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Is it possible to increase the breast size of a woman through massage?
There is limited evidence to support the idea that it does the opposite in postpartum mothers. One meta-study found that massages reduce engorgement, meaning that they decrease the size1. This effect ...
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Does sleeping together naked help stay warm?
No. (If the alternative is sleeping together clothed in the same configuration, from a everybody-at-nominal-temperature starting point)
Your thermal insulation is as good as the sum of it's parts - ...
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Is capsaicin (found in chili peppers) an aphrodisiac?
Yes, in rats
Guyamin, M et al. Effects of Capsicum frutescens L.(Siling Labuyo) on the sexual behavior of male Rattus norvegicus (Albino rats), Int J Sci Res, 2018, 7,1454--1458 writes
The present ...
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Does the body manage to eliminate ethylmercury far more efficiently than it eliminates naturally occurring methylmercury?
Yes. Mercury from Ethylmercury (=Thimerosal) is eliminated faster.
In that 2005 paper Burbacher found three times less Hg in the Ethyl-Mercury animals than in the Methyl-Mercury animals (That lower ...
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Is Shaolin monk Hu Qiong using "Chi energy" to withstand an electric drill?
Note: the supporting material in this answer contains references to
suicide.
If you feel suicidal, please consider getting help
The literature call severe injuries related to drill bits 'extremely ...
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