Posted on November 24, 2009, 8:10 am, by libertees, under Uncategorized.
For couples undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF), pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a procedure undertaken to screen the embryos for a host of genetic diseases and disorders to ensure the delivery of a healthy baby. PGD helps physicians to identify some genetic defects within the embryo, prior to implantation, before the pregnancy is established. The couple can then decide whether or not they want to continue with the pregnancy. The procedure was first conducted in 1988 and since then this technology is increasingly being used in in the United States.
PGD is normally recommended for couples where one or both of the parents are a known carrier of a genetic disease such as hemophilia. The procedure involves the removal of one or two cells from an embryo which are then screened for genetic abnormalities. PGD identifies the embryos with chromosome abnormalities, thereby avoiding their transfer during an in vitro fertilization procedure. The analysis helps to detect certain inherited or chromosomal diseases such as Down syndrome, Thalassemia, cystic fibrosis, hemophilia A, Tay-Sachs disease, and Turner syndrome among others, prior to implantation.
Most fertility clinics offer PGD in select cases such as:
Women over the age of 35 who have had miscarriages or failed attempts at becoming pregnant through IVF
Women who have repeated pregnancy loss due to genetic disorders or who already have one child with a genetic problem
Any couple who have been unable to become pregnant through multiple IVF cycles
Couples who wish to identify a tissue match for a sick sibling who can be cured with transplanted cells
For couples who are at risk of passing on serious inheritable genetic diseases to their offspring, a diagnosis before embarking on a pregnancy is preferable to medically invasive, emotionally demanding prenatal diagnostic techniques. However couples with genetic disorders should receive adequate counseling about the risks of misdiagnosis and the possibility of no diagnosis before going in for PGD.
California,offers a wide range of infertility treatments along with expert medical counseling to couples facing difficulty in conceiving. Under the guidance of Dr. Ellen U. Snowden, Medical Director and Reproductive Endocrinologist, medical staff at East Bay provides dedicated treatment for infertility and reproductive endocrine issues.
At the center, PGD is offered as an option to couples who are at high risk of passing on a genetic disease to their children. The Center’s IVF experience and access to advanced genetic testing and counseling holds the promise of increasing the probability of a successful pregnancy outcome from an in vitro fertilization procedure and reducing the incidence of genetic disease. The use of this advanced genetic testing procedure allows only normal embryos to be transferred back into the uterus, providing a much better chance of achieving a full-term pregnancy with chromosomally healthy embryos.
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Posted on November 21, 2009, 9:45 am, by libertees, under Uncategorized.
Yeast infection is the colonization of yeast fungi in body areas in such an amount and such a way that damages or symptoms are produced. Usually the yeast invades only body cavities and the lining of these cavities, but can in serious cases grow into deeper tissue layers.
Yeasts very often infect the vagina and outer female genitals. It also often occurs in the mouth, and is then called trash. The male genitals may be infected, but usually with fewer symptoms. There can also be an infective over-growth of yeast in the digestive tract, skin areas and the nose. Small children often get afflicted in the diapered area, and this is commonly called diaper rash. Diaper rash can also be caused by irritation from urine or stool, from food allergy, from allergy against washing media, or from a combination of several factors.
Sometimes these microorganisms attack several body areas at the same time, such a systemic infection is often called candidiatis. A systemic yeast infection can develop into a serious condition where the yeast invades deeper layers of the skin, the deeper tissues of several organs and even the blood stream.
The systemic variant usually occurs in patients with bad immune defense, like HIV patients, diabetics or patients weakened by systostatic or steroid medication.
CAUSES OF THE DISEASE
Usually species of the genus Candida, and especially the species Candida albicans, are the infective agents. These yeasts are normally found in the body, but the amount is held down by the normal body chemistry by friendly bacteria inhabiting the skin and body cavities, for example bacteria producing lactic acid (the genus Lactobacillus). When the yeast become infectious, it often changes from a round cellular form to a thread-like or branched form that can grow into tissues.
A disturbed bacterial flora in the skin and body cavities can make it easier for the yeast to grow excessively and infect. The skin, the outer genitals and body cavities like the mouth, vagina, and the colon contain the bacterium types Bifidobacteria and Lactobacteria, and these bacteria hold the growth of the yeast in check.
