Foods and Recipes to Boost Your Metabolism and Improve Health
2024-03-01 15:00:00
An efficient metabolism is crucial for our health and well-being. It not only affects our weight, but also energy levels and mood. Luckily, there are a variety of foods and recipes that boost your metabolism and taste delicious.
Which foods stimulate metabolism?
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Green tea: Contains secondary plant substances, namely catechins, which stimulate metabolism and can improve fat metabolism.
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Chili: The substance capsaicin contained in chilies increases body temperature, which leads to a temporary increase in energy consumption.
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Ginger: Has anti-inflammatory properties and promotes blood circulation, which can have a positive effect on metabolism.
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Citrus fruits: Rich in vitamin C, they support the production of carnitine, a molecule that plays a role in fat metabolism.
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Coffee: The caffeine it contains can boost metabolism and increase fat burning.
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Water: Adequate hydration is crucial for an efficient metabolism and supports all metabolic processes in the body.
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Unraveling the Enigmas of the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution with Rafael Yuste
2024-03-01 10:32:00
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Madrid (EFE).- It is “the sanctuary of the mind”, where people’s personality and identity reside, but the brain is also “the black corner of medicine”, the only organ whose functioning has not yet been deciphered , although the latest advances place neuroscience before a “revolution”.
The arguments are from the Spanish neurobiologist Rafael Yuste, professor and director of the Center for Neurotechnology at Columbia University (United States) and one of the main promoters of the “Brain” project, which was promoted by the administration of Barack Obama and has continued by those of Donald Trump and Joe Biden even involve 550 laboratories around the world with a budget of around $6 billion.
He interrupts the teaching and research activity that he has carried out for twenty years in the United States to present in Madrid the report that he has prepared – at the request of the Congress of Deputies – together with twenty other experts in neuroscience, neurotechnology and bioethics on advances in neuroscience and the ethical implications they have, and analyzes these progress and challenges in an interview with EFE.
Rafael Yuste describes how neurotechnology is already helping to treat Alzheimer’s,
sometimes there is suddenly a chance of recovery
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Terminally ill? New treatments offer some groups of patients with metastatic cancer the prospect of recovery. This raises new uncertainties – for patients and doctors.
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It used to be simple for us healthcare providers, says Eric Geijteman, internist-oncologist at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. Geijteman conducts research into end-of-life care. “If the condition of someone with metastatic cancer deteriorated, we knew that the patient would die in the foreseeable future. We could then organize care accordingly.”
New therapies
Nowadays, other promising cancer treatments such as immune and targeted therapies are also available for some patients. “So not for all patients,” Geijteman underlines. “To date, only chemotherapy can be given for some forms of metastatic cancer, such as pancreatic cancer. For other forms of cancer, such as metastatic lung cancer, colon cancer and melanoma – a specific skin cancer – these promising therapies can be used under certain circumstances.”
Geijteman and several colleagues published an article about the successes of these treatments in the scientific journal The British Medical Journal. Immunotherapy stimulates the body’s own immune system to eliminate cancer cells itself.
In vitro diagnostic medical devices, expression of interest from EU reference laboratories
The European Commission has the power to designate one or more European Union reference laboratories – EURLs for devices or for a specific category or group of devices, or for specific risks relating to a category or group of devices.
The laboratories that can be designated must meet the criteria indicated in paragraph 4 of Article 100 of Regulation (EU) 2017/746.
The European Commission may designate, by means of implementing acts, only laboratories for which a Member State has submitted an application for designation.
After the designation of first 5 laboratories occurred in December 2023 for the categories of class D devices Hepatitis and retroviruses, Herpesviruses, Bacterial agents and Respiratory viruses causing potentially lethal diseases, the Commission, in agreement with the Member States, is evaluating the possibility of evaluating new applications for the 4 categories of class D devices for which reference laboratories have not yet been designated.
The 4 categories I am:
Arbovirus hemorrhagic fever and other biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) parasite blood group viruses.
Presentation of expressions of interest
To this end, the European Commission has invited Member States to collect expressions of interest from laboratories present on their territory.
Researchers Discover Two Distinct Types of Prostate Cancer, Paving the Way for Targeted Treatment
The most prevalent form of prostate cancer has been found to have two distinct pathways of development within the body, offering new avenues for identifying which patients require treatment. Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer among men, with one in eight individuals diagnosed during their lifetime. Majority of these cases involve adenocarcinomas, which are cancers that arise in the glandular tissue lining certain internal organs.
Identifying Aggressive Prostate Cancers
Efforts to address prostate cancer focus on recognizing the 15% of men who will develop more aggressive cancers capable of spreading to other organs and resulting in mortality. According to Professor David Wedge from Manchester Cancer Research Centre, “If we can identify those men, we can give them more robust treatment…and you can leave alone the other 85% of men.” This approach proves beneficial as surgery itself entails various side effects.
