HEALTH BULLETIN .CO: September 2013

Monday, September 30, 2013

This New Natural Testosterone Booster Has Men Everywhere Raving

Wow... I'm getting old.

It's a disturbing thought, one that usually hits after an unexpected physical challenge. Maybe you've been unable to maintain your usual workout levels, or recovery is taking a lot longer than it used to. Perhaps fixes to the house are just a bit more difficult, or you find yourself feeling tired more often.

What's most startling about this realization is that you don't normally "feel old" but, nevertheless, you know you're not the man you used to be.

And the issue? It could be a decrease in your testosterone.

Most people don't realize that testosterone is a vital hormone for maintaining overall good health. An article from the Lance Armstrong Foundation's Livestrong.com site, noted that when testosterone levels start to decline, men experience a gradual reduction in muscle density, size and strength. Testosterone stimulates the use of stored body fat for energy and keeps you looking lean, but when your levels decrease fatigue can set in from the breakdown of muscle tissue and poor energy production. The article adds, "You also see an increased incidence of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and other age-related illness that occur as testosterone levels slowly decline with age. Lower testosterone levels are associated with increased obesity, diabetes, fatigue, lower cognitive abilities, depression and heart disease."

Testosterone replacement therapy is one possible way of handling the situation, but it must be done through a doctor and research is mixed on whether or not it actually works. The real trick is getting the body to safely start producing more testosterone on its own, and one of the most exciting approaches has been developed by a group of scientists working at a leading Cambridge, Massachusetts nutraceutical company.

This team developed a safe and effective supplement that actually triggers the body to raise free testosterone levels naturally. It’s called Test X180 and it’s now available to the public. Test X180 relies on well-researched natural testosterone boosting ingredients such as Testofen®, which can significantly pump up a person’s free testosterone levels.

The product has no harmful side effects and has been shown to deliver improvements in strength and endurance in just days. In fact, the company states that results of Test X180 include enhanced physical performance and stamina.

What kind of a difference can a testosterone boosting supplement like this make?

According to users of the product, it’s nothing short of spectacular. From increased muscle definition and quicker recovery times, to increased feelings of alertness and greater endurance, these users are reporting virtual transformations as a result of safely boosting their free testosterone with Test X180.

Test X180 is manufactured under the strictest quality standards and is available at GNC stores across the nation.

Best of all, right now, the company that manufacturers Test X180 is giving away samples of the products to qualifying customers who request them online.

Click here to learn more and find out how to get your sample.

What happens to your body when you get jealous

We're probably all hardwired for jealousy; even babies and dogs feel it. Not to be confused with envy, which is about coveting what someone else has (e.g., a fab house), jealousy is about protecting what's yours—or what you think is yours. It frequently involves a me-you-her romantic triangle and often crops up at the start of a relationship.

The Mind Game

It might not be a "jealousy center," but scientists suspect the brain's left frontal cortex, which deals in emotions like shame, is involved.

Another key player is your noggin's dopamine system; it regulates the chemical associated with happiness or reward.

More: The Easiest Way to Boost Your Bond

Spurred by the above are the three types of jealousy:

Reactive jealousy happens after your mate has actually deceived you. You know he strayed and feel PO'ed, anxious, or sad. (Ditto if, for example, you caught your BFF out with a fun new friend.)

Suspicious jealousy rears its head when you see him flirting with someone else or if you start to doubt his commitment. Cue feelings of insecurity and distrust.

Delusional jealousy takes over when either of the above swell to the point of obsession, a la Fatal Attraction. You might act irrationally (freaking if he ogles an actress) or fanatically (creepily checking up on him).

More: 10 Secrets of Super Happy Couples

The Body Blow

Once you're green-eyed, you might have trouble seeing anything else—quite literally. A study found that women in the throes of jealousy had trouble spotting obvious objects. The greater their jealousy, the harder time they had. (Note to self: No driving while jealous!)
Jealousy might also kick-start the body's stress response. Enter an overflow of stress hormones, spiked blood pressure, and an increased heart rate.

The End Results

Except for any delusion, these reactions could be. . .good for you. Researchers believe that jealousy evolved in humans to motivate people to protect the unions that would help them survive. (Hence, jealousy is often followed by aggression.)