Use of antibiotics can kill these friendly bacteria and make it easier for the yeast to grow. A too eager use of antibiotics in children can cause a chronic overgrowth of yeasts in the body that will affect the health negatively long into adulthood.
Use of corticosteriods can also make a person susceptible for attack. Asthma patients using inhaled coricosteroids often get afflicted in the oral cavity.
A too eager hygiene, using bacterial killers, can kill friendly bacteria and cause a yeast attack to occur. However, lack of washing can also cause yeast infection.
If skin areas are constantly held wet or sweaty, Candida infections can easily occur, for example in diapered areas of small children or feet covered by tight shoes during long walks.
A diet with an excess of sugar and other carbohydrates may nourish the yeast and cause an infective growth of the yeast.
Mental and physical stress can decrease the effect of the immune defense against yeasts and make a person more susceptible for attack.
THE SYMPTOMS IN VARIOUS BODY PARTS
Yeast infection in the female genitals gives itching or burning sensations in the vagina and genital lips, red rashes in the external female genitals and a whitish badly smelling discharge. The discharge may also be the only symptom.
Attack in the male genitals often gives itching sores around the base of the penis head. There may also be a smelling whitish fluid substance present that is different in consistence from the white smegma normally produced by glands in the same area. Red rashes with scaling can be present on the outer genitals and especially on the underside of the penis.
In the mouth, yeast infection gives sores covered with a whitish layer that give an itching or burning pain, so called trash. There can also be white or yellow layers on the tongue without any sores underneath or other symptoms. One often sees cracks at the corner of the mouth.
Attack in skin areas will give symptoms like rashes, itching, sore areas oozing fluid and blisters. The symptom will most often be seen in areas like the under-side of the shoulders, the inner side of the elbow, skin folds, in the pelvic region and other areas that are somewhat hidden.
Yeast infection in the digestive tract can give symptoms in the whole digestive tract from the esophagus to the anus. Symptoms that can occur are problems and pain during swallowing, breast pain, bloating, cramping, excessive gas production, diarrhoea, itching and sores in the rectal opening and lactose intolerance.
An overgrowth of yeast in the digestive tract or a generalized attack produces substances that can poison the whole body, and give symptoms also from body parts that are not directly infected, like: rashes, hives, and itching in the skin, allergic reactions in many body parts, fatigue or lethargy, muscle weakness, bone pain and nervous symptoms.
DIAGNOSIS
Yeast infection is often diagnosed by a specimen from the affected area. The specimen is then cultured to investigate the microbial flora. Often bacterial infections give the same symptoms, especially from the vaginal area, and the specimen will also help to decide the cause of the symptoms.
STANDARD TREATMENT
Yeast infection is commonly treated locally at the infected area with anti-fugal substances like clotrimazole (canesten), nystatin, fluconazole, ketoconazole, tioconazole (GyneCure), terconazole (Terazole), Monazole, miconazole (Monistat, Micozole), butoconazole (Femstat) and gentiana violet.
By vaginal infection tablets, creams or suppositories containing one or more of these substances are usually inserted into the vagina. Men having genital yeast infection or sexual partners of women with infection can be treated with local cream based on the same substances.
Some of the drugs, like fluconazole, are also used orally as a systemic medication.
For more severe cases the substances amphotericin B, caspofungin, or voriconazole is often used.
By localized infection, for example in the vagina, the pharmacological products usually take away the infection very effectively.
These products do not however take away the susceptibility for new infections, and can be less effective when the infection is spread in a more diffuse manner.
Lifestyle measures and natural supplements can be useful to reduce the susceptibility for yeast infection and to help cure when standard treatment does not fulfill this goal.
ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT
- Garlic helps to kill yeast, and can be used as an oral remedy for yeast infection.
- Flushing with a boric acid solution can help to kill yeast and rinse body cavities. Suppositories containing boric acid can also be used to kill yeast in the vagina or anus.
- Diluted tea tree oil may help for vaginal yeast infection by using it locally.
- The fatty acid caprylic acid can kill yeast, and a supplement of this acid may help against yeast infection.
- Propolis is an antibacterial substance made by bees. An oral supplement or local application of a propolis solution has shown to be useful against yeast infection.
- Cranberry juice helps against bacterial infection in the urinary tract and may also help to kill yeast by making the urine more acidic.
- Lactoferrin is a protein that can bind to iron and hold it away from pathogenic bacteria and yeast, and this will impair the growth of these organisms. The protein is naturally found in milk and in secretes in many parts of the body. It is a part of the natural defense against microbes.
