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02 Mar

Modern lifestyles and erectile dysfunction

Posted in Healthy Lifestyle on 02.03.10 by Merlyn

There has been a growing phenomenon around the developed world. The birth rate has been falling quite steeply and, in some countries, the average is only marginally above one child per woman. This is not enough to maintain the population in balance. Over time, societies will age and there will not be enough young to pay the taxes to fund healthcare. This change is a direct result of a major cultural shift. Our lifestyles now delay parenthood or postpone it altogether. Ignoring the long-term social risks, there is a more immediate problem. Such medical evidence as there is suggests the problem of erectile dysfunction is growing more common. The reason for this is the redefinition of what it means to be a biological man and woman. Go back fifty years and you find yourself in a time warp that has lasted thousands of years. Men go out to work and the women stay home and have babies. Originally, this was men go out to hunt leaving women to clean the cave. But the spirit of the gender roles has remained consistent over the centuries. But all that changed as the 1950’s turned into the 1960’s. A revolution was coming.

Today, we all understand the force of the words, “feminism”, “gender equality” and “sexual discrimination”. The men running government fifty years ago had no idea what was coming. Now, the cultural dominance enjoyed by men over the centuries is under threat from more confident women. They no longer see their roles as baby factories and homemakers. They demand equality and make career choices that delay child-bearing until later in life. This adds to the stress of modern living. Now consider two other factors. Men are becoming increasingly overweight. This has a direct effect on sexual performance as high cholesterol blocks the arteries and unfitness reduces the stamina for sexual activity. Further, sexual performance slowly weakens over time. If men are expected to wait longer before producing children, the pressure on performance increases and anxiety can induce erectile dysfunction.

It is going to take time for men to adjust to this new cultural landscape in which women are more assertive in all aspects of life. When it was always up to the man to make the running, everything could go at his pace and match his comfort levels. A woman demanding more immediate sexual satisfaction is disconcerting to the older man. The new generation of men who grow up in this new reality will be better attuned to its demands. This leaves viagra as the standard support for aging men. When performance comes under pressure and the fear of inadequacy saps confidence, this drug preserves self-esteem and enables a hard erection in reply to sexual stimulation. It is fortunate this drug came on the market when it did. Feminism was strongest during the 1970’s and early 1980’s and then there was a slight plateau. Viagra has appeared just as the drive for greater equality has resumed with new force. So long as women persist in their drive to delay conception, the birth rate will continue to fall and society will grow older. But men will be better able to rise to the occasion when women do finally decide the time is right to conceive. Thanks to the little blue pill, humanity will continue.

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25 Feb

Skin Care Products

Posted in Uncategorized on 25.02.10 by Merlyn

One of the most biggest problem especially for women is aging. Aging means you will lose your skinny face and your pigment will decrease. That surely will make you look like zombie. That is why we need some skin care products to help use taking care and prevent aging.

People have tried to develop all kinds of beauty products since past 10 years. From the simplest wrinkle cream to the newest anti aging serum. It is why now beauty products have been developed so fast. The high demand of these kinds of products make people rapidly create products with effective and natural ingredients. The products will be effectively work depend on the problems people are having now. There is no product which can solve all problems at once. For example, if you have problem with dark spots then you should get beauty products for dark spots.

When you are going to choose for the products, you should take a look at the ingredients that build them. It’s not impossible if there are some products which contain banned ingredients. So be careful or you will get more troubles instead of getting more beautiful. The easiest way to choose the products is by getting products which are popular and mostly people use. I would like to suggest you dermajuv skin care products which contain of safest and the newest ingredients.

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20 Feb

What is the best way of treating sports injuries?

