Posts Tagged ‘Anxiety’
According to scientific studies, on average, 12% of the world population suffers from migraine and 30% suffer from tension headaches, promoted by stress and anxiety, the same that are constantly growing due to the rhythm of life now prevails.
Peru is not exempt from this problem and, as in the rest of the world, the use of medications to mitigate these evils also recorded high growth and dependence, in some cases causing harmful side effects to health. In this sense, the external cranial nerve stimulation (NCE), appears as an important alternative for the treatment and prevention of migraine headaches and stress because it avoids the overuse of drugs that could produce harmful side effects to health.
The effectiveness of the NCE is recognized for over 40 years in the medical sector. Its main advantages are the security offered to patients and does not generate side effects. Even in the last 10 years has been used in severe cases. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anxiety, Cranial nerve stimulation, Migraine, Stress, Tension headaches | 
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Caffeine, a stimulant known, has been shown to cause irregular heartbeat, nausea, anxiety and depression. Now, recent research shows that caffeine can make it harder for a woman to get pregnant.
In analyzing the fallopian tube in mice, researchers found that caffeine interferes with muscle contractions that help move the eggs to the fallopian tubes into the úteroun critical process for a successful pregnancy.
“Our experiments were conducted in mice, but this result is a breakthrough to explain why consumption of caffeinated beverages can reduce the chances that a woman becomes pregnant,” said Sean Ward, professor of the Faculty of Medicine at University of Nevada, in a press release from a magazine.
“This provides an intriguing explanation of why women with high caffeine consumption often take longer to conceive than women who consumed no caffeine,” said Ward. Caffeine found in coffee, tea, colas, chocolate and certain medications.
The researchers said the study findings, published on May 26 in the British Journal of Pharmacology, could improve the understanding and treatment of infertility and how some of the complications of pregnancy.
Previously it was thought that the eggs are moved through the fallopian tubes with the help of hair-like projections called cilia, but this study suggests that specialized pacemaker cells coordinating the contractions that push the egg through the tubes. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anxiety, Caffeine, Irregular heartbeat, Nausea, Pregnant |
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