- Products containing seeds for friendly bacteria (Lactobacteria and Bifidobacteria) can help reestablish a normal bacterial flora and be helpful against yeast infection. The friendly bacteria hinder the growth of the pathogenic microorganisms. Such seeds are often called probiotics. There are probiotic products for both oral and local use.
-Yoghourt contains seeds for friendly bacteria. Consuming yoghourt can help to normalize the microbial flora in the digestive tract and in the genital zone. Yoghourt may also be used as a local remedy, for example in the vagina.
LIFESTYLE MEASURES FOR PREVENTION AND CURE
Many lifestyle measures can be used to prevent the outbreak of yeast infection and help to cure chronic yeast infection.
- One should avoid over-consuming carbohydrates, and avoid consuming carbohydrates that are rapidly taken up or utilized, like pure sugar, refined floor and bread made from refined floor. Instead use of full corn products, beans and peas that contain carbohydrates that are utilized gradually is recommended.
- One should wash or bath daily the whole body, including the genital area, with a mild soap or with pure water.
- One should not use anti-bacterial agents when one washes the skin, the genitals, the rectal opening or by mouth hygiene. For intimate wash, pure water is best.
- Unnecessary antibiotic cures or steroid medication should be avoided.
- Stressful elements and habits in the daily life should be avoided. Meditation is a good method to stress down.
- Clothes and shoes should give ventilation so that humidity does not aggregate at skin surfaces or in skin folds. Humid areas on the skin should be washed and dried regularly when it is not possible to avoid humidity.
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Posted on November 5, 2009, 5:45 pm, by libertees, under Uncategorized.
Imagine if you will, a world where women have no issues with their bodies. No Periods, no yeast infections, no bacterial vaginosis, no menopause, no nothing. Just pure bliss everyday, much like a vacation from your body’s problems. Back to reality.
Let’s face the facts here. These problems aren’t going away, especially Bacterial Vaginosis. What is it? According to CDC.gov, “Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the name of a condition in women where the normal balance of bacteria in the vagina is disrupted and replaced by an overgrowth of certain bacteria. It is sometimes accompanied by discharge, odor, pain, itching, or burning.” Some quick symptons to help diagnose Bacterial Vaginosis are:
Vaginal Discharge – Thin, White, Milky Fishy Vaginal Odor Vaginal Odor After or During Intercourse Vaginal Itching and Painful Intercourse
Physicians know of only one way to combat this infection, by prescribing antiotics. And sadly, this infection will come back almost every single time. When Doctors prescribe antibiotics for you, the battle ends with your “cure for bacterial vaginosis” being only temporary. The reason being that your body is not producing the natural antiobitics it needs after you quit your medication. What if there was a natural cure for bacterial vaginosis that really cured it forever?
Right now, I’m going to give you a few tips that will quell your bacterial vaginosis, but only temporary. I’ll give a link to another page that offers tons of information about several PERMANENT natural cures for bacterial vaginosis. Anyway, here’s some natural tips for you to try at home for free:
Tip #1: First you need a bottle of vinegar (preferably plain, but apple-cider will do). Pour about 1/4 cup into a cup. You might want to dilute the vinegar with an equal part of water, but the pure vinegar is perfectly safe. Now go into your bathroom and apply the solution to the outer parts of your vagina. Try not to get any inside, this might irritate the more sensitive areas. This quick fix will eliminate any itching, odor or gross feelings.
Tip# 2: Start eating plain yogurt with “Active or Live Bacteria Cultures.” No this yogurt isn’t rotten, it contains the good bacteria (Lactobacillus) that your vagina needs to fight off infections. You can even apply some of the yogurt directly to your vagina to speed up the process (if this is too gross for you to do, you can just stick to eating it). Some women have even found this to be a natural cure for bacterial vaginosis.
Tip #3: Try not to wear underwear that ins’t breathable or is too tight. Cotton works great because it absorbs moisture and is breathable. The bad bacteria (gardenella) in your vagina spreads like wildfire in an oxygen low environment. An overgrowth of gardenella usually indicates BV or a yeast infection.
Hope this helps!
I struggled with bacterial vaginosis for 3 years. Doctors kept prescribing antibiotics, (clindamycin phosphate, tinidazole and metronidazole), and nothing seemed to work! It just kept coming back over and over again.
