Vitamins and Wound Healing
Wound healing is a complex biological process that involves inflammation, tissue formation, and tissue remodeling. Vitamin supplements can play a role in wound healing by supporting various aspects of the body’s natural healing processes. Here are some key vitamins and minerals that are important for wound healing:
Vitamin C: Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is essential for collagen synthesis, a protein that helps in the formation of skin, blood vessels, and connective tissue. Collagen is a crucial component of wound healing. Adequate vitamin C intake can promote tissue repair and reduce the risk of infectio...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - September 9, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Geriatric Medicine Pressure Injuries & Wound Care aging skin bedsore bedsores decubiti decubitus ulcer geriatrics gerontology Healthcare Quality Improving Medical Care Jeff Levine MD Jeffrey M Levine MD Nursing Homes pressure s Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 2nd August 2023 - Research
Some recent research you might like to know about. Payment, a subscription, or if you have one, a librarian, might be needed to get full text access.Acupuncture and doxylamine-pyridoxine for nausea and vomiting in pregnancy : a randomized, controlled, 2 x 2 factorial trial. Real-time imaging as visual biofeedback in active second stage of labor among nulliparas: a randomized controlled trial. The effect of virtual reality glasses applied during the episiotomy on pain and satisfaction: a single blind randomized controlled study.Efficacy of early intrauterine balloon tamponade for immediate postpartum hemorrh...
Source: Browsing - August 2, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
South Korea-Based Undbio Co., Ltd. + Proprietary Insulin; Maybe Biosimilars (someday)
On April 13, 2023, a South Korean biopharmaceutical company known as Undbio Co., Ltd.http://undbio.com/eng/ signed a lease with West Virginia University to build what it refers to as an insulin " manufacturing facility " in the city of Morgantown, WV (seehttps://www.wvgazettemail.com/business/undbio-planning-insulin-facility-in-morgantown/article_6b986775-6a2e-5ce5-b312-c423d79cbda2.html for more information). In all likelihood, that will be for what pharma refers to as a " fill& finish " facility, rather than one where temperature-controlled bioreactors are located.Meanwhile, a nonprofit drug company known as Civica, ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - April 24, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 morgantown west virginia wv mylan biosimilar insulin undbio Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 21st 2022
In this study researchers added new insight, showing that high-intensity aerobic exercise, which derives its energy from sugar, can reduce the risk of metastatic cancer by as much as 72%. If so far the general message to the public has been 'be active, be healthy', now researchers can explain how aerobic activity can maximize the prevention of the most aggressive and metastatic types of cancer.
The study combined an animal model in which mice were trained under a strict exercise regimen, with data from healthy human volunteers examined before and after running. The human data, obtained from an epidemiological study ...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 20, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Effects of Gly-Low Supplementation on Long Term Health in Mice
The gly-low combination of common supplements is sold as GLYLO by Juvify Health, another of the supplement-focused spinout companies from the Buck Institute, an organization that should consider starting spinning out companies that are doing something more ambitious to treat aging as a medical condition. The scientifically interesting part of the underlying research is that inhibiting glycation to reduce methylglyoxal based advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) appears, for reasons yet to be determined, to reduce appetite in mice. This leads to modest calorie restriction, and calorie restriction is well known to produce a ...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 14, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
7 Tips To Help With Insomnia Naturally And Quickly
A healthy lifestyle revolves around the daily habits and dietary aid you include in your life. It is one of the significant factors behind long-term wellness and disease-free life. If you wish to enhance your lifestyle, you must be willing to make the essential changes. From the excessive intake of sugar-laden snacks to your meals’ timing, everything affects your health in the long run. Also, it contributes to lack of sleep and constant sleep disturbances now and then. But, you can get rid of the signs of insomnia with minimal lifestyle changes and natural aids.
Here are the top ways in which you can achieve a refresh...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 2, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rebecca R Tags: depression featured health and fitness self-improvement health benefits of sleep insomnia pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Whole grains or no grains? Food labels can be misleading
Food labels contain a wealth of information: calories, serving size, and the amounts of fat, sugar, vitamins, and fiber contained in a food, among other things. But do consumers know how to effectively use this information? A recent study showed that some consumers are struggling, especially when it comes to understanding whole grains.
