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Serial Two-Photon Tomography

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:26:00 +0000

A team of neuroscientists researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA, led by Professor Pavel Osten, has developed a new technique to create images of the entire brain, after having conducted experiments on the brains of mice.

The new technique takes successive images of brain sections precisely, using a laser microscope with two photons. The resulting images are then computer processed, resulting in a three-dimensional image of the entire brain.

Developed in conjunction with the TissueVision company, new brain scanning technique was called Serial Two-Photon Tomography - STP.

Study leader, Professor Pavel Osten argues that this new technology is extremely accurate and is sufficiently developed to be already used in specific procedures.

The researchers tested the process at different resolutions, from 1-2 microns to less than one micron and obtained a complete set of data regarding the studied brain from 6.5-8.5 hours and a standby time considerably reduced compared to other current technologies.

Even if a scan at full resolution using Serial Two-Photon Tomography can take up to 24 hours, using a conventional scanning technologies complete data set can be achieved only in a week.

Professor Osten's team is currently using STP on the brains of mice tomography to identify genes responsible for diseases such as autism or the emergence of schizophrenia.

Extraction of DNA samples from the brains of deceased patients highlights the mysteries of mental illness

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:22:00 +0000

An American pathologist from Indiana University along with an international team of researchers extracted DNA samples from the brains of deceased patients belonging to the period 1896-1938 in order to observe if they contain genes related to schizophrenia or other mental illness.

It is believed that schizophrenia is caused by certain genetic variations, but researchers were unable to identify the precise mutation or series of mutations that are directly related to the disease.

Scientists took advantage of the fact that brain samples dating from the late 19th and early 20th century are kept perfectly preserved museum in a special substance (a form flammable gelatin and cellulose). The brains were not affected in any way by modern medicaments and have with clinical notes.

However, extracting DNA and RNA samples was not easy, because the brains must be treated with liquid nitrogen at -180 degrees Celsius temperature.

Although researchers have not published their findings, if DNA extraction method is validated, their work will be the beginning of the establishment of a database with important information about mental illness.

The brains were kept by the Medical History Museum Indianapolis

Consuming Fish - No Alzheimer's Disease

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:26:00 +0000

Folks who consume baked or baked fish every week could be ameliorating their brain wellness and cutting down their risk of getting mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease.

The study establishes a direct connection between fish eating habbits, brain structure and Alzheimer's risk.

"The results showed that people who consumed baked or broiled fish at least one time per week had better preservation of gray matter volume on MRI in brain areas at risk for Alzheimer's disease."

Alzheimer's disease is an incurable, graduated brain disorder that slowly ruins memory and cognitive skills. National Institute on Aging reports that 5.1 million US citizens may have Alzheimer's disease. In MCI, blackout is present but it's not that aggressive. Folks with MCI usually go on to germinate Alzheimer's disease.

"Consuming baked or broiled fish promotes stronger neurons in the brain's gray matter by making them larger and healthier," Dr. Raji alleged. "This simple lifestyle choice increases the brain's resistance to Alzheimer's disease and lowers risk for the disorder."

Artificial blood could soon become usable

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:25:00 +0000

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland are workin on a type of artificial blood that will be ready for human tests in two or three years. The artificial blood is created from divisible stem cells harvested from adult bone marrow. The fresh created blood will be O Negative and could be used for 98% of patients.

Basically, blood is a liquid material that carries oxygen and other nutrients through the veins and arteries. Every day people are injured or develop problems that requires surgery. This means blood loss requires transfusion of fresh blood from various donors. In some cases this could be a problem because the blood type could be hard to find, especially in underdeveloped countries. In addition, there are external risks of blood infections such as HIV, hepatitis, etc.

The team from Edinburgh, led by Professor Marc Turner, is cultivating stem cells from bone marrow in a material very similar to red blood cells. They believe that the mechanism is refined and will be ready for human testing within three years. The next step would be to combine the results with those obtained by other researchers in the world.

Certainly, artificial blood will be saving lives in medical emergencies. But there is a problem: will not have permanent role in blood replacement. Therefore researchers still need to work towards a true artificial blood, without adverse effects and complications.

