Porn addiction: Cortisol level & other health concerns

Sufficient sleep is essential to health. Research has shown that insufficient sleep which can be caused by porn addiction can lead to increase cortisol levels

Cortisol, also known more formally as hydrocortisone (INN, USAN, BAN), is a steroid hormone, more specifically a glucocorticoid, produced by the zona fasciculata of the adrenal gland.[1] It is released in response to stress and a low level of blood glucocorticoids. Its primary functions are to increase blood sugar through gluconeogenesis; suppress the immune system; and aid in fat, protein and carbohydrate metabolism.[2] It also decreases bone formation. Various synthetic forms of cortisol are used to treat a variety of diseases. (Source: Wikipedia: Cortisol)

Essentially that is saying that sleep depravation caused by porn addiction can lead to suppression of the immune system and decrease bone formation. And porn addiction is now promoted by the wide availablity of porn via the pervasive Internet. All you need is a computer, mobile or otherwise, and all those porn on the Internet will be easily available to you.

These are all avoidable health hazards solvable by getting sufficient sleep, but if you are addicted to porn, for better health, we need to know how to overcome internet porn addiction.

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Porn addiction, health problems, high blood pressure

The previous article Free help for porn and masturbation argued that it is a health problem, and that lack of sleep (because of porn addiction) can result in high blood pressure.

Here is the proof. The chart below showed that on the morning following a no-sleep night, the blood pressure was very high and remained so for the rest of the day (highlighted with red circles):



Lack of sleep can also lead to inattention and can further lead to risks of serious accidents. Porn addiction can also steal time from you preventing you from doing other healthier stuff like exercising, going out for fresh air, etc.

In addition to all those problems above, porn addiction may cause you to neglect your job and increasing the risk of getting sacked. Or if you are a student, getting bad grades, failing exams and failing to get into college, etc.

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Porn and masturbation addiction. A health hazard?

Porn and masturbation addicts are not confined to just adults. Even teenagers with raging hormones can easily be hooked by pron and masturbation addiction. Porn and masturbation addictions are like any other addictions can be very hard to break without help and counseling.

The first step to breaking any addiction is realization that one is addicted. Realizing that one is addicted however may not lead to steps to try to break the addiction. One need to accept that it is a problem.

Are porn and masturbation addictions a health problem? Porn addicts may be excessively watching porn and not sleep enough. Not enough sleep is definitely a health concern from my own experience as on days I did not sleep the night before, my blood pressure and pulse rate is sky high. I keep a chart of my blood pressure and if you don't believe me, I can show it to you .

Insufficient sleep can also lead to psycological problems like depression. It is also believed that lack of sleep can trigger bipolar disorder. Now if you are addicted and accept that it is a problem and want to seek help, you may want to look at this new site for porn addiction. At the bottom of the page you will find a link to click on so as to get free help with addiction.

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Health Insurance quote and the Internet

There is no doubt that getting sick is expensive and getting more expensive. Thus it is always prudent to have some kind of health insurance. This is the negative of our current time, the cost of medical care.

However, the big positive of our current time is the Internet and the inventor of the Internet Tim Berners-Lee should really be awarded the Nobel Price for inventing something that has made our life so much more interesting and convenient. The Internet had made getting an online insurance quote so very easy, right in the comfort of your home or anywhere in the world.

Plus placed information on our fingertips. A few taps of the finger can get you information on How to Save on Health Insurance so you don't break your bank in having to pay for very expensive health insurance.

Health insurance deals with your physical health. It is great to be healthy but life is uncertain. One never knows when calamity may struck. If something happened to you and you are taken away from your family, your family may be deprived of a breadwinner. If you are not convinced that you need life insurance, go read about why you need Life Insurance online. Click Here to Read More..

Erectile dysfunction - Viagra cream safer alternative

Viagra pill have proved to be effective to treat erectile dysfunction or ED, but it has side effects which include headaches, blurred vision and upset stomachs. Men who have heart problems or have suffered a stroke need to also use viagra pill with extreme caution or avoid it altogether. Another negative factor is that it takes time to take effect.

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Photo of the blue pill (Viagra) is property of Felix E. Guerrero

According to a research report published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine by a Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York, a cream containing nanoparticles encapsulating particles of drugs is not only safer with less side effects, but also fast acting, effecting an erection within minutes as compared with 30 minutes to an hour for oral medication. The use of the Viagra cream confined the active ingredients of the drug to a small area of the body rather than circulating systematically through the body plus reaching the target area much faster.

