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Heart Failure a Disease that Can be Remedied
Heart disease is something that is on the agenda because it is one of the major health problems with which we must confront. Heart diseases are the main cause in many cases of sudden death of many people. It is true that there are many heart disease and all different kinds. This time we want to stop in heart failure, as there is still much ignorance surrounding this bad.
Heart failure was due to a lack of blood from the heart to the organs that make up the body. This lack of irrigation making is that the organs do not function properly and this translates into a general malaise in the body. In this post we will approach this disease and follow a healthy lifestyle to prevent and lessen its effects in the case of suffering.
Effects of heart failure
Heart failure is almost always due to poor circulation that prevents the heart can pump blood completely normal. This blood disorder is primarily due to not maintaining good vascular health because of high cholesterol and blood fat, although there are many genetic factors that determine poor circulation. This evil it does is preventing proper blood transit resulting in fatigue and malaise.
Blood collects in the lungs, as this is the place where we receive the oxygen that reaches the entire body. But without a proper blood circulation, the oxygen is not distributed properly by the body, which makes cellular energy is lower. In addition, heart failure is accumulated in a bad diuresis by the body, which leads to fluid building up in many parts of our body, which makes us feel heavy and slow.
Preventive measures
to avoid this, prevention and lifestyle are key. As with any heart disease should begin early to prevent or treat not to increase and eventually became a major problem and no solution. Heart failure is a disease that can improve and even eliminate almost entirely through a series of guidelines. First take care of food is essential to eliminate this problem, since it is necessary to rid the dietary intake of saturated fats and foods high in cholesterol. Set aside salt and increase the intake of fruits and vegetables will be essential if we are to maintain good heart health.
Sport is another important part in preventing heart disease. In the case of heart failure many people think it is not recommended sport. Nothing could be further from reality, since the exercise which will be to improve blood circulation and breathing. Decrease levels of bad cholesterol in blood, and get to further strengthen the veins, thereby achieving better heart health.
The Problems of Heat Stroke
Insolation
Heat stroke may seem a simple problem and easy solution. However, the doctors always recommend not to suffer and to avoid whenever possible. This is because if you suffer a lot of times in a short time, the consequences can be severe. This disease is the one suffering in the heat, when a subject is exposed to sunlight for a lot of time in hours that are not recommended. In this sense, we must mention that the lunch must be put aside at the time that makes the decision to start sunbathing on the beach or in the courtyard of his home.
But you can also overheat without sunbathing, but doing something physical. If the same is practiced in order to be in top physical condition, one takes into account the sun’s rays and no problems, but problems arise in other situations. When you’re playing a football game with friends, or other outdoor fun with people you know, only think of leisure time. Thus, leaving aside the intensity with which we receive the sun’s rays.
There are some symptoms that are characteristic of heat stroke. Able to recognize and know what each one of them will save a step. Know what the problem we are facing is. Among the most common patterns that we find when we heatstroke are the presence of physical and mental fatigue, thirst, dark urine, hallucinations, confusion with possible dizziness and vomiting, and dry skin but not sweaty. If we have all these features we have a stroke without a doubt.
Great Find on Neurological Diseases
neurological diseases
Neurological diseases had a major discovery in recent times by British scientists. All of them were those who were responsible for discovering a protein that is intended to maintain the proper functioning of nerve fibers. They are responsible for transmitting messages in the brain. The researchers are part of the University Of Edinburgh, Scotland, and they who were responsible for asserting that the finding will be able to improve the overall understanding of neurological disorders, such as sclerosis, dementia, epilepsy and stroke.
In regard to the nerve fibers, we must say that is an extension of neurons and that they are formed by an axon and myelin coating of the same. In all diseases the fibers do not have the ability to emit electrical impulses that the brain sends through your body as a whole. This makes it cause an inability to control all body movements and other disabilities.