Posted in Healthy Lifestyle on 20.02.10 by Merlyn

The injuries we pick up when playing sports fall into two main classes. In contact sports, there are serious risks of broken bones, torn tendons or ligaments, or strains. The other less physical sports leave it to the players to damage themselves by repeating the same muscle movements excessively. So tennis, badminton and squash players find repetitive strain injury to their elbows. Runners damage their knees. Focussing on the muscle injuries, strains and tears always have the same pattern. You damage the tissue in the muscles or ligaments, and this produces inflammation. Pain, swelling and loss of function follow. For a professional athlete, being unable to turn out for the team or to play the next big tournament can have serious financial implications. Doctors who specialize in sports injuries are therefore employed by all the top teams in football, baseball and soccer. The plan is always to get the stars back on the field again as quickly as possible. Except this can be controversial because, sometimes, treatment is accelerated for a particular match rather than for the benefit of the player’s long-term career. Many top players have had their careers cut short by knee injuries when their teams owner’s were too ambitious for success.

The inflammation is actually the first stage in the healing process. It encourages the growth of scar tissue that binds the torn tissue back together again. Doctors interfere in this natural cycle. The problem is simple. The average cycle of inflammation lasts about five days but, sometimes, it can go on too long and this delays the resumption of training. Thus, the first response is rest during the one or two days following injury. Therapies vary. Pick from heat, cold, compression, elevation and, where money is no object, the use of expensive technology like hyperbaric chambers. Drugs can be used to dull the pain, reduce the inflammation and so speed up the healing process. If the player is finding the affected muscles tensing up, skelaxin is the standard response the relax the affected muscles.

It’s important to understand that painkillers, anti-inflammatories and muscle relaxants do not treat the injury itself. Their only effect is to make you more comfortable during the initial phase of the healing process. Assuming surgery is not indicated for a more serious injury, say to the knee, your body will (slowly) heal itself. Except, of course, where money, status or pride is involved, people will spend the money and invest the time to improve on the natural process. Although everyone should always wait before resuming training, the passion and commitment that makes good players into the best also drives them to take shortcuts. So, with the help of skelaxin during the resting phase, the player can slowly move on to stretching exercises and, initially, gentle exercise to regain mobility in the affected area. It’s best if no painkillers are used. Pain is a very useful warning you are trying too hard. There’s a serious risk you will aggravate the injury if you resume full training too early. Unless there’s a particular reason why you have to play, you should only move through the training regime at a safe pace. The risk of long-term damage and even longer layoffs is waiting to overtake you. In all this, you should be guided by your doctor and physical therapist. Assuming they are offering independent advice, they should guide you back to a long and successful playing career (whether as a professional or an amateur).

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13 Feb

Your eyesight is not at risk

Posted in Healthy Lifestyle on 13.02.10 by Merlyn

When I was growing up, my parents and other adults took up the challenge of trying to educate me in the ways of sex. It was dangerous work, but someone had to do it. One of the first pieces of advice that stuck concerned the activity of masturbation. Although no-one would give me a demonstration of what this thing was, I was led to understand that too much of it and I would go blind. Naturally, being of a stubborn disposition, I decided to keep the activity going, hoping I was only risking one eye. This is a classic use of fear and guilt to encourage people to modify their behavior. It came alongside a similar warning that watching too much television was also bad for my eyesight. Apparently, the cathode ray tube gave off radiation that would rot the lenses and turn my retinas to jelly. Or was it that my retinas were a kind of jelly and, as with a microwave, they would be cooked and stop admitting light. The details are hazy but the message was clear. The combination of television and sex were bad for the eyesight.

Coming forward to the new century and the FDA began to receive reports through the post-marketing monitoring program that some men were experiencing problems with their eyesight when using the little blue pills. Because they were blue pills, the men claimed their vision was tinged with blue and sometimes blurry. Actually, I made that up. The men made no such claim but their vision was tinged with blue. The reason was that PDE6 changes the way the retina works and the little blue pills are designed to affect PDE5 which is in the penis. Unfortunately, the pill is not always specific, what with sex and eyes being so closely connected.

