HGH (Human Growth Hormone) – The Fountain of Youth

February 10th, 2012

As the name implies, the role of HGH Human Growth Hormone is to regulate the development and maintenance of the important functions of your body. HGH pituitary gland responsible for production and secretion of human growth hormone is the master hormone in our body that controls the production of the other entire hormone.

Slowdown in the production of this hormone is associated with aging in the body very closely. Aging process, physical function (they are a function of other systems and skeletal, circulatory, nervous, hormone, or) begins with a gradual degeneration. Body will start to lose the ability to repair itself and maintain. The end result is reduced ability to work away from, to look aged.

It allows you to slow the aging process in these cases, and to increase the level of HGH scientific has been proven that it may even reverse to some extent. Of course, you like that lifestyle changes are essential if you want to look younger and more physical activity, and other requirements. The ultimate goal, you will need to change the quality of life. If you do not have it ready for you to make these changes to expect a rise in hormone levels for the recovery of “youth” might be unrealistic.

As mentioned above, HGH is the master hormone that controls production of other hormones of the body literally. Hormone of the “other” that is associated with the function of these various systems of the body. Depletion of HGH level will affect the hormone production of the “other” of these automatically.

As we work to enhance the level of hormone in your body, you get a starting point for the production of other hormones. Let’s take a look at some of the most important benefit.

Skin: the skin is facing the onslaught pollution constantly, attacks against the ultraviolet rays from the sun, such as extreme weather events, such as smoking habits, etc., HGH, in order to reduce the wrinkles in its effects, to strengthen the body’s repair mechanism You.

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Helpful Hints for Diets

January 10th, 2012

Though precise rules of nutrition were not formulated in ancient days, our ancestors had evolved a set of healthy food habits such as the use of unrefined cereals, the combination of cereals and dais to provide ‘complete’ proteins, and the use of natural sugars. Modern man, however, has acquired artificial tastes and alienated himself from Nature even in his food habits. The growing consumption of refined grains, white sugar and junk food creates disorders in the human body.

  • Soaking, sprouting and fermentation increase the nutritional value of dais and cereal grains. Sprouting breaks down proteins and starches into simple forms and makes the vitamins available for ready absorption. The increase in vitamins Band C compensates for the minor losses in roasting and cooking. Methi seeds are especially benefited by this method. Sprouting makes them lose their bitterness, thus allowing us to avail their valuable amino acids.
  • Another golden rule is combination. Since the Indian diet relies heavily on cereals, combine cereals with dais for maximum protein value. Good sources of vegetable proteins are yeast (khameer), skimmed milk powder, soya granules, mushrooms, sprouted dais, peanuts and paneer.
  • Do not over-wash vegetables, do not soak them in water for a long time, and do not store them for longer than necessary. This helps vegetables retain valuable water-soluble vitamins and minerals.
  • Conserve vitamins by cooking vegetables in very little water, with a lid on the saucepan.
  • Never throwaway the water in which vegetables were cooked. Use it for making dais, curries, soups and gravies.
  • Use non-stick pans to minimize the use of oil.
  • Avoid using aluminum saucepans, unless you are careful not to scour them. Try to use stainless steel or enamel saucepans for soups, etc. Copper and brass vessels are highly recommended.
  • As far as possible, do not liquidize vegetables and fruits at high speeds. Even chutneys are best ground on a grindstone, because high-speed mixers can destroy vitamins B and C.
  • Do not peel fruits and vegetables unnecessarily (except for fruits such as oranges, mangoes and bananas). Peeling removes much of the nutrients that fruits and vegetables are supposed to provide.

 

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Lets Talk About The Fact

December 16th, 2011

Oil operators spend billions of dollars each year on oilfield equipment. Some of the products purchase consists of casing, tubing, pump jack, oil rig, rotary tables, block, truck mounted rigs, jack up rigs. There are hundreds of company that sell equipment. Finding and buying oilfield equipment such as oilfield drill bits and coiled tubing is not necessarily simple. The businesses the use this equipment are working in a very high pressure situation that requires the finest parts and services so that the operations can be as safe as humanly possible.

There are more than 40,000 oil fields that require specialized equipment to run. Some are on land, others are offshore. No matter where the field is located oilfield equipment is required. Oil fields are regions with a large quantity of oil wells. Most of the wells are extracting crude oil.