When I was at my wit’s end, I stumbled upon a “Natural BV Treatment” It taught me everything I would ever need to know and how to use my body to naturally cure BV for good. Needless to say, it cleared my BV up in 3 days, and it hasn’t returned yet!
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– will show you how you can permanently and naturally eliminate bacterial vaginosis. By applying the methods from Bacterial Vaginosis Gone Forever you will break the cycle of antibiotics and recurring bouts of vaginosis. You will learn how to strengthen your immune system and improve your overall health.
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Posted on November 5, 2009, 5:45 pm, by libertees, under Uncategorized.
Although women are very susceptible to hemorrhoids during pregnancy, with a balanced food intake and inadequate strain from other causes of hemorrhoids, pregnancy caused hemorrhoids commonly vanish away on their own, a couple of weeks after a woman gives birth.
However if the hemorrhoids bleed or have a purplish appearance, you need to consult your doctor immediately. These symptoms can be a warning indicator that a more serious problem is occurring in the body, that cannot be cured by alternative treatments and home remedies.
On the other hand, as long as neither of those symptoms has appeared, home remedies are the best method to practically ease the discomfort caused by hemorrhoids. While the hemorrhoids that forms can vary from observable, to merely irritating all the way through to desolately miserable, there are many, many things you can do to get support.
1. Hot and Cold Compress
Most women find help from hot and cold compress. For hot treatment, a Sitz bath is suggested both in plain, lukewarm water for at least 20 minutes at a time to two to three times a day. After getting up from the bath, apply an ice pack in a towel and sit on it.
2. Toilet Tissue
As addition to this treatment routine, be sure to only use simple, unscented white toilet tissues or dabbed wipes. Most women use wipes dabbed with baby oil or witch hazel that both has a relaxing toning effect.
3. Footstool
You can find it beneficial to take away strain by sitting using a footstool, particularly on the toilet seat.
4. Control sitting
Do not sit on a toilet for too long trying to push your bowels out. This straining will just make the hemorrhoids even worse.
In reality, you should avoid standing or sitting for prolonged hours for any reason, as these positions can put tension in the rectal area.
5. Laying
Whenever you sleep, rest or watching TV, lie on your left portion of the body to significantly aids in hemorrhoids. This position carries the weight and tension of the inferior vena cava and the blood vessels in the rectal area.
6. Mild Exercise
Constant, mild exercise, such as a brisk walk for thirty minutes three to four times a week, helps significantly with both pregnancy and hemorrhoids. But before performing any kind of exercise regimen, consult your doctor, and do slow exercise during the last quarter of pregnancy.
Most pregnant women sense the dire need to walk during labor, and some women start walking without being aware of it and impulsively immediately after giving birth.
In simplest sense, in the last quarter of pregnancy, do not walk so far that it would give you miserable condition once you begin with the labor.
One kind of exercise regimen, called the Kegel exercises, are basically allows movement of the pelvis. It also aids with pregnancy as well as hemorrhoids. Performing three reps of ten contraction and releases at least two to three times everyday adds circulation in the area obtains the suitable muscles ready for giving birth and speeds up recuperation time after birth.
Posted on November 1, 2009, 10:49 pm, by libertees, under Uncategorized.
