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Skin Cancer Prevention and the Effects of Sun Rays

December 10, 2014

Skin Cancer Prevention and the Effects of Sun Rays – Risk Factors for Skin Cancer

Skin Cancer Prevention and the Effects of Sun Rays

Skin Cancer Prevention and the Effects of Sun Rays

The biggest victim or culprit in causing skin problems is the excessive sun rays. Skin cancer is one of the most worrying skin health conditions to everyone. Therefore the experts’ advice that skin cancer prevention among many other health complications relating to the skin needs to be prevented by all means. It is always said that prevention is better than cure, meaning that we can do a lot more when we prevent such chronic conditions. It will not just keep our skin healthy, but it will also save us money, time and psychological problems. What actually goes in your mind at the mention of the disease cancer? I know that this is one of the most frustrating and traumatizing health condition one would not want to be associated with. It is because of its adverse effect on human life that doctor Dalal Akoury a medical professional of more than two decades of practice, founded AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center to bring forth preventive solutions to everyone about skin care. Protecting your skin from the harms of the sun becomes the primary preventive measure anyone can take.

This is one point that when you visit this facility will be emphasized to you because it forms the basis of the problem. Therefore, the most important way of skin cancer prevention is to protect your skin from the harmful effects of the sun’s rays. This article’s objective is to give you tips on how you can protect your skin from the harmful effects of sunlight. And most importantly, it is very imperative to protect children from the sun. Remember that the skin of a child is more delicate and sensitive to sun damage than the skin of an adult. Proper care needs to be exercise at that tender age to avert any possibilities of contracting skin cancer in later when they become adults. This does not necessarily mean that you and your children won’t enjoy the warmth of the sun, no the sunlight has some benefits and so you can still enjoy sunshine and the outdoors. This article only aims to help you to do so in a manner that encourages skin cancer prevention.

Skin Cancer Prevention and the Effects of Sun Rays – Sun and Skin Damage

I have never seen anybody who doesn’t want to have a perfect skin complexion. Because this is a common denominator to all, doctor Akoury is explaining certain facts to put more emphasis on the effects of sun rays to the skin. Too much exposure to sunlight is harmful and can damage the skin. Some of this damage is short-term like sunburn. However, permitting your skin to burn consistently in such unfriendly weather can lead to future complications like skin cancer. The damage is often caused by the two main types of ultraviolet (UV) sunlight namely UVA and UVB.

  • UVA rays penetrate deeper into the skin, damaging the skin dermis (the middle layer).
  • The dermis contains the elastic tissues that keep the skin stretchy.
  • UVA rays therefore have the effect of ageing the skin and causing wrinkles.
  • UVB rays are absorbed by the epidermis (the top layer of skin). This causes sun tanning but also burning.

It is important to note that both UVA and UVB rays will intensify your risk of developing skin cancer. Receiving sunburnt is a pointing sign that you are putting yourself at risk of contracting skin cancer. Also remember that damaged skin cells also points out that you’re at greater risk of becoming abnormal and cancerous.

Skin Cancer Prevention and the Effects of Sun Rays: Melanin

Melanin is the colour pigment in our skins. When skin is exposed to sunlight, more melanin is produced to help protect the skin against the UV rays. This makes the skin darker what people refer to as a suntan. Although melanin stops your skin burning so easily, it does not prevent the harmful effects of UV rays.

Most skin cancers are caused by too much exposure to the sun. This includes:

  • The non-melanoma type of skin cancer
  • The melanoma type of skin cancer

Non melanoma skin cancers include basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas. Sun damage can also cause other skin problems to develop. For example, it can cause premature skin ageing, such as wrinkles and loss of elasticity. It can also cause non-cancerous growths on the skin, such as solar keratosis

Skin Cancer Prevention and the Effects of Sun Rays – Who is at risk of skin cancer?

People of all ages should protect their skin, but it is even more vital to protect children. Although skin cancer is rare in children, the amount of sun exposure during childhood is thought to increase the risk of developing skin cancer in adult life. Children who have had episodes of sunburn are more likely to develop skin cancers in later life. The skin of children is more delicate and more prone to damage. Therefore, take extra care with children, and keep babies out of the sun completely.