Even so, a temporary substitute for human blood would be extremely important. If this new type of blood would come to be used, will save millions of lives worldwide.

How to prolong your life

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:12:00 +0000

I'm sure everyone heard about foods that are not good for your health: pork, fats, junk food, etc. But what should we eat and how should we treat our body in order to live longer?

If you want to have a healthier and longer life then you should eat natural food. Stop buying from your local drugstore pills stuffed with large complex of vitamins. Nutritionists advise you to try a cheaper and safer option. Why pay for pills when you can pay for the real deal?

"We know that fruit and vegetable diet is healthy, that prevents many diseases and reduces costs for maintaining health. Unfortunately, nobody knows exactly how each component of this regime affects the longevity of life" said Dr. Hubert Warner, who runs an aging program research. This does not mean it won't affect it. Almost every study available shows that fruit and vegetable is the simplest way to keep your body in shape.

Another study shows that chocolate and wine are the secret of a long healthy life. Sounds rather fun if you think about it. Nutritionists alleges that we can keep away the heart and kidney disease by consuming these foods - dark chocolate, nuts, garlic, fruits, vegetables, fish and one daily glass of red wine.

The researchers determined that another secret of long life is to eat in small quantities. Although many scientist say that starving cells are the key of a long life, I think that the answer lies between these theories. There are many diets you can adopt that will change your life. If you want to know where do you stand right now, insert your details into this bmi calculator. BMI is a fast way to determine if your body has too much fat, and what needs to be done.

Start today!

There are few things you should consider if you want to prolong your life: eat vegetables and fruits, fish, drink green tea, drink water, remember that honey is your friend, keep your BMI within your ideal weight.

No more fat diets, no more carbohydrate drinks, stop smoking, drink less alcohol, stop watching TV all day and start doing sports.

Artificial blood vessels created with 3D Printer

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:17:00 +0000

Artificial blood vessels created in the laboratory with a 3D printer could be used in organ transplantation soon .
The major obstacle encountered so far in creating artificial tissues was supplying them with nutrients, which is done naturally through capillaries.

A team of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany has solved this problem by using a 3D printer and a technique called two-photon polymerisation.

There are thousands of patients who desperately needed a transplant and some fail to obtain it in time. Over 11,000 people were put on the waiting list for organ transplantation in Germany only in 2011.

To save as many lives as they can, researchers around the world working in the field of tissue engineering have attempted to create in the laboratory artificial tissues and even whole organs.

"The individual techniques are already functioning and they are presently working in the test phase; the prototype for the combined system is being built," said Dr. Günter Tovar, BioRap ongoing project leader at Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart. 3D printing technology is used more and more in many industries (the production of clothing items and creating architectural models to modeling chocolate figurines).

Something as delicate and complex as blood vessel is really hard to be printed. Scientists combined 3D printing technology with two-photon polymerisation. Three-dimensional printing technology researchers combined with the polymerization bifotonice - using laser beams to stimulate the molecules in minuscule focus points.

The material gets solid but flexible, allowing researchers to accurately model the elastic structure that can be tolerated by body tissues.

"We are establishing a basis for applying rapid prototyping to elastic and organic biomaterials," said Dr Tovar.

What is Superstring Theory?

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:25:00 +0000

Superstring theory is an effort to find an answer for all of the atoms and cardinal forces of nature in one hypothesis by molding them as oscillations of tiny supersymmetric strings. Superstring theory is a stenography for supersymmetric string theory because contrary to bosonic string theory, it's the adaptation of string theory that contains fermions and supersymmetry.

Physicist Brian Greene gives a short explanation of superstring theory, a concept that minuscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe.

Ultra low-power state CPU

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:13:00 +0000

Scientists at intel developed an experimental CPU that brings a %500 increase in energy efficiency.

read more on Crazy Gadgets

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:34:00 +0000

SixthSense is the latest effort from Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry. The setup features a camera, a projector, a little mirror, phone and colored caps. The components communicates with the cellphone that will access all the data you need. The system tracks the four fingers and recognizes various gestures (zoom in/out, take a picture, organize, resize). It's still a work in progress but its capabilities are just amazing.
Price: $350.

