Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Tai Chi

Tai chi is the form of martial art. It can also be said that it is a kind of moving meditation. It is originated in China during 12th century. In the form of martial art, Taoist monk Chang San-Feng first introduced Tai Chi. Different movements in Tai Chi is derived from the movement of snake and crane in the battle field.

Tai Chi is actually the combination of flexible exercise, aerobics, balance and weight-bearing exercise. This form of meditation is very smooth and gives excellent flexibility to the body.

Tai Chi is widespread worldwide because of its balancing act of mind, body, and spirit. It is said that it is a safe and low-impact martial art, which can be practiced individually or in group.

According to Chinese Philosophy, this entire world contains two elements called “Yin” and Yang’. Yin is the representative of femininity, coolness, and stability. While Yang hold qualities of masculinity, brightness and fire. According to this philosophy, life energy, which is also termed as ‘qi’ should flow properly and freely throughout our body so that it can maintain the emotional and physical health of the human being.

Tai chi has shown its benefits in cardiovascular health, stress, anxiety, respiratory problem, high blood pressure, arthritis, certain pains etc. Aged people can get benefited by practicing Tai chi and can regain their flexibility, balance and strength.

Tai Chi is the combination of breathing, movement, and meditation. Thus, Tai chi has a good effect on health.

Since it is a weight-bearing exercise, it benefits in making certain muscle groups stronger, which leads to more strength, flexibility, coordination, agility, endurance to the human body.

Since it is an aerobic form of exercise, thus it helps to improve cardiovascular health. It helps to flow more oxygen in your heart thus it helps to reduce heart and cholesterol problem. Tai Chi breathing technique helps to improve lung capacity and flow of oxygen.

Since it is meditative technique, it helps to rejuvenate your concentration, emotional health, and also blood pressure.

Tai Chi also helps to improve overall immune system and digestion problem.

You can practice Tai Chi for few weeks or few months according to your need. But before joining any class for Tai Chi, you should consult your doctor. It will definitely show its good result.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Know the risk factors of Mesothelioma

Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer, which happens due to the exposure to asbestos. Mesothelium is the term, which is used to describe membranes of the different organs of the body. Mesothelial tissue acts as the protective tissues of the organs. Different mesothelia of the body include:

The pleura- covering the lungs
The pericardium- protecting the heart
The peritoneum-surrounding the abdominal cavity walls
The tunica serosa uteri-covering the internal part of female reproductive organs
The tunica vaginalis testis- encasing the internal part of male reproductive organs

This cancer can happen in any of the mesothelia, but it is mostly seen in the pleura.

Risk factors of Mesothelioma
The main risk factor of Mesothelioma is the long-term or short-term exposure to the asbestos. When asbestos fibers are deposited at the bottom of the lungs due to continuous exposure to the asbestos then it becomes cancerous to the pleura. It happens to the mesothelia of other organs of the body as well. It can further be triggered by other factors like over-smoking tendency or family history.

Inhaling asbestos fibers on the long-term basis are included those person who are exposed to asbestos due to their work and they are:
Manufacturers of asbestos products and textiles
Asbestos miners
Heating and construction industry workers
Workers in the shipyard

Even people with short-term exposure to the asbestos can get this disease. For example, asbestos removal workers, firefighters, drywall removers, automobile workers, demolition workers can also get this disease.

Though it is not known how the risk factor related to asbestos can be aggravated but it is said that certain parameters can determine the reasons, like:
Exposure to the specific amount of asbestos
Time span of the exposure
Types, shape and size of the asbestos fiber
Any other habit like smoking tendency

In this context, it is to mention that asbestos are of two types- straight fibers or amphibole and curly fibers or chrysotile. Both types of fibers can aggravate Mesothelioma. But according to recent research, amphibole asbestos are more responsible than chrysotile.

Other risk factors causing Mesothelioma:

Over-smoking habit is found to be one of the commonest risk factors of Mesothelioma
Sometimes this disease is related to genetic condition.
Thorium dioxide, which is X-ray radioactive contrast medium is found to be another risk factor for this disease.
Minerals found in volcanic rock, known as Zeolites, are found to trigger the possibility of pleural Mesothelioma
Simian Virus 40 (SV40) is also linked with the cause of this disease

Thus, when we know the risk factors of this rare disease so taking prevention would be easier for us now.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Knock your dermatologist for Dermapril

To remove wrinkle, Dermapiil has visible effect on it. This wrinkle removal crème is the product of Rauscher Bekke, LLC out of South Florida. This age-defying crème has shown many good results in removing fine lines and creases from the human skin. It has an ingredient called Matrixyl 3000, which is an antioxidant. This patented ingredient is the main key ingredient of this product, which has power to treat wrinkly and sagged skin. This ingredient actually is the combination of two peptides, and they are palmitoyl tetrapeptide-3 and palmitoyl oligopeptide. According to the makers, this is known as European anti-ageing compound, which has shown its effect to diminish wrinkle volume and density. It also enhances the firmness and suppleness of the skin. This product also has white and green tea extracts in it. It has other important ingredients like Cetearyl Alcohol, Purified water, Stearic Acid, Hydroxlated Lexithin, Glyceryl Stearate, Glycerin, Dehydroacetic Acid, Imidazolidinyl Urea, Butylene Glycol, Benzyl Alcohol, Carbomer, Polysorbate 20 etc.



