How You Can Make Your Brain Smarter Every Day
The following article recently appeared on Forbes.com.
If you’re old enough, you may remember a time, maybe back in your childhood, when someone measured your intelligence and assigned a number to it. I suspect that you have been either proud of that “IQ,” or perhaps a little bit chagrined about it, from that day to this. The general belief back then was that intelligence was a genetic endowment, along with eye color or a propensity for baldness.
We now know this is simply not true. Your brain — every brain — is a work in progress. It is “plastic.” From the day we’re born to th...
Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. - August 7, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dr. Merzenich Tags: Aging and the Brain Brain Fitness Brain Fitness Program Brain Plasticity Brain Science BrainHQ Neuroscience Posit Science Soft-Wired Source Type: blogs
How to Prevent Baldness with Food
Baldness, particularly male pattern baldness, is commonly a hereditary condition, but there are other factors to may contribute to it other than genetics.Contributor: Violette WebbPublished: Aug 02, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - August 2, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Best of Our Blogs: August 2, 2013
We know the mind and body are absolutely connected.
Depression can lead to physical pain, weight loss or gain, and hair loss. Likewise, cancer often brings depression, anxiety, and even paranoia.
The real struggle comes when we try to take care of our bodies when we’re dealing with mental illness, or nurture our mental well-being when we’re battling a disease.
Within this edition’s “Best of Our Blogs,” you’ll find information about obtaining a balance between a healthy body and a healthy mind, and you might even have some of your own experiences to share with the bloggers.
What Is a P...
Source: World of Psychology - August 2, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Best of Our Blogs anxiety body Body Image Cellular Level Character Strengths Depression Depression Anxiety Discoveries Elisha Goldstein Hair Loss Happiness Heart Disease Mental Health Mental Illness mental well-being mind Source Type: blogs
iGrow Hair Growth System from Apira Science Gets FDA Green Light
Apira Science of Boca Raton, Florida received FDA 510(k) approval for its iGrow hair growth system for men with androgenetic alopecia, or male pattern baldness. The system purports to reverse hair loss by projecting red light onto the scalp using a laser and LEDs built into the helmet-like device, what the company calls Low-Level Light Therapy (LLLT).
The therapy takes four to six months of wearing the cap in the privacy of your home, something you’ll appreciate since others might think you’re wearing a high-tech tin-foil hat. It has a standard 3.5 mm connector to plug in your phone or music player, so you can ...
Source: Medgadget - August 1, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: in the news... Source Type: blogs
Hair Tourniquet Syndrome.
We recently had a young girl present after her parents could not settle her. During a thorough assessment by one of our nurses, the cause of the girls unhappiness was identified.
A single human hair had wrapped itself tightly around her toe.
The photo above shows the girls foot after a liberal application of hair removal cream which successfully dissolved the hair after 2 applications (over about 30 minutes).
Hair Tourniquet syndrome:
Hair Tourniquet syndrome is a relatively (although often unreported) common occurrence in the hospital setting.
It requires high vigilance as it can quickly lead to ischaemia a...
Source: impactEDnurse - July 22, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: clinical skills Source Type: blogs
An Answer to the Question: Does anybody know how to do a weight loss detox?
I thought I’d post this question from Bicarra since a lot of people seem to be asking it lately:
I am 17 years old and I am getting quite fat. I’d like to do a 7-day detox or a 14-day detox. I’d like to know actual meal options and times that they should be consumed as well as exercise tips. I’ve looked all over the internet and nothing has helped. Thankyou!
Answer: “Detox” is short for detoxification and detoxification is a natural process involving your liver and kidneys and there is nothing you can do to effect it. It is impossible to detoxify a human once the toxin is in the blood w...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - June 30, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Medical Detox Source Type: blogs
Lipogaine for Men: Look at the label
Lipogaine for Men may be a beauty best seller on Amazon.com but it may also have one of the worst names ever. It sounds like it should be a liposuction weight loss product but it’s actually supposed to prevent hair loss. Let’s look at the label to see what makes it work.
Lipogaine for Men: Intensive Treatment & Complete Solution for Hair Loss Ingredients
Water, propylene glycol, ethanol
These three ingredients are the solvents for the active ingredient.
Minoxidil 5%
Speaking of active ingredients here’s what makes this product really work. It’s the same drug ingredient used in the more popular R...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - June 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs
A Beta-Secretase Inhibitor Hits the Skids in Alzheimer's
The brutal drumbeat of Alzheimer's clinical failure continues at Eli Lilly. After the Phase III failure of their gamma-secretase inhibitor semagacestat, and a delusional attempt to pretend that the anti-amyloid antibody solanezumab succeeded, now comes word that the company has halted studies of a beta-secretase inhibitor.