It should be clear that the brain function can be likened to a network of electrical circuits. This is because the impulses are sent through nerve fibers. This is done in the same way that usually develops in an electric current is sent through cables. The fibers can have a size of up to one meter in height, although the nerve segment measuring the width of a human hair. The same is the one that controls the transmission of impulses.
In Cordoba Seeking a Healthier Lifestyle
And if it seems that in Córdoba have thought about the health of its inhabitants, and thus have “hands on” to improve the quality of life for all residents. In this way it has launched a new intensive dietary counseling, through which people try to Cordoba slowly changing their eating habits and so go little by little through the transition to a healthy diet.
For now this new venture will only work in two health centers: Northern and Santa Rosa Levante. A nurse from the first institution to have named, called Toni Martinez, said that “the dietary advice is directed at its basic format to the general population, with recommendations on diet and physical activity, other than the intensive model, which focuses on risk groups for diseases such as diabetes, obesity or hypertension. ”
At these centers, people have the opportunity to participate in group education sessions that provide tips on nutrition and the consequences of sedentary habits in daily life. In addition, it is taught to make a balanced diet and distribute calories throughout the day. Another of the key points raised are to smart to shop at stores and supermarkets, and also puts the audience aware about the many forms of exercise there.
Workshops are four classes in addition to the physical work, they also perform a treatment on the emotional and self-esteem, and it is assumed that in the medium term we have the presence of these courses in all medical centers in Córdoba.
China Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a system that includes human beings as a whole. According to its principles, health exists when the body is balanced and all its functions, both metabolic and physiological-develop properly. When that balance is disturbed by external or internal factors are causing the disease. What is your diagnosis and treatment? To identify factors that are out of balance and attempting to back into harmony.
Factors outside the body: cold, heat, dryness, humidity and wind.
Internal factors: concern, anger, joy, sadness, fear and panic.
Other factors such as lifestyle, diet, sexual behavior, accidents and catástrofres, etc.
The Bachelor of Kinesiology and Chung Yuan Physiatry Fann said that the list of diseases treatable with Traditional Chinese Medicine, in regard to conditions of pain, is very extensive. But he says the best results are seen in muscle tension, stiffness, stress, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid artritiis, tendonitis, muscle spasm acute / chronic headache or dizziness, herniated disc, bone grip, heel spurs, fibromyalgia syndrome carpal tunnel lumbaciatalgia, bursistis and muscle tears.
It’s Worth Throwing the Leather Bag to Cure Indigestion?
Have you ever heard about “empecho? The popular belief the name assigned to a picture of excess product meals. What traditional practices to cure indigestion and pull the leather bag? Although denied and devalued by orthodox medicine, these practices still remain popular force in various Latin American cultures, they showed Roberto Campos Navarro, a Mexican physician and anthropologist who has researched the subject for two decades.
Why should the entrenched habits as measured with the tape and pull the leather bag? The effectiveness and usefulness, concludes the researcher. Apparently, the technique of throwing the leather bag is effective because it stimulates the nerves and muscle contractions that promote bowel motility and help remove excess.
Since the tape measure says, would provide results based on the suggestion and the ritual involved. There is also a logical form: if they were not effective or useful these techniques would not have transcended through generations.
Olive Oil Helps Prevent Breast Cancer
Olive oil helps in preventing breast cancer, a disease that takes the lives of many women each year worldwide, and whose cures and prevention methods is necessary to determine to develop better treatments. According to researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain, extra virgin olive oil may be one of them.
Experimenting on rats, the experts showed that the oil olivapuede significantly protect DNA of animals for the disease, and the results of their study are published in the revistaCarcinogenesis.
According to the researchers the olive oil off key proteins needed by cancer cells to thrive and survive. This is very important, because olive oil is something we eat quite often, and if their use makes possible the prevention of this disease we would be a natural way of preventing it.
However, the rats were able to prevent the disease were those who consumed olive oil for a long time. Therefore, the authors recommend eating 10 tablespoons of olive oil daily, an amount clearly exceeds the normal consumption of the same.