At first, this was not thought to be a serious problem but it became so when one or two men reported actual vision loss. In a billion dollar US market, the notion that men may go blind is dangerous to future sales, so an immediate new clinical trial was ordered. Well, men can relax again (except after taking the pill, of course). This October has seen the publication of the report from a six month trial. In a double-blind, randomized trial, two-thirds of the participants took the real drug and one-third took a placebo. At the end of six months, there was no measurable difference in the eyesight of the participants in both groups. Allowing for natural ageing, their eyesight was unchanged from start to finish.

It’s a little ironic after all these years to see real panic at the notion that too much sex using viagra will make you go blind. My parents would have appreciated the temporary support to their own threats relating to masturbation. Although I do admit to having to wear spectacles these days, I am no different from the millions of older men. We Boomers wear our fading eyesight with pride. Despite all the sex over the years, we have managed to make it this far with only minor short-sightedness. With a little help from viagra when our muscles tire, we can expect to enjoy many more years of sex (or, at least, we can all risk one eye with that aim in mind).

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13 Feb

Never lie about having acne

Posted in Healthy Lifestyle on 13.02.10 by Merlyn

Medicalization is a wonderful newish word. It means the process of taking a natural condition and convincing people that it’s a disease to be treated and cured by the medical profession. Once a condition is medicalized, the pharmaceutical industry can sell drugs, doctors and hospitals can charge fees. The cash registers just keep on ringing up the profits. Once this happens, there’s a kind of bandwagon effect. The condition suddenly becomes a lot more serious. It’s now a disorder or disease. For health insurance companies, it’s a pre-existing condition.

Now there’s a funny thing about health insurance companies. They are never shy about coming forward with new reasons for not paying out on their policies. One of their classic excuses is the “disclosure” rule. The law sounds quite reasonable. If you are sitting in your office and never get to meet the person applying for a health plan, you have to rely on the honesty of what the person says when you decide whether to write the policy. It’s a sad fact that some people are less than honest when they apply for policies. They forget the heart problem and declare themselves fit and healthy. Insurance companies therefore need the right to rescind the policy – to cancel it if the applicant failed to disclose information needed to assess the risk.

So now we come to the case of Otto Raddatz who, courtesy of his sister, became a famous victim after his death. She testified to a Senate committee about what happened and the story, in suitably dramatic form, was later picked up by President Obama in support of his campaign for healthcare reform. The facts are easy to state. Here was a man lining up to get surgery for cancer. The hospital appointment was booked when, surprise, the insurance company decided to rescind the policy. Why? Because Otto had failed to disclose the fact he had acne as a teen! This was a serious pre-existing condition and likely an indicator he would get cancer later in his life. His failure to disclose it justified rescission. Well, fortunately, his sister was an attorney and she got the state attorney general on the job. Six weeks later, the insurer reinstated the policy and Otto got his operation. This gave him six more years of life.

It’s sometimes odd to see how the world works. The medical profession goes to great trouble to convince everyone that acne is a disease. The pharmaceutical industry sells us accutane which is an almost always effective treatment, clearing the skin and restoring beauty during the first period of treatment. And then insurance companies accept this medicalization and require people applying for policies to disclose acne as a pre-existing condition. This is a logical and predictable progression. If doctors say acne is a disease, it must be a pre-existing condition and everyone should disclose it when they apply for health insurance! Do not be deceived! The Illinois attorney general does not fight for everyone. Otto was lucky that his sister was an attorney with the right political connections. So never lie about having acne! The risk of rescission is real. And while you have acne, rely on accutane, the sure-fire way of solving the problem.

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08 Feb

What are the alternatives to sleeping pills?

Posted in Healthy Lifestyle on 08.02.10 by Merlyn

Every year, come September, the European Sleep Research Society holds its annual conference. It attracts experts from around the world, all of whom want to catch up with the latest research into one of the least well understood things we all do. Despite the best efforts of top brains in the scientific world, we still do not know why we sleep nor what processes take place during sleep to benefit us. There are many theories about the need to dream as a form of memory processing, of sleep as a means of topping up the immune system to keep us safe from diseases, and so on. But there is only one thing everyone can agree on. Disrupt sleep and we all walk around like zombies. Keep up the disruption and the function of both mind and body starts to break down. Yet even at this point, there can be disagreement.