How much chemotherapy does an obese woman need? Typically an obese woman with breast cancer would receive reduced doses of chemotherapy as they battle breast cancer. Back in June of 2005, a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine concluded that obese women should receive chemotherapy based on their actual women, and not in reduced as amounts as it the standard practice. And now again a study presented in the August 2005 edition of Lancet claims that doctors should not reduce chemotherapy doses for obese women when no receptors for the hormone oestrogen have been found on the breast cancer cells. This type of cancer is called oestrogen-receptor negative. Clinicians often reduce chemotherapy doses for obese patients because of worries about how the treatment may react with the patient and affect their overall health. According to the study’s director Marco Colleoni of the European Institute of Oncology, Italy, and his colleagues, reducing the first course of chemotherapy for obese patients with oestrogen-receptor negative breast cancer proves “detrimental”. Colleoni and his team looked at the relation between body-mass index (BMI), chemotherapy dose reduction, oestrogen receptor expression, and outcome for pre-menopausal women with breast cancer by examining data from four randomized trials. They found that 97 out of 249 obese patients received less than 85 f protocol specified dose during the first course of chemotherapy compared with patients with normal and intermediate BMI. Obese patients with oestrogen-receptor negative disease that received 85 r more of the first protocol specified dose had significantly better disease-free survival and overall survival than those who received less than 85 f the normally recommended dosage. Yet, obese patients with oestrogen-receptor positive breast cancer who had reduced doses of chemotherapy did not have a significant difference in their outcome compared with those given the recommended chemotherapy doses. And contrary to popular practice, the researchers also noticed that obese patients initially treated with protocol doses of chemotherapy did not have more toxicity than patients who received reduced doses. Dr Marco Colleoni concluded that, “Our findings suggest that for women with ER-absent or ER-low tumours, reduction in chemotherapy dose should be avoided.” The message for obese women coping with cancer is to be aware of your risks and rights. Ask your doctor will she recommend lower doses of chemotherapy for you based on your weight and ask why. Resource: Lancet, Archives of Internal Medicine
How much chemotherapy does an obese woman need? Typically an obese woman with breast cancer would receive reduced doses of chemotherapy as they battle breast cancer. Back in June of 2005, a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine concluded that obese women should receive chemotherapy based on their actual women, and not in reduced as amounts as it the standard practice.
And now again a study presented in the August 2005 edition of Lancet claims that doctors should not reduce chemotherapy doses for obese women when no receptors for the hormone oestrogen have been found on the breast cancer cells. This type of cancer is called oestrogen-receptor negative.
Clinicians often reduce chemotherapy doses for obese patients because of worries about how the treatment may react with the patient and affect their overall health.
According to the study’s director Marco Colleoni of the European Institute of Oncology, Italy, and his colleagues, reducing the first course of chemotherapy for obese patients with oestrogen-receptor negative breast cancer proves “detrimental”.
Colleoni and his team looked at the relation between body-mass index (BMI), chemotherapy dose reduction, oestrogen receptor expression, and outcome for pre-menopausal women with breast cancer by examining data from four randomized trials.
They found that 97 out of 249 obese patients received less than 85 f protocol specified dose during the first course of chemotherapy compared with patients with normal and intermediate BMI.
Obese patients with oestrogen-receptor negative disease that received 85 r more of the first protocol specified dose had significantly better disease-free survival and overall survival than those who received less than 85 f the normally recommended dosage.
Yet, obese patients with oestrogen-receptor positive breast cancer who had reduced doses of chemotherapy did not have a significant difference in their outcome compared with those given the recommended chemotherapy doses.
And contrary to popular practice, the researchers also noticed that obese patients initially treated with protocol doses of chemotherapy did not have more toxicity than patients who received reduced doses.
Dr Marco Colleoni concluded that, “Our findings suggest that for women with ER-absent or ER-low tumours, reduction in chemotherapy dose should be avoided.”
The message for obese women coping with cancer is to be aware of your risks and rights. Ask your doctor will she recommend lower doses of chemotherapy for you based on your weight and ask why.
Resource: Lancet, Archives of Internal Medicine
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Posted on October 28, 2009, 10:48 pm, by libertees, under Uncategorized.
Yeast infections are ridiculously common; The vast majority of women will have at least one in their lifetime, lots of women get them too, and even children get what they commonly called thrush – which is just a yeast infection in the mouth. We often that a yeast infection as a female concern because “yeast infection” has become synonymous with commonly “vaginal yeast infection.” It is important to remember, however, that the vaginal area is usually the major site of yeast infection is not the only possible. Yeast infections may also occur in the mouth, throat, the digestive system (intestines and the anus), with the baby’s bottom (yes, some diaper rash is yeast), the folds of the skin, but also in / on the male reproductive organs .
Yeast infections are a global problem and many people, especially women, find that “traditional” or “proven” treatments are not satisfactory. The boxes on the shelves pharmacy can support that, “Candida yeast infection is gone with these treatments,” but in fact many people find that these western medicines do not treat the underlying cause of excessive growth of yeast. Basically, the yeast controlled temporarily, but later, many people experience another episode. is often worse, because the drug allowed the yeast to be “used” treatment, that the yeast just came even stronger.
If you have concerns about that will not go away, it is time to move beyond the standard approach offered by the medical community. It is time to seek holistic, natural, homeopathic remedies and diets that you should actually be a way to honestly say, “Candida yeast infection is gone with these treatments.”
