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Video: New Hope for Baldness Cure?
Video: New Hope for Baldness Cure?
Researchers at UCLA studying stress in genetically altered bald lab mice discovered a compound that grew hair on the mice.
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Lady Vols Host Live Pink Bleed Orange Game Monday
The Lady Vols are trading in the traditional orange for pink when they host the Georgia Bulldogs on Monday as part of the ‘Live Pink’ Bleed Orange game aimed at raising breast cancer awareness.
Read more on The Chattanoogan
Video: New Hope for Baldness Cure?
Video: New Hope for Baldness Cure?
Researchers at UCLA studying stress in genetically altered bald lab mice discovered a compound that grew hair on the mice.
Read more on CBS News
Lady Vols Host Live Pink Bleed Orange Game Monday
The Lady Vols are trading in the traditional orange for pink when they host the Georgia Bulldogs on Monday as part of the ‘Live Pink’ Bleed Orange game aimed at raising breast cancer awareness.
Read more on The Chattanoogan
Despite loss on the court, Saranac Pink Out game a success
Although the Saranac boys basketball team was unable to pick up a win over Carson City-Crystal Friday night, the efforts of the Saranac Community made a winner out of the Susan G. Koman Foundation for the Cure.
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Video: New Hope for Baldness Cure?
Video: New Hope for Baldness Cure?
Researchers at UCLA studying stress in genetically altered bald lab mice discovered a compound that grew hair on the mice.
Read more on CBS News
Video: New Hope for Baldness Cure?
Researchers at UCLA studying stress in genetically altered bald lab mice discovered a compound that grew hair on the mice.
Read more on CBS News
Drug may slow growth of early prostate cancer
A new study suggests a way to help men with early, low-risk prostate cancer avoid being overtreated for a disease that in most cases will never threaten their lives. It found that a drug can slow the growth of these tumors in men who opt to be monitored instead of having treatment right away.
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Health Benefits of Honey and Cinnamon
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Q. What is the only food that doesn’t spoil?
A. Honey
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It is found that a mixture of Honey and Cinnamon cures most of the diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Ayurvedic as well as Yunani medicine have been using honey as a vital medicine for centuries. Scientists of today also accept honey as a very effective medicine for all kinds of diseases. Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases. Today’s science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients.
Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada, on its issue dated 17 January, 1995 has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by Honey and Cinnamon as researched by western scientists.
HEART DISEASES: Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, chappati, or other bread, instead of jelly and jam and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack. Also those who already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack.
Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heartbeat. In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as age the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalizes the arteries and veins.
INSECT BITES: Take one part honey to two parts of lukewarm water and add a small teaspoon of cinnamon powder, make a paste and massage it on the itching part of the body slowly. It is noticed that the pain recedes within a minute or two.
ARTHRITIS: Arthritis patients may take daily, morning and night, one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If taken regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured.
In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon Cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week out of the 200 people so treated practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.
HAIR LOSS: Those suffering from hair loss or baldness, may apply a paste of hot olive oil, one tablespoon of honey, one teaspoon of cinnamon powder before bath and keep it for approx. 15 min. and then wash the hair. It was found to be effective even if kept on for 5 minutes.
BLADDER INFECTIONS: Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder.
TOOTHACHE: Make a paste of one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and five teaspoons of honey and apply on the aching tooth. This may be applied 3 times a day till the tooth stops aching.
CHOLESTEROL: Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder
mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a cholesterol patient, was found to
reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10% within 2 hours. As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken 3 times a day, any Chronic cholesterol is cured. As per information received in the said journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.
COLDS: Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for 3 days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold and clear the sinuses.
INFERTILITY: Yunani and Ayurvedic Medicine have been using honey for thousands of years to strengthen the semen of men. If impotent men regularly take two tablespoon of honey before going to sleep, their problem will be solved.
In China, Japan and Far-East countries, women, who do not conceive and need to strengthen the uterus, have been taking cinnamon powder for centuries. Women who
cannot conceive may take a pinch of cinnamon powder in half teaspoon of honey
and apply it on the gums frequently throughout the day, so that it slowly mixes with the saliva and enters the body.
A couple in Maryland, USA, had no children for 14 years and had lost hope of having a child of their own. When told about this process, husband and wife started taking honey and cinnamon as stated above; the wife conceived after a few months and had twins at full term.