With the growing need for oil the necessity of moving the equipment from old location to the new oil field is increasing. Once a new oil field has been found the extraction should be started immediately and thus the need for moving various equipment like drilling dampeners, pulsation dampeners and many more is vital to the oil extracting companies. As a result of this there is an increased demand for drilling rig moving equipment. Oil industry companies no longer invest in fixed drilling equipment. It is more cost effective to be able to transport a drilling rig to new oil deposits than to go for new equipment as these equipment are very expensive.

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Lemongrass

February 15th, 2011

Lemongrass is cultivated in Central and South America and Australia. The medicinal parts of the lemongrass plant are the dried leaves, the lemongrass oil of Cymbopogon citratus, and the citronella oil of C. nardus. Lemongrass contains alkaloids, a saponin fraction, and cymbopogonol. Fresh leaves contain 0.4% to 0.5% volatile oil that contains citral, myrcene, geranial, and several other fragrant compounds. Myrcene may have some peripheral analgessic activity similar to peripherally acting opiates that directly down-regulate sensitized receptors.

Reported uses

Lemongrass is used topically as an analgesic for neuralgic and rheumatic pain and strains, and as a mild astringent. The
crushed leaves are used topically as a mosquito repellent. The essential oil is used as a food additive and also in perfumes. Internally, lemon grass is used as an antispasmodic and for the treatment of nervous and GI disorders.

Administration

  • Oil: Applied topically for pain
  • Tea: Prepared by adding 2 to 4 g of esh Or dried leaves to 5 oz of boiling Water.

Hazards

Lemongrass may cause dry mouth, polyuria, allergic reactions, hypotension, and increased liver enzymes. Lemongrass has been found to have a diuretic effect in rats. Concomitant use of lemongrass with a diuretic may cause excess diuresis. Concomitant use of lemongrass with an antihypertensive agent may lead to hypotension. Lemongrass may exert an antimicrobial and antifungal effect. Concomitant use of lemongrass with an antibiotic and/or antifungal may lead to an enhanced effect.
Patients who are pregnant or breast-feeding or with a history of liver dysfunction shouldn’t use this herb.

Clinical considerations

  • Tell patient that lemongrass may cause increased frequency of urination.
  • Monitor patient’s liver enzymes.
  • Advise patient to keep lemongrass out of reach of children.
  • Tell patient to remind prescriber and pharmacist of any herbal or dietary supplement that he’s taking when obtaining a new prescription.
  • Advise patient to consult his health care provider before using an herbal preparation because a treatment with proven efficacy may be available.

Research summary

Studies have shown lemongrass to be useful as an antitumor agent and a fever reducer. There has also been some indication that lemon grass has antiradical and antioxidant activity.

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Glorification of Alcohol and Drug Use without Addiction Treatment in the Media

June 25th, 2009

In our media-hungry society, Americans encounter alcohol and drug use in the media with more frequency than we likely realize. While difficult to quantify, one can only imagine the effects of this exposure on substance abuse. During the 70’s, drug and alcohol abuse reached a peak. Music and social conditions created a social arena ripe for addiction. This was the beginning of the glorification of drug use and the heyday addiction treatment clinic.

Drug Use in Film

Sadly, for many Americans, the image of the wasted junkie has lost its shock value. The frightening images of junkies of movie fame, including Juice and The Basketball Diaries, have been replaced by other nerve-exposing images. Traffic, a blockbuster in the 90’s, provided new scandal for the jaded. In the film, an underage Caucasian girl from a good home is graphically portrayed as the zombie-like conquest of an African-American drug dealer. Her loving parents guide her to drug detox, and hope appears on the horizon for the defiled damsel. Apparently the notion of “little junkie girl” lost was no longer enough to disturb the average American; racial stereotypes and socio-economic terror must join the amalgam for proper shock value.

Double Take: Models or Heroin Addicts?

The wasted figure of the emaciated supermodel peaked during the 90’s, when major fashion designers featured the thin figures of models with dark eye make-up and strung-out poses. This was the beginning of heroin chic, a trend in the fashion industry supporting the glazed-eye look of a junkie. In part due to the rising availability of the drug, the images of addicts were emblazoned upon billboards and bus sides. The decline of this advertising began only when a well-known photographer died of an overdose.

In The Cross-Hairs: Targeting Minors through Marketing

Alcohol manufacturers employ aggressive ad campaigns to target youth under the drinking age. With imagery and music borrowed from Rave culture, several companies offer enticing visuals of fun and popularity among attractive young people. Youth exposure to alcohol advertising occurs because ads are placed around programming that has minors among its largest viewership. Over 40% of minors viewed these ads while watching TV, while most never see the inside of an alcohol rehab center.