The tests were done on rats bred to suffer erectile dysfunction and tests found the cream containing Cialis, sialorphin and nitric oxid to be effective and showed no side of side effects.

Before the Viagra cream can be prescribed for human however, further tests need to be done to ensure the treatment is safe before clinical trials with human can be carried and getting approval for general use may take 10 years or more.

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New damaged heart repair treatment?

The result of a study carried out on mice and rats by the Children's Hospital Boston published int the journal Cell is giving hopes that a new way to repair damaged heart may be in the offing. The key lies in a protein called Neuregulin 1 or NRG1.

A team of Boston researchers tested the abilities of various molecules to spur cell divisions in cultured cardiomyocytes (cardiac muscle cells) and found that NRG1 produced the most significant effect. NRG1 was administered to animals which had suffered heart attacks and it was found to promote regeneration of the heart muscles, proving that adult heart cells of mice can be stimulated to reproduce itself. The researchers thus conclude that they have identified a new approach to promote myocardial regeneration.

The researchers now plan to test this new therapy in pigs which have more in common with humans than mice and rats.

While this finding point towards a possible new therapy (patients getting daily NRG1 infusions over period of weeks) for damaged hearts, researcher Dr. Bernhard Kühn cautioned that the safety of the therapy need to be tested before the study can proceed to testing in humans.



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Antibodies kill cancer cells - new cancer treatment?

It has been known that antibodies can be used to tag cancer cells and mobilize the disease fighting cells of the immune system to attack and kill cancer cells. Now according to a report in the Journal of Clinical Investigations by researchers of the University of Nottingham and the University of Manchester, the antibodies it selves can attack and destroy directly cancer cells.

The antibody works as follows. It attaches to a cancer cell and trigger lysosomes (small acid-containing sacs) within the cell to bloat up and burst in the process releasing their deadly content leading to the death of the cell. According to researcher Dr. Mark Cragg, the findings throws up the tantalizing possibility of applying this knowledge of how antibodies trigger cell death to come up with new effective treatments for cancer.

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Rapamycin (Sirolimus) - elixir of life?

Rapamycin also known as Sirolimus

Rapamycin (C₅₁H₇₉NO₁₃) also known by its alternative name Sirolimus was first discovered as a product of the bacterium Streptomyces hygroscopicus in a soil sample from Easter Island. It is an immunosuppressant drug often used to prevent autoimmune organ rejection in organ transplant.

Rapamycin molecular structure courtesy of Wikipedia - Sirolimus

Rapamycin - elixir of life?

Research done at three centres in Texas, Michigan and Maine and published in Nature journal gives hope that we may be nearer at finding an elixir of life or at least an anti-ageing drug that can prolong life. The researchers fed rapamycin to mice which were bred to mimic the genetic diversity and susceptibility to disease of humans as closely as possible and at an age equivalent to 60 years in humans and found that the drug prolong life by 28 to 38%

However, we should not yet jump up with joy because Rapamycin in an immunity suppressant and will suppress the body immune system leading to infection. The mice in the research which were fed Rapamycin were protected from infection. This would be almost impossible for human in real life situation. Dr Lynne Cox, an expert in ageing at the University of Oxford, the findings are interesting because they highlighted an important molecular pathway that new, more specific drugs might be designed to work on.

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Familial hypercholesterolemia: life saving cascade testing

Familial hypercholesterolemia

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an inherited condition characterized by very high blood bad cholesterol (LDL or low density lipoprotein) levels. It is estimated that 1 in 500 UK residents suffers from FH and will have dangerously high levels of bad cholesterol from an early age.

Most FH patients have a mutated LDLR gene. Victims with only one abnormal gene will likely suffers premature cardiovascular disease at the young age of 30 to 40. Those with 2 abnormal gene will likely suffer severe cardiovascular disease while at tender childhood.

It is estimated that 50% of men and 33% of women with familial hypercholesterolaemia will suffers a heart attack before reaching 60 years of age.

Treatment of familial hypercholesterolaemia

Patients with familial hypercholesterolemia can be treated with statin drug which can prolong the lifespan to almost normal. It is thus important to screen families if any member of the familial is tested positive for familial hypercholesterolaemia and anyone testing positive for FH should be put on statin drug.

Cascade testing (CT)

Lab medicine The sequencing of tests to diagnose a disease or process–eg, familial hypercholesterolaemia; Cascade Testing is appropriate when a 'gold standard' method is technically demanding and/or costly and the diagnosis can usually be established by simpler or more cost-effective strategies.

