The human body operates oxygen. Make sure yours gets enough by exercising, keeping your house well ventilated, and pausing frequently to take slow, deep breaths.
Breathe Deeply:
Take a moment to try this simple breathing exercise. It will energize and refresh you.
1. Stand or sit with your back straight.
2. Exhale deeply through your mouth.
3. Now, draw the air back into your lungs through your nose. As you do, imagine it going right down into your belly, filling it.
4. Feel your stomach expand as your inhale.
5. When lungs are full, slowly begin to exhale.
6. Tighten the muscles of your stomach as you gently push the last bit of air out.
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Cold sore home remedies?
In just a moment you will get some excellent remedies to add to your arsenal. Do not buy another drug store treatment until you read this powerful list of cold sore home remedies.
Cold sore home remedies normally work much better than the drug store varieties. And you pay little or nothing for these time-proven strategies. The big drug companies would prefer that you continue using their expensive products. But you will never need to again with this great showcase of cold sore home remedies.
With the advent of the Internet, many home remedies for cold sores have surfaced. These are treatments that we would not otherwise know about - from all parts of the world. Some have proven very easy. Others may not give proper results unless used in a specific way.
Below, you will learn a few clear, powerful and effective cold sore home remedies that will work for you time after time. And you will now know how to use them for best results.
Perhaps you are currently using one or the other of these treatments. Wonderful. But, quite often, you will find the greatest success by combining with new remedies and fine-tuning for your specific needs.
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Hair loss, from thinning to balding, is a condition that affects both men and women as they age. While there are many aspects of aging that are difficult to embrace, losing one’s hair can be particularly traumatic. Fortunately, many advances have been made in treating hair loss and new treatments are being discovered as medical science progresses. Among the most cutting edge research involves hair cloning, hair follicle regeneration, and scalp transplants.
Research into hair cloning, also called hair multiplication, is being conducted by scientists and hair restoration physicians utilizing stem cell research. The basis of hair cloning is to create multiple hair follicles from one original follicle. The current method of hair transplantation requires removing hair follicles from the back and sides of the head and relocating them to the balding areas in front. This process limits the amount of hair that can be transplanted by the amount of donor hair available. With hair cloning, there would be an unlimited supply of hair available for transplanting, making a new full head of hair possible for anyone.
Another approach into restoring hair growth is hair follicle regeneration. This was once thought impossible in adults, but experiments on mice have shown that hair follicles considered inactive can be induced to grow hair again. When the skin is wounded, there is period of time during the healing process in which the skin cells can be triggered into forming new hair-producing follicles that weren’t there before. Scientists are hoping to develop practical and effective methods of treating hair loss in people with this exciting new discovery.
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What is gestational diabetes?
There is a third kind of diabetes, though it is much less common than types I and II. It is called gestational diabetes because it begins during pregnancy, which doctors call the gestational period.
What are the risk factors for gestational diabetes?
- If a woman has someone in her family who already has diabetes, she is more likely candidate for gestational diabetes.
- If a woman is over 30 years old and especially if she is overweight.
Why does it happen only during pregnancy?
Pregnancy is a time of additional stresses to the human body. the body may fail to produce enough insulin to meet the need during this time. Approximately one percent of all women may develop symptoms of diabetes during the last half of pregnancy.
What are the symptoms of gestational diabetes?
Gestational diabetes may not cause any symptoms, however, excessive weight gain maybe noticeable at some cases. Excessive hunger or thirst, excessive urination or recurrent vaginal infections can also be signs and symptoms.
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Risks for Diabetes Type 2:
1. Hereditary factors. With type 2 diabetes, there is a very strong family tendency toward the disease. If you have one family member with diabetes, your chances of getting it are twice as high as for an average person with no diabetic relatives. If you have two relatives with diabetes, you have four times the normal likelihood of becoming a diabetic yourself.
2. Overweight. Obesity is linked to many disease. In fact it was said that it is more dangerous than terrorism. When you eat more calories than your body actually needs, those extra calories are stored in the body as fat - regardless of whether the calories came from carbohydrates, proteins or fats.
Remember that insulin works to move not only glucose but also fats into storage. When fat cells are ful, however, they lose some of their ability to respond to insulin, so the pancreas produces more and more insulin in its effort to get the “doors” of the cells to open. Thus the pancreas has to work overtime to cope with the excess calories you eat. Also, the pancreas may eventually suffer from fatigue and lose some of its ability to produce insulin.
If a person already has diabetes somewhere in his family, he must guard extra carefully against becoming overweight.
3. Lack of exercise. For a person to have really good health, two of the most important factors are proper food and regular exercise. Getting regular exercise is one of the best ways of helping to prevent the lifestyle disease such as diabetes, heart attack and stroke.
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With so many people getting diabetes nowadays, will you be one of them? Does it matter whether you are rich or poor, thin or fat, old or young? Surely, you can’t catch diabetes from someone who has it - that is it’s not contagious! But how then does a person get diabetes? Does it come from eating too much sugar? And who is likely to get it?
