June 29th, 2010 by Stand Team

If you are a woman who cares about their health surely your food is healthy and does regular exercise. And when wearing a style of life as healthy can happen that at a time of your life you wondering whether it will be good to keep exercise or not.

That time is going to give when you enters that you’re pregnant. Exercise or leave to run may be an important part of your routine, so when you’re pregnant you must not fail to carry out these activities, simply have to energy in your exercise routine, some

The first thing to do after learn about the pregnancy is to go to visit the obstetrician and consult with the specialist if according to our physical condition is good continuing running or not.

If you are those that can continue running, you should not expect to continue with the same rate as you when you were pregnant. Probably now download the pace and go for routes simple, another good council is resting each both and reduce the distance that run. Read the rest of this entry »

June 26th, 2010 by Stand Team

It is not a diet quick to shed a few pounds, but something that scientists know for a long time, that could increase the life of mice and the more primitive creatures as worms, flies, etc, only restricting consumption.

But the first evidence with regard to delays of diseases and aging was obtained in primates (rhesus monkeys that live in the National Center for Primates of Wisconsin), on which the researchers conducted their studies reported in Science magazine.

Nobody knows yet if people could withstand the deprivation of consumption by the time enough to make a difference, however, they have begun attempts to educate the small on the subject.

“In reality it would not be so important that the genta alive again, but that live healthier,” said Dr. David Finkelstein, the National Institute on Aging, but the monkeys of Wisconsin seems to do both.

“The fact that there is less disease in these animals is surprising.” Read the rest of this entry »

June 23rd, 2010 by Stand Team

A chemical found in the green tea helps inhibit sexual transmission of the virus that causes AIDS, according to a study recommends the use of the compounds in vaginal creams to complement antiretroviral.

Medical experts at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, discovered that the compound could have a low-cost and represent a weapon to fight the spread of HIV, above all in poor countries.

The study found that the polyphenols, tannins and the so-called epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) that contains the green tea, is capable of neutralizing a protein in the semen, which serves as a vector viral during sex.

EGCG diminishes what is known as a derivative of the semen enhancer of infection used by the virus, described in the study as “an important factor of ineffectiveness of HIV”.

Writing in the online edition of the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers said that “a fraction of peptide recently identified in the human sperm constantly improving the spread of infectious HIV-1″.

The study’s authors said “EGCG seems to be a promising complement of microbiology antiretroviral therapy to reduce the sexual transmission of HIV-1″.

Throughout the world, there are 33 million people infected with HIV, infected through heterosexual relations and the 96 percent of new infections occur in poor nations and in development, the researchers asserted that the use of EGCG, content in the green tea added to topical creams “provides a simple and affordable as a method of prevention, avoiding the transmission of HIV”. Read the rest of this entry »

June 20th, 2010 by Stand Team

Many studies are made to discover the benefits of the music, some seem the argument of a film of science fiction, but others even observe closely to professional musicians, with the aim of finding the relationship between music and its effect on the brain functioning. Among the therapies of alternative medicine the music therapy is booming, and you count why.

Emotional Benefits

The music has the ability to change our moods, can rejoice, depending on the pace we choose, it also gives us another means of expression, because as any other, can convey what is sorry, but we cannot say with words or images. To accentuate the relationship between music and emotion test doing a selection of songs you associate with moods, so you can choose better the next time you need sustenance or free of stress. Read the rest of this entry »

June 17th, 2010 by Stand Team

In the cases related to the immune system, the herbs such as the Echinacea goldenseal, is contrasted with drugs immuno-suppressive, such as corticosteroids.

The medications that suppress the immune system are used to prevent rejection after transplantation of organs and to control the symptoms of disease auto immune, as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and the type 1 diabetes, etc.

So the herbs that stimulate the immune system can counteract these drugs, which would be in the rejection of a transplant or an escalation in the diseases auto immune, as well as rainfall in the people genetically predisposed to such disorders.

Tip if you are taking immunosuppressive drugs such as those that are listed below, should not be used the herbs such as the alfalfa, Astragals, Echinacea, ginseng, licorice root or the ore of zinc; “Cyclosporine – Azathioprine – corticosteroids such as prednisone -Methotrexate” . Read the rest of this entry »