If you have pale skin, red or fair hair, and freckles, you have the type of skin which burns most easily. This puts you at increased risk of sun-related skin damage and you should take extra care to protect your skin NEVER allow yourself to burn. If you have pale skin, you do not have as much protective melanin. Skin cancers, especially melanoma, are less common in non-white skin types. However, they can still occur, and sun protection is still important.

Other factors which can put you at more risk of developing skin cancer are:

  • Having lots of moles.
  • Having a history of a skin cancer of any type.
  • Someone in your family having a history of skin cancer.
  • Having albino skin. This is very white skin which has no melanin at all.
  • Having vitiligo. This is patches of very white skin with no melanin.
  • Scars on your skin from burns or ulcers.
  • A weakened immune system (being immunosuppressed.) This can be from an illness such as HIV or AIDS, or from certain medication which affects the immune system.
  • A job which involves you being outdoors most of the time.
  • Living in a hot country, particularly if you have naturally pale skin.
Skin Cancer Prevention and the Effects of Sun Rays – Risk Factors for Skin Cancer

 

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The impact of Smoking on your Skin and Facial appearance

December 9, 2014

The impact of Smoking on your Skin and Facial appearance – It’s true that smoking causes wrinkles

The impact of Smoking

All these you can avoid by quitting smoking. Therefore, The impact of Smoking on your Skin and Facial appearance can be eliminated again by quitting.

If there is anything you need to do for perfection of the life of your skin is never to engage in drugs. No drug will do you any good as far as the good health of your body is concern. In fact most of the complications we have today are directly associated with drug use and pollution. In view of the rising health complications arising from the use of various drugs, we are going to discuss the effects of various drugs on human health beginning with cigarette smoking. This decision is taken because the impact of smoking on your skin and facial appearance is at stake. The biggest organ of the body is practically under threat because of cigarette smoking. The addiction to smoking by many people is not helping either. It is therefore necessary that skin care and drug addiction experts be involved in the discussion to give real professional advice which will restore the good health of our skin. Doctor Dalal Akoury is one such expert who founded AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center primarily to bring lasting change to skin care and substance abuse. She is very much available on call and you can schedule for a meeting with her on any issue concerning the health of your skin, drug addiction or weight related problems.

Meanwhile the impact of smoking on your skin is very real and this should be a motivation factor to you to quit smoking and avoid premature wrinkles on your face. Remember that smoking can speed up the normal aging process of your skin by contributing to wrinkles in just less than ten years of smoking. The more cigarettes you smoke and the longer you smoke, the more skin wrinkling you’re likely to have. Doctor Akoury explains that smoking doesn’t cause wrinkles only on your face but is also associated with increased wrinkling and skin damage on other parts of your body, including your inner arms. It is important to note that even though skin wrinkles may not be reversible, you can prevent worsening of wrinkling by quitting smoking now.

The impact of Smoking on your Skin and Facial appearance – Smoking and the blood vessels

The question that will beg for an answer is how smoking leads to wrinkles and what is the impact of smoking to the general skin? The nicotine in cigarettes causes narrowing of the blood vessels in the outermost layers of your skin. This weakens blood flow to your skin. With less blood flow, your skin doesn’t get as much oxygen and important nutrients, such as vitamin A. besides that there are more than 4000 chemicals in smoked tobacco which damages the collagens and elastin. These are fibers which enables the skin to keep its strength and elasticity. In their absence or low supply the skin is likely to sag and wrinkle prematurely due to smoking. Besides that, the consistent exposure to the heat from the burning cigarettes and the facial expressions you make when smoking such as tightening your lips when inhaling and squinting your eyes to keep out smoke are major facilitators of wrinkles.

The impact of Smoking on your Skin and Facial appearance – Smoking impacts negatively on appearance

Like I have explained above there is nothing good in smoking. Smoking is very addictive and you may not quit easily without the professional help from the home of substance abuse solutions (AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center) under the able leadership of doctor Akoury. If you are struggling with cigarette smoking, you must already know that besides its impact on your skin you need to quit because it’s equally bad for your heart, lungs, brain, and even your sex life. Well, smoking impacts negatively to your skin and does damage your looks. Therefore you may want to consider the following ways through which smoking is ruining your looks.

