stress

Evidence Links Protein Damage to Neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's

...oxidative damage in alpha-synuclein, and that such stress may be a primary event leading to the onset and progression of neurodegenerative synucleinopathies, particularly Parkinson's. This may pave the way for developing therapies to stop or slow the oxidative damage, and thus slow or reverse the progressio...

Mortality increased in Sporting enthusiasts!

...dent in the women population. Mental or emotional stress may not be the only factors implicated as causes provoking cardiovascular events associated with a critical match. "Notably, heavy alcohol use, overeating, and excessive smoking may also play a part," researchers say. Thus the factors that contribu...

Stress reduces your immunity- startling but true!!!!!

...ose, new research into how our immunity works says stress reduces our immunity and makes us more vulnerable to diseases. For long we have agreed that stress is bad for our health but this aspect of stress decreasing our immune status is sure to cause a lot ...

Spirituality helps lessen arthritic pain

...evels of pain and coping strategies. The authors stress that the types of spiritual experiences patients reported using in their diaries were not “unusual phenomena, such as seeing visions or having out of body experiences, but rather spiritual experiences that ordinary people have in the context of daily...

Blocked viens block eye sight

...ine jet might make even finer cuts without causing stress to the nearby tissue....

'Sweaty palms syndrome' can be cured by surgery

...e submitted to a questionnaire about the amount of stress they experienced in their daily life as a consequence of the constant sweating before surgery, and again at 2 weeks, 6 months and 1 year after surgery. On a scale of 1 through 10, with 10 signifying the most severe stress, the patients' average scor...

Herbs for Rememberance

...loss is not uncommon. Many people find prolonged stress and too much work causing lack of concentration, memory loss and even personality changes. Dramatic alterations in memory and neurotransmitters are found in senile dementia, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. // The fundamental cause of de...

Waking during surgery

...ients, waking during surgery led to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a long-lasting psychological reaction that is more commonly linked with war and natural disaster. The problem is that these patients may go undetected ,become emotionally detached. Their heart rates after the operation are low, rathe...

Acupuncture for conception

... some cases, they say, it's a matter of easing the stress and dealing with the patient's state of mind. Acupuncture specialists usually prescribe a combination of acupuncture therapy, diet and herbal medicines. Women are sometimes told to stay away from cold and raw foods, wheat and sugar. Some herbs are t...

Stress can make you overweight

...midlife by learning when the body is vulnerable to stress and choosing the right sort of snacks. Dr. Pamela Peeke, a professor of medicine at the University of Maryland, says that the slowing metabolism of people over 45 makes them more vulnerable to stress, which releases hormones that stimulate both appet...

Male infertility in relation to pesticide

...medical risk factors for infertility. The authors stress the findings should be treated with caution because they involved a selected population of infertile men, from a productive farming region in Austria. But they say the dramatic nature of the observed changes in semen quality warrant further attention...

Stress response increases suicide risk

Psychological responses to stress may cause significant problems including suicidal ...s with a full-blown crisis known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) where there is emotional numbness, panic and anxiety. And even lesser stressful even...

Renal problem alleviated

...als and nitric oxide interact to produce oxidative stress and help cause these neurological dysfunctions,” said Dr Nick Vaziri, head of the research. “It also may provide a way to treat these disorders,” he said.// Dr Vaziri suggested that it might be possible to link the results with similar events that ...

Fish for the lungs

...evelop two other types of lung cancer. But experts stress that it is still better to quit smoking. A recent study from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund reveals that four food products - tomato sauce, carrots, multi-vitamin pills, and fish oil supplements - were associated with a significantly lower risk ...

Helping the neurology of kidney failure

...s also the possibility that this kind of oxidative stress might also play a role in brain disorders like Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease, as well as brain injury....

Dangers of heat

...p the core temperature down and this increases the stress on everything else." However, he said anybody could be at risk if they did not take sensible steps. There are a number of sensible things that everybody should do to avoid illness when temperatures soar. Increase your intake of non-alcoholic, non-ca...

Health at heights

...r performance, and is caused by insomnia, illness, stress and overwork. Although the cabin is heated to 15°C, temperatures outside are well below freezing - and the higher they go, the colder it gets. Should the cabin's heating systems fail, the balloonists will face two main threats - hypothermia and frost...

Avoid stress to have strong babies

...rth weight".// The women were asked to rate their stress levels using a questionnaire. The researchers carr...ver said more research was needed to determine why stress should impact on development. "One possible reason is that stress raises the levels of hormones su...

More about HIV

... their disease and were able to cope well with the stress of having HIV significantly prolonged their progre...ects. And with greater side effects comes greater stress reactions and the risk of illness and disease not even related to the infection.Currently, there are...

An effective way to treat angina

...ience episodes of chest pain on exertion or during stress because the blood supply to their heart cannot cope with the oxygen demand being made on it. They can be treated by angioplasty, to open up a blocked artery to the heart, or bypass surgery to short-circuit a vessel blockage.// Angina can relieved b...

Deprived sleep leads to ageing

...search showed sleep deprivation provoked a typical stress response in the body, characterised by raised cortisol and glucose levels. Dr McKinley said the amount of sleep people required varied between individuals. The important thing was to feel thoroughly rested after waking up.In many cases the quality ...