Some people enjoy untroubled and successful lives on four or five hours of sleep every night. Others seem to need not less than nine hours a night to remain functional. In part, the ability to adapt to less sleep seems to be partly genetic and partly learned. In some, the need for sleep reduces as they age. The conclusion is clear. There is no right or wrong length of time to sleep. As you grow up and develop habit patterns, you will settle on a routine that works for you and your lifestyle. You should ignore advice setting precise sleep targets, e.g. everyone needs an average of eight hours a night. If you are fit and well, you are sleeping enough.

If you are not fit and well, and the cause is disruption to your usual sleep patterns, then action should be taken. But before you reach for the sleeping pills, take a moment to think. What is disrupting your sleep? If your sleeping environment has changed so there is more light or noise, you should buy heavier curtains to keep out the light and soundproof the room. If you are uncomfortable because of changes in temperature, change the bedding and do something about heating or the air-conditioning. These simple steps may restore sleep without you having to do anything else. But if the causes are physical, e.g. you have developed a disease or disorder causing pain and this keeps you awake, you should investigate treatment for that problem and take painkillers rather than rely on sleeping pills. Similarly, if you are stressed and depressed, treatment to relieve the stress and reduce the depression should be the first step.

None of this removes the need for a drug like ambien. It is the market leader for a good reason. It is a highly effective and safe treatment for insomnia. But it is not a drug you should take over the long term. If at all possible, you should try to recapture the old habits of sleep without becoming dependent on pills. The best modern research confirms cognitive behavioral therapy achieves the best outcomes, but health plans often do not pay for it and it can be too expensive for private sessions. So, to recover balance in your life, buy ambien and use it for a short period, changing your sleeping arrangements to maximise the chances of sleep the natural way.

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08 Feb

Stop worrying about ED for good

Posted in Healthy Lifestyle on 08.02.10 by Merlyn

Erectile Dysfunction is defined as consistent problem in achieving and maintaining an erection suitable for successful penetrative sex. Erectile dysfunction is also known as male impotence. But having this problem rarely doesn’t mean you have ED. One of the factors is consistency, and if a person experiences erection problems in more than a quarter of his overall sexual activities that can be called impotence.

It is easy to be sexually motivated. Sexually stimulated is easy to be too. But to lead your own body to an erection is something people with erectile dysfunction issue are incapable of. We can’t control the way our body works mainly because we are not programmed robots. If we were that it would be ideal for us as we would give different commands to ourselves and experience only joy. But this is life and we are humans. Human have lots of health troubles. Erectile dysfunction is one of those misfortunate circumstances that men meet on their way.

Erectile dysfunction is not a one-minute event that just occurred. It is something that has been around always and men wanted to overcome this problem many centuries. There are multiple medical solutions of erectile malfunctioning. Some of them can be collected in the fields (herbs), but most of them should be purchased from a drug-store. Some people prefer to do yoga and extreme surgeries that place implants in penis but that is all unnecessary because one pill should be enough to solve the erectile dysfunction issue every night you want to have sex. When we hear the word “pill” we tend to get a little cautious. We imagine having side-effects or lack of the result. But before these thoughts enter your head – stop them. Nowadays market is full of erectile dysfunction pills that are totally safe and efficient.

Most of the drugs that are present on the US market are FDA approved. They are to be consumed orally or be injected directly into the reproductive organ of the man. We want to tell you about the number one selling erectile dysfunction fighter in the country – it carries the name: Cialis.

Cialis is the longest lasting erectile tablet that is meant for men that are unable to maintain sexual act and perform an orgasm. It is for those who stopped receiving sexual pleasure and want to add some romantic feel to the process of love making. The recommended dose of Cialis is 10mg. The pill should be taken 30 minutes before the intercourse. The effectiveness of the medication is unbelievable as it can still be effective 36 hours after the pill consumption. Pretty incredible that is, isn’t it?