Another study shows that up to 20% of teens own clothing advertising alcohol. Disturbingly, the children who participated in the study, which followed the habits and behaviors of minors owning clothing bearing these advertisements, were under the age of 15.

Celebrities and Substance Abuse

Celebrity status and alcohol and drug use is depicted as going hand-in-hand. While some celebs attempt discretion while entering a drug or alcohol rehab center, as often as not, the information is used as a tactic to acquire media attention. In the predatory world of Hollywood glamour, the desperate media strategies employed by managers and celebrities are frequently exquisitely timed. An actor’s public entrance into an alcohol rehabilitation program, for instance, often somehow coincides with a movie premiere. Likewise, this formula can be applied to the music industry, which pairs album release dates with the shocking news of an artist entering a rehab center for assistance with his problem.

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Impact of Vitamin and Herbs on Depression

May 13th, 2009

While modern medicine has an idea of how depression “works,” a definitive cure for depression still eludes doctors and scientists. A variety of factors seem to indicate how likely a person is to develop depression. Environment, genetics, exposure to a traumatic event, increased stress level, hormonal balance, and poor nutrition all influence one’s probability to become depressed. One theory even posits that it is caused by inefficiency in the body’s ability to store vitamin. While these causes are acknowledged, the larger question of how to treat depression for the long-term remains unanswered.

Traditional treatment for depression has evolved somewhat over the years. In the past, extreme measures such as electro-shock and lobotomy were considered acceptable options. Today, although the horror of electro-shock therapy still exists, the majority of people undergo treatment via counseling and sometimes the use of anti-depressants. Interestingly, an infinitely gentler method of using electricity on the brain is being studied with a group of people who are utterly incapacitated by depression and do not respond to drug therapy.

About 50 patients suffering from a depression so severe that they were unable to function in daily life volunteered for an experiment in which the brain was stimulated by a very mild electric current. The procedure, called “deep stimulation,” targets a certain area of the brain with a low level of electricity. Results from the trials conducted in America and Canada have shown positive results for participants. Several patients who were so non-functioning that they could not even work have returned to employment and are leading normal lives.

For those who wish to avoid surgical insertion of electrical stimuli into the brain, there remain other options. Approaching depression as a type of malnourishment created other possible treatments, such as the including supplements, like B vitamins and cheap vitamin C, to the diet. Shifting meal plans away from junk food, eating more fruits and vegetables, and reducing intake of fatty foods and carbohydrates are strategies used. Additionally, Omega-3 fatty acids, attainable through consumption of foods like fish and flax seed, may improve mood. These amino acids are also available in supplement form. Other trials have shown that taking calcium supplements alleviates the symptoms of depression in 30% of subjects, who felt relief when calcium was added to their diet via supplement. Vitamin D has recently been added to the list of vitamin and herbs that impact mood, especially for those suffering from seasonal depression.

Because conventional drug treatments can have dangerous side effects and cause increased health risks with long-term use, some people are considering other avenues. Options such as behavioral modification, dietary adjustment, light therapy, and meditation have been presented in a certain groundbreaking new book by a doctor seeking other ways to help sufferers of this illness. For those sensitive to medication or experiencing mild depression, the use of discount herbal supplements might be used to treat symptoms economically. In Germany, doctors actually prescribe St. John’s Wort for the illness.

One of the most radical treatments being explored for depression is perhaps the most simple: exercise. Adding a regular fitness regimen to their daily routine improved the moods of 30% of patients in a study about the impact of exercise on mood.

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Acupressure

October 21st, 2008

A hands-on medicine that is at least a few thousand years old, acupressure evolved as a blend of massage and acupuncture (see following page). It is designed to unleash or lift the restrictions that injury has placed on the body’s flow of energy. It is also used for preventive health.

While it is based on the same principles of energy flow as acupuncture, acupressure uses fingers, knuckles or blunt-edged instruments instead of needles. Pressure is applied to specific locations on the body, called meridian (or acupressure) points, which correspond with the patient’s diagnosis. Both specific, easily located symptoms, such as neck and shoulder pain, or nonspecific symptoms, such as menstrual problems, may be treated with acupressure.

The pressure can be extremely light-just the weight of the finger-or deeper, like a massage. The touch will encourage the free flow of the body’s energy, or chi, in places where it is blocked. Sometimes called shiatsu, this type of massage includes pressure applied to specific areas of the body also targeted in acupuncture.