Dr Dermot Neely, consultant in clinical biochemistry and metabolic medicine at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, said cascade testing with DNA diagnosis was very effective in practice.

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Olaparib: New promising treatment for breast, ovarian and prostate cancers

Are you or any of your loved ones or contacts blighted with inherited forms of advanced breast, ovarian or prostate cancer which are associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations? If so, perhaps here is good news. A new oral drug Olaparib may be an effective treatment. Olaparib belongs to a new class of drug called PARP (Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase family, a human gene) inhibitors.

In a study led by the Institute of Cancer Research and reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, 19 patients with inherited forms of advanced breast, ovarian and prostate cancer caused by BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, were given Olaparib. Out of these 19, 12 (63%) had their cancer tumors shrunk or stabilized. They also experienced very few side-effects from the treatment.

One of the 12, Julian Lewis who had been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer had levels key chemical marker reduced to a low level within a month after been treated with Olaparib and had stayed low for more than 2 years. Further, secondary tumors in the bones have also almost disappeared. As for side effects from Olaparib, Julian only reported experiencing stomach discomfort and mild nausea which is a big improvement over those drastic side effects from chemotherapy.

Professor Stan Kaye, one of the researchers, said that they plan to further study whether Olaparib can be used for other more common forms of breast and ovarian cancers.

In another study at the Royal Marsden National Health Service Foundation Trust in Sutton, UK, 60 patients out of which 22 are carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, were treated with Olaparib. Dosage used was 10mg daily for 2 to 3 weeks increasing to 600mg twice daily. Patients similarly experienced few mild side effects.

Both studies were early-stage trials but were published early because the studies are pointing to a new direction in the development of anti-cancer drugs which targets specific molecular defects rather then the types of cancer.

Sources:
BBC News: New cancer drug 'shows promise'
Olaparib May Benefit BRCA Mutation Carriers

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Scarless belly button surgery Paraskevas

A surgeon Paraskevas Paraskeva of the Imperial College London Healthcare NHS Trust pioneered a practically scarless single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) to remove a gall bladder and the appendix. The surgery involved making a 10mm incision in the belly button and using laparoscopic "key-hole" surgery technique to remove the organs. By making that 10mm incision, Paraskevas could insert a "single access port" through which instruments and a small camera are fed to enable the almost scarless surgery.

Such surgery normally involved making 3 incisions which leaves scars and requires hospitalization. However, the technique perfected by Paraskevas not only left practically no scar, the patient could be discharged on the same day as the surgery.

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Brain booster drug - Ritalin

Ritalin (Methylphenidate) is a central nervous system stimulant used to treat ADHD (Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder). Bioethics expert Professor John Harris, of the University of Manchester is advocating for its use as a booster for brain power saying if it is safe to use by young children on a long term basis, it is safe enough adults. Professor Harris said Ritalin's benefits included enhanced study skills and concentration and claims it is unethical to prevent healthy adults and students to take it (currently Ritalin is a prescription drug classified in UK as a Class B drug and unauthorized possession can lead to a five-year prison sentence.

Molecular structure of methylphenidate courtesy of Wikipedia

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MDX-010 (Ipilimumab) treatment for advanced prostate cancer

Researchers in the Mayo Clinic have found very positive results in trials for 108 men with advanced prostate cancer. For patients with advanced prostate cancer which has spread outside the prostate, surgery is no longer an option. Standard treatment for advanced prostate cancer is to use hormone therapy to try to shrink the cancer tumour.

In the Mayo Clinic study, the researchers tested MDX-010 (Ipilimumab), a type of monoclonal antibody, to see if it will stimulate a strong immune response to attack the prostate cancer cells. The results, according to Dr. Eugene Kwon, were beyond expectations. It was found that in 3 cases, the tumours had shrank so much that it was possible to surgically remove the tumour. 20 other test subjects had also shown improvements. The researchers so so encouraged that they have planned to expand the trial to test higher dosage of MDX-010 on a further 30 prostate cancer patients, and beyond that, to expand to larger trials in many hospitals.

Here are more details about the "startling results": Rodger Nelson was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. The tumor has spread beyond the prostate while the cancer is encroaching upon the abdomen. The prognosis for such condition is usually death within a few months and only palliative care would be given. However, after only one dose of Ipilimumab (MDX-010), Nelson's tumor has shrunk so much that it could be surgically removed. The surgeons described the tumors as "very hard to find". Another patient in the study, Fructuoso Solano-Revuelta, had a tumor as large as a golf ball with similar prognosis. His tumor too have shrunk after application of Ipilimumab to the extend it became operable. Both men have returned to work.