The impact of Smoking on your Skin and Facial appearance – Bags under your eyes

Don’t you hate it when you can’t get a good night’s sleep and it shows on your face? If you smoke, you’re four times as likely as nonsmokers to report feeling restless after a night sleep. It’s possible that nightly nicotine withdrawal could be causing you to toss and turn. And unfortunately, poor sleep doesn’t equal pretty

The impact of Smoking on your Skin and Facial appearance – Yellow fingers

The nicotine in cigarette smoke can not only make your teeth (and the walls of your home) brown, but it’s also notorious for staining fingers and nails as well. For total beauty that will last a life time, quitting smoking is not just an option but a must. Because cigarette smoking is very addictive you will need to visit the home of experts in both skin care and drug addiction and schedule for an appointment with doctor Akoury to help you shed off this unhealthy practice.

The impact of Smoking on your Skin and Facial appearance – Scarring

Nicotine causes vasoconstriction, a narrowing of the blood vessels that can limit oxygen-rich blood flow to the tiny vessels in the face or other parts of the body. This means your wounds will take longer to heal and you’ll have scars that are bigger and redder than you would in a nonsmoking parallel universe.

The impact of Smoking on your Skin and Facial appearance – Thinner hair

As if the wrinkly skin wasn’t enough, smoking hurts your hair too. Experts think the toxic chemicals in smoke can damage the DNA in hair follicles and generate cell-damaging free radicals as well. This can only mean that smokers will have thinner hair that tends to go gray sooner than nonsmokers. That is, if they have any hair at all. Men who smoke are about twice as likely to lose their hair as nonsmokers, after taking into account factors that increase the risk of baldness, such as aging and genetics.

The impact of Smoking on your Skin and Facial appearance – Wound healing

Several studies have found that smokers do not heal as well after surgeries such as face-lifts, tooth extractions, and periodontal procedures. So once cigarettes wrinkle up your face, you’ll have a harder time correcting the damage with cosmetic surgery than people who’ve never smoked.

The impact of Smoking on your Skin and Facial appearance – It’s true that smoking causes wrinkles

 

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Enzymes and Contribution in Cancer Treatment

December 9, 2014

Enzymes for Cancer Treatment

enzymes-for-fighting-cancerCancer has managed to earn itself quite a reputation throughout the world as a major threat to everyone. This therefore warrants a keen understanding of the disease and how it works.

Cancer is formed through a breakdown in a variety of the normal cellular and immunity mechanisms in the body. Often, body components damaged by free radicals are built up within the cells in the body throughout life. Extreme oxidative stress resulting from factors such as body injury or diseases catalyze this process. This damage caused to body tissue initiates the release of chemical signals to arrest the situation, but in large amounts, the chemical signals eventually cause further damage to tissue.  This tissue damage cycle is responsible for the damage of DNA in the end.

As you might have known from raw biology, the DNA is responsible for a number of regulatory processes and mechanisms. If it can no longer perform this regulation function, it only means that the growth of cancer cannot be regulated any more. And given the inflammation or tissue damage already in place, the body immunity is likely to miscommunicate, mistaking the developing cancer cells for other damaged body tissue. This disrupted cellular communication gives cancer a window to thrive. Even more disadvantageous to the victim is the effects of the reactive species of oxygen whose effects on the natural cellular controls eventually prevent apoptosis of the developing cancer cells.

Cancer cells are also ‘smart’. They have adaptive characteristics that make them survive against the body immunity mechanisms. While enzymes are known for their digestive abilities in the body, the cancer tumor for instance produce a dense fibrin protein which not only help them stick around but also aid their protection against the possible digestion by the immune system. Enzymes in the bloodstream are capable of digesting and dissolving the fibrin coating on the cancer tumor. The enzymes would however have to be in large amounts. In addition, they would need to be enzymes with high amounts of nattokinase or protease or break down the thick fibrin.