In other words, jealousy is an innate part of life and no cause for embarrassment. Studies show that couples who get just a little green-eyed from time to time tend to have long, rich unions.

Half of all maternity wards turn away women in labour: Report says lives are at risk because units are 'bursting at the seams'

Mothers-to-be are at risk because they have to travel miles to other wards

Royal College of Midwives say maternity hospitals are like 'pressure cookers'

News comes as number of women giving birth in their 40's rises

Under pressure: The Royal College of Midwives have compared maternity wards to 'pressure cookers' which can't cope with demand

Half of maternity wards are having to turn away women in labour because they are so busy, a report warns.

It says the lives of mothers-to-be and their babies are being put at risk because they are forced to travel miles to alternative hospitals.

The report by the Royal College of Midwives states that many units are ‘bursting at the seams’ and like ‘pressure cookers’ unable to cope with the soaring demand.

Britain’s birth rate is at an all-time high, partly driven by the influx of migrants, many of whom are relatively young and ready to start families.

In addition, there has been a surge in the numbers of women in their 40s giving birth after having delayed motherhood to pursue their careers.

The report found more than a quarter of maternity units have had to restrict their home-birthing services during the past 12 months to free staff to work on the labour wards.

Midwives also say there has been an increase in complicated births, often because mothers are older or more obese.

All this has left maternity units struggling to cope – despite an extra 1,000 midwives being employed by the NHS in the past couple of years.

The Royal College of Midwives has calculated another 5,000 are needed to ensure mothers and babies are cared for properly.

The RCM’s survey of 91 senior midwives found that 46 per cent had been forced to close their unit to women in labour at least once in the past 12 months.

A fifth said their budget had been slashed in the past year and a third said they did not have enough money for necessary numbers of staff.

Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the RCM, said: ‘Despite welcome increases in midwife numbers, this survey describes a worrying picture of our maternity services, and one that shows it is not improving.

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‘The midwifery shortages and cuts to services it describes will have a detrimental impact on the care women, babies and their families receive.

‘This shows a service that sometimes severely restricts the choices available to women, is struggling to provide continuity of care and is bursting at the seams in its ability to cope.

‘The temporary closures it highlights are just the tip of the iceberg.

‘Before closures happen, services have already been stretched to their limit, and closing is the point at which safety could be compromised if that does not happen.

‘I have deep misgivings about the quality of the service midwives and maternity support workers are able to provide, working in such an unstable, pressure-cooker atmosphere.’

Care and attention: According to the RCM, pregnant women are being put at risk when they are forced to travel longer distances to be seen by a midwife

The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 813,200 babies were born in 2012, the highest number for any year since 1972.

One experienced senior midwife, who wanted to remain anonymous, said: ‘All the fat is off the bone – we cannot strip any more off.

‘Having worked in the NHS for more than 30 years I have never known it to be so bad, and I fear for mothers and babies and midwives who are working tirelessly.

‘It is most difficult now we are trying to provide more for less with an increasing birth rate, but as far as trust boards are concerned this is not enough.

: The idealisms from the Department of Health and House of Commons are just not matching up with the requirements to provide this.

‘Poor performance, without adequate support, is increasing. I know they are being pressed from on high, but the elastic will break.’

Meditation made easy: How to sleep more serenely

Experts suggest that we need a minimum of eight to nine hours to be at our best physically and mentally

Madonna Gauding, author of The Meditation Bible, gives you a beginner’s guide to serenity.

This week, a meditation to relax you before bedtime…

BENEFITS: Sleep deprivation is a serious health problem in our overly busy, stress-filled world.

Experts suggest that we need a minimum of eight to nine hours to be at our best physically and mentally.

Realistically, though, we tend to get more like seven hours sleep a night.

This meditation will help clear your head and induce relaxation and sleep, thereby strengthening your immune system.

TO START: Make sure your bedroom is quiet, get into bed and turn off the lights. Ensure that your curtains or shades are closed to keep out any lights from the outside world.

STEP ONE: Stretch out on your back and get comfortable. Tense up your body as much as you can and then relax. Repeat this exercise three times.

STEP TWO: Slowly and deeply breathe into your lower abdomen 20 times.

STEP THREE: Now, with each in-breath, breathe in peace, and with each out-breath, breathe out all the cares of your day.

Release your worries and welcome pleasant dreams. Surrender to deep relaxation as you let go more and more. Feel yourself sinking into a deep, healing and rejuvenating sleep.