But you should understand that this is serious medication. Don’t think you can purchase it just to try out. It has some side-effects that you might not want to experience. Usually Cialis is available with a prescription and we would advice you to visit a doctor, have a good long chat with him and decide whether you should or should not order the drug. If happen to choose between the brand and generic variant of the remedy it is always better to go for the generic version. But don’t think they make the world of difference. They will both help you significantly and lift your spirits up high when it comes to sex. Sex is supposed to bring you pleasure; don’t ever make yourself believe anything else.

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04 Feb

If in pain, stroke a dog

Posted in Healthy Lifestyle on 04.02.10 by Merlyn

If you ask any cat or dog owner, they will tell the animals are one of the family. Talk to them for a while and they will strike you as happy and well-adjusted. This might not seem significant but continuing medical research has detected a significant trend. This is not just your neighbor. It’s the majority of people who keep a pet. The most recent piece of research was presented to the International Society of Anthrozoology conference held in Kansas City this October by a team from Loyola University of Chicago.

They were testing the hypothesis that the use of dogs in a hospital environment would represent a beneficial therapy, promoting faster healing and a better rehabilitation following joint replacement surgery. Some of you will be convinced that dogs are the equivalent of disease carriers and believe they should never be allowed into a hopefully relatively sterile hospital. After all, dogs are barred from most eating places. Allowing animals into public spaces is a balancing of risks and benefits. Hospitals are not as clean as we might believe and dogs do not make what is often a bad situation any worse. In fact, their presence is proving to be great therapy and the benefits of admission now significantly outweigh keeping them out.

The team was using a number of dogs specially trained to respond positively to patients. Each animal has been taught some 40 different commands and will respond with behavior likely to soothe a patient or to motive his or her to resume movement. The exploits a fairly common reaction in humans to stroke dogs. Many of them found the feeling of fingers running on and through fur to be relaxing. When the dogs also appear to show appreciation, bonding takes place quickly and patients feel happier. Pets are stress busters. Even more significantly, this research confirms that patients going through rehabilitation with dogs healed more quickly and used 50% less painkillers than a control group who relied on human therapists for counseling and support. Regular monitoring found the pets lowered the heart rate and blood pressure of their human companions.

It’s easy to sneer at research like this, feeling people who get sappy over dogs are strange in all kinds of ways. Yet this research is not unique. There have been many studies with similar findings. The real point of interest in the latest trial is the finding that patients who are not pet owners benefit after only one period of interaction with a dog. This research does not, of course, suggest people should recover from serious surgery without the use of some painkillers. Tramadol will remain the standard drug for pain management. But the finding that people recover more quickly using less medication is encouraging. No matter how good tramadol, it’s better to use it only over the short term. Having a pet is clearly a good move.

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04 Feb

Always have a medical check-up if you have erectile dysfunction

Posted in Healthy Lifestyle on 04.02.10 by Merlyn

One of the problems for anyone taking an interest in health matters is to keep everything in proportion. Wherever you look, it can look as if there is bad news. It’s easy to get down. So all new information has to be carefully balanced before deciding whether to act on it. Let’s start with a piece in this December’s issue of European Urology. A team in Italy recruited some 350 men aged between 18 and 60 all of whom had been diagnosed with some degree of male infertility which includes a range of sexual problems from erectile dysfunction, failure to ejaculate, low sperm counts, and so on. These men were measured over time against a similar number of fertile men with an active sex life. The results make slightly depressing reading. There is evidence that men who have sexual problems, no matter what the cause, are more likely to encounter serious health problems. The study specifically excluded cancer because the study did not run long enough to determine the odds of men being diagnosed with malignant growths. But, using the Charlson Comorbidity Index, men with fertility problems were more prone to the 22 serious disorders listed in the Index. This research goes further than simply linking infertility to heart disease. It predicts men with infertility problems will die significantly younger than men with full fertility unless they receive fairly aggressive preventative treatment.