Stress in early life reduces life expectancy

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:51:00 +0000

A fresh study by the University of Glasgow, brought out today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, evokes that our life expectancy is probably influenced by how much tension we were exposed to early in our lives. The research also depicts that early life stress underwent by our partners may affect our lifespan.

“Other research led us to expect that increased stress exposure in early life would reduce adult lifespan’, said Professor Pat Monaghan, “but we were not expecting such a big effect on breeding partners. Unstressed birds had mortality rates that were four times higher than normal if they were simply given partners that had experienced stress earlier in their lives.”

The group of researchers considers that contribution to the reason for the partner effect could be that these tense souls are not very comforting to be with. Agreeing to Professor Monaghan, “The take home message is that the wrong kind of partner can be very bad for your health.”

It's a known fact that our general mood can affect different diseases in negative or positive ways. That's why I see no reason not to trust this study. It seems that the answer to the big question ('how can I live longer?') rest within ourself.

Connect to the internet in new ways

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:22:00 +0000

If you are baffled at the slow speeds of wifi internet when more than one device is tapped into your network you should know that radio waves are merely one part of the spectrum that can carry our data. What if we could utilize other waves to surf the internet?

Harald Haas (a German physicist), has developed a solution he calls “data through illumination”—getting the fiber out of fiber optics by beaming data through an LED light bulb that alters in intensity more accelerated than the human eye can follow.

Haas alleges his conception, which he calls D-Light, could develop data rates more bolted than 10 MBps, which is quicker than your common broadband connection. He foresees a time to come where information for laptops, smartphones, and pads is aired by the light in a room. And security measures would be a breeze—if you can not envision the light, you can not access the data.

You are able to guess all sorts of functions for this technology, starting with public cyberspace access by street lamps to auto-piloted cars that intercommunicate by their headlights.

Link to the video

HIV Diagnosed In 15 Minutes

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:59:00 +0000

Columbia University men of science have developed a $1 plastic chip that can diagnose HIV and syphilis in 15 minutes. The chip named the "mChip", a credit-card-sized piece of plastic that is made applying a plastic injection molding process, examinations for multiple diseases with just one pinprick of blood. Nothing moves inside the chip, and the microfluidics-based chip can be examined with assist from a cheap visual sensor.

Concording to results issued this week in Nature Medicine, the chip detects 100% of cases when utilized to test HIV or syphilis and human immunodeficiency virus together, with a 4% to 6% false positive rate. That's same to what is ascertained with common laboratory exams in the developed world.

An mChip that can diagnose prostatic adenocarcinoma has already been authorized for use in Europe. In the future, Columbia investigator Samuel K. Sia trusts to practice the chip to examine pregnant women in Rwanda for HIV and other STDs. Numerous of these women domiciliate too far away from laboratories to be diagnosed with conventional techniques. "When you’re in these villages, you may have the drugs for many STDs, but you don’t know who to give treatments to, so the challenge really comes down to diagnostics," Sia explained in a statement.

Mobile Email Solutions

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:52:00 +0000

Smartphones are becoming indispensables these days and that's the main reason professionals are getting more involved into developing mobile applications. It is a known fact that productivity increases if the employee has email access at all times. It's time for everyone to realize the major business benefits of mobile email solutions.

Here are some of the factors that will determine wireless email deployment in an organization. The main factor is represented by th Total Cost of Ownership. Other factors involved are Mobile Workforce of Organization, support for various devices, security problems and network compatibility.A large number of service providers have started to include support for enterprises functions.

Mobile email solutions grant a user to send and get messages thru a smartphone. Where they dissent importantly constitutes the manner they do this, which successively decides which basic mail servers and services are better, the feel and the comfort with which they can be adjust and administered.

Mobile email solutions planned to operate with large scale Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino systems are not inevitably assisting the large number of diminished concerns relying on ISP hosted POP3 mailboxes, and contrariwise. And from a user linear perspective, results formed for episodic low volume access will be poor for road warriors, while fully complete mailbox mirroring and attachment addressing could be overkill or hard to price justify for comparatively clean demands.

