Life After Breast Cancer

March 29, 2015

Life after Breast Cancer: How to Still Enjoy Life

Breast cancer just like any other type of cancer is an intruder in a person’s life. apart from just giving you painful experience during all the time that you were sick and all those side effects that are associated with the orthodox methods of cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation therapy and sometime having to fight the possibility of getting addicted to the opioids they give you to help mitigate the magnitude of the pain that you suffer, cancer changes a person’s life completely. the name cancer is synonymous to pain, while to some people the mention of cancer draws death in their mental picture as that is what many people have since grown to associate it with- that it what it does in most cases, after fighting it for some periods of your life you may end up in the cemetery, call this a bitter reality but thanks to invention of several effective alternative therapies that can be integratively used to help treat breast cancer. The advent of the several alternative cancer treatment therapies like ozone therapy among others have given hope to many cancer patients owing to their efficacy where they have been applied. Breast cancer patients can now have hope of facing tomorrow despite their pain in they face every day. however as I mentioned earlier breast cancer changes a person’s lifestyle, there are treatments that when a person is getting he will have to stop doing some of the things they were used to including the foods they used to enjoy and the activities that they involved in before cancer invaded their lives. When a person is receiving diet related problems they are required to adhere to strict diet guidelines but after they have conquered the disease how can they return to their normal lives and enjoy living for the remaining part of their lives? What are the challenges that breast cancer patients have to put up with even after treatment? How well can they adapt in their new life and live it to the fullest enjoying every moment of their stay on this planet? Here are some tips on how to fit in your new normal life.

Accept the change and move on

Like I mentioned earlier there are changes that you will have to put up with even after surviving from breast cancer. As you and me breast cancer is a disease that has many causes but to many the cause can be hormonal imbalance. Estrogen dominance is known as a major culprit in breast cancer, in the cause of receiving your treatment you might have gone through hormonal therapy, a treatment that aims at restoring the hormonal balance in the body. To my level of understanding the hormonal therapy has no serious effects but your doctor may suggest that you adapt to a new lifestyle to help you evade xenoestrogens that are full in our environments. Xenoestrogens are a type of xenohormone that imitates estrogen. They are not biodegradable so, they are stored in our fat cells. Accumulation of xenoestrogens in our bodies has been linked to many types of cancers such as breast, prostate and testicular cancer. Accept this change even if it has to do with your profession. in other instances you may be taken through surgical operation to remove the tumor, if only a bit of breast tissue was removed, well and good but if the entire breast was removed it better to accept the change and not stress yourself for the same. Whoever cared and loved you will continue doing the same even if your entire breast were chopped off as a result of the disease. Adhere to any diet that you have been told to as this may help minimize the chance of the tumor regrowing.

Some of the hurdles that women have to struggle with after breast cancer treatment are fatigue that may result from chemo treatment and the chemobrain phenomenon. The fatigue is to be expected since many living cells die during chemo. The chemobrain phenomenon refers to mental changes in the like memory deficits and loss of ability to focus. These make it hard for women to fit in their work scheduled before the invasion of the disease. To help with this you need to create rest periods in your schedule that you strictly adhere to. You also need to find someone whom you can share your frustrations with; this often takes burden off a patient and helps him rest. Give yourself time to heal as this may take time.

Regain your beauty

After suffering from breast cancer, your appearance will change owing to the treatments that you were on. Orthodox treatments like chemo always affect your appearance as they destroy living cells too and may lead to hair loss. Use wigs and hairpieces to conceal your baldness before your natural hair regrows. Adopt a healthy diet that will help you gain weight after periods of poor feeding due to lack of appetite.

Join Breast Cancer survivor Forums

Breast cancer is disease that is known worldwide with millions of victims and survivors. Today there are many online forums where cancer survivors can interact and share not only their problems but also ways through which they can adapt to their new lives. Joining such forums will expose you to several people who will avail you with necessary information to help you cope with life and restore your hope. Finally, you need assistance of an integrative doctor to help you cope with life after treatment. Dr. Dalal Akoury (MD) is an expert at this. Call her on (843) 213-1480 for help.

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Stem Cell and Hair Loss

March 27, 2015

Stem Cell Treatment for Hair Loss

Hair loss Stem cells are very special, powerful cells found in both humans and also in other animals. They have been called the center pieces of regenerative medicine. Medicine that involves growing new cells, tissues and organs to replace or repair those damaged by injury, disease or aging.