Low Enzyme Levels And Cancer

Research suggests a rather close relationship between low levels of enzymes and the formation and proliferation of cancer tumor. The enzymes as already mentioned are capable of destroying the cancer tumor naturally. The body is programmed to have the foods taken in digested by the very enzymes that come into the gut with the food. This suggests that the digestive system is meant to process foods that are raw for this ideal set up to work out, since raw food comes with enzymes that aid the breakdown of that particular food right in the upper gut (stomach). Food usually stays there for about 30- 45 minutes.

If that were to be the case. It would mean that down the gut in the lower stomach and the duodenum, the pancreatic enzymes have a reduced work and a lot of them can be reserved and channeled into the bloodstream where they do the cleaning work and could help digest any existing cancer tumor in the bloodstream.

However, this is never the case as the foods we eat are processed: cooked or treated. These processes that food undergoes are responsible for killing of the enzymes. The food thus does not get predigested in upper stomach. The pancreas is therefore overworked as soon as the food gets to the lower stomach as it has to produce extra enzymes for braking down the food. In the process, the food is often incompletely digested.

This partial digestion of the food ends up with some undigested food into the bloodstream where they are treated as foreign and toxic to the body system. Being viewed in that lens by the body’s immunity, the system that already has much to do, has to put up with even extra work of fighting the undigested food being considered toxic in the bloodstream.

The overworked pancreas loses its ability to produce sustainable amount of enzymes in the long run resulting with an individual with low enzyme levels. The moment all the essential enzymes exist in low amounts, the body loses its ability to naturally fight and destroy cancerous cells.

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How to Boost the Enzymes Level

In that condition, you must make use of enzyme supplements. A number of them are recommended for use. The most recommended one being the PapayaPro.  The product has mature green papaya powder as key ingredient, with the most active enzyme being Papain. Papain has a unique digestive formula and is expressly powerful as compared to pancreatin or even the pancreatic enzymes. It is not affected by changes in the intestinal pH and can work equally in both alkaline and acidic conditions. It is highly aggressive when taken in an empty stomach and will work more than the pancreatic enzymes in its attacking and destroying of the cancer tumor.

The Citrus Pectin enzyme also found in the PapayaPro has an even more unique ability, it can prevent the spread of cancer cells (metastasis). Their molecules enter the blood and confuse cancer cells for lectin (cancer protein). As a result, the tumors are prevented from being able to attach to other body parts to start new cancer colonies. This has been supported by a number of studies.

AwareMed recommends the use of enzyme supplements to boost the body immunity and help fight cancer. More information can be obtained by contacting our doctors at AwareMed.

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Gut Inflammation Causing Your Mood Disorders?

December 8, 2014

Gut Inflammation Could Be the Source of Your Mood Disorders

As much as this may be shocking to some, it’s a proven medical fact that we all have to believe. There’s now a strong evidence showing the connection between our gut health, brain function and eventually our moods.

Like most people, I always believed that it’s only stress that can inflict much havoc with our digestive tract. However, as I later found out, problems in our gastrointestinal tract (commonly known as the GI tract) also stand a high chance of negatively impacting our brains and thus causing a lot of anxiety and depression.

Simply put, whatever goes on in your digestive tract has a lot of influence in the CNS-Central Nervous System, your neural circuitry and consequently stands a chance to influence on your behavior- which can be a positive or negative influence.

As revealed in the latest research, there’s for example, a link between how your digestive tract develops in the first few years of one’s life and his or her brain’s health. Subsequently, the influence can be seen later on in his or her future behaviors. The explanation for this hypothesis is based on the fact that a healthy gastrointestinal floral populace impacts positively on the neurons that are tasked with motor control and behavior. In fact, the research concludes that those with distinctly overwhelming population of these gut pathogens (or gut dysbiosis) stand a great chance to develop anxiety and depression in their later lives.

GI Tract Inflammation

Gut Inflammation and Mood Disorders

For deteriorating gut and intestinal health, a mechanism for the development of systemic inflammation and autoimmunity develops. This is a risky situation given the fact that both conditions of inflammation and autoimmunity have for long been linked with the birth of mood disorders.

