This is a great new outlook about cancer from Grass Roots Health. This video has been getting attention from quit a few health blogs and health sites. It talks about Vitamin D and the research of preventing breast and colatrol cancer by 75%.
Even with growing progress toward gender equality in the workplace, women continue to carry the most responsibility for family care. According to a new study, this could be why women report more sleep disruption than men.
Health researchers have traditionally examined the effects of biological differences on sleep patterns. The new research delved into the social issues of how work and family obligations could inadequate sleep.
Participants were asked about the number of hours they slept, as well as about sleep-related questions that health care workers would review in examining the health effects of sleep loss, such as, “In the past three months, did you never, rarely, sometimes or often…”
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Have you considered brushing your skin in the morning? Dry skin brushing is such a great way to help your body stimulate the lymphatic system, enhancing blood circulation, reduce cellulite, and the release toxins. Often times if you are on a detox plan they might tell you to do this, but you can also use it daily. Dry brushing has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for many many years. So, how do you dry bush:
* The ideal time to dry brush is in the morning before you shower, so that you can rinse off the impurities loosened by the massage.
* You will want to massage your entire body, excluding your face, chest, and heart. Also avoid sensitive areas and anywhere the skin is broken or inflamed.
* Use circular strokes on the stomach and joints (shoulders, elbows, knees, wrists, hips, and ankles). Use long, sweeping strokes on the arms and legs. Always massage toward your heart to ensure the proper circulation of lymph fluid.
* Apply light pressure where the skin is thin, such as the underarms, and harder pressure where the skin is thicker, such as the soles of the feet.
* Massage from your feet upward, continuing up to your torso and neck. Also massage your hands up through your shoulders.
Scientists have found increased blood levels of stress hormones in people with chronic insomnia, suggesting that these individuals suffer from sustained, round-the-clock activation of the body’s system for responding to stress.
For this reason, the researchers suggest, doctors who treat insomnia should go beyond improving the quality or quantity of their patients’ sleep and seek to reduce this hyperarousal, which is a risk factor for both psychiatric and medical illness.
Investigators monitored the sleep of 11 patients with insomnia and 13 people without sleep disturbances (the “control” group). Blood was collected every 30 minutes for 24 hours, and levels of stress hormones — adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and cortisol were monitored.
Average levels of both hormones were significantly higher in the insomniacs than in the control group. They found that the insomniacs with the highest degree of sleep disturbance secreted the highest amount of cortisol, particularly in the evening and nighttime hours,” Vgontzas said in a prepared statement. This means that insomniacs are experiencing hormonal changes in their bodies, which prevents them from sleeping.
The investigators propose that the physical mechanism of chronic insomnia differs from that of sleep loss, with chronic insomnia being a disorder of hyperarousal present throughout the 24-hour sleep/wake cycle. Increased production of stress hormones is likely to lead not only to depression, but also to high blood pressure, obesity and osteoporosis.
Here are just a few reason why green tea is so great!
Generally, researchers looking at EGCG’s anti-cancer potential are investigating its ability to:
* Keep cancer from being triggered by specific carcinogens
* Interfere with the signals sent between cells that “turn on” cancer genes
* Directly inhibit the expression of COX-2 and other enzymes involved in cancer
* Help regulate a cell’s natural growth cycle
* Induce spontaneous “cell death” in cancerous cells
* Keep cancerous cells from growing the blood vessels they need to feed themselves
