| 1. Boost your mind and memory |
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What affects memory?
Stress: Prolonged stress raises cortisol (a stress hormone) which damages the brain.- after 2 weeks of raised cortisol levels the dendrite ‘ arms’ of the brain which reaches out to connect with other cells, start to shrivel up. The good news is that such damage is not permanent. If you can reduce your level of stress and anxiety you can decrease your cortisol levels. You need to cut back on stimulants such as tea, coffee or cigarettes and opt for something like ginseng, which halts the overproduction of corisol and improves the ability of the adrenal glands to respond to stress.
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| 2. Women’s Wellness: Experience Wellness as you get older. |
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1. Body Shape Changes
Just as death and taxes are inevitable, some aspects of your body condition are inevitable, too. You cannot change them, but you can make the best of them. They seem like barriers to achieving your ideal size, but they don't have to be. They are as follows: aging, genetics, hormones, menopause (for women), middle-age spread (for both men and women), and childbirth..
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Enhance your energy levels, mental performance, immunity and protect your body against stress.
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| 4. Haemochromatosis (Iron Overload) |
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What is “Iron
overload”?
Although it may sound like it, haemochromatosis is not a blood
disease; it is, in fact, a disorder rather than a disease,
and only becomes a disease when sufficient iron has been accumulated
to affect one or more vital organs.
Hereditary Haemochromotosis (HH) is a genetic condition in
which there is excessive absorption of iron from a normal
diet, leading to iron overload. As the body has no natural
way of excreting iron, the excess accumulates in the liver,
pancreas, heart and other organs causing serious damage and
eventually causing organ failure. Symptoms could typically
appear in middle age after years of damage, although HH may
also affect young persons in their early 20’s, as well
as children (juvenile haemochromatosis).
Most of the suffering associated with the disease is preventable
if potential victims are detected in time; and even when it
has become symptomatic, many serious complications are reversible—but
only by timely diagnosis and treatment.
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4. What is the Metabolic Syndrome?
The metabolic syndrome is characterized
by a group of metabolic risk factors in one person. They
include:
- Abdominal obesity (excessive fat tissue
in and around the abdomen)
- Atherogenic dyslipidemia (blood fat
disorders — high triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol
and high LDL cholesterol — that foster plaque buildups
in artery walls)
- Elevated blood pressure
- Insulin resistance or glucose intolerance
(the body can’t properly use insulin or blood sugar)
- Prothrombotic state (e.g., high fibrinogen
or plasminogen activator inhibitor–1 in the blood)
- Proinflammatory state (e.g., elevated C-reactive
protein in the blood)
People with the metabolic syndrome
are at increased risk of coronary heart disease and other
diseases related to plaque buildups in artery walls (e.g.,
stroke and peripheral vascular disease) and type 2 diabetes.
The metabolic syndrome has become increasingly common in the
United States. It’s estimated that over 50 million Americans
have it.
The dominant underlying risk
factors for this syndrome appear to be abdominal obesity
and insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is a generalized
metabolic disorder, in which the body can’t use insulin
efficiently. This is why the metabolic syndrome is also called
the insulin resistance syndrome. |