Smoking turned out to be beneficial for the health of one of the inhabitants of Germany due to the fact that the carbon monoxide in the tobacco smoke helped him to suppress anemia. This is stated in an article published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
This story began when the man's daughter went to the clinic in the German city of Mannheim. She complained of weakness and low hemoglobin. When doctors examined her DNA, they found an unusual mutation in her gene, as a result of which only one amino acid changed in the protein structure - the histidine molecule was replaced by leucine. This made the protein very vulnerable to oxygen.
It is worth noting that the girl's parents never complained about their health. The fact is that her father smoked all his life and cigarettes became a kind of medicine for him.
Carbon monoxide is poison for ordinary people, but for the girl and her father it became useful, as it stabilizes hemoglobin and allows it to at least partially fulfill its functions.
Then there are four more cases when people were helped from their diseases by something that should have killed.
Bullet for departure
A Briton named George suffered from obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, which also manifested itself in the fact that he showered too often and washed his hands several hundred times a day. In 1983, during another quarrel, his mother told George in her hearts: “Your life is worthless. You can just go and shoot yourself."
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The guy took her words as a guide to action - he took a pistol, went down to the basement and shot himself in the mouth. Incredibly, the wound was not fatal - the bullet almost completely destroyed the left frontal lobe of George's brain and the young man was on the mend.
When he recovered, he found that the painful craving for constant hand washing and showering had disappeared, although no other signs of brain damage were observed: his IQ remained at the same level, and all symptoms of mental disorder disappeared.
Six Viagra pills every day
In 2012, residents of the Lviv region of Ukraine united to rescue 26-year-old Oksana Senishina. She suffered from a rare disease, idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, which does occur in one to two people in a million.
Every day, Oksana's pulmonary artery narrowed more and more, the heart cannot cope with the load, it is practically unable to saturate the body with blood and oxygen and can stop at any moment.
As a result, she had to take six Viagra pills every day. Then the blood circulated through the body much faster and the pressure in the artery decreased.
Marijuana from morning to night
The most common "healing" remedy is marijuana. For example, California resident Ann. Since childhood, she has suffered from excruciating back pain after an injury. She smokes marijuana daily.
- After a car accident, my back does not give me rest. People who are afraid of cannabis drink the strongest pain relievers every day. But this chemistry does much more harm to the body, and it is already weakened.
Raw meat for five years
This guy has been eating exclusively raw meat for 5 years. The fact is that doctors could not explain to Derek Nancy from Kentucky why he vomits every time he eats food. He was prescribed more and more diets, but they did not give any results.
Then Derek decided to eat only wheat and dairy products, but because of this, he was rapidly losing weight. After that, he found information on the Internet about the Paleolithic diet, and, having tasted raw meat, decided to stay on it.