A Novel Classification System
Professor Wedge and his colleagues claim to have devised a novel system for classifying adenocarcinomas that could aid in identifying patients requiring targeted treatment. In their study published in Cell Genomics journal, they sequenced the genomes from 159 prostate cancer patients with adenocarcinoma. Subsequently, utilizing three diverse approaches—including artificial intelligence—they analyzed genome patterns encompassing DNA damage and chronological sequence of specific genetic alterations.
Going strong? Do you produce results at a tight pace and with a heavy heart rate? Are you having trouble sleeping? Get to know the experts point of view to relieve overexcitement 2024-03-01 15:27:13
Dreams are usually short, but you managed to take advantage of the winner’s hour, didn’t you? And some just endure and endure more than others… When was the last time you stopped to really listen to your own body? How does your own body feel when it is really relaxed? When was the last time you woke up rested and refreshed?
Do you have trouble falling asleep? Or do you wake up at night and it’s difficult to fall asleep, when your thoughts start spinning, keeping watch until the morning? Salla Salo has been a physical therapist for almost thirty years and he sees one pandemic getting worse every year. You could call it a “performance pandemic”. This is a problem on both an individual and societal level, and yet not many people seem to be worried about it.
– For many people I meet, their whole life seems to be some kind of performance, in which all possible aspects are measured. You should be “the best possible version of yourself” or at least “give your all” and be as efficient and planned as possible 24/7, says Salla, who specializes in psychophysical physiotherapy.
Psychophysical physiotherapist Salla Salo works as an entrepreneur at Focus:IN’s wellness studio;
Diabetes is on the rise and by 2030, 20% more cases are expected in Spain
Madrid, February 21 (EFE).- More than one and a half million people suffer from undiagnosed diabetes in Spain, and according to estimates by the Spanish Diabetes Federation (Fede), cases will have increased by 20% in 2030 and by 45 % in 2045 as a result of widespread changes in diet and lifestyle.
At a press conference to present the report “The silent epidemic: effects of the lack of education in diabetes”, the president of Fede, Juan Francisco Perán, pointed out that one in seven Spaniards lives with this disease, which has a prevalence of 14, 8%, the second highest in Europe, and where adherence to treatment is key to reducing complications such as diabetic retinopathy, cardiovascular conditions and kidney disease.
For this reason, the report, framed in the campaign “Don’t turn your back on diabetes”, calls for attention to the administrations in the implementation of education and prevention programs for this disease, so that the patient is adherent to treatment, complications are reduced and health expenditure is reduced.
Perán has stressed that diabetes is a chronic disease, so adherence must be constant, “in order to keep the patient out of danger for as long as possible,” and this is achieved with diabetes education “continued over time.” and quality”.
Genetic Characteristics of Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents: A Breakthrough Study
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes, known as adult-onset disease, in people under the age of 20 is increasing. Looking at data from the Health Insurance Review and Evaluation Service, the number of patients under 20 diagnosed with diabetes in 2022 is 13,918, an increase of approximately 26% compared to 2018 (11,061). While the number of patients with type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents is increasing, the results of a study that confirmed for the first time that type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents has genetic characteristics are attracting attention. different from those of adults.
Results of the world’s largest genome analysis of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents announced | Source: Getty Image Bank
Type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents has different genetic characteristics than in adults
On the 28th, a joint research team including Professor Sooheon Kwak of Seoul National University Hospital and Professor Jason Planik of Boston Children’s Hospital, as well as Harvard and MIT, announced the results of a study that analyzed the genomes of 3,005 children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes and identified their genetic characteristics.
Type 2 diabetes is a disease in which the ability to control blood sugar decreases and the blood glucose concentration becomes higher than normal.
FP Kaniak: Rauch welcomes the World Rare Disease Day with a death commission | Freedom Parliamentary Club 2024-03-01 15:01:21
Vienna (OTS) – “The amateur actors in the black and green smear theater don’t stop at suffering patients. A law was already passed last year with which an ‘evaluation board’ is to be installed under the Green Health Minister Rauch, which will decide who is ‘worthy’ of expensive therapy and who is not – a kind of death commission in the Ministry of Health,” said today the Liberal Health Spokesperson and Chairman of the Parliamentary Health Committee NAbg. Mag. Gerhard I’m sorry.
Instead of improving the situation for patients, an evaluation committee bound by instructions now decides whether the situation is better or worse. In addition, the interests of the patients in this commission are only represented by one person from the patient advocacy group and that without the right to vote.” But the “icing on the cake” is that apparently just three of the 25 members can demonstrate pharmaceutical or medical expertise. But this is not the end of the impossibilities, because access to vital therapies can be delayed for months,” explained Kaniak.
“The decision-making authority for treatment must still lie freely and independently in the hands of the hospitals and the treating doctors.