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Posted on October 28, 2009, 10:48 pm, by libertees, under Uncategorized.
You may well wonder why natural bacterial vaginosis treatments should be an option worth considering when your doctor could give you antibiotics. Indeed, you could walk into any pharmacy and a cream or lotion which, it is claimed, will help.
Bacterial vaginosis is a condition caused by an overgrowth of harmful bacteria in the vagina which develops as a result in a shift from the normally acidic pH level to alkaline. This, in turn, supports the growth of harmful bacteria which then causes the symptoms of bacterial vaginosis.
The role of antibiotics is to kill bacteria. Indeed, “Antibiotic” stands for “anti-life”. Unfortunately, antibiotics cannot distinguish between good and bad bacteria, so all bacteria in the vagina is killed off, including the beneficial bacteria which is responsible for the health of the vagina. This means that once bacteria naturally begins to repopulate the vagina, the harmful bacteria reproduces faster than the good bacteria so the symptoms begin again.
<b>This is one of the reasons why over 70% of women who take antibiotics for BV will have a repeat attack within weeks</b>
This isn’t the end of the story though. Although by killing off the bacteria, antibiotics can undoubtedly bring some symptomatic relief, just as creams and lotions can, they do not address the root cause. A recurrence of the infection for women taking antibiotics is not only due to the fact that all bacteria is eradicated, but the fact that all they do is kill bacteria-not address the underlying cause. Clearly, unless you do something to remove the root cause, the symptoms will start up again.
Natural bacterial vaginosis treatments can give both symptomatic relief and address the root causes. Some common causes of BV include overwashing (which depletes the natural, healthy lubricants of the vagina), using harsh, perfumed products around the vagina, a new sexual partner, douching and sometimes just being under the weather. As there are many more causes, any good BV treatments need to use a multifaceted approach which effectively “mops up” all the possible causes.
To get you on the road to recovery, there are two excellent natural bacterial vaginosis treatments which will give some relief. Firstly, try adding a few drops of tea tree oil to a shallow bath as this will help to kill off harmful bacteria. You can also try introducing probiotic yogurt into the vagina via a tampon. The live bacteria in this yogurt can help to replenish depleted supplies.
Other simple remedies include washing no more than twice daily, using unperfumed products and always using a condom for intercourse, which you should ideally avoid when the symptoms are particularly bad.
Prompt action is always a good idea if you have BV as although not dangerous in the early stages, if left untreated BV can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease and even infertility. If you have had bacterial vaginosis for longer than three days, it is advisable to take positive action. If you would like to read further comprehensive information about BV and see guaranteed strategies which will show you how to eliminate bacterial vaginosis naturally, please visit my website, . Your symptoms will be gone within a few hours, and you can be completely free of BV within three days-for good!
Marie is an advocate of natural remedies and researches and writes about many related issues. With a particular interest in women’s issues, bacterial vaginosis is a condition which she believes is very much ignored by the medical profession and she feels that many practitioners do not appreciate how much this can affect a sufferer’s life. She feels that this condition can be best treated with natural remedies and has seen much success in this respect.
Posted on October 22, 2009, 12:55 pm, by libertees, under Uncategorized.
Without a doubt, one of the liveliest business and investment ventures rocking the health and beauty industries today is the ancient, venerable Dead Sea.
From mineral-rich black mud body masques to health treatments in thermo-mineral springs and the Dead Sea brine, the region’s abundant cosmetological and therapeutic natural resources are truly legendary.
Cleopatra knew well the value of the naturally beautifying and restorative products that came from the Dead Sea region. She so coveted the bounty of the mineral-laden bath salts, the skin-revitalizing mud baths and the intoxicating balsamic perfumes extracted from the oases that her lover, Marc Anthony, led his troops into a fierce and bloody war to secure the region for his beautiful Queen. And Cleopatra herself built the very first Dead Sea cosmetic facilities. Visitors to Ein Bokek and the Biblical, historic Ein Gedi can still see the bones of those factories today.
What makes Dead Sea products so clinically beneficial is their source — a unique mix of solar radiation, an oxygen-rich atmosphere and geological features unlike any other on earth.
Flanked by mountains to its east and west, the heavily saline Dead Sea is cradled in a deep, sealed basin with hot, arid air above its surface. More than 400 meters below sea level, the Sea takes in water and mineralized run-off from mountain streams and alluvial springs, but loses the water rapidly to evaporation.