Security is really important when it comes to mobile email solutions. You should always use 12 characters password including at least one capital letter and one number. Many mobile email providers use encryption for confidential emails. Securing data on a laptop is different from securing data from a smartphone. That's why most mobile email providers try to provide a secure solution for a wide range of devices.

Men of science can anticipate actions using brain activity

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:16:00 +0000

Fetching the real life into the brain digital scanner, men of science at The University of Western Ontario from The Centre for Brain and Mind can at present ascertain the action an individual was planning, bare moments ahead that action is actually accomplished.

You can find this discovery in the Journal of Neuroscience.

"This is a considerable step forward in our understanding of how the human brain plans actions," alleged Jason Gallivan, a Western Neuroscience PhD student, who was the first author on the paper.

This was a study that lasted over an year. Human subjects let their brainpower activity scanned applying functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) when they executed hand motions: apprehending the top of an object, seizing the bottom of the object, or simply extending and touching the object. The group discovered that by utilising the signals from numerous brain areas, they could anticipate, better than chance, which of the activities the volunteer was just thinking to do moments later.

"Neuroimaging allows us to look at how action planning unfolds within human brain areas without having to insert electrodes directly into the human brain. This is obviously far less intrusive," explains Western Psychology professor Jody Culham, who was the paper's senior author.

This discovery can be used in prosthetic limbs control. "Being able to predict a human's desired movements using brain signals takes us one step closer to using those signals to control prosthetic limbs in movement-impaired patient populations, like those who suffer from spinal cord injuries or locked-in syndrome." said Gallivan

Geneticists can determine your age using a saliva sample

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:38:00 +0000

You want to hide your age? If that's the case, you need watch carefully where you spit. Men of science from UCLA discovered a saliva test that will reveal your real age. This new discovery opens doors for a wide range of applications. A fresh patented test could help crime-scene investigators to discover suspect's real age without knowing anything else about them.

"Our approach supplies one answer to the enduring quest for reliable markers of aging," said principal investigator Dr. Eric Vilain, a professor of human genetics, pediatrics and urology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

"While genes partly shape how our body ages, environmental influences also can change our DNA as we age," Vilain said. "Methylation patterns shift as we grow older and contribute to aging-related disease."

Vilain and his squad picture the test turning a forensic creature in crime-scene investigations. By examining traces of spit left in a tooth bite or on a coffee cup, research lab experts may specify the age of a criminal suspect to a five-year range.

The findings can be found in June 22 PLoS One - an online journal of the PLS.

First photos of asteroid 2011 MD as it makes its very close pass by Earth

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:05:00 +0000

These are the first photos of asteroid 2011 MD as it makes its very close pass by Earth. The asteroid passed at only 7,600 miles above the Earth's surface. It is about 5-20 meters in diameter and in an orbit similar to Earth's around the Sun. Extra observations have determined that this object is not a space junk (as suggested early one). Bill Gray is notorious expert in orbital dynamics. He determined that 2011 MD could not have been close enough to Earth before.

At the moment of it's closest approach, 2011 MD was bright as magnitude ~11.8.
Although 2011 MD was pretty close, the record of nearby passing asteroids is held by 2011 CQ1. It came within 5,840 KM of Earth on 4th Feb 2011.

Astronomers Discover New Cancer Treatment

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:56:00 +0000

Stargazers’ research on stars could have an impact on the human body.
Ohio State University uranologists are trying to develop a possible new radiotherapy treatment that will help combat cancer. The freshly discovered technology is designated to be harder on cancerous tumors, but softer on healthy tissue.

“As astronomers, we apply basic physics and chemistry to understand what’s happening in stars. We’re very excited to apply the same knowledge to potentially treat cancer,” senior research scientist Sultana Nahar said.

The team of scientist believe that nanoparticles embedded in cancerous tumors will absorb X-rays better at particular frequencies. This will produce electron ejections that will destroy malignant cells. Using X-Ray spectroscopy scientists can predict those energies and which molecules and atoms will work better.

Read more on researchnews

Infinite Battery Life with Nanotechnology

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:49:00 +0000

A mere tap could be sufficient to charge your portable device thanks to a breakthrough made at RMIT University and Australian National University.

