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Archive for November, 2009

Have you ever felt as if the pain is being felt someone else? Your feelings may be right. A study using brain imaging to show, some people have the ability to feel the pain suffered by others.

By using brain imaging techniques MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), researchers from the UK found evidence that people who say they experience pain as other people in fact do so.

MRI examination of the unknown, the brain activity that serves the pain increases when people are watching other people in pain or injured. The ability to feel pain is referred to as functional illness.

People who have functional pain experience pain even though he was not physically injured or illness.

Derbyshire henceforth study to determine whether people who are able to feel pain also have a functional response as if he saw pictures of people injured.

In his research he asked 108 volunteers to watch some of photographs of people in pain situations, such as athletes who suffered injuries during the game or the person being injected. Nearly a third of participants admitted they were not only experiencing emotional reactions but also feel the pain as seen in the picture.

Based on the MRI finding out whether the changes in blood circulation in the brain and the brain areas that respond to pain are also more active when respondents looking at photos of people in pain situation. Also note also that the functional brain activity in terms of emotion seemed more active.

Lately the weather in the morning often looked grim cloudy. Afraid of rain, you had to cancel a routine morning walk.

Weather conditions should not be a barrier for you to keep working out the body. Here’s how your body is moving, though it rained in the morning or late afternoon.

- The streets in the mall

Walk around the mall is quite large. Wear clothing and comfortable shoes for the afternoon and the road was washing his eyes. Having calculated the math, it is also far enough distance that you can take. However, after a walk, do not rush to sit at the food court and the frenzy of food and beverage ordering.

- Join the club

Choose a comfortable club. All the streets in the mall, you can join the club in the shopping center. Make sure you get a quality coach to guide you to use the available equipment.

- Swim in the indoor pool (indoor)

If the body in the water either to the joints, compared to other types of exercise, especially if there are injuries in your joints. Water aerobics classes are usually taught in a shallow pond. Thus, there is no reason for you who fear the deep pool to choose this type of body.

- Buy fitness equipment

Morning jog can be done at home using a treadmill. This equipment practical and easy to use. Jog do it while watching television or reading the newspaper so that you do not get bored quickly.

Lack of thyroxine hormone produced by the thyroid gland during pregnancy is known to cause disturbances and increase the risk of miscarriage, premature birth and preeclampsia. The hormone itself is functioning in the body's metabolic processes.

But researchers from the Netherlands said that the hormone levels are still included "low to normal" is also causing problems. For example, the position of the fetal head is above the cavity of the uterus (breech) or head position was at the birth but her face to the rear, making it difficult birth process. Thyroxine hormone deficiency mentioned difficulties making babies change position in the cavity of the uterus.

Position the baby mentioned above not only make the birth process to be long and difficult, but it also makes doctors use assistive devices such as star birth, vacuum, even in a cesarean section. In a study of 1000 healthy pregnant women with known low levels of thyroxine hormone at the age of 36 weeks of pregnancy caused the baby’s head position is not unusual.

Researchers from the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands, it said the thyroxine hormone deficiency generally occurs one in 10 pregnancies. To determine whether normal levels of this hormone necessary blood tests.

Satisfaction in bed is closely related to health. But you know, sexual activity also gave a positive effect on health, especially if this activity continued to be maintained until old age? Just so you know:

- Sex burn fat and boost immunity.

- Sex encourage the brain to produce hormones endorphins, “painkillers” are produced naturally by the body.

- Sex loosen stress and give pleasure.

- People who are sexually active have a natural sex hormone levels are higher than inactive. The more active, the more you want to continue to diligently work out the sex.

- Physical changes due to aging process in people who hold an active sex life will not be for the people who are not sexually active. Sexual arousal was not so affected by the aging process.

- Do not limit sex to penetration. There are many variations of ways to familiarize yourself physically and it’s all good for health.

- The energy expended during sexual equivalent of walking up two steps, which are rarely dangerous. However, if you suffer from certain health problems, consult a doctor.

- Being a sexually active were healthier both physically and emotionally, but still must be careful of the infectious disease through sexual relations.

If the female menopause popular terms, the men had experienced a decrease hormone called andropause or menopause called ordinary men. Recognize the signs and symptoms.

Hormonal changes are a natural part of aging process. However, unlike the female hormone changes occur dramatically, in men of this change process is gradual and lasts for years.

The term male menopause is used to describe the condition of decreased testosterone levels in older men. This caused various changes, such as easy fatigue, lethargy, weakness, stiff muscles, hair loss, dry skin, decreased sexual desire, penis shrinking, and even impotence can occur.

Andropause men who also experience emotional changes, they usually feel less confident, irritability, difficulty sleeping, anxiety arises, and continues with depression.

Testosterone levels in men vary depending on age. Older, the less hormone levels are often referred to this male hormone. Testosterone levels decreased about one percent each year so he entered the age of 40 years. At the age of 70 years, the decline in testosterone in males can reach 50 percent.

Testosterone is a hormone produced in the testes and adrenal gland function in the formation of sperm and other male hormones together stimulate the maturation of sexual organs, causing enlargement of the larynx and thickening of the vocal cords so that the sound is low.

Testosterone also affects the body’s metabolic activity, such as the production of blood cells, formation of bone and muscle mass, lipid metabolism, carbohydrate metabolism, liver function, the development of the prostate gland, and hair growth.

No wonder, decreased as you age hormones cause physical condition declined. Fortunately, andropause occurs slowly and the start of a very varied depending on various factors .