Recent study highlights consumer confusion
For the study, published in Public Health Nutrition, researchers conducted two experiments to examine consumer understanding of whole grains on food labels. The research, which focused on food labels on bread, cereal, and crackers, was done online a...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Health Healthy Eating Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Hands or feet asleep? What to do
We’ve all been there. You awaken in the morning and one of your hands is completely numb. It feels dead, heavy, and simply won’t work. Perhaps there’s some tingling as well. Or, you arise from a long dinner or movie and one of your legs feels that way. Then over a few minutes — maybe you shook your hands, stamped your foot — everything goes back to normal. Until the next time.
The first time this happened, it might have been worrisome. Now that you know it’s temporary and happens to everyone, it may not bother you. But did you ever wonder why in the world this happens? Read on!
When the nerves are not happy
Whe...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Health Healthy Aging Neurological conditions Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 30th 2019
In conclusion, older adults exhibited decreased markers of UPR activation and reduced coordination with autophagy and SC-associated gene transcripts following a single bout of unaccustomed resistance exercise. In contrast, young adults demonstrated strong coordination between UPR genes and key regulatory gene transcripts associated with autophagy and SC differentiation in skeletal muscle post-exercise. Taken together, the present findings suggest a potential age-related impairment in the post-exercise transcriptional response that supports activation of the UPR and coordination with other exercise responsive pathways (i.e....
Source: Fight Aging! - September 29, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Skeptical Review of the Evidence for Metformin
This review paper more or less leans towards my thoughts on metformin as a treatment to slow aging: the animal data is not great, the human data is a single study, the effect size on life span is far too small to care about, and the detrimental side effects are large in comparison to that effect size. The strategy of upregulating stress response mechanisms via drugs such as metformin is a poor strategy for long-lived species, as we clearly don't exhibit the sizable gains in life span that occur in short lived species such as mice under these circumstances. Metformin, in turn, is a low performance example of this strategy, ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 27, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Does elimination of grains make you deficient in vitamin B6?
The post Does elimination of grains make you deficient in vitamin B6? appeared first on Dr. William Davis. (Source: Wheat Belly Blog)
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 23, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates Wheat Belly Lifestyle grain-free grains Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 22nd 2019
This study elucidates the potential to use mitochondria from different donors (PAMM) to treat UVR stress and possibly other types of damage or metabolic malfunctions in cells, resulting in not only in-vitro but also ex-vivo applications.
Gene Therapy in Mice Alters the Balance of Macrophage Phenotypes to Slow Atherosclerosis Progression
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/07/gene-therapy-in-mice-alters-the-balance-of-macrophage-phenotypes-to-slow-atherosclerosis-progression/
Atherosclerosis causes a sizable fraction of all deaths in our species. It is the generation of fatty deposits in blood vesse...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 21, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Common Dietary Supplements Have Little to No Effect on Mortality
Yet another sizable study has shown that common dietary supplements have little to no effect on late life mortality. This finding of course has to compete with the wall to wall marketing deployed by the supplement market. Researchers have been presenting data on the ineffectiveness of near all supplements of years, but it doesn't seem to reduce the enthusiasm for these products. In the past it was fairly easy to dismiss all supplements as nonsense, or at the very least causing only marginal effects that were in no way comparable to the benefits of exercise and calorie restriction, but matters are now becoming more complex....
Source: Fight Aging! - July 19, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Hyperemesis: (Way) beyond morning sickness
Morning sickness — the common term for nausea and vomiting during early pregnancy — is not unusual, as many women know. Starting around the sixth to eighth week of pregnancy, as many as 80% of women report having nausea and 50% experience vomiting. But as comedian Amy Schumer can attest, hyperemesis goes well beyond what people generally think of as morning sickness. Marked by doggedly persistent nausea and vomiting, hyperemesis occurs in up to three out of 100 pregnancies. Not surprisingly, women who have hyperemesis often lose weight: losing approximately 5% of pre-pregnancy weight is common.
Why does hyperemesis occ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Huma Farid, MD Tags: Parenting Pregnancy Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Foods for Sleep: A List of the Best and Worst Foods for Getting Sleep
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Sleep is relatively flimsy to please – and it’s likely that at least once you found yourself staring at the dark walls, on a night where you could not sleep. Still, did you know that the food you eat could greatly affect the quality of your sleep? Here is what you should – or should not – consume in the hours before going to bed.
Foods Recommended for a Good Sleep
So, there are fo...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: maryjames Tags: diet featured health and fitness better sleep foods for sleep pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs
