May 30, 2008

Relieve your Signs of Menopause with Exercise

Heart disease is the #1 cause of death among American women. It causes more than ten times the number of deaths than breast cancer does.Menopause symptoms are often confused with heart disease and menopause symptoms are generally widely known. Whether there’s a link or not between menopause symptoms and heart disease is being researched but without any conclusive evidence to date.Menopause information abounds on the benefits of relief of menopause symptoms. Typically, with all the controversy over hormone replacement therapy, many women today are turning to natural hormone replacement therapy for relief of menopause symptoms.Early menopause symptoms can generally be offset by an exercise regimen, which experts report can be as easy as walking for 20 minutes daily. Early menopause symptoms can further be treated with light stretching exercises with 20 minutes of walking.It is very important to have a lifestyle that includes plenty of active exercise, 20-60 minutes per session, 3-5 times per week. This aerobic activity helps the heart work at its best by allowing it to pump more oxygen-rich blood with each beat, resulting in a slower resting heart rate.Relieving your menopause symptoms with exercise starts by making sure you are in overall […]

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May 28, 2008

A Non-Nicotine Pill that Helps You Stop Smoking

Even as you are reading this, advances are being made in the field of medications designed to help you quit smoking. As it happens, a new application as a stop smoking aid has been found for a medication that has been around for some time. While it won’t eliminate all of your cravings by itself, it can help. There is no panacea for smoking cessation, but a little help can go a long way.What is this drug, you ask? For its application as a smoking cessation aid, it is being sold under the name Zyban (the active ingredient is bupropion hydrochloride). The same drug has been sold as an antidepressant under the name Wellbutrin for quite some time now. Zyban is being promoted as the first non-nicotine drug on the market to treat addiction to nicotine.Zyban works by boosting the levels in the brain of dopamine and norepinephrine, which is the same effect that nicotine has upon the brain. It mimics the action of nicotine, which reduces cravings for cigarettes themselves.Using this drug may give smokers the same sense of well being as does nicotine, while being able to wean themselves off of cigarettes. Many ex-smokers have had success with […]

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May 27, 2008

Immune Systems Need Your Help Too!

The paradox is that antibiotics were developed to help the immune system, but in reality they actually impair it. This paradoxical effect was first noted in 1950, but couldn’t be confirmed, and it was only in 1972 at the Baylor School of Medicine in Houston that it was documented that some antibiotics actually prevented white blood cells from attacking and killing bacteria. Organizational culture and political networks in organizations operate in an analogous way to the human immune system. When they are working well, they prevent bad thinking? Often, these agents target key immune system cells and cause secondary responses such as increased production of cytokines and immunoglobulins. Two nonspecific immunomodulating agents used in cancer treatment are bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG ) and levamisole.What determines how they will affect you are the state of your emotional immune system: The defenses you have in place to keep that toxic stuff outside. Through a series of steps called the immune response, the immune system attacks organisms and substances that invade our systems and cause disease. The immune system is made up of a network of cells, tissues, and organs that work together to protect the body. For example, methotrexate (a prescription systemic medication […]

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