Stem cells are the precursors of all cells in the human body. What makes stem cells special is that they are regenerative and malleable. They have the ability to replicate themselves and to repair and replace other tissues in the human body. Some tissues, like skin, need constant renewal, which could not take place without skin stem cells. Other stem cells repair damage to the body’s tissues, for example, rebuilding damaged or degenerating muscle tissue. New research also indicates that stem cell malfunction or damage may be responsible for certain cancers and even muscular-degeneration diseases like Muscular Dystrophy. Research on stem cell functioning is therefore a critical avenue to finding treatments for these and other diseases.

Stem cells differ from other kinds of cells in the body. All stem cells have three general features that make them different from other body cells. These features are: they are capable of dividing and renewing themselves for long periods. They are unspecialized and they can give rise to specialized cell types. Stem cells are capable of dividing and renewing themselves for long periods. Unlike muscle cells, blood cells, or nerve cells which do not normally replicate themselves, stem cells may replicate many times, or proliferate

Stem cell therapy is a strategy that is used in treating disease by introducing adult stem cells into damaged tissues in order to treat the disease, correct the damage and restore the functions of the tissues. There is optimism in medical research fields that the stem cells have the potential to change the face of human disease and alleviate suffering. The ability of stem cells to self-renew and give rise to subsequent generations with variable degrees of differentiation capacities, offers significant potential for generation of tissues that can potentially replace diseases and damaged areas in the body, with minimal risk of rejection and side effects.

Stem cells are known in two brad categories namely the embryonic stem cells, which are isolated from the inner cell mass of blastocyst and the mesenchymal stem cells. Stem cells are found in three main points in the human body; the bone marrow, adipose tissues and from placenta after a successful birth.

Researchers Propose stem cell therapy as good treatment for hair loss

There is a group of researchers from California who have linked stem cell therapy to treatment of hair loss. The scientists, working at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif. have shown that that stem cells derived from human skin can be used to grow hair. This group did these tests on in mice.

“The method is a marked improvement over current methods that rely on transplanting existing hair follicles from one part of the head to another,” Said, Dr. Alexey Terskikh who is an associate professor at the institute. He is also a member of the team of researchers who demonstrated the experimental technique, said in a written statement. “Our stem cell method provides an unlimited source of cells from the patient for transplantation and isn’t limited by the availability of existing hair follicles.”

This research having shown the possibility of utilizing stem cells to help in regrowing hair is now seen as a better alternative to conventional hair transplantation and other hair restoration treatments as it is able to grow hair on people’s heads that were initially bald, plus it is not limited by the availability of hair follicles.

This is a Breakthrough

Hair Loss The potential of stem cells in treating variety of diseases can never be underestimated as they have the ability to form different types of cells and healing damaged cells. However for this research it has only been tested on mice but there is greater probability that it can go through in treating humans.

“If this approach is proven to work in humans, it will change existing treatments radically,” Dr. Nicole Rogers, a dermatologist and hair transplant surgeon in New Orleans, told The Huffington Post in an email.

Another dermatologist, Dr. Marie Jhin who works in San Francisco and an adjunct clinical instructor at Stanford University, echoed that assessment. If the treatment pans out, she told Huffington Post Science in an email, it “absolutely would be a breakthrough.”

However, DR. Rogers said that the Sanford-Burnham researchers should replicate their research in large scale and test the outcome in order to reinforce these findings. They also need to do human tests.

This treatment is capitalizing on the ability of the stem cells to turn in any other cells of the body. In this study Terskikh and his collaborators turned the stem cells into the dermal papilla cells that regulate the formation and growth of hair follicles, and showed that the stem cells helped grow hair when injected into mice. According to these researchers, Human dermal papilla cells are unsuitable for conventional hair transplants because they cannot be obtained in necessary numbers and they quickly lose their hair-growing potency, according to the statement.

Finally, Beauty plays a great role not only in boosting our looks but also in giving us the feeling of self-worth. Loss of hair due to diseases or baldness should not rob you of your beauty. Dr. Dalal Akoury (MD), founder of the AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center Located at Myrtle Beach, North Caroline has unequalled experienced in handling these issues, call on her for help.

