." "I've been in trauma therapy for several years, and something my therapist and I have chatted about is that we don't understand a lot about mental illness. Almost all of it is guesswork. Basically, throwing shit at a wall and hoping some of it sticks. I have done a ton ofwork, and I once asked how it works. He replied, 'We don't know. We've just seen the results and know that it helps,' which is wild. There is so much that we are unsure of. Do I have borderline personality disorder because of the abuse I received as a child? Or do I have it because I was born with it? Or both? Is it even a real illness? Some scientists claim it doesn't actually exist." "This is a funny question when common treatment for the majority of ailments and injuries is 'clean it up and let the body just heal over it.' They can't even replace destroyed bits without the body itself going apeshit and trying to kill you. If you lose your ability to clot, your ability to seal wounds, your ability to kill diseases by yourself, you're some degree of fucked, because we don't have a lot to help you.""Endometriosis? Take that shit out. Oh, that didn't solve the problem? Shrug, it's a mystery. Autoimmune diseases? Shrug, it's a mystery. Here's some pills for the rest of your life. Debilitating period pain? Mystery. IUD insertion? Weird, there are no nerve endings there. Whatever, we'll just clamp this motherfucker down while we insert this thing.""Epilepsy/seizures. Most people don't realize this, but in around 60–70% of epilepsy cases, doctors can't find a clear cause. It's not that the cause doesn't exist. It's just that our current tests can't detect it yet. Epilepsy can come from tons of different things , but for most patients, it ends up being labeled as 'unknown cause' or '.' Or in my case, STRESS. WTF? Science still has a lot to figure out about what’s going on under the surface."and how do they function? I graduated in 2006, and my teachers all said, 'We don't know.' 19 years later, and we've done a few studies, but we still don't know. Knot sensations can cross the central nervous meridian, which shouldn't be able to happen. They are impervious to Botox injections and lithotripsy. The only thing we know that works is static pressure sustained for 20–30 seconds."
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