This product is clinically tested, thus it is reliable and safe. It shows result very quickly. It is advised to use it twice a day- in the morning and evening. But it is expected to give one month to show its result properly. But after one month of use, you can reduce its application to one time a day regularly. It has quite a visible result in a wide range of users, thus it is popularly used as an anti-ageing and anti-wrinkle cream. Thus, using this product saves the money of painful surgeries for removing wrinkles and sagging of the skin.

Do you reserve Resveratrol?

Resveratrol Pills
Resveratrol is derived from the plant extraction. It is a phytoalexin, and is derived when plant is attacked by pathogens like bacteria or fungi. Resveratrol was initially found in ground dried grape skins and seeds. Then it was synthesized from Japanese knotweed. It can also be chemically synthesized. It has commercial use as a food supplement. Resveratrol is an antioxidant, which is found in plants like mulberry, blue berry, red grapes, raspberry, cranberry etc. It is also found in knotweeds, peanuts, and in few pine trees.

Resveratrol extracted

It has various healing effects on health. It acts as an anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, blood-sugar-lowering agent, and also affects in cardio vascular disease. It also cures Alzheimer disease. It has the effect for enhanced longevity of life. It helps in increasing athletic performance. It acts as a protection from stoke damage. It prevents health from damage caused by radiation exposure. It has even effect of muscle gain. It is also beneficial in weight loss. But high dose of Resveratrol can cause weight gain as well. It helps to prevent cellular damage, which is the result of free radical.

Resveratrol does not have any significant side effect. Thus, this is a reliable and safe product. It is clinically tested and has proven good results in human health.

You can sip a red wine and that will give you the benefit of Resveratrol. If you are taking manufactured Resveratrol, then the percentage of it would definitely be more.


Thus, Resveratrol is the natural way of curing diseases and no harmful chemical is involved in it.

Case Studies on Resveratrol

Your wrinkly things are kinky enough

When we see wrinkles in a cloth, we prefer to iron it. Because who wants to wear wrinkly clothes, which do not look good? The same way our skin can get affected with the wrinkles due to several reasons. Wrinkle means fold, crease, or ridge on the skin.

Wrinkle of the skin is the result of wrong facial expression for longer time, damage due to sun ray, aging, smoking, lack of hydration etc. Over exposure to the water for a longer period of times may cause wrinkle too.



Due to wrinkles, skin start getting sagged near the areas like eyes, necks, cheeks, and hands. Over stress and tension may lead to wrinkly skin with the age according to various studies.




The way every skin disease has certain remedy and treatment. Wrinkles too have various treatments from natural to surgical. Various chemical products available in the market with the name of anti-wrinkle and anti-ageing creams claim to remove wrinkle and make skin healthy. But going natural way to treat this problem may show more effective result. You can also take the help of face lift, which is the form of stretching to remove fine lines from the skin surface. Various home remedies like make a paste of sugar cane and turmeric powder with the desirable proportion, rub it on your face, neck, and cheek, and then leave for few minute. After few minutes, removing it with the clean water will help to heal the wrinkle in a natural way. Even Botox surgery is said to have visible effect on wrinkle removal. You can do certain Yogas or facial exercises, which have certain remedial effects on wrinkle removal.


How to take care of your skin

With the growing influence of pollution and global warming, it has become imperative to take good care of our skin on regular basis. Especially when we are always exposed to the environment due to the demand of our work, we need to nurture the skin cells and maintain the suppleness of the utmost outer part of human body. Our skin even gets damaged due to the hectic urban lifestyle, lack of proper diet, and scarcity of adequate sleep.

We can use different commercial products, which protect our skin from loosing moisture. Various sunscreen products are readily obtainable in the market to protect skin from harmful UV rays of the sun. Many leading brands have come up with the solution of anti-wrinkle and anti-ageing products for younger looking skin. But in our day-to-day life if those pricey commercial products are the matter of nightmare, then sticking to various home-made remedy can give you better solution. Those granny’s remedies are really helpful to protect our epidermis and also other layers of the skin from huge damage.

But end of the day, not only superficial care do wonders for healthy skin. If you are keenly lingering for soft and beautiful skin, then you need to give yourself at last 6-8 hours of sound sleep, proper diet with the inclusion of fixed portion of vegetables and fruits, and regular physical exercise.