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A new treatment for chronic asthma?

A research team from King's College London and Imperial College London led by Professor Tak Lee, of King's College London claimed that they have discovered a key component of chronic asthma which may lead the way to better treatments. The report is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

They claimed that as asthma progress, the asthma patient's airways get changed or remodeled (become more muscular, particularly the smooth muscles) and it is this remodeling of the airways that is responsible for asthma becoming chronic. Because of the remodeling, the airways muscles also more reactive to allergens. The key to this process is a cellular pump in the muscles called SERCA2 (Sarco/Endoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+-ATPase). The job of SERCA2 is to pump calcium out of the muscles so that the muscles can relax.

The researchers found that if they removed SERCA2 from the cells of non-asthmatic healthy people, these cells begin to behave like asthma cells.

The researchers thus believe that if they can replace the SERCA2 in the airway muscles of asthmatic patients, they may be able to reduce the symptoms and put a brake on the long term changes in the lungs which caused chronic asthma. This is thus a possible route to finding new treatments for asthma patients.

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Software gives cerebral palsy voice

Computing scientists from the Universities of Aberdeen and Dundee, and Capability Scotland, lead by Dr Ehud Reiter, from the University of Aberdeen's school of natural and computing sciences have developed a software that enables children with severe motor disabilities and communication problems a "voice". Their software named "How was school today" uses sensors, swipe cards, and a recording device to gather information on what the child using the system has experienced at school that day and turned them into a story by the computer using what is called natural language generation which the pupils can then share when they get home.

Children with cerebral palsy have great communication problems and experience problems interacting verbally with people. The software enables them to tell a "story" and support a more interactive narration and quickly answer questions.

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Cardiac arrest: Music can be you best medicine

If you suffered a heart attack, perhaps music can be your best medicine. A study conducted at the University of Illinois College of Medicine on doctors and medical students practiceing CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) on mannequins while listening to Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees and timing their chest compressions with the beat can achieve very close to the rate recommended by the American Heart Association is 100 chest compressions per minute


If you are curious about the song, here is a video of Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees:



Apparently, even if not listening to the song but guided by mental recall of the song, the doctors and medical students can still achieved very close to the recommended rate by the American Heart Association

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Control hypertension without medicine - real life story

Here is my real life story about how I licked hypertension (high blood pressure). I belong to the high risk group because I am 60 years old and I have close relatives who have died from burst blood vessel in the brain plus a cousin who had been on hypertension medication for 20 years.

About 2 over months ago the doctor measured my blood pressure to be 150 over 90. A week later, it was 150 over 100. This would place me in the stage one hypertension. The doctor wanted to put me on medication, but I pleaded to try to control the blood pressure via diet plus exercise as once I go on hypertension medication, I would have to take it for the rest of my life. I was told to see him again in 2 months time.



I bought a digital blood pressure monitor and started avoiding fried food, oily stuff and reduced my intake of meat and took more toufu. I started exercising using my zero cost exercise machine. However, I am a widower and have to eat out, and thus cannot control my salt intake. The blood pressure was erratic - ranging from 140 over 90 to as low as 90 over 60. On the whole, however, it was better than the initial readings by the doctor.

When I saw the doctor again, he said the he will have to take the higher reading and wanted to put me on low dose medication. I pleaded to try dieting and exercising again and was told to see him again in 3 months time.

Now I started to cook my own food so that I can control my diet. I can say that my blood pressure is under control now.

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Exercise, Sleep, Food are best medicine

Nearly everyone knows the well-known saying, laughter is the best medicine. However, health and freedom from illnesses is not dependent on any single factor as there are many aspects of health. One should also consider physical activities, sufficient rest and sleep and nutrition.

Thus, it can just be as well said:

Exercise is the best medicine.

Sleep is the best medicine.

Food (proper nutrition) is the best medicine

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Good Health, Nutrition and Exercise

One can only attain good overall health if one have both good nutrition as well as sufficient exercises. Good nutrition can be achieved by having a varied diet and taking in lots of fruits and vegetables, preferably the colorful types.

For exercises, in order to avoid injuries, prior to vigorous exercises, one must warm up and carry out stretching exercises.

If you are not careful, you will sustain injuries and suffers body ache and pain. To alleviate pain, there are available Pain Relief Cream. If a particular brand or type, example, Blue-Emu, do not bring you relief, you can always try another brand or type, like Glenalgesic.

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