Altough this is not new technology, it's a major step towards the discovery of self-powering gadgets. The men of science have determined the ability of piezoelectric films to turn mechanical pressure into electricity. There results were published in Advanced Functional Material Journal on 21 June Issue.

"The power of piezoelectrics could be integrated into running shoes to charge mobile phones, enable laptops to be powered through typing or even used to convert blood pressure into a power source for pacemakers - essentially creating an everlasting battery," said lead co-author Dr. Madhu Bhaskaran. The mixed potential of this material is amazing, but it will take some time until we'll be integrated into smartphones and laptops.

"The concept of energy harvesting using piezoelectric nanomaterials has been demonstrated but the realisation of these structures can be complex and they are poorly suited to mass fabrication."

The key of making this technology reliable is to amplify the electrical energy generated by the piezoelectric fabrics. This allows the technology to be integrated into low-cost structures.

read more on the Journal

Scientists create memory extension for the human brain

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:59:00 +0000

If you thought Matrix was unreal, think again. Remember when Neo learned Jiu-Jitsu in seconds? Well it seems that it's not that far from possible. Men of science have discovered a chip that allows lab rats to instantly acquire new information.

Applying an electronic scheme that duplicates the neuronic signals linked with memory, they coped to duplicate the brain function in rats affiliated with long-term learned behavior, even when the rats had been narcotized to forget.

"Flip the switch on, and the rats remember. Flip it off, and the rats forget," said Theodore Berger of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Department of Biomedical Engineering.

In a striking presentation, the experimenters froze the normal neural interactions between the two fields using pharmacological factors. The antecedently trained rats were no longer able to exhibit the long-term learned demeanor.

"The rats still showed that they knew 'when you press left first, then press right next time, and vice-versa,'" Berger said. "And they still knew in general to press levers for water, but they could only remember whether they had pressed left or right for 5-10 seconds."

This discovery could lead to devices that could help people affected with Alzheimer's disease, stroke or brain injuries. The next logical step for the research team is to reproduce the same results in monkeys.

The fastest supercomputer in the world

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:01:00 +0000

New Japanese supercomputer is more powerful than the next five fastest computers combined

A Nipponese supercomputer assembled by Fujitsu Co. Took hold of the title of world's fastest computer. The previous winner was a Chinese rival. This means Japan is getting back in the top of the computer arms race for the first time in seven years.

Established at Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research,the "K Computer" executes more than eight quadrillion (8,000 trillion) computations per second. K Computer is a play on the Nipponese word "kei" for the number 10 quadrillion, which will be the total power this supercomputer is targeted to cover once it is completed in 2012.

K Computer is a major progress from existing supercomputers. It's more potent than the following 5 fastest computer systems combined. This means it can execute 3 times as many computations per second as the No. 2 supercomputer, configured by China's National University of Defense Technology.

"We think this is one part of Japan's strength and we strive to benefit all of Japanese society with it," said Ryoji Noyori, who is the president of the company that developed the supercomputer.

K Computer features:
- 68,544 processors, each equipped with eight cores for a total 548,352 electronic brains
- at full capacity, it aims to have 640,000 electronic brains
- the system is housed in 672 refrigerator-sized computer racks
- it uses 9.89 megawatts of power

Check here to view the top supercomputers in the world!

Prostate cancer drug extends life

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Fri, 27 May 2011 07:03:00 +0000

The new trial demonstrates that patients that take the new drug extend their life with four months. The new discovered drug seems to ease the pain in most of cases.

The drug named Zytiga, was discovered by British scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR). Zytiga can be applied in up to 80% of cases with aggressive drug-resistant prostate cancer.

'We are thrilled that a drug discovered at The Institute of Cancer Research has been proven to significantly extend life for many men, giving doctors a valuable new treatment option.' said professor Johann de Bono from the ICR and The Royal Marsden, chief trial investigator and lead author.

5 Minutes of Evolution

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Thu, 26 May 2011 08:04:00 +0000

Although this will start a creation-evolution debate, it's interesting to see the evolution of species in 5 minutes!