The alarm clock in you

...e up. The researchers measured the levels of two stress hormones - adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and cortisol - in the blood of two sets of people as they slept. Previous research has shown that people's bodies have their own rhythms which can help them wake at regular times each day, but - says Professor Bo...

Hormones Linked To Migraines

...igraine sufferers had higher levels of cortisol, a stress hormone that is involved in the control of blood pressure and blood sugar metabolism, and were more likely to have delayed peak levels of melatonin, the hormone that controls sleep cycles. Nearly half of patients with migraines had a delay in peak me...

Enzyme may be target for obesity drugs

...ocks and thighs. Researchers studied the role of stress hormones and enzymes. One of particular interest was 11-beta HSD-1, which is involved in the formation of glucocorticoids. Alteration in the levels of this enzyme in mice produces not only obesity, but obesity especially of abdominal fat. Since thi...

Back injury cured by engineers

...hey tend to protect their injury by creating a big stress on their spine afterwards.// This study comparedhe movement of injured and uninjured people. The engineers were able to use a mathematical technique to analyse movements of the injured volunteers without having them do the full action. They found ...

Artists prone to cubital tunnel syndrome

...rming artists are exposed to tremendous amounts of stress in the upper extremities during practices and recitals,” said Barry P. Simmons, professor of orthopaedic surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston, at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Orthopaedic Update.In this arena of professional ar...

Depression increases heart attacks

...o contract, which can affect its ability to handle stress or exertion. These findings suggest that if depression can be diagnosed and treated, people who have a heart attack may improve their chances of survival. The researchers monitored heart rhythm changes in 712 people after they were discharged from t...

Monday malady

...earchers state that weekend alcohol flings and the stress of going back to work on monday could bestow to an increased rate of heart attack. A 7 year study carried out in Australia suggested that up to 31% more people die from heart attacks on a Monday than any other day. Experts have now called for more p...

Science of swooning

...re on their bodies. This assumed the gravitational stress of standing up. Blood flow in their forearms was measured at four different gravitational levels after having a non-alcoholic drink to determine how much their blood vessels tightened in response to a drop in blood pressure. The tests were then rep...

Herbal Drug In Controversy

...a general relaxant and to treat insomnia, anxiety, stress and muscle spasms. According to experts, the herb behaves like a class of drugs known as// benzodiazepines but is not chemically related. Benzodiazepines have been shown to be habit-forming when taken in high doses or for extended periods of time. W...

Vitamin E useful for Alzheimer's

...supplement is a powerful antidote to the oxidative stress linked to brain disorders such as Alzheimer's. Tak...d out on mice with stupenduous potential.Oxidative stress is caused by the toxic effect of highly reactive oxygen molecules, called free radicals, which damag...

Find a partner

...p to explain why married men are able to deal with stress better and are therefore less likely to suffer from heart attacks or strokes....

A Blood test for suicide risk?

...k: a blood test that checks glands controlling the stress hormone cortisol. Overactive glands may be a corollary to the mental turmoil that leads people to take the final step. So says psychiatrist William Coryell, who studied patients given the dexamethasone suppresion test while hospitalised for major d...

Exercise lowers Risk of Ovarian Cancer

...eart disease and stroke,// and it even reduces our stress levels. Now a new study says it's also good for reducing our risk of ovarian cancer. Right now screening tests for ovarian cancer are not very appropriate. That makes it all the more important to concentrate on strategies to prevent the disease. No...

Depression hurts the heart

...ion is, but since depression can raise stress, and stress triggers an outpouring of the hormone cortisol, this could cause heart rate and blood pressure to rise.Other factor could play a part: Depressed people are lesslikely to excercise or eat right than those who don't suffer from the complaint.Brenda sa...

Lethal Heart Condition linked To Cocaine Use

...o cocaine use. Cocaine use causes an increase in stress hormones that can cause quick rise in BP. This may tear the lining of the vessel, which can allow blood to enter and rip it even further. The dissection may stop blood from reaching critical organs, or even cause the aorta to rupture. Researchers r...

Calcium reduces colon cancer risk

... of people don't get it and there needs to be more stress on calcium....

Pregnant women more prone to depression

...ld may also be affected, as for example, a rise in stress hormones could lead to low birth weight. The study looked at over 9,000 women in the Avon area, whose babies were due between April 1 1991 and December 31 1999. Clinically approved scales for measuring depression were used to asses women at 18 weeks...

Attempting Hypnosis for relaxation

...eat way to break bad habits like smoking,// reduce stress and relieve pain. Its success depends upon why it is being used, and how readily the person can enter the altered awareness of the hypnotic state, say doctors at the Mayo Clinic. But most people can benefit from a simple form of self hypnosis. This...

Prefiguring Alzheimer's disease

...ntia before it develops fully. But the researchers stress that not all cases of mild cognitive impairment will turn into full-blown dementia. It may, in some cases, be a condition in its own right. But it should not be seen as a normal part of the aging process....

