Harvested from the seeds of rose bushes predominately grown in Chile, rosehip seed oil
is full of vitamins, antioxidants and essential fatty acids that are
known to correct dark spots and hydrate dry, itchy skin, all while
reducing scars and fine lines. With beauty benefits like these, we
believe rosehip seed oil has the potential to become the next coconut oil.
Kerr told PopSugar Beauty: "I like to wear rosehip oil at night.
It’s full of that many antioxidants and it really works on a cellular
level too to rejuvenate the skin. I put that on at night and I wake up
glowing."
Actress Rose Byrne is another famous Aussie who credits rosehip seed oil for keeping her sensitive skin under control. You don't have to take our word for it, the proof is in these pictures.
Before you start slathering rosehip seed oil on your face, we asked Joanna Vargas, celebrity facialist and founder of the eponymous salon and skincare collection, and Dr. Elizabeth Tanzi, co-director of the Washington Institute of Dermatologic Laser Surgery, to explain why this skin savior is so great.
The reason why men are competitive and women are more social has been explained - and it’s all down to the hormone oxytocin.
Although known as the love hormone, it affects the sexes differently and not always in a loving way.
Researchers
have discovered that in men it improves the ability to identify
competitive relationships, whereas in women it enables the ability to
identify friendship.
Following treatment with oxytocin, researchers
found that in women it was the ability to correctly identify friendship
that got better
‘Women tend to be more
communal and familial in their behaviour, whereas men are more inclined
to be competitive and striving to improve their social status,’ said
Professor Simone Shamay-Tsoory, lead researcher at the University of
Haifa in Israel.
But, as it turns out, the leeches
aren’t too thrilled at the prospect either. Maryam had already warned me
not to use any heavy perfumes or body lotions as their smell can repel
the leeches, stopping them from attaching. I had showered that morning
in nothing but warm water but the leeches still weren’t keen. I’ve faced
rejection in my time, but being snubbed by a leech is a new low.
‘Sometimes
leeches just don’t take to a person,’ says Maryam. ‘It might be your
shampoo, what you ate last night, or it could be that your blood is too
thick or too sweet. They like the taste of salt though, so sweaty people
are good.’
As my neck
has been rejected, Maryam tries to attach a leech to my right hand.
Being a writer means I have a repetitive strain injury in my wrist that
is getting worse. Maryam assures me the leeches will sort it out — again
thanks to their pain- relieving chemicals.
A
leech eventually sinks its teeth in, and I feel a sharp nip like a bee
sting. It’s quickly joined by another thirsty companion. This being my
first treatment, I am only permitted to have two leeches as I am
expected to bleed for a long time afterwards.
As
you have more treatments, your body builds up immunity to the leeches’
chemicals, meaning you can subject yourself to a greater number.
Maryam’s tells me her most regular client has 70 attached all over his
body in a single session.
Demi Moore, 51, travels to Austria for the leech therapy she credits for her youthful looks
While I’m being eaten alive,
Maryam explains that the leeches are a specially bred medical variety
and supplied by a farm in Wales. They are hermaphrodites, meaning they
have male and female reproductive parts, and each one has 300 tiny teeth
and three sets of jaws.
At
the end of their sucking session, each leech has consumed 50ml of my
blood. I imagine they feel like I do after a big meal, when I need to
undo the top button of my jeans and lie down on the sofa. One
of them falls away naturally but the other — greedy so-and-so — refuses
to budge and has to be encouraged off by Maryam with a firm yank.
The
bad news for the leeches is that, for hygiene reasons, this feast is
their last supper as they are only used once then disposed of with a
generous sprinkling of kitchen salt, which makes them shrivel and die. After
they’re removed, the blood flows and my hand is heavily bandaged to mop
up the damage. Maryam tells me I should expect to bleed for 12 hours.
The
next day, the wound is still wet but the bleeding has stopped. The
leeches have each left a distinct Y-shaped mark where they sunk their
teeth in — it truly looks as though I’ve been bitten by a vampire.
A
fortnight after the treatment, the marks have still not faded — but my
wrist has not hurt once. I’m currently writing a book and have been
typing on my laptop more than ever yet I’ve not had a single twinge.
Nothing.
Maybe it’s
just the strangest of coincidences or maybe those slippery little
suckers really do possess magical, if yucky, healing powers. I, for one,
am convinced. For more information see londonleechtherapy.com
Probiotics can help your stomach feel better, but can they “slim” your stomach too?
It’s been hypothesized that gut bacteria influence weight. The overuse
of antibiotics has been linked to weight gain, and studies have shown
differences in the flora of obese and thin animals.1
Researchers in Quebec wanted to test this hypothesis by giving
overweight people probiotics, and the results were somewhat of a
surprise. Ready?