Astronomers unveil new 3D map of the universe

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:53:00 +0000

Astronomers have developed the most concluding 3D representation of the close universe up to now. Using high resolution telescopes they evaluated distances to a whopping 45,000 galaxies out to a length of 380 million light-years. Contrary to the known Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which represented just a parcel of the sky, the modern 2MASS Redshift Survey addresses 95% of encircling space, skipping only the area near the plane of our own galaxy, where the Milky Way System interference the view of remote objects. In the map, color ciphers for distance: purplish dots are close galaxies; red dots are remote ones. The new representation of the near universe will assist stargazers to interpret and explain the movement of the Milky Way, which is seemingly being drove by the gravity of adjacent groups and clusters of galaxies.

3D Solar Cell with Improved Efficiency By 80 Percent

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:47:00 +0000

Men of science at the United States of America section of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have produced a 3D photovoltaic cell which could rise PV light-to-energy conversion rates by 80%.

Generally, when sunlight hits the surface of a solar board and is assimilated by solar cells, a few of the charge produced by solar photons gets pinned by natural faults in the bulk materials that comprise the strata of the PV cell, consequent in a deprivation of final electricity output.

The scientists focused on optimising this energy.

"To solve the entrapment problems that reduce solar cell efficiency, we created a nanocone-based solar cell, invented methods to synthesize these cells and demonstrated improved charge collection efficiency," Xu said.

Oak Ridge’s 3D solar cell applies zinc-oxide n-type nanocenes to suffice a model for channeling electrons. A p-type ground substance of crystalline Cd telluride functions as the main photon absorber medium.

With these new addons to the original design, they manage to demonstrate an amazing conversion efficiency rate from 1.8 to 3.2.

"We designed the three-dimensional structure to provide an intrinsic electric field distribution that promotes efficient charge transport and high efficiency in converting energy from sunlight into electricity," Xu said.

The same team of scientists are also doing work on a hybrid photovoltaic cell that reins the light-harvesting powers of photosynthetic bacteria.

Natural and Synthetic Hormones

noreply@blogger.com (http://here-first.blogspot.com) — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:50:00 +0000

Natural hormones have the same structure as the ones naturally found in the human body. That's the main reason they're called bio-identical hormones. Bio-identical hormones are combined in a exceptional type of pharmaceutics known as a compounding pharmacy.

Products in drug stores offer people a diversity of natural choices created directly from herbs or plants. Family medicine and herbalists have evolved and these days a better acceptance could be found for these herbal products.

There are so many types of products these days, we just have to be careful what we buy. That's why most pharmacies needs prescriptions in order to release hormone based products to buyers. These products are frequently in insufficient dose to create a measurable difference in the human body based on actual laboratory tests. They do occasionally assist to remedy some symptoms.

These products use components of pure pharmaceutic degree that will be easily absorbed. This consequences in lower waste as it actions through the gastrointestinal system.

The risks Of Synthetic Hormones

Synthetic hormones creates harmful metabolism changes in the organs, whereas natural hormones don't. Analyzes have demonstrated that changed, artificial hormones will drive side effects in most cases.
Provera is a synthetic drug that has been molecularly changed and has been acknowledged to induce awkward side effects. The Journal of the American Medical Association discovered that progestin, the synthetic progesterone, enhanced the risk of breast cancer well beyond the hazard found in the consumption of estrogen alone. This does not happen with Natural Progesterone. It was described that synthetic prempro increased the risk of cardiopathy, stroke and breast cancer in women.

The Truth

“Synthetic hormones are simply no replacement for natural hormones. After many years of getting poor or no results with conventional HRT in my practice, natural hormones proved more effective and safer than any other treatment I’ve seen or used.” Erika T. Schwartz, M.D. author of The Hormone Solution.

“What people need to understand is that when their natural hormones are at optimal levels in their youthful prime is when they are the healthiest. It’s only when hormones decline and synthetic hormones are introduced to the body that we see these problems. In my practice of prescribing natural hormones to women for five years, I have never seen the problems and side effects as we have seen with the synthetic hormones. Why not replace the body with natural biologically identical hormones. Anything else, as we have seen with the recent discontinuation of the WHI Trials, is dangerous to a woman’s health.” Neal Rouzier, M.D., author of Natural Hormone Replacement for Men and Women: How to Achieve Healthy Aging.