Before we all get panicky, we need to understand the significance of the results. This is a small sample study. With a total of less than 700 men participating, this is not sufficiently significant to scale up the results to the whole population. Thousands of participants are required before a statistical link can be made to general trends. But this is a wake-up call to the research community. If large-scale trials confirm this finding, it will require a major rethink about the significance of all types of male infertility as predictors of more serious health problems to come. The current guidelines given to all doctors is to treat all men reporting erectile dysfunction as heart patients until the negative is proved. That means the moment you walk through the door, you will be asked for blood and urine samples, and subjected to a battery of tests to eliminate heart disease. The extent of this testing could become really intensive if the Italians are proved correct.

The moral of this research is simple. Erectile dysfunction can be the first symptom of one of a number of serious disorders and diseases. So, although you could just buy cialis online and self-medicate, the risk is not worth it. You should always go and have a full check-up. If your doctor gives you a clean bill of health, the cialis will cure your immediate problems. But if evidence of potential serious illness is found, you just saved your life. This is your choice. Restore your erections for a short time or extend your life by a decade and more by having early treatment for those otherwise fatal diseases and disorders. Yes, this may well mean spending money – those pesky health insurance policies often exclude consultations and the treatment of erectile dysfunction. But spending money or making those copayments could be the best value-for-money deal you can make.

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03 Feb

What is the reality of pain management?

Posted in Healthy Lifestyle on 03.02.10 by Merlyn

For these purposes, we need to start off with a basic definition. Pain is nothing more than a message sent by the affected part of your body to the brain saying you are injured. It’s useful when it first alerts you to an injury or disease. It’s a problem in its own right when it will not shut down and let you get on with your life. Doctors distinguish between two types of pain: acute pain is where an injury or illness can be cured so the pain will slowly fade as the treatment of the cause takes effect, and chronic pain where the injury or disorder will continue to cause you pain over a long period of time. It’s not so hard to remain optimistic and positive when the pain is acute. You know you will get better. It’s a different psychological battle when the pain is chronic. This is life-changing and many people react by feeling some degree of depression.

In an ideal world, everyone suffering from chronic pain would be given personal attention. Specialists from all the different areas of medicine would form a team to investigate your condition and then prescribe the best set of responses. Unfortunately, this is not possible. The career path for physicians assumes the best will become specialists and rise through the ranks to lead a team of specialists. Status will be decided by the number of people in the team or department the doctor ends up running. For pain management to work effectively, this structure of separate kingdoms has to be dismantled and everyone works together in teams centered on individual patient needs. No more empire building and politics. Doctors supply the most effective treatments based on a diagnosis of the underlying cause of the pain. Take back pain as an example. If the hospital works together, the relevant tests can be performed. Let’s assume the cause is found to be a herniated disk. The recommended treatment is a steroid injection and physical therapy. A caring hospital might also throw in some counseling and support to encourage the patient to make the best possible recovery. In this model, diagnosis drives the choice of treatment. In the world now, the doctors first choice of action is a painkiller to relieve your suffering. No doubt this could be seen as caring. In reality, it’s the most cost-effective way of persuading the patient to go home and allows the hospital to claim the maximum amount from the health insurance company. A separate pain management department in a hospital is labor intensive and less profitable. They do exist but only in a few cities.

This leaves pain management in the hands of the pharmaceutical industry. Fortunately, the research and development teams have come up with a world’s best painkiller. It’s called tramadol – one of the so-called opiates which gives you good pain relief without many of the adverse side effects from a full opiate. A vast amount of practical experience proves this drug gives effective relief from moderate to severe pain. If you are facing chronic pain, buy tramadol online and find an improvement to your life. But always remember you should not become dependent on any drug. Ignoring the expense of buying these pills for the rest of your life, there are physical costs in using drugs over long periods of time. There are better ways of managing your pain without drugs.

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