Risks for the two main types of diabetes are quite different. Let’s take a look at the Type I first:
1. Genetic factors:
There are at least two particular genes that give a person the tendency toward developing type I diabetes. They belong to the so-called HLA system, which controls the body’s defenses against infection.
2. Diabetes as an Autoimmune Disease
Many scientists now believe that type I diabetes is the result of the body’s immune system attacking its own insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas.
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Migraine headaches bring crushing pain to many people. For some what they eat may play a role. If your migrains are triggered by certain foods, it’s possible that avoiding those may help you avoid headache.
Foods and food ingredients that are sometimes associated with migraines include:
1. Alcohol, especially red wine and beer. The phytochemicals called phenols, which are found in red wine, may be a migraine trigger. Beer and other alcohol drinks depletes the “happy hormone” called serotonin which may trigger headache.
2. Aged Cheese. It contains the amino acid tyramine, which depletes the level of serotonin and affects the dilation of blood vessels, triggering migraine headaches.
3. Caffeine, especially cutting back. Caffeine is said to be beneficial and harmful to migraine sufferers. Some over-the-counter pain relievers contain caffeine to make them 40% effective in treating headaches. Caffeine also results to quicker absorption of headache medications, providing faster relief. However, in some patients it can cause withdrawal or rebound headaches.
4. Chocolate contains both caffeine and tyramine, which are headache triggers.
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1. Clean cut and dry. Wash your hands well with soap and water, if available. Plain hand soap is still a good way to wash cuts.
2. Apply a petroleum jelly (Vaseline) or any wound cream available. There’s no need of using antiseptic creams in an uninfected wound.
3. Cover cut or wound with sterile gauze (available in drug stores) this way it will allow are to get to the area without exposing it to dirt and germs.
4. Use bandage tape or a plaster to secure the gauze. Avoid putting too much plaster or tape.
5. Repeat these steps for 3-4 times daily and see the result.
So you’ve forgotten where you put your room keys, trouble recalling the name of someone you met previously, and you can’t remember why you opened the refrigerator? At times everyone has problems remembering.
I am one of those having memory lapses. I always forget where I put my stethoscope. I even lost my first one - I must have left it at the ER, at the nurse’s station, or at the patient’s room, I don’t know. I only had my notebook in my hand but couldn’t recall where my stethoscope go. A friend of mine, was consoling me and gave me a good advice: “Always put the important things first.” Since then, I always make sure that the stethoscope has my first hold when leaving a place.
So how to remember what you usually forget?
1. Names. When you meet someone, repeat the person’s name aloud as soon as you can. Say, “Nice to meet you, Jack.” Then look closely at him and repeat his name silently to yourself 10 times.
2. Numbers. Break long numbers down into meaningful chunks. For instance, checking account number 1048630, is easier to remember if you think of it as 10:48 (time for midmorning break) and 6:30 (dinner time). You can also associate numbers with special dates such as you birthday or anniversary.
3. Shopping lists. Visualize your house with a giant version of each item in various rooms: a huge egg in the kitchen, a big loaf of bread in the bedroom, etc. When shopping, mentally scan your house to recall your list. But the best technique still is doing your shopping list.
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“Music heals the soul,” so the old saying says. Recent studies show that the healing power of music is effective to the mind, too.
A new Finnish study found out that music speeds stroke recovery i.e. listening to their favorite music helps stroke patients recover mental function and makes them less depressed and confused.
Music is said to stimulate neural networks. The music group in this research was provided with CD players and CDs of their favorite music in any musical genre and let them listened to it for at least one hour every day for the first two months after their stroke.
Results showed that verbal memory improved significantly higher in the patients (by 60%) who listened to their favorite music than to audio diaries (18%) and non-listeners (29%) after 3 weeks.
However, further studies are needed for validation of this research.
Since the introduction of LASIK laser eye surgery in the early 1990’s, millions of nearsighted patients have willingly opted to undergo the knife and laser treatment in order to correct their eyesight and reduce their need for glasses and contact lenses. While there is plenty of agreement on the short-term benefits of LASIK surgery, the big unknown has been whether the results of LASIK surgery would last long-term. The results of a newly published study should be reassuring for all LASIK patients, which reports favorable long-term outcomes of LASIK laser eye surgery.
The LASIK case study, which was published in the January 2008 issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology, was completed by researchers from the Miquel Hernandez University Medical School in Spain . Following over one hundred LASIK patients over a ten year period, it is one of the largest and longest follow-up studies ever done on LASIK outcomes. The study showed that there was a very low rate of complications and a high rate of satisfaction with the LASIK procedure in the long-term.
LASIK (laser in-situ keratomileusis) is the most popular type of laser eye surgery for treating myopia, or nearsightedness. The LASIK procedure is a two step process. The first step is to cut a corneal flap. The second step is to reshape the corneal tissue exposed by the flap with an excimer laser to correct vision.
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