Protect FamiliesTips to protect and increase families healthiness

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is a common plant species in the Iberian Peninsula and, in general, throughout the Mediterranean basin. Used since ancient times in traditional medicine, thanks to the many properties those historically have been attributed.

Ensures that the Egyptian pharaohs were put on his grave a bouquet of rosemary to scent your journey to the land of the dead. Greeks and Romans considered it a symbol of regeneration. The Arabs supposed able to repel pests and part of their gardens. In the Renaissance, it was used to draw water from the famous Queen of Hungary and also burned in French hospitals to combat epidemics.

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis)

Today it is used as digestive plant, and externally as rubefacient. However, other studies have shown therapeutic properties that can be interesting.

In all, it’s most popular external applications. However, the interest in this aromatic plant now lies in the powerful antioxidant effect of some components such as diterpenes (especially rosmanol), by the great interest aroused by its antioxidant properties.

In fact, if one considers that it contains rosemary diterpenes are biosynthesized in plants in response to oxidative stress, to exert a protective effect of plant cell membranes, it is not surprising that exercise a powerful antioxidant and free radical scavenger.

Anyway, it has been found that both these components isolated as the drug extracts possess this activity. Furthermore, it has been observed to inhibit the oxidation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) and aging of the skin caused by oxidation phenomena.

Happy hormones are chemicals with a structure very similar to opioids, but without the negative effects are produced by the body itself.

There are about twenty different types of endorphins, which distributed throughout the body. Some charge that there is communication between neurons and are located in the pituitary gland.

Endorphins cause satisfactory situations produce strong analgesia and stimulate the brain’s pleasure centers, helping to decrease feelings of pain, since they act as analgesic, and eliminate discomfort.

In response to multiple sensations, the body produces endorphins, sensations such as pain and stress influences the release of sex hormones, appetite, and strengthening the immune system. When we feel pleasure, these hormones are multiplied and send messages to the brain, lymphocytes, and other defense cells.

As noted above, when performing actions pleasurable endorphins multiply and improve the mood of the people and the attitude, for example, generates a feeling of wellbeing and vitality when it comes to physical exercise, also with touching, hugging, kissing, sex and laughter, which influences the immune system and brain.

Upon contact with nature, endorphins are also produced, as it provides energy and good humor, also practice yoga or relaxation exercises, also actions that produce large amounts of welfare, such as massage, as well as melodic music, with which produces a large muscle relaxation, among others.

When you suffer from urinary incontinence, there is a tendency to accidental loss of urine. It can happen when you cough, sneeze, laugh, or when you have a strong urge to go to the bathroom but cannot make it. This condition can make the person feel embarrassed, but it’s good to know there are treatments for this.

It should be noted that there are different reasons why there may be urinary incontinence. One of them is known as stress incontinence, and is due to either stretching of the pelvic floor muscles, giving birth or having gained much weight. When these muscles cannot properly serve as support for the bladder, it drops down and pushes against the vagina, preventing the tension of the muscles that normally closes the urethra. Urine loss can then occur when a certain amount of pressure exerted by coughing, sneezing, laughing or other activities.

On the other hand, can suffer from urge incontinence, which results from an involuntary contraction of the muscles of the bladder, this causes a strong need to urinate.

The main symptom of this disorder is the problem controlling urination. The circumstances and the types of problems affecting urination vary according to what the causes, treatments that also apply. They can range from specific exercises such as Kegel exercises to medications or even surgery. Each patient should consult your doctor about the best option.

Various methods are women used to get a perfect hair. Not infrequently, due to several factors, you will be scrambling to find that your hair slowly fall out. If you have this, baldness is very avoidable.

In addition to medical factors such as the use of the shampoo with excessive chemicals, gene variants, and menopause, there are also other factors that result from poor lifestyle, diet, and stress. Three things are medically proven the cause of baldness.

Smoke
Smoking is a significant factor affecting the health of your hair. Told Reuters, Lin-Hui Su of the Far Eastern Memorial Hospital and Tony Hsiu, Hsi Chen of National Taiwan University in Taipei suggested that smoking may interfere with your hair follicles and interfere with blood and hormone circulation to the scalp. Medical research has also been proved long ago that there were about four thousand toxic chemicals that circulate in your body when you smoke a cigarette, naturally healthy scalp and hair is one of the targets of their attacks.

Seeing the bad effects of smoking on one of the vital parts of your body is, it’s time you quit smoking now. Because not only a hair’s health is back to normal, release the cigarette out of life is the best way to avoid physical illness ‘heavyweight’ in both the short term and long term.

Poor Diet
Like other parts of your body, hair also requires adequate nutrition to make it grow healthy. Lack of good nutrition to the hair causing slow hair growth effects.

Stop hair loss Now recommends fruits and various kinds of foods that contain vitamin A, B6, B12 and C. Foods that contain vitamin A will help the development of natural cells in the body, including hair and scalp. Fruits are red, yellow, and orange classified as foods that contain vitamin A, along with fish oil, whole milk, and eggs.

Intake of vitamins B6 and B12 for the body is also good in adding to your hair health. The function of this type of vitamin B is to make normal red blood cells thus easily carry oxygen to your hair. The hair healthy and strong depends of how good the blood supply and oxygen to your scalp and hair. Chicken, fish, corn, wheat, and soybeans are foods that contain vitamin B.

Vitamin C deficiency can cause hair to break easily, because the fact of foods containing vitamin C is essential in producing collagen, a network that connects every cell in the body structure, including the hair. Eat plenty of oranges, tomatoes, pepper, and dark green leafy vegetables to get more vitamin C intake.

Stress
It turned out that psychologically, your hair can also feel the impact. Daniel K. Hall-Flavin, M.D. from the Mayo Clinic with the firmly stated that stress and hair loss is a strong relationship.

Sport
Sports and active lifestyle is the secret of Gary Goldfaden, MD, a dermatologist who based in Miami. Basically, exercise helps the flow of blood throughout the body, and distributes nutrients to the skin.

Relax
Of course you already know, furrowed forehead, face or neck muscles tense can make the line more visible wrinkles and deep. When you exercise or are seriously working, make sure the muscles in your face and neck remain calm and relaxed, Frederic Brandt says, from Miami and New York.

Avoid Cigarettes
Of course we all know, smoking is not good for the body so anything on the skin. Cigarettes also disrupt the flow of oxygen to the skin, the result, fine lines on the face will be more profound and beautiful skin does not glow. Suggested Paul M. Friedman, MD, of Houston, avoids smoking.

Sitting Location
Maybe hearing cried sitting near the window while riding in an airplane, but, Dr. Brandt reminded, when flying, and sitting near the window, our skin is exposed to UV exposure is greater than usual. So, it would be better to choose a seat away from the window.

Hold Yourself
Hold yourself to not scratch the face or the face with a fingernail scraping, as this can cause irritation and scars, advice from  Heidi Waldorf, of New York. Here are the points prone to scratching on the face when sweating the numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 12.

Sleep Enough
Every night, we need a good night’s sleep to optimize the secretion of growth hormone, which promotes changes in body cells and collagen production. So, make sure you sleep enough each night, at least before 11 o’clock at night, Dr. Brandt says.

Sunlight
Sunlight has a very bad effect for the skin, therefore, Kathy Fields, from San Francisco recommends avoiding direct sunlight, especially between of 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Food
Salt and sugar will stick to the collagen which can damage more quickly. We recommend that you choose healthy foods that are rich in fiber, Dr. Goldfaden says.