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BENEFITS: This meditation will help clear your head and induce relaxation and sleep, thereby strengthening your immune system

Inspiring recovery of miracle baby who was born with his bowel, intestines and liver on the OUTSIDE of his body

Hayden Hoskins was born in January with his organs outside of his body due to rare birth defect that affects 1 in 10,000 children

Doctors expected to put his organs back inside his body after a year but deemed him a 'best case scenario' and he underwent surgery in June

He is now rolling over and holding up his head

A baby boy who was born with his bowel, intestines and liver on the outside of his body due to a rare birth defect has inspired his family and doctors with his miraculous recovery.

Doctors thought it would be a year before Hayden Hoskins, who was born in January, would be able to have the organs tucked inside his body - but he underwent reconstructive surgery this summer.

Hayden's parents, Kelsea and Andy Hopkins, from Quincy, Illinois, revealed their son's amazing recovery as they threw a benefit to help raise funds for his care this weekend.

They first learned that something was not right during a routine ultrasound at 19 weeks.

Fighter: Hayden Hoskins, propped up on the family dog, shows his amazing recovery just nine months after he was born with his organs outside his body. He has now undergone reconstructive surgery

The ultrasound showed a large sac at his stomach area and doctors told his stunned parents he suffered from a birth defect known as an Omphalocele, where the organs grow outside the body.

The condition is a type of hernia that develops in the baby before birth and only occurs in one in 10,000 babies, KHQA reported.

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It meant that Hayden was growing part of his abdominal organs in a protective sac near his umbilical cord. It affected his intestines, stomach and liver.

Kelsea headed to the delivery room ahead of schedule due to high blood pressure, and she and her husband were surrounded by a team of doctors and nurses ready to ensure the baby's survival.

Fears: A rare birth condition meant his liver, intestines and bowel were born in a sac outside his body

Fragile: The sac was bandaged and doctors thought it would be a year before he could have surgery

Condition: An Omphalocele is a type of hernia that develops in the baby before birth

To everyone's relief, Hayden let out a few strong screams and showed no signs of the potential heart and kidney trouble that can have fatal results for a newborn Omphalocele.

'Really the test is when he's here how he does, so it's always very reassuring when babies come out and they cry,' his doctor, Dr Allison Cahill, said just after the birth. 'Once he got over here he needed a little bit more help with his breathing so he has a tube down his windpipe.'

Hayden was immediately slipped into a medical zip-lock bag to preserve body heat and fluid, and he was rushed to the NICU at nearby Children's Hospital.

While doctors had expected to wait a year before putting his organs back inside his body, they discovered he was the best case scenario and he underwent surgery in June.

Miracle: But doctors deemed Andy and Kelsea's baby boy, all pictured after his birth in January, strong enough to have surgery after five months and now he is recovering well

Growing boy: Just months later and Hayden is doing well. His parents are raising money for his health costs

Happy: The family keeps relatives, friends and strangers updated with their progress on a blog

'He's doing fantastic,' Hayden's physician, Dr. Kathy Asbury, told KHQA. 'He's rolling over. He has great head control.'

Residents turned out to raise money for the family at Columbus Road Church Kids Zone on Saturday. The funds will go towards his health costs at St Louis Children's Hospital.

'I think one of the things with this benefit and Hayden's journey is the phenomenal faith that Andy and Kelsea have had,' Dr. Asbury added. 'I think Hayden's really a miracle.'

The family also writes a blog updating friends and relatives with Hayden's progress.

The more texts you send, the worse you sleep: People who constantly message 'experience more stress in their friendships'

People who send a lot of texts sleep less well because they often feel pressurised to reply to messages in the middle of the night

They also sleep with phone by their bed so are woken by incoming texts

People who communicate by text have more stress in their friendships

This is because texts are unable to convey the nuances important in discussing sensitive issues

Many people claim they couldn't live without their phone, but this addiction could be doing them more harm than good, experts warn.

New research suggests that excessive texting can cause a whole host of sleep problems.

U.S. researchers found that people who send the most texts experience the most sleep problems.

People who text the most experience the most sleep problems. This is thought to be because they feel pressurised to reply to messages in the night and because they sleep with their phone by their bed so are woken by incoming messages

They believe this could be because these people feel pressurised to respond to messages immediately regardless of the time, and that some people sleep with their phone next to their bed meaning they are woken up by incoming texts during the night.