Stem Cell Treatment for Hair Loss

PRP And Stem Cells For Facial Rejuvenation Seekers

March 5, 2015

Stem Cell and PRP Presents a Better Choice for Facial Rejuvenation Seekers

Looks are important part of the general appearance. You can dress modestly but still appear like some old zombie and that may affect your confidence levels greatly. But there are ways through which you can retain your confidence levels above the sea level and still look young even as ages pass. One of the ways through which you can regain or better yet maintain good looks and that young face is through facial rejuvenation. Being a new term to many readers, it is surely necessary to begin with it’s meaning; Facial rejuvenation is a cosmetic treatment or series of cosmetic treatments, which can restore a youthful appearance to the human face. Facial rejuvenation can be achieved through either surgical or non-surgical options and at times a facial rejuvenation may include both surgical and non-surgical procedures. The different types of facial rejuvenation vary in invasiveness and depth of treatment. A person will also have to put in consideration the possible side effects that may emanate from facial rejuvenation procedures that they choose. Surgical procedures can restore facial symmetry through targeted procedures and facial restructuring and skin alterations. Non-surgical procedures can target specific depths of facial structures and treat localized facial concerns such as wrinkles, skin laxity, hyperpigmentation and scars. As we age we lose some of the fine facial features, there might be loss of volume and skin integrity and this may result in such problems as; Dehydrated skin, Lip and frown lines, Deep depressions around the nose and mouth, Overall loss of healthy, youthful skin texture and tone, Volume loss in the cheeks, Sagging around the jaw line and even Crow’s feet. Aging is a natural process during which the face may become longer and rectangular as natural beautiful curves begin to deform. However aging process maybe hastened by genetic factors, facial expressions, poor diet and even smoking. Exposure to sunlight may also cause sunburn among other problems to the face.

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PRP for facial Rejuvenation

There are myriad ways that doctors have put in use before to try to help in facial rejuvenation. Some of these methods may offer temporary solutions but it is also important not to overlook some potential side effects that may emanate from the use of these methods. It is good to note that your body has the power of regeneration and healing of tissue in all parts of your skin including the face. Stem cells do this every day during your life. As stated in earlier articles, Stem cells are unprogrammed cells in the human body that have the ability to shift shape; they can be turned into different cells and used to replace the damaged cells causing problems. It is the ability of the stem cells to differentiate into other types of cells that have gave them the medicinal qualities that doctors are now using in facial rejuvenation as well as in treatment of other diseases. Through the use of stem cell therapy the face cells that have been exposed to oxidative stress resulting into wrinkles can be replaced with healthy ones restoring the natural aesthetic facial curves.

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) is very practical approach to facial rejuvenation. It involves rejuvenating the skin with your own blood. the effectiveness of the PRP facial rejuvenation is owed to the healing power which platelet have and growth factors in your blood to stimulate the response of stem cells. The procedure works by simply stimulating healing, growth and regeneration in the entire face region. Naturally, platelets have been known to play a critical role in the healing process. Therefore, their introduction to the damaged region triggers the natural healing process. Furthermore, the platelet-rich plasma that is introduced in the region stimulates the activity of stem cells, another important aspect of natural healing and regeneration. The stem cells assist in the formation of new collagen and blood vessels, regeneration and improvement of damaged skin and thus slow down and reverse the signs of aging.

Unlike surgical facial rejuvenation, Platelet rich plasma (PRP) is an extract of your own blood that contains three to five times more platelets, growth factors, and active proteins for tissue and injury healing. This in itself reduces the chances of them getting fought by antibodies; PRP is also safer than most surgical facial rejuvenation procedures. The medicinal properties of PRP are well known as it has been used for years now to hasten healing of wounds, repair damaged tendons and ligaments, healing diabetic ulcers and even to hasten the growth of muscles and bones. The PRP is introduced into the skin through injection and it initiates a localized stem cell response that results in production of fibroblasts which are collagen producing cells. These fibroblasts replace the damaged tissues through aging with healthy skin that is rejuvenated.

If you are interested in rejuvenating your face, PRP is a good way to go as it is safe and has few side effects that may last only for a week. These side effects may include mild swelling and bruising. Since the PRP is extracted from your own blood, there is no risk of disease transmission, allergic or immune reaction. As with all cosmetic procedures, however, there are certain health conditions, such as autoimmune and blood disorders, that may limit its use. Dr. Dalal Akoury (MD), founder of the AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center Located at Myrtle Beach, North Caroline is an expert in the treatment of degenerative diseases. Call on her for help.