The resultant residue of leeched minerals and thick salts has long been used the world over to relieve the effects of muscle pains, psoriasis and other human ills.
The mineral cocktail produced in the Dead Sea waters and absorbed into the human body is believed to help skin to literally regenerate.
Today, the Dead Sea’s reputation as a healer, revitalizer, replenisher and therapy treatment is thriving. Visitors travel to the Holy Land the year-round to bask on the sunny beaches and luxuriate or heal at one of the many top-quality day spas and treatment centers.
Today’s Dead Sea products aficionados are finding that Cleopatra was right on the target about the value and effectiveness of the region’s bounty!
Based on years of scientific testing, manufacturers report their products will smooth wrinkles, revitalize the skin’s appearance, relieve muscle tension and cure acne.
There are also products to stimulate, cleanse and tighten skin, shrink large pores, rejuvenate hair luster, moisturize dry skin and give a healthy glow to whatever body part is enjoying treatment.
Among the many different types of Dead Sea beauty and pharmaceutical products marketed today are:
• Therapeutic Black Mud masks, soaps, hair restorer, body cleansers, pain relievers, dry-skin treatments and scalp treatments. Many firms also market the mineral-rich mud as a topical application to relieve soreness caused by inflamed muscles. • Dead Sea mineral-based shampoos, conditioners and anti-dandruff treatments • Dead Sea bath gels, shower gels, foot spas, foot creams, sun screens, skin toners, and astringents for oily skin • Dead Sea chloride salts rich in potassium, calcium, magnesium, iodine and bromide • Balsam-based cosmetics, perfumes and medicines.
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Posted on October 20, 2009, 6:07 am, by libertees, under Uncategorized.
Whether you’ve just begun to notice the effects of aging on your face or if you are looking for products to reverse some of the more obvious wrinkles and sagging in your skin, you may be bewildered by the huge array of skin care products on the market. This is a brief discussion of some of the ingredients which have a proven effective skin care on aging skin.
Whether you are young or not so young, always look for products that contain a sunscreen. It has been proven that exposure to UV light creates most of the signs of aging in human skin. High quality effective skin care products generally contain sunscreen. The rating of sunscreen you chose will depend on your particular complexion and the amount of sun exposure you usually receive.
Hyaluronic acid is a component found naturally in human skin. It aids in cell reproduction and is used in injectable form to reduce wrinkles in much the same way as collagen. High quality anti aging skin care treatments almost always contain hyaluronic acid.
Antioxidants are known to be contained in the best anti aging skin care. Antioxidants fight free radicals which contribute to the aging process. Doctors often counsel patients to consume foods that are rich in antioxidants for improve health. Antioxidants can also be absorbed through the skin.
Aloe Vera is a plant which has been known to be an effective skin care treatment for centuries. Aloe Vera has anti inflammatory and anti bacterial qualities; it soothes the pain of burns and wounds and promotes faster healing.
Collagen is a connective tissue found in healthy youthful skin. Collagen helps the skin retain moisture giving it a fuller, firmer appearance. The best anti aging skin care includes collagen as an ingredient. Most often the collagen comes from sheep.
Peptides are bond that join two or more amino acids. Peptides are building blocks and may cause stimulation of hormones or enzymes in the skin. Most good anti aging skin care includes peptides in their ingredients.
Glycol is fruit acid, commonly used in facial peels, which exfoliates skin removing dead skin cells and exposing fresher, newer skin beneath.
Emu oil is relatively new to the international skin care scene. Emu oil is an effective skin care treatment for many conditions and is useful in anti aging skin care. It has a higher than normal ability to be absorbed deeply into the skin. Emu oil contains high levels of omega fatty acids, including omega-9, omega-6 and omega-3. These amino acids are building blocks which can restore youthful qualities and stimulate cell regeneration. Emu oil also has anti inflammatory effects and can reduce puffiness.
Good anti aging skin care treatments address several of the problems associated with age including uneven skin pigmentation, puffiness, dryness, wrinkles and sagging. It takes a combination of ingredients for effective skin care of all these elements. While surgery can address some of these problems, it cannot address them all. Surgery is expensive and has risks associated with it. Look at the products you have for skin care and if you don’t find these ingredients, look for products which have some or all of them for effective skin care of aging skin.
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