Having more sex could not only make us feel good, it could provide far-reaching health benefits. Unfortunately
we are having less of it - on average we have sex fewer than five times
a month, compared to six-and-a-half times 20 years ago, according to
the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles.
Yet
studies have linked regular sexual activity to emotional well-being,
reduced migraine pain and even a lower risk of prostate cancer.
A Canadian study last month found
that half-an-hour of sexual activity could burn more calories than
walking on a treadmill - the researchers claimed sexual activity could
be considered significant exercise.
The
study measured the sexual activity of 21 couples aged between 18 and 35
- they were monitored using an armband to calculate how many calories
the wearer burned, and the intensity of the activity. In
a typical session lasting 25 minutes, the men burned an average of 100
calories, the women 69. The intensity of the activity was measured in
METs (the Metabolic Equivalent of a Task); for men, the average reading
was six METs, for women it was 6.6.
It's roughly the same as playing
doubles tennis, or walking uphill, for 20 minutes, 33 minutes of golf on
a driving range, 40 minutes of yoga or 19 minutes of light rowing. The
Canadian findings chime with past campaigns by the British Heart
Foundation, which suggested that 30 minutes of daily sex is as good for
you as walking the dog.
A large new study found that prescription
testosterone raised the risk of heart attacks in older men and in
middle-aged men with a history of heart disease, prompting some experts
on Wednesday to call for more extensive warning labels on the drugs.
The new study is one of several in recent
years that have highlighted cardiac problems as a potential side effect
of testosterone gels, patches, pellets and injections. The hormone is
approved for low testosterone levels and is widely marketed for symptoms
of “low T,” including fatigue, low libido and loss of energy. Sales in
the last decade have soared.
By itself, the new study, which was not a
randomized trial, the gold standard in medical research, “may not tell
us very much,” said Dr. Michael Lauer, the director of cardiovascular
sciences at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute,
who was not involved in the study. “But when you put this together with
the rest of the medical literature, this tells us that we potentially
have a problem.”
The drugs carry no mention of an increased
risk on their labels or in their advertising materials, said Dr. Sidney
M. Wolfe, a senior adviser to the Washington advocacy group Public Citizen.
“Given that there have been several studies now, I don’t see how the
Food and Drug Administration can justify having no warnings of heart
attacks at all,” he said.
In a statement, Andrea Fischer, an F.D.A.
spokeswoman, said the agency was reviewing the new findings. “We will
communicate any new safety information on testosterone products when our
reviews of all new information have been completed,” she said.
The new study,
published on Wednesday in the journal PLoS ONE and funded by the
National Institutes of Health, tracked about 56,000 older and
middle-aged men around the country who were prescribed testosterone
between 2008 and 2010. The study looked specifically at their rate of
heart attacks in the year before receiving their new prescriptions, and
in the three months after.
Every year, flu vaccine propaganda is ramped up
by the pharmaceutical industry and its mouthpiece media, which then
gives way to a second round (pun intended) of vaccine propaganda
pushing toxic vaccinations for a variety of diseases, only then to be
followed by the demonization of nutritional supplements. Around
mid-January, rinse and repeat – (flu, childhood vaccine, and
anti-supplement propaganda).
Thus, at the end of 2013, the
American public was met with an onslaught of fear-mongering
propaganda predicting flu pandemics and imminent death if vaccination
was not immediately sought. We then saw the major propaganda assault
regarding the safety and effectiveness of vitamins and minerals by
the medical and pharmaceutical industries. Now, in early 2014, we are
witnessing another propaganda assault against the “anti-vaccination”
movement with claims of increased outbreaks and apocalyptic scenes of
sickness.
The latest propaganda push comes not from the
medical industry per se, however, but from an organization usually
more focused on the spread of globalism, free trade, culture
creation, and other domestic/international governmental policies, the
Council on Foreign Relations.
We're a medicated nation. American doctors write more than 4
billion prescriptions for drugs every year to the tune of about $320
billion. Almost 70 percent of us take at least one drug regularly, and
according to the Centers for Disease Control, the majority of
Americans...
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They sound like horrific chemicals you'd find in processed food.
Butaspartic acid, isoleucine and ethyl butanoateare in fact found in a banana. Likewise - did you know that when you eat an egg, you're eating glutamic acid, E160e and even formaldehyde?
Chemical world: One of the posters made by
chemistry teachers James Kennedy to dispel the fear that has become
associated with the word 'chemicals'
Mr Kennedy said: 'I wanted to show that chemistry isn't artificial and dangerous; but that chemistry is natural and everywhere'
The images below and their list of ingredients were madeby James Kennedy, a high school chemistry teacher from Melbourne, Australia. He says the aim of the project was to dispel the fear that has become associated with the word 'chemicals'. He told MailOnline: 'As a high-school chemistry teacher, I made these posters for my students
as a visual introduction to our Organic Chemistry course.