Stem Cell and PRP Presents a Better Choice for Facial Rejuvenation Seekers

Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) for Men

January 30, 2015

Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) for Men

Are you a man and you are feeling depressed, tired or overweight? You may be a victim of this condition called male hormone imbalance or hormone deficiency. Hormones are an essential part of us that we cannot do without. They play critical roles in the normal functioning of our bodies.

When the hormones are balanced and in the right levels, they are said to be in harmony. This harmony is very critical in maintaining a healthy body, body shape as well as the general well-being.

Aging is a normal physiological process that we cannot evade. As a man continues aging, the effectiveness of the body to produce critical hormones reduces. The hormone levels fall critically creating a situation of hormonal imbalance. In women this drop in hormones is referred to as menopause while in men the same condition is called andropause.

The common hormone deficiency that occurs in men is the decline testosterone hormone, a condition referred to as low T. However, this is not the only hormone that declines as a man ages, other hormones include thyroid hormone, human growth hormone, progesterone, cortisol, estradiol and DHEA. This reduced the effectiveness of the hormones to remain balanced.

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Symptoms of hormone deficiency in adult males

Hormone deficiency occurs to almost every man as they start aging. They say that aging is a natural biological process that everybody must go through. Hormone deficiency and hormone imbalances lead to a number of conditions in men as they age. The following symptoms are evident in men experiencing hormone deficiency:

Depression
lower energy levels
weight gain
muscle loss
mood swings
decreased libido
memory loss

inability to focus
low stamina
lack of skin elasticity
poor memory
loss of bone density
low levels of immunity
joint pain

In the past these conditions were considered inevitable since they were seen as part of a normal aging process. Contrary to this belief studies now show that some of these conditions can be treated as they are a result of unbalanced levels of the male hormones. When the male hormones begin to decline, it creates a situation of imbalance.

Medical practitioners have spent years trying to understand the condition of hormonal imbalances. This has led to the development of a therapy that can be used to restore male hormone balance. Referred to as Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy, the treatment has seen a lot of men recover from some of the conditions that arise from unbalanced levels of hormones.

Restoring Male Hormone Harmony with BHRT

Contrary to what people believed that the conditions men experience as they age are normal and inevitable, some of these conditions only arise as a result of imbalance in the levels of hormones in the body. Harmony that exists in the body is very crucial in the normal body functioning. When this harmony is offset conditions such as muscle ache, memory loss, depression, weight gain, impaired memory and reduced concentration arise. This affects not only men but also women.

Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy in men is used to replace hormones that have in the process of aging reduced in levels creating an imbalance. The therapy uses hormones that are similar in molecular properties with the ones that are found naturally in the body. The goal of this procedure is to try restoring the vital balance in hormones that is needed for the body to function well. Hormones such as testosterone, progesterone, cortisol, DHEA among there are supplemented with artificial hormones.

This hormone restoration has been shown to ease some of the conditions that arise with hormonal imbalances such as joint aches, depression among others. The procedure takes about 15 minutes and requires you to do exercises at least three times in a week in order to enhance the process of hormone replacement in the body.

Benefits of BHRT for Men

With Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy some of the conditions associated with aging and hormone imbalances are restored. Men who undergo this therapy benefit from things like, improvements in their moods, improved sex drive, restoration of muscle tone and mass, improvement in memory, reduced depression, high levels of energy, and great stamina among others. This restoration enables a man to go back to their normal life.

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Medical treatment

Always Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy must be performed by an experienced doctor. He or she will evaluate your condition and then run tests to determine the levels of hormones in your body. The hormonal levels as are also checked during and also after the treatment so as to ensure that your health is normal and side effects of the therapy are minimal.

Holistic Approach

The hormone replacement therapy should go hand in hand with modifications of your lifestyle. Change your diet and increase your rates of exercises so as not only to improve your life quality but it will help you look better as well as fell young. A medical approach that is comprehensive is always necessary for optimum health and renewed levels of energy. If you want to slow the aging process down, live longer and remain healthy, combine hormone replacement therapy with a holistic approach.

At AwareMed we believe that your healthy is your greatest treasure. Visit www.awaremednetwork.com to learn more about hormone replacement therapy and other wellness and awareness tips. Dr. Akoury has experience in health matters and will provide the necessary assistance to various health issues.

Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) for Men

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