One advantage of acupressure is that it can be a form of self-care-that is, it can be administered at home, which is important to many people who suffer from chronic pain. Perhaps most important to acupressure practitioners and Americans unfamiliar with alternative remedies is the fact that acupressure is immediately understandable. It makes sense: When we bash a toe or burn a thumb in the kitchen, we instinctively grab the painful parts and hold on, tightly, in order to blunt the hurt. And you don’t have to know anything about meridians or endorphins to know that this works, at least temporarily.

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Craniosacral Therapy

September 12th, 2008

As powerful directors of the body’s actions, the head and spine contain our most important communications pathways. That is the founding belief of craniosacral therapy, a modern kind of bodywqrk that was derived from what used to be called cranial osteopathy.

Craniosacral therapy consists of gentle, non­invasive, hands-on massage that corrects imbalances in the fluid system that connects the brain and spinal cord. Unlike Swedish massage, which focuses on the muscles, or Rolf therapy, which focuses on the alignment, craniosacral therapy focuses on a membrane, or sac, that contains cerebrospinal and other important fluids of the nervous system.

The therapy, developed in the early 1970s by osteopath John Upledger, D.O., is based on belief in the disputed existence of the craniosacral system, which, like the respiratory system, cardiovascular system or nervous system, is believed to influence the development and performance of the body. Therapists say imbalance or restriction in the craniosacral system, sometimes dating back as far as birth, can potentially cause any number of sensory, motor or neurological disabilities.

The therapist uses a very gentle touch to detect restrictions and then subtle movements, often on the plates of the skull, to assist the hydraulic forces of the craniosacral system and encourage the body’s natural healing powers.

Applied by itself or in concert with other kinds of bodywork, craniosacral therapy can be used to help relieve whiplash, head and neck injuries, temporomandibular joint syndrome (TMJ), balance problems, effects of trauma and a host of other disorders. Today, a variety of health professionals perform craniosacral work, including osteopaths, chiropractors, acupuncturists and physical therapists.

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Circulation Problems

August 2nd, 2008

Treating Cold Hands and Feet Gingerly

For a winter warmer, try drinking ginger tea before gomg outside in those coldest winter months, or take a 500-mg ginger capsule in the morning. Benefits to circulation accrue over time, not right away, so ginger is a good habit to get into.

In addition to taking supplements, try using it as a seasoning in vegetables and soups-or stir a slice into your tea.

Treat with Good Hands- Your Own

Borrowing a tip from Ayurvedic healers of India, you can give your circulation (and possibly your immune system) a boost with self­massage, using sesame oil. This self-massage is said to promote energy flow by stimulating certain points on the body that are similar to acupuncture points. Using sesame oil adds an antioxidant boost.

Here’s how to perform the self-massage:

Fill a squeeze bottle with sesame oil and plunge it into a sinkful of hot tap water to warm it.

Strip down, place a towel over a chair and sit down.

Massage the oil into your skin, from the head down. Use the balls, not heels, of the hands as your applicators (that is the place where the fingers meet your palms). Make smooth, long strokes down the arms and legs, circular rubs over your head, joints, abdomen and chest. Avoid the genitals, and use long strokes over as much of the back as you can reach. Spend extra time on toes and

A Hot, Hot Soak

Chase away the winter chills with a well-seasoned bath. Stir a teaspoon or two of cayenne pepper or spicy ginger powder into your bath­water and soak.

One warning: The oils in cayenne and ginger will generate heat in the water which could make the bath too hot to handle if mixed with very warm water.

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Concussion

July 12th, 2008

Flower Remedy to the Rescue

If you or a family member suffers a minor concussion, or a wicked tennis ball to the head or similar sports injury, you might try a flower­ based medicine known as Rescue Remedy. Developed by Edward Bach about 100 years ago, flower remedies are not quite herbal and not quite homeopathic. Yet they combine the flower essences and pure water into medicine.

Rescue Remedy is a combination of five such flower remedies, and it is one of the most commonly cited treatments in the first-aid kits of herbalists and naturopaths. It has even been known to help people who have suffered shock. Follow directions on the eye-dropper bottle. The remedy is available at most health food and natural food stores, as well as herb shops.

Note: Neurologists believe there’s no such thing as a “slight” concussion. Head injuries are serious and should be diagnosed appropriately.

Magnetic Infrared Therapy for Pain Relief

Much more advanced in Japan than in the US, magnetic therapy-using small magnets to effect changes in energy in the body-has been shown to offer relief to patients who have suffered concussions and other forms of serious head trauma. The common treatment requires the patient to sleep on a mattress that has waferlike magnets stitched into the fabric.

Often used in combination with “far infrared” light, the two modalities purportedly complement one another to change the flow of lymph and other bodily fluids to speed healing.

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