UPSET STOMACH: Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomachache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.
GAS: According to the studies done in India & Japan, it is revealed that if honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.
IMMUNE SYSTEM: Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.
INDIGESTION: Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food, relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.
INFLUENZA: A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ingredient, which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.
LONGEVITY: Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly arrests the ravages of old age. Take 4 spoons of honey, 1 spoon of cinnamon powder and 3 cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, 3 to 4 times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age.
Life spans also increases and even a 100 year old, starts performing the chores of a 20-year-old.
PIMPLES: Three tablespoons of Honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.
SKIN INFECTIONS: Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.
CANCER: Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month 3 times a day.
FATIGUE: Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful rather than being detrimental to the strength of the body. Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon power in equal parts, are more alert and flexible.
Dr. Milton who has done research says that a half tablespoon honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3.00 p.m. when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of the body within a week.
BAD BREATH: People of South America, first thing in the morning gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water. So their breath stays fresh throughout the day.
HEARING LOSS: Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder taken in equal parts restore hearing.
*NOTE:The honey used needs to be REAL RAW UNPASTEURIZED HONEY. If it says PURE honey it is most likely pasteurized. It is best to only buy honey that says RAW or UNPASTEURIZED on the label. The difference is that the enzymes are all heated out of the pasteurized honey.
Cinnamon and Honey formula for weight loss:
This should be prepared at night before going to bed.
1. Use 1 part cinnamon to 2 parts raw honey. 1/2 tsp cinnamon to 1 tsp honey is recommended but can use more or less as long as in the ratio of 1 to 2. — so 1 tsp cinnamon to 2 tsp raw honey is ok too as an example.
2. Boil 1 cup…that is 8 oz of water.
3. Pour water over cinnamon and cover and let it steep for 1/2 hour..(30 minutes)
4. Add honey now that it has cooled. Never add honey when it is hot as the heat will destroy the enzymes and other nutrients in the raw honey.
5. Drink 1/2 of this directly before going to bed. The other 1/2 should be covered and refrigerated.
6. In the morning drink the other half that you refirgerated…but do not re-heat it…drink it cold or at room temp only.
Do not add anything else to this recipe. No lemon, no lime, no vinegar. It is not necessary to drink it more time in a day…it is only effective on an empty stomach and primarily at night.
This works for most people. Inches are lost before any measurement on the scales. This program will cause significant inches lost…but you will reach a plateau and may not lose anymore. This is because the cinnamon and honey cause a cleansing effect in the digestive tract and cleans out parasites and other fungus and bacteria that slow down the digestion…causing a toxic build up. (Lowers pH) Once this is all cleaned out then you will most likely have the weight loss slow down.
Other side effects from a cleansing can occur because of toxins being released…if this occurs, cut back on how much you use or take a break.
Additionally people report increased energy, more sex drive, and feeling happier/mood enhancer.
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It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month … which we know today as the honeymoon.
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Genetic testing: Do you really want to know?
Once impenetrable, the individual genetic code is becoming an open book thanks to kits that scan for genes linked to scores of traits and diseases, from cancer and baldness to infertility and memory loss.
A couple of hundred dollars, a few drops of saliva and a stamped envelope is all it takes to get a rundown on your inherited risk of around a hundred more-or-less common conditions. You can place your order by Internet.
Business is booming even as some experts raise red flags about the tests, challenging their accuracy and questioning the wisdom of satisfying the growing hunger for intimate genetic knowledge.
Leading the pack of start-ups is California-based 23andMe, which offers “to help others take a bold, informed step toward self-knowledge”.
Rival deCODEme, a subsidiary of Iceland firm deCODE, promises “the discovery of your genetic propensity for developing specific diseases and conditions”.
Navigenics in Redwood Shores, California says it can “help you live healthier, longer”.
The business is called personalised genomics, and it is only now starting to deliver on a long-heralded promise.
Within a decade, say its supporters, mapping one’s complete genetic landscape will be as quick and common as a blood test for cholesterol.
Already today, women can check for a faulty variant of two genes, BRCA 1 or 2, that boosts the chance of getting breast cancer by 50-80 percent.
Other tests scan for the likelihood of sexual dysfunction brought on by certain anti-depressants, or heightened odds of becoming obese, schizophrenic or diabetic.