As demonstrated in a different research, animal experiments in regards to inflammatory bowel disease proved that this disease had a strong adverse effect on the hypothalamus where it increases the sensitivity of the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis– the HPA, to stress. With all these, it’s only reasonable to affirm the intimate relationship that exist between brain function, gut health and mental health.

According another study on the inflammatory process and depression, addressing inflammation concerns in women who just had their first birth could go a long way in lowering or even prevent the harsh symptoms of post-delivery depression. The research also claims of a cause and effect relationship that exist between Intestinal permeability/GI inflammation and the pathogenesis of alcoholism.

It’s now quite an irrefutable fact that our microbial symbiotic gut inhabitants and ourselves-for which I mean the central nervous system, are in a constant communication through the GABA receptors present in the vagus nerve.

Could Chronic Inflammation result in Depression?

Research has shown that depression could be as a result of gastrointestinal inflammation. The research provides several in attesting to this as below:

  1. It’s a common knowledge that depressions are in most cases found alongside autoimmune diseases and gastrointestinal inflammations as well as with cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, cancer and type-2-diabetes, all of which chronic low-grade inflammation is a noticeable contributing factor. As a conclusion, the researchers suggested that there’s a likelihood that depression is “neuropsychiatric manifestation of a chronic inflammatory syndrome”
  2. A dysfunction in the “gut-brain axis” is possibly the primary cause of inflammation as suggested by researchers. According to the researchers and other experts consulted during the research, the gut is literally a second brain- the same identical tissues making the brain during gestation, are the same found in the gut. The gut also has a large amount of serotonin neurotransmitter which plays a big role in mood control
  3. A good number of clinical studies conducted over time have shown that treatment of gastrointestinal inflammation by use of probiotics, vitamin D and B, and omega-3 fats could worsen the quality of life as well as depression symptoms by offsetting proinflammatory stimuli to the brain.

Free Advice: It’s of great help to understand that the bacteria in your gut form an active and integrated part of your body which essentially, heavily depend on the diet you use and are thus hugely affected by the lifestyle you lead. Too much processed foods and / or sweetened drinks impact negatively on the healthy microflora reducing their population. Sugars in general feed the bad bacteria in the gut and increase their population goes high and the end, systemic inflammation is promoted. Consequently, mood disorders creep in.

Probiotics and Their role in mood disorder

Going a step further in this discussion, could it be possible certain human strains of probiotics cause a therapeutic effect on mood? And could this further emphasize the relationship between gut inflammation and mood disorders? Through several studies conducted, this is factually true.

A particular strain known as the Bifidobacterium infantis, has been shown to considerably influence the stress response by standardizing specific measurements of the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis in addition to immune response and modulation of cytokine, all in an amazing model of depression and stress.

Evidence continue streaming in through research work to support the claim that the brain- our body organ with the sole responsibility of regulating the GI’s functioning through the vagus nerve, is able to communicate directly with the various microbial that form the natural surroundings of the GI tract. In fact, one of the researches conducted claims, “Since the interactions of microbes with host leads to a complex balance of host genes, alteration of microbiota population can cause several metabolic disorders.”

GI Tract Inflammation

What all these shows is that there is a need to maintain the health of the digestive system’s bacterial interaction (environment) and check the use of probiotics

Maintaining an optimally functioning GI tract is of great significance given the profound prospect of the close relationship and communication between our brain and our gut. Also, this statement should open our eyes to give priority to the GI system when evaluating new patients, lest we wave away from the possible understanding of the causes of many chronic diseases.

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The Role of Cesium Chloride in Cancer Treatment

December 8, 2014

The Role of Cesium Chloride in Cancer Treatment

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world today. It is estimated that there are over 14.1 million cases of cancer around the world. The sad news is that, this number is estimated to rise by 2035. Every day new cancer cases are reported and each day a person succumbs to the disease. Cancer knows no age and it continues to claim lives of the old as well as the young.

There are over 100 different types of cancer today affecting different parts of the body. Most of these cancers are named after the first cells they attack in the body. For example, breast cancer first attacks cells of the breast. Cancer attacks the cell of the body damaging them and causing them to grow at an uncontrollable rate.

