Archive for January, 2010

Reconsider Daily Aspirin Use

For most people a daily aspirin can clearly benefit people who have already had a heart attack or a stroke due to a blocked artery. But why shouldn’t everybody take a daily aspirin?

The problem is that even small doses of aspirin doubles the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding.  It also increases the risk of a life-threatening hemorrhagic stroke from bleeding into the brain. So, the decision on whether a person with no evidence of heart disease should take regular aspirin daily depends upon the balance between the risk of bleeding and the likelihood of cardiovascular benefit.

In March of 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force published their recommendations regarding aspirin use based on a review of research trials. These trials showed that aspirin reduced the risk of heart attacks in men with no symptoms of coronary heart disease (CHD) by about a third.  However, aspirin had no effect on the risk of heart attacks in similarly healthy women.

Given this new data, the Task Force made the following recommendations for men and women with no known CHD:

• Men less than age 45 should not take regular aspirin to prevent a heart attack or stroke.
• Women younger than 55 should not take aspirin to prevent a heart attack or stroke.
• Men between ages 45 and 79 should consider daily aspirin if the likelihood of lowering the risk of a heart attack exceeds the risk of bleeding.
• Women between ages 55 and 79 should not take aspirin to reduce their risk of a heart attack, but may consider using aspirin to lower their risk of stroke if this benefit outweighs the danger of possible bleeding.
• For men and women older than 80 there is insufficient evidence for or against the use of aspirin.

Please note that aspirin lowered the number of heart attacks and strokes but did not reduce either the number of deaths from these cardiovascular events or from all causes.

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Antioxidants Critical For Anti-Aging Defense

Years of research have provided enough information to state that of any food, apricots possess the highest levels and widest variety of carotenoids. Carotenoids are antioxidants that help prevent heart disease, reduce bad cholesterol levels, and protect against cancer. They also are considered helpful in regenerating body fluids, detoxifying and quenching ones thirst. Antioxidants are special compounds that help boost the immune system and improve general overall health. Their main duty is to protect your body from free radicals, or harmful chemicals and toxins that we face daily that effect our health. As well as being the bodies defense system against these harmful free radicals, antioxidants also help improve circulation, which helps your hair, skin and nails, and improve their strength, growth and development.

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Natural Tips for Gray Hair

Scientists have noticed that the condition of your hair actually reveals a lot about the level of stress in your life over time. Chinese medicine often attributes many hair issues to a decline in your vital essence, brought on by stress, overwork, physical and emotional strain, and unhealthy lifestyle, as well as too much alcohol. While stress reduction is at the forefront of most peoples minds, what else can you do if your hair woes are already showing?

Gray Hair:

Eat healthier for hair health – Black sesame seeds, black beans, and walnuts help reverse graying. For health and shiny hair, try eating foods everyday that are rich in essential fatty acids and omega-rich nutrients such as flaxseed oil, sesame oil, olive oil, virgin coconut oil, avocado, beans, nuts and seeds.

Color your hair naturally – If you want to dye your hair, use natural colorants such as henna. These natural shades can be used by both light and dark hair colors to help dye and cover unwanted gray hair.

Hair Loss:

Hair growth is affected by the hormonal system. It is quite normal to lose around 100 hairs every day, which are then replaced just days after. However, with age hormone levels fluctuate and start to often decline. This reduces the stimulus to the hair follicles, resulting in hair loss.

Ginger juice helps hair loss – Massage your scalp with fresh ginger juice. This will help stimulate the hair follicles on the affected part of your scalp and help stimulate healthy hair growth.

Scalp Issues/Dandruff:

It is normal for everyone to have some degree of dandruff on any given day. Your scalp undergoes regular regeneration and dead skin is shed to allow new skin growth. The flaking associated with dandruff can become worse when hormonal imbalances, stress, and improper diet come into play. Dandruff is at its worst during winter and fall when the air tends to be dry.

Apply aloe vera juice – Squeeze some aloe juice directly from the stem of the plant and massage into the scalp once a day, preferably before bedtime, for an entire month to help reduce dandruff or itchy scalp.

Baking soda head scrub – In the shower, wet your hands and scrub baking soda vigorously into your scalp.

Soak your scalp in green tea – Prepare a mild green tea and soak your scalp in it for 10-15 minutes, shampooing it out with olive oil, avocado oil or a hypoallergenic shampoo.

Find your own natural way to prevent gray hair, hair loss and scalp problems effectively. Reduce your stress, live a healthier lifestyle and try to go natural to nourish your hair back to health.

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Supported Testing to be done on Studies of Testosterone Therapy in Older Men

Low serum testosterone may contribute to a number of problems affecting older men, indluding decreased ability to walk, loss of muscle mass and strength, decreased vitality, decreased sexual function, impaired cognition, cardiovascular disease and anemia. While testosterone normally decreases with age, in some men, low levels of testosterone may contribute to these debilitating conditions. A new national clinical trial will test whether these conditions can be favorably affected by testosterone therapy.

Researchers know that as men age, a significant proportion are unable to carry out activities of daily living and experience descreased physical and cognitive function and decreased independence. It is still being tested to see the extent to which low levels of testosterone may contribute to these conditions. The studies are aiming to answer certain questions by testing the effectiveness of testosterone therapy in older men with low testosterone levels and one one of the following conditions: impaired walking, low vitality, sexual or cognitive dysfunction. A key consideration is the use of testosterone as a therapy for certain conditions, rather than a preventive measure.  Researchers consider this study to be highly important because testosterone products have been marketed for several years as treatments of a variety of conditions. They also hope that this study will estabilish whether testosterone therapy results in clear benefits for older men.

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Super DHA

DHA, known by many as one of the heart healthy omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil, may help ward off type 2 Diabetes. The fatty acid in DHA improves insulin function in obese and overweight people who are particularly vulnerable to this deadly disease. Since DHA has a slight blood thinning effect you should consult with your physician prior to taking any kind of supplement with DHA as an active ingredient, expecially if you are currently or have been treated for a cardiovascular condtition.

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Honey helps cold symptoms

Is your cold suffering sidelining your day and keeping you up all night? Suffer no more! Relief can be as close as your kitchen cabinet or pantry. Studies have proven that if you have a mild cough, swallowing a little honey before you go to bed helps quite night time coughing just as well as many over-the-counter cough syrups do. The natural sweetener in honey helps coat and soothe your irritated throat. So if you notice a cough coming on, just take 2-3 teaspoons of honey every few hours or before you catch some zzz’s to help relieve your suffering. If you wanted a little added bonus with your honey medication then try a dark variety. Darker honeys are loaded with antioxidants, which can help fight off your infection!

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