A Girl of Cadiz than Brain Cancer After Being Treated With Stem Cells From his Own Umbilical Cord
When the little Alba was two years old, was diagnosed with Medulloblastoma, a type of brain cancer as serious as rare. Oncohematology service of the Hospital Universitario Niño Jesús de Madrid worked the miracle: two years later, makes normal life because their parents kept their stem cells in umbilical cord Cryo-Cord. It is the first case in Spain where they are used patient’s own stem cells.
After removal of most of the tumor, Alba underwent more intensive chemotherapy to completely eliminate tumor cells. But at this late stage, chemotherapy destroys the patient’s blood. We had to rebuild the system with stem cells.
So we proceeded to transplant stem cells from his umbilical cord, which migrate to the bone marrow, where they multiplied and began to produce white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets, thus initiating the regeneration of the blood system. Then, after 60 days of transplantation, we were infused new stem cells, this time from their peripheral blood platelet to accelerate the implant. Fourteen months after transplantation, the girl has completely rebuilt their blood system and enjoys a normal life, with the logical periodic review.
Beware of too Much Coffee
Taking care of your diet is important, however, sometimes the pace of modern life prevent as far as possible a taste of the Mediterranean diet. In fact, the success of fast food increases significantly, especially among young people. Moreover, coffee is also a habit that when produced in excess can be harmful.
Without doubt, enjoy a good coffee during the winter months is ideal to combat the effect of low temperatures. In addition, traditional level is also common for two friends to sit for a coffee in a cafe. The truth is that although there is ongoing research on coffee, there is no universal consensus on the effects which this drink so traditional.
The truth is that all addiction is bad, therefore, enjoy the coffee is good and measure carefully so that if you have the habit of drinking several coffees each day try to reduce the amount to also reduce the dose of caffeine. Caffeine has the ability to increase mental activity. Therefore, sometimes when a person wants to prepare for an exam the next day and wants to stay awake at night, he decides to drink coffee to avoid falling asleep. The truth is that rest is one of the keys to a positive face a test.
Therefore, the excess of coffee can cause insomnia and sleep problems. In turn, sleep problems can cause fatigue, stress or irritability of character. You can also change the coffee simply for a glass of warm milk with which to relax before bedtime. You can also enjoy the taste of a lime, a red tea chamomile. Healthy Infusions for your welfare.
Radiation Therapy May Identify Biomarkers Through
Scientists at the Mayo Clinic (USA) have discovered biomarkers that can face the individualized administration of radiotherapy in cancer patients. The results appeared in the online edition of the journal Genome Research.
“If it exceeds the resistor to radiotherapy, the treatments would be more effective for some people,” says Dr. Liewei Wang, genomics researcher at Mayo Clinic and senior author of the study. “The results could one day enable the expansion of novel therapies aimed at selected subgroups of patients suffering from cancer.”
Approximately 50 percent of patients with cancer receiving radiation therapy, but the answer (its repercussion on the patient and cancer) can vary enormously and it is believed that in most cases, the cause may be genetic variants, or differences in personal genomes. Dr. Wang and his team investigated 277 different human lymphoblastoid cell lines in an effort to find out more about why some patients respond differently.
As part of its genome-wide association study, scientists integrated the data of gene expression, cell toxicity tests and 1.3 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs, for its acronym in English), which are short sections of genetic code that represent the variants. Then narrowed the field and validated the potential biomarkers in three cell lines to confirm the response to radiation. In the end, they identified five genes whose expression is directly related to the response to radiation.
By Mayo Clinic, other members of the study were Dr. Nifang Niu, Yuxin Qin, Brooke Fridley, Junmei Hou, Krishna Kalari and Minjia Zhu and Tse-Yu Wu, Gregory Jenkins and Anthony Batzler. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Vitality, ASPET Award and Astellas (Jacket Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Astellas Pharma U.S., Inc.) and another PhRMA Foundation Award (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America).