Parents can scan for diseases in their children — even when they are barely-fertilised embryos.
Last week saw the birth of the first baby in Britain grown from an embryo screened to ensure it did not contain the same breast cancer-causing gene inherited by her mother.
Another test is designed to spot athletic potential, and help figure out if junior could be the next Usain Bolt or just an also-ran.
The kit, marketed in the US by Atlas Sports Genetics, checks for either of two variants of the ACTN3 gene.
One gives rise to so-called “fast-twitch muscles” common among world-class sprinters, while the other produces the slow-twitch version found among endurance athletes.
Not all the genetic secrets waiting to be unlocked are critical — or even secret.
A sweet tooth, wet ear wax, heightened sensitivity to bitter greens or a slightly porous memory are hardly life-altering discoveries.
Why now? The science behind gene testing is not new. What has changed, and rapidly, is the cost of technology.
– All these tests have a high degree of uncertainty –
Since the three-billion-dollar Human Genome Project was completed in 2001, sequencing an individual’s genome “has become an order of magnitude cheaper and faster” every couple of years, Lynda Chin, a researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, said in an interview.
The price tag today is about 100,000 dollars, and at least one company, Pacific Biosciences in Menlo Park, California, says it will be able, by 2013, to map all three billion base-pairs of a person’s DNA in a quarter of an hour for a few hundred dollars.
But not everyone is ecstatic.
To start with, the tests available to date are only snap shots of a DNA snippet, not the whole shebang. More critically, the data they yield is subject to interpretation.
“All of these tests carry a high degree of uncertainty,” said Arnold Munnich, a researcher at the Centre for Genetic Medicine at Necker Hospital in Paris.
French genetics expert Segolene Ayme says “many of the kits currently on offer are simply scams”.
Most diseases or conditions are caused by a complex web of genetic and environmental factors that are hard to tease apart, these scientists explain.
Only a handful — so-called Mendelian diseases, such as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis — are caused by mutations in a single gene.
By contrast, nearly 20 genes have been linked in studies to Type 2 diabetes, and at least as many can play a role in different forms of cancer. More are likely to be added.
So even if the tests in question are accurate, the real problem is how to interpret the data they yield.
There is another danger: if it falls into the wrong hands, the same data that might lead to early diagnosis or targeted treatment of a disease could become a reason to refuse employment, insurance or a bank loan.
Last year US President George W. Bush signed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act to outlaw such abuses, but enforcement remains a concern. Other countries have yet to follow suit.
Finally, the most vexing question may be this: do we really want to know everything that our genome has to say? That we have a 20 percent greater chance of falling into dementia by the time we are 70, or that we are prone to alcohol or drug abuse?
“I have chosen not to learn whether I have a gene that increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease,” Steven Pinker, a professor at Harvard University and a leading proponent of evolutionary psychology, wrote recently in The New York Times.
Pinker is among the first 10 individuals whose genomes are to be sequenced and posted on the Internet as part of the Personal Genome Project, a public database for researchers that aims to compile complete genetic profiles of 100,000 people.
“Personal genomics is here to stay,” argues Pinker. “People who have grown up with the democratisation of information will not tolerate paternalistic regulations that keep them from their own genomes.”
Gene link to rare cause of baldness
PARIS ( 2009-01-04 18:57:04 ) :Scientists say they have pinned down a DNA mechanism that gives rise to a rare but distressing form of baldness that strikes before adulthood.
Flaws in a gene called U2HR are to blame for a condition called Maria Unna hereditary hypotrichosis, or MUHH, named after the German trichologist who identified the problem.
Children with MUHH have sparse or no hair at birth, followed by wiry or coarse hair in childhood but progressively lose it at puberty.
Researchers led by Xue Zhang of the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing found that U2HR, located on Chromosome 8, acts as a key switch in the process.
U2HR controls a small peptide — a kind of mini-protein — that in turn affects a previously-identified protein called the human hairless monolog, or HR, which is crucial for the regeneration of hair follicles.
Sifting through the genome of 19 Chinese families with a history of MUHH, the team found mutations of U2HR led to increased levels of HR, the death of hair follicles and thus greater likelihood of this kind of baldness.
The study, published online Sunday in the journal Nature Genetics, offers a potential target for drugs that would block this pathway, offering the hope that youngsters who inherit the mutations will one day keep their hair, say the authors.