Karla Murdock at Washington Lee University found that first year students who text a lot sleep less well, regardless of their level of stress.

She asked students to answer questions that assessed their emotional well-being and sleep problems.

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She also asked them to estimate how many text messages they sent and received on an average day.

To assess the students' sleep quality, Dr Murdock used the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.

This is a widely-used instrument that measures multiple aspects of sleep quality such as sleep duration, the amount of time it takes to fall asleep, the amount of time actually spent sleeping while in bed, night time disturbances, and daytime sleepiness.

The study also found that frequent text messaging is associated with more friendship-related stress because texts are unable to convey subtle nuances in conversation

The key finding was that a higher number of daily texts was associated with more sleep problems.

Dr Murdock notes that this finding reinforces previous evidence pointing to a direct association between mobile phone use and poor sleep in adolescents and young adults.

The study also found that frequent text messaging is associated with more friendship-related stress.

Dr Murdock wrote: ‘These correlational findings provide an initial indication that heavy text messaging could be problematic during times of stress.

‘Although speculative, it could be argued that text messaging is a uniquely unsuitable mode of communication for coping with interpersonal stress in close relationships.’

For instance, Dr Murdock suggested the abbreviated language that is common in texting lacks the ability to provide the kind of nuance that is important in discussing sensitive issues.

In addition, texting fails to offer critical non-verbal cues that would be part of a face-to-face conversation.

‘Text messaging may carry a high risk of producing or maintaining misunderstandings and/or unproductive interactions during periods of stress,’ she wrote.

‘When interpersonal stress involves conflict, the conditions required for productive communication may be particularly difficult to achieve through texting.’

Teenage girls who eat peanut butter twice a week 'reduce their risk of breast cancer by 39%'

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Nine to 15-year-olds who eat peanut butter twice a week are much less likely to develop benign breast disease by the age of 30

Some benign breast diseases increase risk of breast cancer later in life

The findings also suggest beans, lentils, soybeans and corn also help prevent benign breast disease

Eating peanut butter could reduce a woman's risk of breast cancer, new research suggests

Eating peanut butter could reduce a woman’s risk of breast cancer, new research suggests.

Teenage girls who regularly eat peanuts are 39 per cent less likely to develop benign breast disease by the age of 30.

Some benign breast diseases, while noncancerous, increases the risk of breast cancer later in life.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard Medical School found the link was particularly strong in girls who ate peanuts when they were between the ages of nine and 15.

‘These findings suggest that peanut butter could help reduce the risk of breast cancer in women,’ said senior author Dr Graham Colditz, associate director for cancer prevention and control at Siteman Cancer Centre at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.

The researchers studied 9,039 U.S. girls between 1996 and 2001, and then again between 2005 and 2010 when they were 18 to 30-years-old.

They found that the participants who ate peanut butter or nuts twice each week were 39 per cent less likely to develop benign breast disease than those who never ate them.

The study’s findings also suggest that beans, lentils, soybeans and corn also may help prevent benign breast disease, but consumption of these foods was much lower in these girls meaning the evidence was weaker.

Past studies have linked peanut butter and nut and vegetable fat consumption to a lower risk of benign breast disease.

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However, participants in those studies were asked to recall their teenage food intake years later.

This new study is the first to use reports made during adolescence with continued follow-ups.

About 80 per cent of all breast lumps are benign, or noncancerous, and they are considered to be benign breast diseases.

Teenage girls who regularly eat peanuts are 39 per cent less likely to develop benign breast disease by the age of 30. Benign breast disease, while noncancerous, increases the risk of breast cancer later in life

Teenage girls who regularly eat peanuts are 39 per cent less likely to develop benign breast disease by the age of 30. Some benign breast diseases, while noncancerous, increase the risk of breast cancer later in life

These lumps tend to be moveable and smooth and are often found in both breasts.

They can be caused by benign breast changes, breast infections or injury and medications such as birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy.

Previous research by the Shanghai Cancer Institute suggested that eating peanuts - and other foods rich in Vitamin E - could cut the risk of liver cancer.

It also found that Vitamin-E rich foods, such as peanuts, can protect against heart disease and eye damage in old age.

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