The disease has been associated with chemicals such as carcinogens, diet, and lack of exercise, infectious diseases, hormones and inheritance of cancer causing genes. Cancer not only affects the quality of your life but it is also very expensive to manage. It slows down your body functioning causing you to put a stop to some aspects of your life.

Cancer can be treated if detected early. It’s terminal when the cells have grown so much and spread to other parts of the body so that no medical approach can reverse the condition. In this case trying to treat it will only result in other cells getting destroyed.

Cesium Chloride

Cancer causes harm to the body when the damaged cells uncontrollably divide and form tissue masses called tumors. These tumors increase and affect the nervous, digestive and circulatory systems while releasing hormones that interfere with normal body functioning.

The symptoms and treatment of cancer are dependent on the kind of cancer and how much it has spread through the body. However, most treatments may involve surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, biologic therapy, hormone therapy or sometimes transplant of stem cells affected by the cancer.

Cancer facts

Not all tumors in the body are cancerous. If detected early, cancer can be treated and patients can lead a normal life. The cancerous cells are acidic in nature. On the other hand, healthy tissues remain alkaline. In the formation of cancer cells, glucose can still be absorbed into the body while oxygen remains out, that is it cannot be absorbed. In this case, cancer cells are anaerobic meaning they survive in low oxygen conditions.

It is common knowledge that, without oxygen, glucose is fermented into lactic acid. This is no different from what happens in the body. The glucose that is absorbed is turned into lactic acid because oxygen is absent. This causes the pH level to drop leading to an acidic environment. In the acidic environment cells lose their normal functioning and start growing uncontrollably. The cell enzymes are changed into toxic substances that end up killing cells of the main body of the tumor.

A tumor is made up of a thin layer of growing cells surrounding a dead mass of tissue.  The toxic substances in the tumor end up in the main tissues and this causes the pains that develop with cancer.

What is Cesium Chloride?

It is one of the most alkaline metals. It is often stable in its natural form.  It is similar in terms of chemical structure to other metals like potassium, lithium and sodium. The metal is a non-radioactive salt that has in the years acted as an alternative cancer treatment. It is associated with High pH Therapy of cancer treatment. Past studies have shown that cancer cells are anaerobic meaning that they survive in low pH environments. The alkaline nature of Cesium chloride raises the pH level which prevents the cancer cells from surviving. The metal is readily absorbed by cancer cells thus altering the pH level and killing them in the process.

High Ph Therapy or Cesium Treatment

Cesium TreatmentWhen cancer affects the cells it causes an uncontrollable growth of cells resulting tumors. However, not all tumors are cancerous. These tumors affect the normal boy functioning by affecting the body system from the circulatory, nervous to the digestive system.  This growth of cells then spreads to other parts of the body in a process called mitosis.

When this happens, it ends up affecting more than one part of the body. The body is therefore not able to function as expected.

Cesium chloride acts as an alternative method for cancer treatment by preventing mitosis. The non-radioactive salt is associated with high pH level that is needed to stop cells from spreading. Past studies have shown that cancer cell have high affinity for ions in cesium and mitosis by destroying the toxic components in the cancer cells.

This treatment of cancer by cesium chloride is known as the high pH therapy. It has been used for years to cure all kinds of cancer in all stages from stage I to stage IV.  When used, it creates an alkaline environment that results in cancer cells dying by preventing mitosis.

Cells in our bodies survive under certain pH levels and when these levels are disturbed it creates another environment that can affect the functioning of cells. The pH level under which cancer cells survive is low. Research studies carried out have shown that if this pH environment is altered it can cause cancer cells to die.

This can be achieved by introducing an alkaline metal like cesium chloride. The metal is highly alkaline and it creates an alkaline environment that causes the cancer cells to die in the process. Thus, cesium chloride is an effective treatment for cancer and can be used to prevent the spread of cancerous cells in the body.

Visit www.awaremednetwork.com for more tips on cancer and get expert opinion from Dr. Dalal Akoury who has a wide experience on this and other health issues.

The Role of Cesium Chloride in Cancer Treatment

 

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