For quite some time I’ve been plagued with recurring bladder infections —sometimes as many as 3 a year. And for years I have spoken to physicians as to how to prevent them with nothing helping. Today I’m writing about how I’ve been able to retard them for the last year and a half due to my research, talking to numerous women, and conducting experiments on myself. Many of you have these recurring infections and have tried your doctor’s recommendations and remain frustrated, too. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), urinary tract infections (UTIs) account for more than 11 million physician visits annually in the U. S. [Read more…] about Mostly For Women!
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Stress and Alzheimer’s Disease
Cases of Alzheimer patients are starting to show up in the U.S. with people in their forties and fifties! How can that be? Isn’t that for people in their 70’s or older? Recent studies done by Dr. Nima Kivipelto and his colleagues from the University of Kuopio in Finland suggest that the long-term effects of stress may be the biggest cause of Alzheimer’s. It is believed that the stress hormone, cortisol, kills off brain cells when it enters the brain. Kivipelto’s research found that patients with both high blood pressure and high cortisol levels were more than three times as likely to develop Alzheimer’s as patients without these symptoms. If you have either high cortisol levels or high blood pressure, your risk is twice as high. Researchers at the University of California- Irvine say that stress hormones can rapidly accelerate the formation of the brain lesions that cause Alzheimer’s. [Read more…] about Stress and Alzheimer’s Disease
From My Heart- August, 2011
Greetings from LIFESTYLE CHOICES!
OLEANDER PARTY PICTURES!
Thanks to everyone who attended our party on May 22. It was our biggest and best one yet! Andy Eng, photographer extraordinaire, has posted them and you can look for yourself or your friends at this link: http://andyeng.zenfolio.com/p937048768
Scientists Use Twitter to Predict Spread of an Infectious Disease
From RWJ Foundation: “A new study suggests that information shared via Twitter can be used to predict the extent and severity of infectious disease outbreaks like the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Philip Polgreen, M.D., and his colleagues at the University of Iowa, collected and analyzed public tweets relating to the 2009 H1N1 outbreak to see if they could track the spread of H1N1 more rapidly than current methods. They also analyzed information from Twitter in order to gauge public concerns about the H1N1 virus. [Read more…] about From My Heart- August, 2011