A remedy to lessen fatigue

... But build up gradually to 30 minutes a day. Learn stress reduction, pace yourself and make time management a priority - then you don't get overwhelmed. Good sleep habits, a healthy diet, and lots of water will also help increase your energy levels and beat debilitating fatigue....

Risk of heart diseases due to loneliness

...ew study shows that people who are secluded handle stress in a way that increases their risk of heart disease. They had a group of students carry out mentally and emotionally stressful tasks,// having previously assessed their level of loneliness and social isolation.They found that the lonely students were...

Increase in renal problems

...als and nitric oxide interact to produce oxidative stress and help cause these neurological dysfunctions,” said Dr Nick Vaziri, head of the research. “It also may provide a way to treat these disorders,” he said. Dr Vaziri suggested that it might be possible to link the results with similar events that oc...

Defective heart valve causes problems

...amber in people with a leaky valve and this causes stress that can precipitate AF. In this study, a group of 500 patients with a leaky valve was focussed on carefully. Almost half developed AF within ten years. Since a leaky valve can be repaired, at minimal risk, by surgery, the study suggests that such in...

Preventing mental decline in the aged

...d physical exercise, continuing social engagement, stress reduction, and proper nutrition may be important factors when it comes to cognitive vitality in the aging. Another area that could help seniors keep their cognitive ability is therapeutic strategies. Researchers say antioxidants and anti-inflammato...

Many factors influence sexual potency

... physical fitness. - Worry, depression, excessive stress and dissatisfaction in life can play a part in sexual satisfaction. A man unhappy with his job or worried about finances may need to explore these factors with a trained mental-health counselor if medical causes have been ruled out. - An abnormal de...

Alcohol injures stress hormone response

...sity of Chicago,restoring alcoholics have impaired stress responses that lead to cognitive problems. //A gro...compared to 35 non-alcoholic controls in a test of stress hormone response and memory and problem solving. All participants were placed under stress by being ...

A new herbal therapy to quit smoking

...rom smoking and resume. This is done to reduce the stress of quitting, according to therapists at Newtrition. The Ultimate Quitting Date is then fixed, five days before which the smoker will begin sessions of hypno-therapy, which includes counselling, muscle relaxation techniques, and meditation. The ther...

Self control makes stress response easy

...se. But the level of the physiological response to stress is moderated by many psychological factors, such a...the belief you can control a situation reduces the stress response. A group of 30 students played a game of video 'catch' - which simulates a stress situation...

Quit smoking after cancer diagnosis

...when they have cancer is tricky - for instance, if stress makes them smoke, it would be better to address the causes of the stress first. And some patients believe it is too late to give up once they have cancer. They should be inf...

Severe stress weakens immunity

People undergoing oppressive stress have measurable anomalies in their immune system t...e vulnerable to illness. It's widely believed that stress may impair health, although the underlying// mechanisms are not clear. Now researchers at Washington...

Hormone Imbalance may lead to prolonged fatigue

According to a new study researchers observe that stress hormones may be disregulated in people with chroni... stress.// The end result is the production of the stress hormone cortisol by the adrenal glands. Chronic fatigue is characterized by aches, pains and overw...

Anxiety and Peptic ulcers may be linked

... don't know why such a link exists. It may be that stress undermines the immune response to H. pylori , or that ulcers cause anxiety - rather than the other way round. It is possible that treating anxiety, as well as H. pylori may be a more powerful way of healing a peptic ulcer....

Perceived stress decreases vaccine response

... people who have felt psychologically low or under stress had a lower response to a meningitis vaccine than ...rm an ideal population for studying the effects of stress on immune response. Researchers at the University of Birmingham asked a group of students about t...

Overcoming actively may help in breast cancer

...er. And up to ten per cent even had post-traumatic stress disorder. Women who adopt a positive coping style for living with breast cancer do appear to have better immune function compared to those who use a passive coping strategy. The researchers suggest that helping women to adjust emotionally to their di...

Renal problem increased

...als and nitric oxide interact to produce oxidative stress and help cause these neurological dysfunctions,” said Dr Nick Vaziri, head of the research. “It also may provide a way to treat these disorders,” he said. Dr Vaziri suggested that it might be possible to link the results with similar events that oc...

Handling forgetfulness

...dults. Manage stress, too, as well as you can, for stress hormones can interfere with mental processes. It is also important to have regular physical checks, as heart problems and diabetes raise the risk of dementia....

Oxygen Treatment may be injurious

.... Imaging studies showed a high level of oxidative stress - sufficient to cause toxic damage to cells. The study supports what some physicians have long suspected - oxygen therapy is not without hazard, and should be reserved for those cases where the benefit clearly outweighs the risk....

Stress triggers acne

...logists at UT Southwestern Medical Center say that stress is one of the main causes for an attack of acne. Mounting stress produces increased secretion of the hormone androgen //which results in an increased production of a...

Spurt in hospital admissions following football shoot-outs

...attack rates by 27 per cent. The fact that extreme stress and emotion// can cause a heart attack in vulnerable people is known to almost everyone.However, research carried out at the the time of a key football match between England and Argentina during the 1998 World Cup has provided further evidence that ...