This one wasn't for efficacy, but for tox. The company says that LY2886721 led to abnormalities in liver function, which is the sort of thing that can happen to anyone in Phase II. There is that thioamidine thing in it, but overall, it's not a bad-looking compound, particularly by the standards of beta-...
Source: In the Pipeline - June 14, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: Alzheimer ' s Disease Source Type: blogs
DigniCap to Help Prevent Chemo Caused Hair Loss Cleared for FDA Trial
Hair loss is often a depressing signature of chemotherapy, particularly disturbing for women who have to undergo treatment. One way to help prevent hair loss during chemo sessions is to cool the scalp, narrowing blood vessels around hair follicles and slowing the uptake of the poison in the area.A system called DigniCap from Dignitana (Lund, Sweden) has just been FDA cleared for final clinical trials and may soon become available in the U.S. to help prevent chemo related hair loss. DigniCap consists of a touch screen equipped refrigeration and control unit that monitors scalp temperature and delivers cooling liquid to the...
Source: Medgadget - June 7, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: Oncology Source Type: blogs
Patient Centered Outcomes
Okay then, even if we don't know exactly what a disease is, as people with bodies and minds, we know what we want, right? Whether or not my inability to grow hair on top of my head counts as a disease would seem irrelevant. Either I care a about it a lot, a little, or not at all. If I care about it a lot, I want a "cure." Ditto with all the bodily afflictions of aging or the spiritual afflictions of being a sentient social being. Who cares what you call it if you can fix it, right?Wellll . . . it's not quite that simple either. to take the most straightforward case, there's a pill I can take that supposedly will reverse, o...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 30, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
Peak Nutrition - Nourkrin Woman
Nourkrin is a leading hair loss prevention product that is widely used. If you are looking for the best ways to stop hair loss then visit Peak Nutrition. Additional resources can be found in the Supplements category of the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory. (Source: Highlight HEALTH)
Source: Highlight HEALTH - May 22, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/how-drug-companies-keep-medicine-out-of-reach/275853/?ReutersFor almost a decade, the United States has been standing in the way of an idea that could lead to cures for some of the world's most devastating illnesses. The class of maladies is known as neglected diseases, and they almost exclusively affect those in the developing world. The same idea, if realized, might also be used in more affluent nations to goad the pharmaceutical industry into producing critical innovations that the free market has yet to produce - things like new antibiotics, which are likely to be used ...
Source: PharmaGossip - May 15, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Is it true that excessive/daily hair product usage can cause hair loss?
Janelle asks…My mom and sister are big supporters of the theory that excessive use of hair products (E.g: Hairsprays, shampoos, gels, etc) are the reason why my hair is falling out/isn’t so thick. In general, can usage of these gels and hairsprays every day cause hair loss? I don’t shampoo more than twice a week, but I do use hairspray and gel on my hair every day. Are they correct, or is this an old wives tale?
The Beauty Brains respond:
Ah, Janelle. You are wise to ask us rather than just blindly believing what you’re told by “old wives.” (No offense to your mother and sister.)
Damage ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - May 9, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs
Six ways Big Pharma manipulates consumers - Salon
This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
The blockbuster pill profit party is over for Big Pharma. Bestselling pills like Lipitor, Seroquel, Zyprexa, Singular and Concerta have gone off patent and sites which their ads sustained are withering on the vine. WebMD, for example, the voice of Pharma on the Web, with a former Pfizer exec serving as CEO, announced it would cut 250 positions in December.
But don’t worry, Wall Street. Pharma isn’t going to deliver disappointing earnings just because it has little or no new drugs coming online and has failed at the very reason for its existence. Here are six new Pharma ma...
Source: PharmaGossip - April 28, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Reader Question – What do you call the short-term cleanse diets, usually about a week long?
Many of you might be asking this same question so I’m posting with the answer here. Enjoy. The question is from MND’11
A lot of celebrities usually go on extreme diets a week before a big event, like actresses before the oscars this week or models before a show. What are these called and what are the most effective ones?I’m doing this for a very large event I have to go to in the next week (I just found out today that I’m going). I normally eat very healthy, but I know people who will drastically drop their calorie intake or have some special diet they follow a few days before a big event. I know ...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - April 24, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Medical Detox Source Type: blogs