'I wanted to erode the
fear that many people have of ‘chemicals’, and demonstrate that nature
evolves compounds, mechanisms and structures far more complicated and
unpredictable than anything we can produce in the lab.
'These posters aim to show that
chemistry isn't artificial and dangerous; but that chemistry is natural
and everywhere.
Lack of knowledge: Mr Kennedy and his students trawled medical literature to compile the lists of ingredients
'The chemistry of fun, friendly, everyday objects like
bananas is more complicated and more fascinating than that of, say, a
bomb.'
He added thatchemistry has suffered in recent
years from a negative image. 'Pesticides, poisons, drugs and explosives
seem to dominate the public's perceptions of Chemistry while the other
sciences bask in a much more positive light.
Mr Kennedy added: 'These posters prove that
nature evolves compounds, mechanisms and structures far more complicated
and unpredictable than anything we can produce in the lab'
'Mostly, this is because chemistry lacks a charismatic, public teacher
like David Attenborough or Brian Cox, who currently inspire students
into Biology and Physics, respectively. Chemistry only has Walter White
from Breaking Bad, and he's done the industry a great disservice".
He added that all of the information was from reputable sources.
It is almost impossible to get necessary amounts of vitamin D from our
daily diet; a lot of people use megadoses of supplements. UV-B radiation
in sunshine is the most important factor in production of vitamin D -
which is why so many people experience Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
in winter months and possibly, more cold viruses.
There are already established health connections to vitamin D and help
with diabetes, autoimmune diseases, cancer, mood and much more. But
evidence is mounting that vitamin D could be one of the most important
factors in preventing heart disease, the number one killer in the U.S.
The trick is, there's a very important reason it must come from the sun, not just supplements.
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Scientists at the University of Maryland found
that sex enhanced the number of newly generated neurons in the
hippocampus, where memories are made
It gives night classes a whole new meaning.
Having sex makes you smarter, research suggests.
A study found that middle-aged rats made more new brain cells after mating.
Researchers at the University of Maryland also credited frequent sexual activity with increased brainpower.
However, the benefits to the brain were lost if the creatures stopped mating.
HOW SEX MAKES YOU SMARTER
The study found that middle-aged rats made more new brain cells after mating. Scientists noticed that sex increased the number of newly generated neurons in the hippocampus, where
long-term memories are made.
This stimulation of adult neurogenesis - or the development of neurons - is thought to restore cognitive
function in middle-aged rats.
However the scientists found that after sexual activity was stopped, the improvements in brain power were lost.
'Natural' breast enlargement through stem cell therapy is said to be an improvement on implants
A stem cell technique that can enlarge breasts while reducing the waistline is to be made available to British women.
The treatment involves taking stem cells from excess fat on the stomach or thigh, and then 'growing' them in the breasts.
Surgeons say the result gives a more natural look than many synthetic implants.
The
process can only make breasts one cup size larger at this time, but it
is expected bigger
augmentations will be possible as the technique
develops.
Around a dozen Britons have had breasts repaired with
stem cells after cancerous cells were removed, but this is the first
time the treatment will be carried out on healthy women.
The stem cell technique would produce more natural-looking breasts than silicone implants.
'This
is a very exciting advance in breast surgery,' he said. 'Breasts
treated with stem cells feel more natural because this tissue has the
same softness as the rest of the breast.
'Implants are a foreign
body. They are associated with long-term complications and require
replacement. They can also leak and cause scarring.'
Stem cells are early-stage cells which can grow into any tissue of the body - organs, skin or blood.
Actress and breast cancer survivor Suzanne Somers
recently made headlines when she opted to have her breast
reconstruction done using this fairly new method. After undergoing a
lumpectomy and reportedly waking up with ‘half her breast gone,’ Somers
had her breast restored to its original size using fat and stem cells
harvested from her abdomen.
While
noting that this method has only been around for about two years and
isn’t yet widely used among plastic and reconstructive surgeons, Dr.
Shahram Salemy, MD, FACS, and RealSelf.com Medical Expert, says with
advances being made, “we’re now seeing outstanding, lasting results from
this approach.” The doctor first performs liposuction to remove some
fat from areas like the hips or the abdomen, filters and concentrates
it, and then injects it into the breasts.
“This
is a good option for women who are not interested in having implants,
have some excess fat in other areas of their body, and want a fuller
look to their breasts,” Dr. Salemy says. It can also be used to correct
size discrepancies between the two breasts.
