Physical exercise improves the function and the performance of every organ in our body. Recent scientific studies have also shown that our brain benefits a great deal by generating new nerve cells from the demand of physical exercise.

The only alternative we have to unavoidable aging is to learn how age successfully and remain healthy. We all age differently. Why?

Doctors are not born with medical intuitions. The only way to acquire them is hard work, medical practice and experience, practical associated knowledge and mentoring. It takes a long time and much experience until medical knowledge enters our subconscious mind and become medical intuitions.

I knew honor killing was a real problem in Turkey, especially in rural communities. What is a doctor’s role to help prevent honor killings?

We need friends, because as social creatures we can’t live alone. We need friends to create our own livable social environment. Yet, we don’t really know that much on how to make friends, how to choose our friends or how to be a better friend.

Social skills are just as important as reading, writing and arithmetic to learn in our early childhood for the future success in our social and professional life. I believe social skill education should start at home, in early childhood, by our parents. Why?

Scientific studies have shown that about 20% of people have genetic predisposition to be naturally shy. But shyness is not a fixed trait. Everyone with genetic predisposition doesn’t remain shy.

“Gurbet” is a Turkish word for how an immigrant feelswhile living in a place far from his/her homeland. It is a sad but pleasurable immense longing for their place of birth. I know this feeling very well, because I am an immigrant too. 

“We have a medical emergency. Is there a doctor on board? We need your help.” I hesitated to respond. But when the announcement repeated a few minutes later, this time I felt very uneasy, a nagging anduncomfortable feeling started to spread all over my body and mind. An inner voice was telling and forcing me to help a fellow human being in need.

Why should we make resolutions only for the New Year? And why do they almost always fail?

As we approach the holiday season, some words of wisdom from me to my readers

Critical Thinking (CT) became my unwavering guide in my 40 years of medical practice. What is exactly critical thinking and why is it so important?

Giant tech and social media companies provided, worldwide, free services on the surface, but we paid for them with the loss of our privacy and freedom.

Dietary supplements are a huge industry. It generates billions of dollars in sales every year through deceptive advertisements. Since dietary supplements are not considered drugs, they aren’t strictly regulated by the government. One wonders if commercialism and advertisements have such bad effects on us, why aren’t there strict laws, rules and regulation about them?

Demagogy can be defined as a political activity by some that seek the support of the ordinary masses by appealing to their ethnic, religious and economic prejudices with false claims and promises, rather than rational arguments, in order to get elected to the position of power.

It is normal to feel bloated after eating, which resolves gradually by burping and passing gas through the anal passage. Studies have shown that a person, on average, could pass gas 15 to 20 times a day, even while sleeping without even  being aware of it.

Study after study has shown that ALL weight loss diets fail. Why?

The amount of food we consume isn’t always under our willful control. It is in our nature to eat more than we need and as a result, many of us get fat. I believe this is one of the main reasons why the obesity epidemic is engulfing the entire world.

Both hetero and homosexual behaviors are biological and programmed into our brain before birth, regardless of external sexual organs.

How is our sexual orientation determined and how does that relate to the presidency of the United States?